Hey, Ma, who is Tom Jones?

Conversation with Buster.

“Hey, Ma,” he starts every sentence with that, these days, “who is Tom Jones?”

“You mean the character in fiction?” I guessed.

“No, someone said I should get his version of Try a Little Tenderness and compare it to Joe Cocker’s.”

“Oh, you mean Tom Jones!” I said. I’m amazed the kid even knows Try a Little Tenderness. Or Joe Cocker.

“Yeah, who he is?”

“Lord, I haven’t thought about him in ages. Another big-voiced Welshman, like Bryn, only with soul and a well-lubricated pelvis. He plays Vegas a lot, now. Women used to throw their panties at him.”

So, of course, we had to go to You Tube where Buster thought the Try a Little Tenderness a bit too bombastic, but even he thought the What’d I Say, was pretty impressive. Particularly Jones’ screams at the end. Which I warned Buster he is never to try.

They can’t be embedded to the blog, but they’re both worth watching.