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Sir Tom In Vancouver: Again, So-So Video, But It’s Always Good To Hear & See Him, Isn’t It?
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Video was posted on youtube from the charity event Tom did in Vancouver earlier this month. At 51 seconds in, you’ll see Tom and Don looking ever-so-elegant in tuxedos. Then, fast-forward (which you actually can do) to 4:50, where the interview with Tom begins. Then, there are clips of him singing. He does a subdued version of Kiss, a bit of Whole Lotta Shakin’ and It’s Not Unusual. We do apologize for all the other stuff that’s in there. We would have posted this hours ago, but we were trying to edit it and couldn’t. We’ll try harder next time and, if we can edit this in a timely fashion, we’ll fix it and repost it. (That’s a still of Tom performing taken from the video.)
June 20th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Thank you for posting this: it is always great to see and hear “The Essence of Man” (!)
For those of you who haven’t watched the whole thing, fast-forward to around 4.0 where Jacqui Cohen is thanking Sir Tom….
June 20th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Nice to see a little bit of TJ outside of the concert experience. Don looks dashing too, I noticed him straight away. Nice audio/video treat, thanks!
June 20th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Love the cigar! He should do that more often. Also noticed all the Dom P. bottles while watching the video… the man can sing and not slur a word! Either that or he was behaving himself!!
June 21st, 2008 at 1:48 am
Could not access this but I.m sure Tom was his wonderful self.
June 21st, 2008 at 6:08 am
It’s so good to see TOM
and DON 
- I cannot say that about all in this clip but my respect and thanks to everyone who gets involved in to charity
June 24th, 2008 at 10:10 am
I loved the pictures and the video. I liked the slower beat he was singing KISS to. I, too, liked the cigar and the glass of champange while he was singing. What a great picture that would make. What else can I say…he’s just great no matter what he does, how he does it or where he does it!
June 24th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
I’m so glad that you all were unable to edit the video. This is a charity that Tom believes in. If it were edited, we would only see Tom and not understand why he was there, and why it’s important to him.
Thanks for posting.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Sharon: We would still edit the video if we were able and would leave in all the pertinent stuff — what the charity is and Tom talking about it. We would have gotten rid of a lot of the filler, as we did with the 2007 video. We are not so obsessed with Tom Jones that there’s no room for anything else. but some of this was of no interest at all to many people. We’ve written about the charity before and posted a link to its website.And, in truth, except for the fact that it’s a charity that does good work in Vancouver, we still have absolutely no idea “why he was there” (as opposed to being at other charity events) “and why it’s important to him.” But that doesn’t matter. All that matters is that he was there and did support it.