Tom Jones International

In 1971 Tom’s official fan club, run out of a UK office directly supervised by manager Gordon Mills, regularly sent out newsletters to fans (”TOJOs”) that purported to fill them in on all things TJ. In this issue, fan club secretary Vicki talks to musical director Johnnie Spence about a “typical day.” We have lots of these newsletters from the official club and from locals and, from time to time, we’ll post some of them. When we do you’ll see that the assumption by seemingly everyone in those early days was that all of Tom’s fans are female. The readers are always addressed a “girls.” Quaint. (Note: If the print is too small to read, just click on it to enlarge it. We wish it were clearer, but it’s a scan of an old mimeographed page.)