Comments on: HOORAY! Tom Jones’ New CD To Be Released October 21 In US; November 17 In UK

By: Nicki

Nicki — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:58:22 +0000

I’m so terribly excited about this! I love that song and can’t wait to see what else (especially what genre of music) he’s going to put on there!

By: Moderator

Moderator — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:14:47 +0000

Ed: We don't recall any cancellations. And, since schedules for releases are set way in advance, a cancellation shouldn't be necessary. Let's hope that everything goes smoothly and no shows anywhere are cancelled. As we understand it, this CD is meant to do for Tom in the USA what Reload did for him in the UK. Surely he'll promote it whenever and wherever he can and, surely, his live performance schedule will not suffer.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:30:42 +0000

I am so excited about the release of the new CD. Let’s all get behind this CD and get Tom the hit he deserves. By the way, Pat, when Tom released the CD that he did with Jools Holland he cancelled a few Vegas dates to promote the CD in Great Britain

By: TJFriend

TJFriend — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:45:57 +0000

CHEERS!!!!!!! To Sir Tom Jones’ new CD! Looking forwards to buying it in October. Never know, this could Tom’s next Grammy. That would be so nice.

By: TJmoves

TJmoves — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:32:19 +0000

I wish Sir Tom astronomical success on both sides of the ocean! Isn’t it amazing how much we all love him and wish to claim him as our own?

By: Moderator

Moderator — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:36:26 +0000

Hi again, All:We really hope this discussion ends. The people who make decisions about Tom’s career, hopefully, chose a US label to push Tom in the US and help lightening strike here as it did in the late 90s in the UK. But, unless you’re familiar with the business, some finer points may escape you (as they sometimes do us). UK fans seem hell-bent on keeping Tom to themselves. Yet, except for citizenship and that terrific accent, he is in every way an American. Certainly he’s been here (by choice, these days) long enough to claim to be an American by choice. So, let’s have his CD be a huge smash here and in the UK. And, please, let’s recognize the necessity of doing the former. And, by the way, CDs that aren’t immediate hits here, like in the UK, can sink faster than a boulder in the ocean. It’s not different.

By: AF

AF — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:46:58 +0000

Pat: As for Tom promoting his CD here in the US, I would surely hope that the powers-that-be will make a huge push. It’s time for a North America smash hit!

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:38:34 +0000

Just one point I would like to make CD’s in the UK are always promoted before release,they are released on a Monday, and they then make the chart the following Sunday, if they don’t go straight into the top 10/20 then they are not bothered with anymore, they do not climb up the charts like they do in the USA and as they did here many years ago. Cd’s are not promoted after the chart the following Sunday after release unless they go into the top 10/20,without promotion before they will not get there So for Tom to come after that date would be pointless,so what I was saying is there is so little time for him to promote the CD before the end of his Las Vegas engagement and the release date of 17th November. I really hope Tom doesn’t cancel dates, that is a poor idea, but all I was saying was he did that before the release of Reload and the Mr Jones CD. Ww are all fans whatever country we are in, and I am a frequent vistor to the USA, so I really do hope that the CD is a huge hit in all the countries it is released in.

By: Moderator

Moderator — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:25:27 +0000

Pat: No one is arguing with you. And there’s plenty of time between his Las Vegas closing in November and some dates we hear he has in the east in December for him to go to the UK. But you miss our point. It is purely professional….and no one says anyone is keeping him from promotion in the UK. However, canceling dates? That’s really a poor idea in this case, we believe, and we sincerely hope it doesn’t happen. You guys have no idea how much Tom needs lightening to strike in the US. When Reload came out — in the UK only — it accomplished its intended purposes: It was a huge seller, got Tom the recognition he deserved, snagged him a Brit award and started him on the road to knighthood. He deserves the same in the US, doesn’t he?

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:12:09 +0000

I understand that Tom needs to promote the CD in the US and I really hope that it does well there, but I can’t believe that Tom won’t be promoting the CD in the UK,this has nothing to do with anything jingoistic, we want him to have a hit CD in both countries. I’m sure his management would never allow him to pass the opportunity to have a hit CD in the UK. If the CD is released in the USA in October, he has plenty of time before that date to promote it there, but all I am saying is his Vegas dates will be after the CD is released there, and he needs time to promote the CD in the UK. When Reload was released in the UK he was here for a few weeks before release date and cancelled shows in the US to be here.I disagree that he should only be promoting the new CD in the US only, he needs time to promote the CD in the USA UK and Europe.What would fans in the UK think if it wasn’t promoted here?