Tom On “Wake Up With Wogan” On BBC Radio 2 Monday Morning. Here’s The Interview:
Monday, October 6th, 2008On the air with Sir Terry Wogan, Tom introduced his UK single, If He Should Ever Leave You on this, a most-popular morning radio show. Tom was charming and clearly excited about the new CD in this most pleasant 13+ minutes. And we were most impressed at how bright-eyed and bushy-tailed Tom sounded at 8:34 a.m.
He said he’ll be in the UK for three weeks this trip and, next year, will have a full-scale tour there.
Awhile before Tom went on the air, Terry Wogan read a wish from our friend The Georgia Peach. Then, after the interview, read a message from Paula, our UK friend, who said, “I don’t remember when I was last so hopelessly excited first thing on a Monday morning….”
Between those messages, right before he began the interview by playing It’s Not Unusual, Sir Terry read the message below from us:
“We have the largest Tom Jones fan website in the world, tomjonesinternational.com, and we want Sir Tom to know we join all his fans in wishing him the best with “24 Hours.” We’re listening to you here in Las Vegas…Ellen & Ursula”
He commented on the time difference and, then, said something about fans in Las Vegas toward the end of the interview. So, here it is in two parts:
Wogan Interview • 10-06-08 • Part I • Wogan Interview 10•06•08 Part II
We hope you enjoyed the interview as much as we did and, we have to say we love the last few, plaintive horn notes in the song. So haunting.
Apologies for the rough cuts of the interview. We’ll try to get better.
Here’s a brief — too brief — review of 24 Hours from Music Week. Since it’s a “real” music publication, we’d like to see lots more at great length as the release date gets closer. We understand that commitments here in Las Vegas inhibit the UK promotion, but hopefully there’ll be plenty of phoners he can do to keep it fresh.