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Tom Jones (born 7 June 1940), (real name Thomas Jones Woodward) is a Welsh singer whose career has spanned five-and-a-half decades since his emergence as a vocalist in the mid-1960s, with a string of top hits, regular touring, appearances in Las Vegas (1967–2011), and career comebacks. [1]
Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.
Tom Jones' Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Welsh singer Tom Jones, released in late 1973 on Decca Records (on Parrot Records in the United States and Canada). The album spent 13 weeks on the UK albums chart in January–March and May 1974, peaking at number 15.
The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson.
20 Greatest Hits (subtitled The Tenth Anniversary Album) is a 1975 compilation album by Tom Jones. As the subtitle suggests, it had been ten years since Jones' first hit, "It's Not Unusual" in 1965. With a copyright date of 1974, the album was released in the UK on 28 February 1975.
"Would You Catch a Falling Star" is a tongue in cheek look at the pitfalls of stardom and fame, describing a one-time superstar whose drawing power and appeal to fans is fading. The song opens with the former superstar finishing a country music show attended by a small crowd. He then departs backstage half drunk and meets a woman.
"Waiting for a Star to Fall" is a song by American pop music duo Boy Meets Girl in 1988, written by the duo's members, Shannon Rubicam and George Merrill. They wrote the song after witnessing a falling star at a Whitney Houston concert and originally offered the song to Houston, but Arista Records CEO Clive Davis rejected it.
This Is Tom Jones is sold on DVD by Time Life rather than by Classic World Productions or C/F International. [32] C/F International's rights to later Tom Jones material were also disputed. In March 2007, Tom Jones and Tom Jones Enterprises sued C/F International to stop the company from licensing sound recordings made from the 1981 Tom Jones ...