Tom Jones has died.

[samhexum]

Tom Jones, Half of Record-Setting ‘Fantasticks’ Team, Dies at 95
He wrote the book and lyrics to a little show that opened in 1960 in

Greenwich Village and became “the longest-running musical in the universe.”

 

[Sophia and Dorothy come home after the Shady Pines mother-daughter beauty pageant]

Dorothy: The big news is, we beat Gladys Goldfine, right, Ma?

Sophia: Ahh, it was a hollow victory. Time has taken its toll on Gladys. She’s not the fierce competitor she once was.

Dorothy: Y’know, for the talent section, she was supposed to do a medley from The Fantasticks. She started with “Try to Remember” and… she couldn’t.

Edited August 14, 2023 by samhexum
for absolutely NO @%!*ING reason at all!

[MikeBiDude]

 Edited by OP wrong Tom Jones 

[samhexum]

11 hours ago, MikeBiDude said:

My favorite 

I'm often amused at how short some songs from the 60s & 70s are.  Tom packed a lot of hip-swiveling into 2:13, didn't he?

 

Edited August 14, 2023 by samhexum
for shits and giggles

[+ nycman]

4 hours ago, MikeBiDude said:

My favorite 

 

Wrong Tom Jones.

This one is still alive:

Tom Jones (singer) - Wikipedia

EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

This one is dead:

Tom Jones (writer) - Wikipedia

EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

 

[Becket]

Some of my first "feeling funny down there" experiences were watching Tom Jones sing "She's a lady" on some variety show one Sunday night. I remember asking my mother why the singer wiggled so much. 

[MikeBiDude]

5 hours ago, nycman said:

Wrong Tom Jones.

This one is still alive:

I was actually worried I'd make that mistake! So much for late night googling.

[+ Charlie]

During my senior year in high school, I was a member of the National Honor Society. We had a faculty advisor who wanted our club to be perceived in our suburban school  as culturally cutting-edge, so she arranged for us to have lunch in the city and then go to a matinee of an off-Broadway production of a new musical called The Fantasticks at the Sullivan Street Playhouse.  I don't remember anything about it except the performance of "Try to remember," which I couldn't stop singing over and over in my head for days afterwards.

[Ajac]

If you read Cassandra Peterson's Bio AKA Elvira you will never like the surviving Tom Jones...what a prick.

 

[samhexum]

23 minutes ago, Ajac said:

If you read Cassandra Peterson's Bio AKA Elvira you will never like the surviving Tom Jones...what a prick.

 

And by "what a prick' I assume you mean it's spectacular, but he's a selfish lover.

[Ajac]

No he hurt her feelings about some scars she had from an accident. 

[+ WilliamM]

The men also wrote successful Broadway shows

"I Do I Do" ran for over 500 performances 

[+ WilliamM]

On 10/5/2023 at 7:46 PM, WilliamM said:

The men also wrote successful Broadway shows

"I Do I Do" ran for over 500 performances 

They wrote a.musical version of "Our Town"  for Mary Martin

In a TV interview, Martin said I shall believe it when everything is signet and even then we aren't sure