LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• 2CD packed into a 6 panel digipack, UV gloss with an 8 page booklet
• Collection of live performances
• Includes BBC radio broadcasts
• Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality
• Interviews, background liners and rare images

Tom Jones, live at the BBC 1965-1968

Tom Jones' journey from a small Valleys town Teddy Boy in South Wales to international superstar is both phenomenal and familiar to many. However, his recording career began in 1964 with local group The Squires whose regular visits to the BBC's Paris Theatre Studios chart a less familiar path for the world famous singer.

His powerhouse performances for the BBC and interviews conducted by host Brian Matthew, provide a fascinating account of a youthful Tom Jones who was only just starting out on the journey to stardom. Manager Gordon Mills would have to contain the raw energy for a wider audience in later years, but the sessions produced here featuring tracks exclusive to these sessions only, tell of a less polished but highly charged talent in-the-making whose passion for soul and R&B is prominent here.

London Calling very proudly presents Tom Jones, live at the BBC from his formative years as a raunchy rock 'n' roller in from 1965 to 1968. Professionally re-mastered original broadcasts with background liners and rare archival photographs.

Track Listing

Disc One

1965

March 12th

• Can I Get a Witness
• It's Not Unusual (with interview) (backed by Tony Osborne)
• Once Upon A Time

May 21st

• Lucille
• Once Upon A Time (with interview)
• It's Not Unusual

June 11th

• Little By Little
• Once Upon A Time (with interview)
• Bama Lama Bama Loo

September 9th

• Spanish Harlem
• What'cha Gonna Do
• With These Hands (with Interview)
• What'd I Say?

December 24th

• In the Midnight Hour
• Thunderball (with Interview)
• Treat Her Right

1966

January 28th

• The Rose
• The Key to My Heart (with interview)
• Long Tall Sally

July 8th

• Not Responsible
• Stupidity
• Once There Was a Time
• Sticks and Stones

August 26th

• Summertime
• Not Responsible (with interview)
• The Green Green Grass of Home
• Living, Loving Wreck

December 16th

• Shake

Disc Two

1966

December 16th

• He'll Have to go
• The Green Green Grass of Home (with interview)
• What Did I Say

1967

March 24th

4. Detroit City (with interview) 5. Land of a Thousand Dances

April 14th

• I (Who Have Nothing)
• Detroit City (with interview)
• Barefootin'

May 19th

• Do It Right
• Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings (with interview)
• Big Boss Man

June 16th

• My Prayer
• Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings (with interview)
• Money Honey

August 18th

• Trying to Find My Baby
• Sea of Heartbreaks
• I'll Never Fall in Love Again (with interview)
• Land of a Thousand Dances

September 8th

• I Can't Stop Loving You
• Sixteen Tons

December 29th

• Good News
• I'm coming Home (with interview)
• Don't Fight It

1968

January 19th

• Money Honey