RIP Lyricist and Librettist Tom Jones has passed away, 95

[K'Tesh]

Just got word that Tom Jones has passed away after his battle with cancer... He was 95.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/new...icks-dies-at-95/ar-AA1fct6d?OCID=ansmsnnews11
Thanks for the music Tom
Rest In Peace

(Clarificication: This is not the Welsh singer who sang "It's Not Unusual")

 

[stealth6]

edited................wrong Tom Jones

 

[PhilC]

Sad news. Apart from being a great entertainer he was also a strong ambassador for Wales.

 

[PhlAsh]

Wrong Tom Jones.
Not the Welsh singer, the Texan lyricist.

 

[PhilC]

Good news for Wales, not such good news for Texas.

 

[Hobie1dog]

Wrong Tom Jones.
Not the Welsh singer, the Texan lyricist.

and almost no one knows who he is.

 

[techrat]

That's the problem with being named "Tom Jones" -- there's probably 100,000 people in the world right now with that name. Now, if you're named "Brian Cirulnick" or "Zareh Artinian", chances are your name is so unique that a google search will point to only a single individual. Strange Days Indeed. (most peculiar momma).

 

[JoePfeiffer]

and almost no one knows who he is.

I actually thought the singer had written The Fantasticks until yesterday.

 

[K'Tesh]

Looks like I got confused by the name too... I was thinking it was the singer of "It's Not Unusual"...

 

[stealth6]

That's the problem with being named "Tom Jones" -- there's probably 100,000 people in the world right now with that name. Now, if you're named "Brian Cirulnick" or "Zareh Artinian", chances are your name is so unique that a google search will point to only a single individual. Strange Days Indeed. (most peculiar momma).

And the person most of us think of as "Tom Jones" was born Thomas John Woodward.

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