Tom Jones: "No Hole In My Head" (Malvina Reynolds)

[BluesRunTheGame]

Brilliant cover of “No Hole In My Head” followed by the Malvina Reynolds original on “Rainbow Quest”.

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[JohnnyRingo]

1. when I was younger I was way too cool for Tom Jones.

"It's not unusual" and "What's New Pussycat" were anthems for the other side of the generation gap.
I don't know if he got cool or if I wasn't as hip as I thought, but he's grown on me with his recent material. I listened to the whole two minutes and fifty seconds of this and I dug it a lot. I'm thinking about getting my 1st Tom Jones CD. Did someone finally turn Tom onto weed?

I recall hearing a talking blues style song he did recently, probably from the same session.
It's a cover of a Todd Snider song, another artist I'm following now.

[BluesRunTheGame]

2. Here's one from 1969

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[JohnnyRingo]

3. I've seen some of the guests on his show.

This one is Tom Jones being vicariously cool.
Even Wayne Newton would rock the house in a duet with Pearl.

This reminds me of an amusing article I once read in National Lampoon.

In it, the author set the scene in a little diner with the tabletop juke boxes. He pointed out that the beginning and end of "What's New Pussycat" is seamless. That is to say, you can't tell when the song ends and starts anew. It's like a loop.

Anyway he put $5 in the box and punched Pussycat until he was out of selections. The second time it played people were just thinking the song was longer than they remembered, but after three times people started to fidget and react, with one guy stirring his coffee with nervous vigor. After the fourth time, diners were looking around and getting out of their seats to walk over to the juke box to see what was going on. On the fifth one the guy at the counter spilled his coffee and left.

Wish I was there, but I don't know how many I could stand myself. whoah whoa-whooh wohaa whoa

[chowmama]

4. You had me at Malvina Reynolds. nt