Tom Jones Hilton Special (1966)
1966 · Television · 31 min · dir. Ted Gregory
- Music
Synopsis
Welsh singer Tom Jones performs a television studio concert in this 1966 Australian special produced by GTV-9 in Melbourne.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Director
- Ted Gregory
- Released
- 1966-03-28
- Running time
- 31 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- 1960s Classic TV, Classic TV
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- 1960s
- Pop music
- Kinescope
- Television special
Cast & crew
- Ted Gregory Director
Tom Jones
Pete Smith
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Both a delight on its own merits and also a great piece of history · ravvale · 2025-04-19
This is Tom Jones in-between his first successes and about to break even bigger in the states. He is still showing his rock and roll roots, but also has his big movie hits, “Thunderball”, and “What’s New Pussycat?”. But the band is a rock and roll band: keyboard, guitar, bass and drums. It’s raw and basic. And the footage is B&W tv kinescope (I think. Could be film). The screaming of teeny boppers throughout gets annoying. But it’s not as bad as that for The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Shot in a Hilton in their nightclub room, it’s stripped down and IMO, looks and sounds just fine. Highly…