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Jones and Morrison knew each way back when, when both were Just commg out of the starting gate At the tnme, they were really Into the same kind of were - rock and roll, rhythm and blues, gospel and country - but Jones‘s powerful vouoe directed ms career towards tig ballad" sangmg But the pamng was not as'unTIkely as some may think Last year, Momson wrote Carrvig a Torch and nad recorded If himself. but had not yet released when he realized It was really a Tom Jones song. More recently, Jones created a few We ripples when he teamed wnth pop-rock Icon Van Morrison to regord his latest album, Carrying A Torch. He cause me up and sad ‘I've got this song I'd We you to hear'. and I ttard, 'Fine Let's hear it', I was In London finishing oft the album. but when I heard the stuff that he had. I said. Look, I'd like to Jo four of these songs , and we bumped four songs Youngsters are more aware of me now. Before that, I d have youngsters come with their parents to see me, and the girls would come up to the stage and say. My God. I ttidn't know you do rock and roll MUSIC or modern stuff They only knew me from what the" parents are playing," he says, It wasnt a career move, It was lust updating my stage Show I look for new songs all the time. It I hear songs that I trunk will work well on stage, I do them And that's how Kiss came about." Jones says ’At the and of ‘86 (whue putting a new show together‘ which IS done annually), I heard Kiss on CD, and I heard more in It than Prince had done mm It as far as the arrangement was con- cerned His van-non IS very sparse - there's only a drum and a gutter - there's no bass or anything. And I thought I could do It and awe It more weight." A subsequent wdeo for the song received gener- ous army on vodeo statnns m North America and Bmam, and Introduced or reacquamtad Jones with a younger audience Tom Jones PAGE " ' WATERLOO CHMICLE. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST N. 1W1 Covering Prince's M kiss In 1988 with the British technopop group The An ot Noise caused a few shock waves. It went against the grain - contra. ducted what has become known as his style. It was contemporary, It was funky, and he pulled It oft, During the last couple ot years, Jones‘ Vegas Image has eroded --Nsta bit, mind you, but it's 6efinitety starting to fall away That, In part, isdueto a couple of unukecy moves on his pan. 'hoist,,.,?,":.))):":',.";"')--, OFFJ r---aikc%" '2 THE ONTAFllO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15th 'll flowc‘afl I b fiiis" SUNDAY, AUGUST 18th 11-00 am -1:00 am Uptown Waterloo (Uptown Court) "Rain or Shine" (bx/,e trae teaa Chiii"iriick I,!,!, to iCtmtirtusdfrromo-ttu But the basic formula has not changed. And the basic formula IS basically that there is no sic formula. If it feels good, do it, and if it sounds goo. sang t And that philisophy is what keeps him going. “I enloy it, I really do, Ft Jones says. “I love to sing and I love being in front of an audience. I enjoy and I always have enjoyed doing what I do. I dread the day when It stops - when I physically can't do it. Age IS my enemy. and I really hope that when I get old and am not really cutting It. I realize it. But for as long as I can still do it and still enjoy it, it's there.R"' tom Jones performs at t.siii iaiiiGGii'in Kitchener. Aug. 17. Tickets are $20 in advance. "I‘ve been trying for years to get a record company to see it - to let me record contemporary stuff But ts difficult - they want to play it safe," Jones says. Jones has changed a few other things as well. He performs with a young five-piece band now instead of an orchestra and he can often be found on stage In Jeans (tight ones) and a t-shirt instead of a tuxedo. scared. They say. ‘How do we market this - where do we take it?', because there‘s all these different types of songs. F' Jones says. "To them.i1's difficult - to me. it's natural. I wanted to do all those songs because I like them all, Carrying A Torch has been released on Chrysalis RtrxvdtinBritatandamatia,toutttaayktotsd released in the US. Record companies. in all their infinite wisdom, like to know exactly which market a recording will attract before they commit to any- thing. And in the case of Ames' new album, they're a little confused. “The protuern I always have, because ot the versatilitz‘. IS that record companies are a bit The rest of the album is impossible to pigeonhtAr, Styles vary from the soulful Strange Boat, to the naughty-rockin' Killer on the Sheets and the funky Zip It Up. Jones didnt intentionally mix it up on the, album - he wasn't trying to appeal to any particular market, As usual, he just found songs he liked and recorded them. 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