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Podcast: What the Riff Next Gen
Episode: 1965 - June: Tom Jones “Along Came Jones”
Description: This week we introduce you to the debut album from a 24 year-old lad from Wales. Thomas John Woodward - today Sir Thomas John Woodward - is better known as Tom Jones. He got his start as the front man for a beat group called Tommy Scott and the Senators, but they really didn't go anywhere beyond South Wales. Gordo Mills became his manager, took him to London, and renamed him Tom Jones after the Academy Award winning film of the same name released in 1963.
Jones' first hit would be the one for which he is always remembered. "It...