Sir Tom Jones is 81 years old today, I'm sure he could still dance like this if he wanted to.
Please enjoy a thread from his tv show a lifetime ago, it's hard to comprehend how many musical giants he hosted on there.
A duet with Janis Joplin shows us how well their two voices sat together. Should've/could've had more of this!
And with Aretha, possibly the only other person that wouldn't need to compete with his voice.
'The Beat Goes On' with Cher doing her native American vibe.
This proves that the world really needed a Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young collab album
Dueting with 'The Killer' and the menace is palpable
Joe Cocker in his prime was a force to be reckoned with!
With minimum effort, Little Richard took Tom Jones to school.
He should of done a lot more songs with Tina Turner, their voices work so well together
Ray Charles showing Tom how it's done
Smokey Robinson's voice is sooo fragile in comparison!
Even Stevie Wonder is here to play!
Wilson Pickett has voice that works so well with Tom Jones, missed a trick here.
Which leads me to number 4 in my top 25 favourite Tom Jones jokes.
👉🏼 What's made of brass and sounds like Tom Jones?
I'm adding to this thread because I omitted some absolute gems initially.
How about Tom Jones and Ella Fitzgerald, effortless as you like. Lady Ella was as smooth as butter in this.
Sammy Davis Jr adding a bit of stardust to What The World Needs Now
Even the Moody Blues got in on the action. Stonking tune too.
Folks, it's Johnny and June Carter Cash with Tom Jones!
And Cher is back in what is possibly the most 1970's video I've ever seen.
Which leads us to Dusty Springfield. She's on absolute form here!
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"You used to always say to me, 'Let’s live together until our hair turns white and die on the same day.' So how could you go ahead and leave me behind?" Letter by a woman to her deceased husband, discovered in the man's grave along with a lock of her hair. Korea, 1586.
This letter was discovered while relocating an unmarked grave to make way for construction work in 1998. Rough translation:
To Won’s Father
You used to always say to me, “Let’s live together until our hair turns white and die on the same day.” So how could you go ahead and
leave me behind? Who are our child and I supposed to listen to? How are we supposed to live, now that you’ve thrown everything away and gone ahead of me?
What were the feelings you had for me and what were the feelings I had for you? Every day when the two of us were lying down
Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer, and political prisoner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died on this day in 2008.
Understand Solzhenitsyn’s history and you’ll understand a bit of Russia and its history.
Arrests, gulags, war, this guy was METAL!
A short 🧵
While serving in the Soviet army he sent a letter to a friend criticising Stalin but at the same time outlining why he was an avid supporter of Lenin’s ideas.
That letter got him an 8-year sentence in forced labour camps.
Solzhenitsyn began his sentence building houses in Moscow for a year. But after falling out with wardens he was transferred to a hard labour camp in north Kazakhstan, where he witnessed some of the most brutal hardships of the Gulag.
The novelist, playwright and activist James Baldwin was born #OTD in 1924.
His work raises questions and dilemmas about complex social pressures thwarting the integration of not only Black Americans, but also gay and bisexual men
Read 'Go Tell It on the Mountain'...
Also, published on this day in 1865 was Alice in Wonderland.
Sex, drugs, jokes, food, death... what's it actually all about? dannydutch.com/post/alice-in-…
On this day in 1945, after 3½ days of suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur “Chuck” Gwinn, 890 crew went into the water, 316 had survived. dannydutch.com/post/the-uss-i…
Photographer Horace Warner took these portraits to highlight the East End living conditions in 1900. Horace was the Sunday School Superintendent of the Bedford Institute, one of nine Quaker missions in the East End.
At first, all he wanted to do was record the children’s lives, but in 1913 around two dozen of the photographs were used by Quaker activists to raise funds for poor relief. The rest of Warner’s archive was preserved by his family after his death in 1937
Journalist Fred McKenzie filed a report in 1901, a description of just one road around the district’s famous Christ Church, an architectural gem designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
Let us take a moment on what would've been Fellini's birthday and celebrate some stills from his work over the years.
(A short thread)
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Starting with 1980's City of Women
Director of Photography: Giuseppe Rotunno
8 1/2
1963
Director of Photography: Gianni Di Venanzo
La Dolce Vita
1960
Director of Photography: Otello Martelli