Because he loved ballads as well as rock 'n' roll, he loved Gospel, he loved pop. 'I think he was the only person I've spoken to that felt the same way about music as myself, as far as versatility is concerned. And then it gave him more confidence to make a comeback. So he said to me, 'You were very successful in Vegas, I want to watch you, I want to see what you do'. My stage presence, he felt, was very similar to his. He wanted to sing in Las Vegas, so he felt that I was the closest thing to him I had a similar approach. He came to see me at The Flamingo in '68, because he said he wanted to make a comeback, live, because he hadn't sung live for years. We worked Vegas a lot together, at the same time. We were friends until just before he died. We became friends from that day on, and that was in 1965.
Which was strange for him to say because they thought he was black when he started. He said, 'When I heard 'What's New Pussycat', I thought it was a black fella singing it'. When they first started playing my records in America, they thought I was black. Because they thought I was black, you know. I have a Welsh voice, but because of American music influencing me so much, I am sounding like I do'. But, I said, 'I was influenced more by American music than I was Welsh traditional music'. And he said, 'Do all people sing like that in Wales?' I said, 'Well, not exactly', but I said, 'Welsh people have strong voices, that is where I get my strength from. He said, 'What's it like in Wales then? You come from Wales?' I said 'Yeah'. We had a picture taken, and he said to me, 'How the hell do you sing like that'?Īnd I said, 'Well, you are partly to blame, you know, listening to your records in the 50s'. It was like a dream, that Elvis Presley was singing my song, you know, to me! When I go on the set where Elvis was filming, he walked towards me and singing 'With These Hands', which was my record. And that was 'It's Not Unusual', 'What's New Pussycat' and a ballad called 'With These Hands'. So I though, my God, I didn't know that he knew that I existed, because I had three singles out and one album at the time. Tom Jones : I went to Paramount studios in Hollywood to talk about a song for a movie, and they said 'Elvis is here today filming and he would like to meet you'. Tom was about to introduce Elvis to his audience. Elvis was in the audience of a Tom Jones show. In her photo above, Judy Palmer captured Elvis' profile in the half light of the stage spotlight. Elvis watching Tom Jones perform in 1974.
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