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SILLY SEASON by Michael J SILLY SEASON By Michael J. Carroll he Brits have a notion of the “silly season;” a time, usually in summer, when news stories that are not really news or stories T appear in the media because there is little else to report. Sometimes the silly season can flow beyond the news into everyday life. Silly season for my family and friends the pits. I suppose singing may be all involved the singer Tom Jones, a hearty they have now after Maggie Thatcher guy who has been belting out songs from closed the collieries and made them the mid-1960s through the present. You all, as the Brits are fond of saying, might fairly question what Tom Jones “redundant.” has to do with silly season or anything Jones spent a year in bed as a kid else for that matter. It started when recovering from Tuberculosis. He one of our number announced that he married at 16 and stayed married There were years when he recorded was attending the Midwest reunion of to the same woman with probably little and cashed in for millions doing the Jones branch of his family. I never hundreds of detours and dalliances over Las Vegas shows. But he always came knew he had Jones’s in the family tree the decades. At 75 he may now be a back. but did not demand to see a genogram paragon of fidelity. I saw him once on a New Year’s or contact the Mormon genealogists Jones exploded on the world in the Eve “Dame Edna” television show. for fact checking. We paused from our 1960s-----a pretty explosive time. The Dame is a hilarious cross-dressing summer meal and summer drinks when He has sung and recorded in most character created by Barry Humphries, he mentioned that the organizer of the every style from rock, to soul to blues, an Australian comedian, known for reunion was----Tom Jones. to country. He was good friends with her wild tinted hair, cat’s eye glasses, I blame myself, as well as the food, Elvis until the “King’s” demise. and outrageous comical questions put the friends, the drink and the sun. I have images of Tom Jones belting to hapless guests. She was not quite Before I could reflect and stop I found out his “Unusual” song over the decades, buying Tom’s story that his nose job myself holding my clenched fist to my sometimes in a tuxedo, sometimes in a surgery was due to damage from mouth as an imagined microphone and fancy glittering Las Vegas body suit, fistfights in his youth. “If that’s your heard my own familiar if distant voice occasionally in a Neru/Mao jacket. story, sweetie…” belting out the opening of Jones’s first He and his music may be timeless So silly the season just might be, but big hit: if the word can be applied to someone I suppose that in the end: “It's not unusual to be loved by who never seemed completely in and It’s not unusual…“…whoa-oh-oh- anyone…” never completely out of style. oh-oh…” I am afraid it was all down hill from After his initial mid-1960s entry Epilogue: there. splash, Tom went on to sing for James I eagerly awaited the return of my One or two others ignored the groans Bond films (What’s New Pussy Cat… brother-in-law from his Jones reunion and the derisive laughter and joined whoa a whoa a whoa… Thunderball… foray. I waited a decent interval before in with additional approximated lines, whoa a whoa…). He even walked onto questioning him while he unpacked half-remembered. a show my children watched as kids, his luggage including the t-Shirt, that “It's not unusual to see me cry… I “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” proclaimed, “I’m from Milwaukee and wanna' die…” Tom Jones became “Sir Tom Jones” that’s not funny.” I could finally wait A few more skipped to the bang up and entertained the British Royal no longer and asked him point blank if finish. Everyone knew the words: Family at their charity fundraisers. He Tom Jones had appeared. “…whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh…” outdid all the aging rockers with a voice Yes, he responded. There was a Tom We are not usually like that. Honestly. that was still going strong. The Royals Jones. But he was not a singer. He was Or at least I do not think so. Blame it on and the thousands in the crowd swayed a lawyer. the silly season. to the refrain of his hit “Why, why, why, Tom Jones has been around for a Delilah?”, managing to ignore the very Michael J. Carroll (mcarroll@clsphila. while. He was born in Wales in 1940, politically incorrect if not downright org), a public interest attorney, is a the son of a coal miner. Those Welsh misogynist lyrics that told the tale member of the Editorial Board of The miners you might remember were of a jealous man who killed his lover Philadelphia Lawyer. famous for their singing on the way to because she slept with another. the philadelphia lawyer Summer 2016 23.
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