TOM JONES - DEFINITIVE 1964-2002 - 4 CD BOX SET - 40 YEARS OF THE VERY BEST RARE

! This would make a great gift ! Tom Jones Definitive 1964-2002 4 CD Box Set Includes the 93 All TimeGreatest Hits Without question, this is the most complete compilation of Tom Jones' singing career Extremely Rare and Hard to Find Good Condition (Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back) * * * * * * * Track Listing Little Lonely One 2. Chills & Fever 3. It's Not Unusual 4. Spanish Harlem 5. Some Other Guy 6. Once Upon a Time 7. With These Hands 8. What's New Pussycat 9. Thunderball 10. Bama Lama Bama Loo 11. To Make a Big Man Cry 12. Little You 13. Stop Breaking My Heart 14. Once There Was a Time 15. Not Responsible 16. Begin the Beguine 17. Taste of Honey 18. If Ever I Would Leave You 19. Green, Green Grass of Home 20. Detroit 21. Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings 22. Sixteen Tons 23. He'll Have to Go 24. (It Looks Like) I'll Never Fall in Love Again 25. I'm Coming Home 26. That Lucky Old Sun 27. Land of 1000 Dances 28. I Wake up Crying 29. It's a Man's Man's Man's World 30. You Keep Me Hangin' On 31. Delilah 32. Weeping Annaleah 33. Just Out of Reach 34. Help Yourself 35. Minute of Your Time 36. My Girl Maria 37. Looking Out of My Window 38. Can't Stop Loving You 39. Love Me Tonight 40. Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) 41. Wichita Lineman 42. Dock of the Bay 43. Hey Jude 44. That Wonderful Sound 45. Without Love 46. Daughter of Darkness 47. I Can't Turn You Loose 48. Let There Be Love 49. I (Who Have Nothing) 50. Lodi 51. Try a Little Tenderness 52. To Love Somebody 53. She's a Lady 54. Puppet Man 55. Do What You Gotta Do 56. In Dreams 57. You're My World (Il Mio Mondo) 58. Till 59. Young New Mexican Puppeteer 60. Witch Queen of New Orleans 61. Tired of Being Alone 62. If 63. Letter to Lucille 64. Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone 65. (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right 66. Today Is Starting Loving You Again 67. Lean on Me 68. Pledging My Love 69. Right Place Wrong Time 70. Rainin' in My Heart 71. I Got Your Number 72. Memories Don't Leave Like People Do 73. Lusty Lady 74. Darlin 75. No Guarantee 76. Boy From Nowhere 77. Kiss 78. Move Closer 79. Carrying a Torch 80. Gimme Shelter (New Model Army Ft Tom Jones) 81. If I Only Knew 82. Something For Your Head 83. Girl Like You 84. (Make Me Smile) Come up & See Me/You Can Leave Your Hat On/Lands of 1000 Dances 85. Burning Down the House (Ft the Cardigans) 86. Mama Told Me Not to Come (Ft the Stereophonics) 87. Sexbomb (Ft Mousse T) 88. Sometimes We Cry (Ft Van Morrison) 89. Motherless Child (Ft Portishead) 90. Black Beauty 91. Letter (Ft Allure) 92. Tom Jones International 93. Younger Days Album Notes A complete four CD career retrospective anthology of the Welsh singing sensation's long career covering the years 1964-2002 with a whopping 93 tracks. Includes a 64 page booklet, extensive sleeve notes, rare and classic photos, memorabillia and discography., This four-disc retrospective anthology spans nearly 40 years in the career of Welsh singer Toots Thielemans. Over 90 tracks from the years 1964 to 2002 are accompanied by a 64-page booklet containing sleeve notes, photos, and discography.The Definitive Tom Jones 1964-2002 pretty much fulfills the criteria most fans expect a multi-disc, career-spanning box set to satisfy. The four-CD, 93-track collection includes most of his chart hits -- and all of the big ones, though some minor entries get skipped over -- as well as a load of less familiar album tracks. Diehards might particularly rue the absence of the 1977 Top 20 single "Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow," his cover of "Resurrection Shuffle" (which charted as a B-side in the U.S. in 1971), and his early single "This and That." Also, the sheer weight of material means that it's not nearly as concentrated in its power as a more concise greatest-hits collection. It becomes less and less interesting as it ventures beyond the early '70s, particularly on the last CD, taken up by a good number of clubby productions and celebrity duets from the 1990s and early 2000s. Still, Jones' remarkable voice remains at peak efficiency even on the fourth disc, something you can say of few other pop singers when they pass the half-century mark. And the collection does document his versatility in a number of genres -- rock & roll, soul, MOR pop, and country music -- as well as his willingness to tackle material from a wide assortment of major popular composers, from Paul Anka, Jimmy Webb, James Brown, and Burt Bacharach to Merle Travis, Mickey Newbury, John Barry, and his early manager, Gordon Mills. Wisely, it also heavily emphasizes his earliest and best work, tracks from his first decade as a recording artist taking up most of the first three discs. Those previously only well-versed in his hits will be pleased to find some unsung quality efforts here, like the punchy pop-soul of "Some Other Guy," the ballads "To Make a Big Man Cry" and "I Wake Up Crying," a snazzy rendition of "Begin the Beguine," the brooding funk of "Looking Out of My Window," and his cover of Solomon Burke's "Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms)." Frankly, however, the material and production aren't always good or suited for his voice, doing much to expose the limitations of his blustery approach as well as to complement its strength. As for rarities, there aren't many, though it does include the Joe Meek-produced "Little Lonely One" (recorded before Jones signed with Decca, and belatedly released after Jones became a star) and his 1964 flop debut single, "Chills & Fever," his best pure rock & roll track. The lengthy historical essay by Peter Doggett in the bound-in booklet is good, but the track listings are more skeletal than they should be on a package of this magnitude, with no original release information beyond the years the songs were first issued. Customer Reviews Keeping Up With The Jones, August 19, 2008 This review is from: Definitive 1964 - 2002 (Audio CD) Like all great and popular performers, Tom Jones has his adamant fans, and equally adamant critics. The legendary Welshman who burst onto the musical radar screen during a second wave of the British Invasion in 1965 has long since gained a reputation for being a ladies man that has gone as far as some of them throwing their panties onstage during his Las Vegas shows (a practice that he has always been, at best, uneasy with); and his performances are arguably so over-the-top that they defy description. But as THE DEFINITIVE TOM JONES 1964-2002 shows us, there's more to Mr. Jones than just all of that--much, much more. Once one digs into this 4-CD collection, one finds that Jones was and still is one of the great male vocalists of the age with a huge voice on par with the man he is basically the Welsh equivalent of, Elvis. Much gets made of the kitsch value of "It's Not Unusual" and "What's New Pussycat?", his first two big hits in America (both Top Tens), not to mention his biggest US smash, 1971's "She's A Lady" (a #2 hit). But the man's longevity can clearly be traced to many other hits he's had as well, many of them covers of classic American R&B and country favorites. His approach to such Music City smashes as "Green, Green Grass Of Home", "Detroit City", or the Jim Reeves classic "He'll Have To Go", all of which are from 1967, are a kind of cross between R&B and countrypolitan styles, redolent with Floyd Cramer-type piano work, and they fit Jones to a tee, despite him not being American. Jones also cross-pollinated those styles onto a song closer to his UK roots, the Jim Currie/Lonnie Donegan composition "I'll Never Fall In Love Again", which originally only got to #49 here in America in the fall of 1967, but which, upon re-release, got up to #6 in September 1969, aided by the success of his TV variety show "This Is Tom Jones." It is a performance of such extreme emotion that it's almost painful. For my money, the best of Jones' performances is his take on the R&B/gospel chestnut "Without Love (There Is Nothing)." Here's a song of incredible durability that had already seen tremendous cover versions by legends like Clyde McPhatter, Ray Charles, Little Richard, and (ironically) Elvis himself; and Jones put his own powerful stamp on it in late 1969. The song incredibly hit #1 on the US adult contemporary chart, and #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, at the end of January 1970, becoming one of Jones' unquestionable displays of how astute a vocal powerhouse he was. And to follow up that big hit, there was "Daughter Of Darkness"; "I (Who Have Nothing)" (the 1963 Ben E. King hit that was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller); and "Can't Stop Loving You"--all three equally viable and memorable hits from that same year of 1970. As several reviewers have already remarked, the collection does miss the man's 1977 Top 15 countrypolitan hit "Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow." It also misses a pair of other songs Jones did that I think are of significant validity as well: "If I Ruled The World", the Leslie Bricusse/Cyril Ordanel composition from the musical "Pickwick" that Jones did for his 1970 album TOM; and "If I Ever Had To Say Goodbye To You" from 1982, which is one of his most moving performances. Still, the absence of those three doesn't change the five-star rating, because there's too much else on this collection to ignore. Once you get past the camp, kitsch labelling that critics have attached to him, there really isn't anything else left but to conclude that Tom Jones remains a very serious vocal powerhouse, one that may never ever be seen again. Tom 'the voice' Jones, May 1, 2004 This review is from: Definitive 1964 - 2002 (Audio CD) A truly great collection. The presentation standards are good, with a decent printed cover, and full colour booklet with some great photos of a young tom jones. The booklet acts as a kind of mini biography, charting his career from start to finish, with some nice quotes from Tom himself. Particularly interesting is the way Tom talks about his friendship with Elvis, and how when the first met, el