Ella Fitzgerald Heard Tom Jones Sing One Note. What She Said After Was Not What Anyone Expected.

Ella Fitzgerald had been listening to voices for thirty-five years when she walked into Tom Jones's television studio in 1969. She was not in the habit of giving compliments casually. When Tom Jones finished singing, she said one sentence. The floor manager stopped. The musicians turned toward each other. Tom Jones stood at the microphone and received it. In this video, we look at what Ella Fitzgerald heard when Tom Jones sang — why she said what she said, what it revealed about how his voice actually worked, and why three words from the greatest ear in the history of American popular music became the truest assessment his voice ever received. Tom Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, This Is Tom Jones, Las Vegas, jazz, classic pop, music history, 1960s music, Welsh singer, Tom Jones TV show, music documentary.