Tom Jones
June, 1969
It's a long way from the Welsh coal-mining town of Pontypridd to the ABC-TV studios in Los Angeles; but Tom Jones, 29, has gone the distance, selling 24,000,000 records en route and signing the biggest night-club and television contracts ever offered to a British entertainer. The Flamingo in Las Vegas will pay him $840,000 for one month's work; and ABC, in combination with England's ATV, will televise five years of his booming baritone and high-powered hip swinging at a total package price of $2...
