Delilah by lazarus57

lazarus57 - Delilah

lazarus57

Nov 15, 2024 12:53pm

Sing 2 for 1... Round 1<img src="https://singsnap-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/message-board/threads/RLPR/2f88c3df03_IIYF_media.gif"><img src="https://cdn-2.cinemaparadiso.co.uk/11033102261934_l.jpg" alt="See the source image"> <img src="https://i.imgur.com/wPVncDb.gif"> "Delilah" is a song recorded by Welsh singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Jones_(singer)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Tom Jones</a> in December 1967. The lyrics were written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Mason" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Barry Mason</a>, and the music by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Reed_(songwriter)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Les Reed</a>, who also contributed the title and theme of the song. It earned Reed and Mason the 1968 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Novello_award" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Ivor Novello award</a> for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delilah_(Tom_Jones_song)#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">[1]</a> <h2>Music and lyrics</h2>Although the song is a soulful number set in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_metre" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">triple metre</a>, the underlying genre may be considered to be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimental_ballads#Power_ballads" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">power ballad</a> in the British ballad tradition. Produced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sullivan_(record_producer)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Peter Sullivan</a>, Jones's version features a big-band accompaniment set to a flamenco rhythm. The pitch of the final note is A4. Flamenco was a surprising choice, since there is no reference to Spain anywhere in the song. Possibly, it was because of similarities to the plot of "Carmen", in which Don José stabs Carmen to death when she tells him she is leaving him for another man.The song tells the story of a man who passes his girlfriend's window and sees her inside making love to another man. He waits outside all night, and then confronts her in the morning, only to have her laugh in his face. He stabs her to death, and then waits for the police to come break down the door and arrest him. The lyrics unfold from the killer's point of view, and are filled with his, often contradictory, emotions. He speaks of Delilah in possessive terms, but also refers to himself as her "slave." He asks his dead girlfriend to "forgive" him, but still clearly sees himself as having been wronged by her.When Jones performed the song on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">The Ed Sullivan Show</a>, the censors insisted that the line "At break of day when the man drove away" be changed to "At break of day I was still 'cross the way", as the original version implied he had spent the night with Delilah. Jones later described the change as "such bullshit".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delilah_(Tom_Jones_song)#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delilah_(Tom_Jones_song)#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">[3]</a>In a two-year court case in The High Court of Justice, 1983 -M- No.1566 , <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Mason" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Barry Mason</a>'s ex-wife Sylvan Whittingham, the daughter of Bond film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderball_(film)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Thunderball</a> screenwriter, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Whittingham" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Jack Whittingham</a>, claimed she had written half the lyrics of "Delilah" and several other songs. The legal battle that was settled out of court in 1986.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delilah_(Tom_Jones_song)#cite_note-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delilah_(Tom_Jones_song)#cite_note-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">[5]</a><h2>Chart performance</h2>Tom Jones' recording reached No. 1 in the charts of several countries, including Germany and Switzerland.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delilah_(Tom_Jones_song)#cite_note-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">[6]</a> It reached No 2 in the British charts in March 1968 and was the sixth-best selling single of that year.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delilah_(Tom_Jones_song)#cite_note-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">[7]</a> The US <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Billboard</a> chart records its highest position as 15.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delilah_(Tom_Jones_song)#cite_note-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">[8]</a> <img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ihQQCuVY8qI/maxresdefault.jpg" alt="See the source image">