America got quite a ethnic wakeup call watching American Idol Wednesday night. After Scotty McCreery, whose bent is toward country music, won the singing competition, and got to meet Carrie Underwood backstage, the show ended with a performance by Sir Tom Jones.
Tom Jones, born June 7, 1940, is now 71 years old and from a time, the 1960s, of Go-Go Girls, James Bond, and his own show, manifest to a whole new audience that he's not only still got it, but at a high level.
With his American Idol display, Sir Tom efficaciously pushed together Americans who were 13, 33, 53, and 73 years old. Only a few performers can do that; Tom Jones and Mick Jagger are part of that club.
The Rolling Stones front man, was rocking at the time of Tom Jones, and when he gave his rendering of "Everybody Needs Somebody," the reaction to 67-year-old Mick Jagger throw in' down at The 2011 Grammy's was equal to that of Tom Jones.
And, like Jones, young people who use Twitter to get their information, were sharing tweets about a person some in the media believed as getting too old to do his craft.
Mick Jagger and Tom Jones have shown that it's possible to have entertainers who pass generations, and immense distances of time and culture, but that only could have happened with social media.
Watch the video of Tom Jones on American Idol
Tom Jones, born June 7, 1940, is now 71 years old and from a time, the 1960s, of Go-Go Girls, James Bond, and his own show, manifest to a whole new audience that he's not only still got it, but at a high level. With his American Idol display, Sir Tom efficaciously pushed together Americans who were 13, 33, 53, and 73 years old. Only a few performers can do that; Tom Jones and Mick Jagger are part of that club.
The Rolling Stones front man, was rocking at the time of Tom Jones, and when he gave his rendering of "Everybody Needs Somebody," the reaction to 67-year-old Mick Jagger throw in' down at The 2011 Grammy's was equal to that of Tom Jones.
And, like Jones, young people who use Twitter to get their information, were sharing tweets about a person some in the media believed as getting too old to do his craft.
Mick Jagger and Tom Jones have shown that it's possible to have entertainers who pass generations, and immense distances of time and culture, but that only could have happened with social media.
Watch the video of Tom Jones on American Idol
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