"This is Tom Jones" feat. Joe Cocker and the Grease Band

Wow! Cocker is brilliant in this vid. Looks like he's about to spit some pea soup towards the end. Good stuff....

I believe in Joe Cocker.

grande Joe! ...e' sempre un piacere ritrovarti! al top!

Joe Cocker was not disabled. He's playing left-handed "air BASS guitar" - note his right hand is fretting the notes and his left hand fingers are down - plucking the strings as a bass player does. You can check it out in "Woodstock" as well. I was in a band at the time, and it was uncool to be slick like Tom Jones and very cool to be "moved" by the music in any bizarre way you felt - sometimes the more bizarre the better!

I am transfixed by Tom Jones' high waisted blue pants...they must have dressed him to distract attention from Joe Cocker...maybe...

Wow Man! Check out the tv shows back then. And now we have "American Idols". pfff...

Cocker's mannerisms, depending on which of a few competing stories are the real one, were the result either of a pre-existing condition or an accident he'd been in. Whichever one it was, it surely should occur to anyone but an exceptionally slow 8 year old that the least likely possibility was that he was doing "Epileptic Dude" in an effort to be a plausible front man/lead singer-type. I know this was before many of the posters here were born, but Christ, c'mon!

To skilletchops: Oh bullshit! Tom Jones, if anything, is absolutely going OVER THE TOP with his vocals, like he pretty much did with every song he sung. His performance with Janis is quite good, they played off each other well. But Tom doesn't have Joe's gruff soul that this song needs. He's far too "polished" sounding. Dude do yourself a favor and watch "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" if you haven't already and see what Joe was all about. Or just check his Woodstock performance!

God he's weird to watch but man can he sing~go Joe!

LOL - i agree