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Brass Banding Goes Pop: EM60’s 2020 Advent Calendar: 18. Delilah

Why, why, why… More Tom Jones?

  • Piece: Delilah;
  • Composers: Barry Mason/Les Reed.

What links Glasgow with Hyde, Pontypridd and Stoke-on-Trent? It is this song, covered by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and Biggles Wartime Band, originally sung by PJ Proby, though more famously by Tom Jones. As for the Stoke-on-Trent connection, it is a long time chant beloved of Stoke City fans.

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