Green Green Grass of Home

Tom Jones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B00000E5HV
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #272,538 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Riders In The Sky

2. He'll Have To Go

3. Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings

4. Sixteen Tons

5. Two Brothers

6. My Mother's Eyes

7. Green Green Grass Of Home

8. Ring Of Fire

9. Field Of Yellow Daisies

10. Wish I Could Say No To You

11. All I Get From You Is Heartaches

12. Mohair Sam

13. Cool Water

14. Detroit City

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jones At Home With Hits & Standards, May 29, 2003

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Tom (Pgh PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Green Green Grass of Home (Audio CD)

The Green, Green Grass Of Home CD features songs included on the US album releases Green, Green Grass Of Home and Funny, Familair, Forgotten Feelings. Many of the songs included are remakes of classic country western genre songs, along with a few standards such as "My Mother's Eyes". Jones even covers the legendary Johnny Cash with a more rock oriented update of "ring Of Fire". Most of the songs tend to the romantic ballad side, although musical arrangements mostly stay true to a more country and less orchestral sound, which was uncommon for Jones in the late 60's. The highlight is the title track, an international smash hit single that gave Jones his second #1 hit in the UK and his first major hit single of consequence in the US after the teen following of "It's Not Unusual" and "What's New Pussycat" from two years earlier.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tom's first collection of mostly country songs done his way, June 13, 2011

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Green Green Grass of Home (Audio CD)

Originally released about ten or twelve years earlier, this CD was re-packaged in 2011 as a set (Along came Jones, Atomic, Green green grass of home, Delilah) as X4 Tom Jones, with each CD in its own cardboard case but no liner notes or credits beyond the actual track listings.

The music here is some way removed from the country music coming out of Nashville, then or at any other time, but the songs here are mostly covers of country songs. Three of them (the title track, Detroit city and Funny familiar forgotten feelings) became huge UK pop hits for Tom, and helped to increase awareness of country music in Britain. Tom also had a minor American hit with Sixteen tons

Some of the other songs (Riders in the sky, He'll have to go, Ring of fire, Sixteen tons, Cool water) will be familiar to older country fans (and some pop fans and younger country fans too) via other versions. At least one song here is probably not of country origin, that being My mother's eyes (an American hit for George Jessel in 1929), but it fits in well here.

The other songs include some that are obscure to say the least, but they add interest to the album. Fans of Charlie Rich may recognize Field of yellow daisies. It became a country hit for him in 1974, but I think he recorded it some years earlier. I think I've previously heard Two brothers (a country hit for Autry Inman in 1968), but I can't remember where.

This is an excellent album that showed how, with a little adaptation, country music could appeal to a much wider audience back in the sixties.