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Delilah (Tom Jones song)
1968 single by Tom Jones
"Delilah" is a song recorded by Welsh singer Tom Jones in December 1967.
Biography tom jones
The lyrics were written by Barry Mason, and the music by Les Reed, who also contributed the title and theme of the song. It earned Reed and Mason the 1968 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.[1]
Music and lyrics
Although the song is a soulful number set in triple metre, the underlying genre may be considered to be a power ballad, rising to a pitch of A4 on the final note.
Produced by Peter Sullivan, Jones' version features a big-band accompaniment set to a flamenco rhythm. There is no explicit reference to Spain, but there are similarities to the plot of the book and opera Carmen, by French composer Georges Bizet, in which Don José stabs the eponymous Romani woman to death when she tells him she is leaving him for the bullfighter, Escamillo.
The song tells the story, with details largely unstated, of a man passing his