Jones's World record gathering - and a mystery!

[Dave]

From the BBC

Ex-Bond girl Grace Jones has helped prove there is no keeping up with the Joneses at a record-breaking event in Cardiff. The 1980s pop singer and style icon was among 1,224 people who created a new record for the largest gathering of people with the same surname.

She also entertained her namesakes at the Wales Millennium Centre. The previous same-surname record was set in Sweden two years ago by a gathering of 583 people called Norberg....

...Special messages from Sir Tom Jones, whose real name is Thomas Woodward, and fellow singers Bryn Terfel Jones and Aled Jones were read out.

I was tempted to post this under Other Music! Why? Well several "Jones" singers were mentioned but the main reason is the "mystery" background music that I heard heard in the BBC Radio 5 Live report on this event yesterday, Friday, at 6:30pm. What was it? Well you'll have to listen for yourselves to find out! Radio presenters aren't as knowledgeable as they like to think! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Here's the short 3m 38s report... 1.2 MB - with the answer at the end (but you'll all know it well before the end!)

Cheers, Dave

[grant]

dave said:

From the BBC

Ex-Bond girl Grace Jones has helped prove there is no keeping up with the Joneses at a record-breaking event in Cardiff. The 1980s pop singer and style icon was among 1,224 people who created a new record for the largest gathering of people with the same surname.

She also entertained her namesakes at the Wales Millennium Centre. The previous same-surname record was set in Sweden two years ago by a gathering of 583 people called Norberg....

...Special messages from Sir Tom Jones, whose real name is Thomas Woodward, and fellow singers Bryn Terfel Jones and Aled Jones were read out.

I was tempted to post this under Other Music! Why? Well several "Jones" singers were mentioned but the main reason is the "mystery" background music that I heard heard in the BBC Radio 5 Live report on this event yesterday, Friday, at 6:30pm. What was it? Well you'll have to listen for yourselves to find out! Radio presenters aren't as knowledgeable as they like to think! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Here's the short 3m 38s report... 1.2 MB - with the answer at the end (but you'll all know it well before the end!)

Cheers, Dave

Bet the muppets at the BBC thought it was a Welsh male voice choir!!

Grant

[Richard]

Thanks for the clip, Dave!

The bad news is, the Radio 5 presenters clearly don't know about Hayley, or they would have recognised 'Pokarekare Ana' immediately!

I'm surprised the choir didn't sing something from 'Carmen Jones'!

Best Wishes,

Richard