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Without Love (There Is Nothing)

Tom Jones

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LIST YEAR

1970

Annual listening-list association, not an original-release-date field. Original release year reconciled with reviewed recording-specific Artist Essentials evidence in v3.6.

Annual curated selection.

RELEASE DATE & LIST YEAR

Release: 1969

Release: 1969Source checked | Recent carryover

V3.6 reconciles the original release year with the reviewed Artist Essentials entry for this exact retained recording ID. Year precision is used; an album-first release is not silently replaced by a later single, reissue or annual-list year. The original Tom Jones studio single was released in 1969. The scoped original-recording and single evidence supplies the year; later album, anthology, concert and remix dates are separate. No album day is assigned to an earlier single. The original 1969 Decca single precedes the 1970 album and annual row; the expanded Help Yourself bonus inherits an incorrect 1968 album field.

The large badge identifies this listening list, not a newly issued recording. Later reissues and renewed chart popularity do not replace an original release date. How years are assigned.

Tom Jones - licensed original hit-recording metadata
The licensed anthology identifies the original solo recordings and individual release years: the three selected 1965 titles, Green Green Grass of Home in 1966, I'll Never Fall in Love Again in 1967, Delilah in 1968, Love Me Tonight and Without Love in 1969, Daughter of Darkness and I (Who Have Nothing) in 1970, and She's a Lady in 1971. Its 2000 package date and January placeholders are not first-release events. Original individual years are checked against the album and single sources where they differ.

Without Love - documented original Decca single issue
The actually retrieved indexed original-issue entry identifies the UK Decca F 12990 single in December 1969. This original issue corroborates the licensed recording year and rejects the inherited 1968 expanded Help Yourself bonus field. No claim is made to reviewing an inaccessible full-page body.

New Musical Express, December 6, 1969 - original single notice
The actually retrieved indexed contemporary issue identifies the new Tom Jones Without Love single on Decca F 12990. It is used only as contemporaneous 1969 public-release corroboration, not for an exact global day or as a claim that every page of the magazine was reviewed.

ARTIST BACKGROUND

About Tom Jones

Song-specific inspiration or recording background is not established for this entry. This sourced artist profile provides career context.

Tom Jones grew up in Pontypridd, South Wales, and sang in clubs before signing with Decca. His early records placed a powerful voice within compact pop arrangements, while his repertoire continued to draw on rhythm and blues and country music. Reload later brought that voice into explicitly credited collaborations with other performers. His work with Ethan Johns moved toward more exposed studio arrangements, including the live-in-studio performances of Praise & Blame and the varied songwriting repertoire of Spirit in the Room.

Artist background sources

Tom Jones - official artist biography
The artist's biography establishes his upbringing in Pontypridd, South Wales, club work before Decca, broad rhythm-and-blues interests, the 1999 Reload collaborations and later work with Ethan Johns. Praise & Blame was performed live in the studio, not recorded at a public concert; Spirit in the Room followed in 2012. Current commercial totals and promotional superlatives are not reproduced. | Retrieved 2026-10-18

Tom Jones interview - recording versus release of It's Not Unusual
In the artist-hosted interview, Jones distinguishes recording It's Not Unusual in 1964 from its public release in 1965. The interview also discusses his broad interpretive song choices. No session year is substituted for the released recording year. | Retrieved 2026-10-18

Reload - official original album and collaboration program
The artist's actual discography page identifies Reload as a 1999 album and provides its original seventeen-track duet program. The featured identities are retained from the licensed original track credits rather than abbreviated to a solo credit. | Retrieved 2026-10-18

Praise & Blame - official live-in-studio recording context
The artist's discography identifies the 2010 album, Ethan Johns and the live-in-studio approach at Real World. This describes the recording method and does not make the selected performance a concert recording or date it by its session. | Retrieved 2026-10-18

Spirit in the Room - official original release
The artist's actual original-album page establishes the May 2012 release and work with Ethan Johns at Real World. This supports the earlier original year of Tower of Song before the later licensed US package date. | Retrieved 2026-10-18

Profile reviewed: 2026-10-18. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.

Retained annual-list context

Without Love (There Is Nothing) by Tom Jones appears at number 92 in the reviewed U.S. year-end table for 1970. No reliable song-specific account of its inspiration was established in this review.

Annual-list context only; songwriting inspiration remains unestablished

Billboard year-end 1970 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary transcription reviewed 2026-10-11: title, artist and annual chart association; not original release date or complete recording metadata.

Other appearances and versions

Annual / 1970

catalog version unspecified

Original release date and exact pressing/version are not independently established.

An annual chart year and an original release date are different. Similar titles may be covers or different masters; no audio fingerprint has been performed.