Can you name the six celebrities shown with Tom Jones at his 34th birthday celebration in 1974?

Patient: Doc, you gotta help me. I keep singing "Delilah" and "What's New Pussycat" and I can't stop.

Doctor: You have Tom Jones disease.

Patient: I never heard of that. Is it rare?

Doctor (singing): It's not unusual....

I'll see myself out.

Joan Rivers, Joey Heatherton, Sonny Bono, Debbie Reynolds, Liberace. I have no clue who the tall black lady is.

Miss Warwick

That’s Mary Wilson stuffed in his pants.

I was just going to reply with all the names, but we only need…

Dionne Warwick for the win.

Michelle Obama.

That has to be either some place on the Vegas Strip or backstage at The Hollywood Squares.

I can't avert my eyes from Tom Jones in this photo. He is the epitome of lame. Like a car crash, you just can't look away.

OP

You best NOT be fucking with a DLer's knowledge of past fabulosity.

Connie Stevens, not Joey Heatherton.

To each his own. Tom Jones wasn't lame. He was an exciting yet cheesy show-biz hunt and real pro.

Sonny looks hot.

I love the homespun cake. So unprofessional. I liked the olden times when everything wasn't cookie cutter and carbon copy reproductions.

amazing song

R10 is wrong. Per the original caption on the Getty Images website

“Singer Tom Jones (center) celebrated his 34th birthday, June 6, with a star-studded, 2 a.m. backstage party at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Left to right, Joan Rivers, Joey Heatherton, Sonny Bono, Jones, Dionne Warwicke, Debbie Reynolds, and Liberace.”

People looked so much older back then. I would guess he was turning fifty.

Is that really Miss Warwick?

She looks so young.

And so tall. I know she's not short like Sonny Bono, but didn't realize she was that tall. Is she wearing heels? Or standing on a soapbox?

And only Liberace got to suck Tom’s thick uncut Welsh cock.

I wonder if Tom let Liberace slurp on his huge schlong now and then?

It's good to see Joey Heatherton.

Wow, that’s a whole lotta cheese and sleaze.

[quote] Joan Rivers, Joey Heatherton, Sonny Bono, Debbie Reynolds, Liberace. I have no clue who the tall black lady is.

How the FUCK do you not know Miss motherfucking Warwick(e), fool? You better apologize before she shows up here and really tears you one. I'm about to say the bitch's name five times, myself.

Joan Rivers was the only one who was still out there filling up her daily calendar...until of course, that little throat thing. I miss Joan.

Sorry, Miss Warwick.

I'm in it for Sonny's bare chest and cameltoe.

Where was Cher? Were they broken-up by then? Why did he even bother wearing a shirt?

Vivian Vance was in the bathroom.

I not only knew who each was, I met two of them.

I always thought Sonny was sexy. Short but sexy.

Surely Liberace was one, R27.

Who was the other?

Joey Heatherton was on the cusp of her long downfall then.

I named them all without having to think.

How many can you name in this pic?

[quote]Surely Liberace was one

Nope, Joan Rivers and Debbie Reynolds.

Lucy's head is photo-shopped in, R31. I'm guessing by Lucy.

No VPL. I am disappoint.

Here, R34 - bulge queen

Bless his heart, he’s 81 and still touring, in fact his 2022 tour starts next month!

Here he is onstage at the Stagecoach country festival in 2019.

oh, my

[quote]And only Liberace got to suck Tom’s thick uncut Welsh cock.

Excuse me?

[quote] Here, [R34] - bulge queen

Is that a penis or a hernia?

Tom's dick was always its own celebrity in the room.

Very sexy for sure, but also a bit gypsy/traveler look in his early days, especially with hair & wardrobe choices. long hair quasi mullet. Tight stoves pipes, winkle pickers, big pinky ring, bracelet, big shirt collar, big cuffs on jacket, short suit jacket to highlight La Bounteous Bulge.

Oh Tom you were so hot,,you wuz sizzzlin'

How's he do this cool hip rolling move here to the drums? It's so 60s.

^ all I can imagine his him nekkid, rolling those hips all over me, as I squeal like a little Piggy..Oh Tom Oh Tom, Oh Tom!

Where's that veteren DLer who swears that he made a room service delivery to Tom's hotel room way back when, and walked in on a large all male orgy?

R42, the finger snapping is off putting. It's very working class singing in the miner's bar.

I think he stopped that after a while.

Joan Rivers was cute. Was she pissed odd that she looked like a petite Jewish girl and not some gorgeous bombshell like Ann-Margret or Janet Leigh?

[quote]Where was Cher? Were they broken-up by then? Why did he even bother wearing a shirt?

At the time this picture was taken, Sonny and Cher were separated and barely speaking to each other. They were officially divorced a few months later.

That’s an older looking 34. Tom Jones was recently on Gogglebox but was replaced by Ed Sheehan. He seemed pretty normal on the TV program.

This party was already circling the drain

[quote]Where was Cher? Were they broken-up by then?

Their divorce was finalized a few weeks later.

My mom loved to take off her panties for Tom Jones

Cher joined later.

Which one is Tom Jones?

The sad toll of Ayds. Everyone in that photo is dead now.

R54. Joey Heatherton, Tom Jones and Dionne Warwick are not dead.

Tom’s Dick is Hairy.

R54, they died of a diet candy? Appropriately fudge flavored.

As a child of the 70s I wondered, apart from Tom Jone's incomparable vocal delivery WTH were out mothers sweating him so much. Just came across this for the first time recently. Now I think I understand.

I’m more freaked out to find Joey Heartherton is STILL ALIVE!

This one too...

I think the partial male face between Dionne and Debbie is Paul Anka. He has a prominent brow ridge and orb-y eyes like that. Any guesses on more background folks?

R22 Because once Miss Warwick tweets on one's ass it stays burnt.

What in the satin hell is Debbie Reynolds wearing?

R61. Can't tell.

Dionne and Tom are the only ones who are still alive.

[quote]Dionne and Tom are the only ones who are still alive.

See R38.

Joey had just come back from shooting a Serta Perfect Sleeper commercial.

I have to say I have no idea who the fuck Joey Heatherton was. This picture was before my time, but I recognized everybody in it except for her.

People looked SO Old back then

Sonny is showing more cleavage than anyone and more chest hair than Tom

Could Libby look any gayer? People actually thought she was just devoted to her mother.

Joey is ALIVE!

Davenie Johanna "Joey" Heatherton is a youthful 77.

I find It embarrassing how many people seemed to find Joey Heatherton such a challenge. Duh!

R35 links to a great website- rock stars in tight pants (too bad it’s on Pinterest though,) The 70s was the heyday of extreme VPL. I was mesmerised by this album photo in my youth (Traffic, The Low Spark Of High-Heeled boys.)

Joey is a longtime DL fave.

r74 she's been off the cultural radar for decades, and it's not like she was a huge star to begin with. I'm in my forties and don't really know of her. I certainly didn't recognize her. I know everyone else in the photo, though.

Robert Plant.

Barry Gibb was the king of VPL.

Lots of chest hair in that picture, but at least Liberace was wearing a tasteful leisure suit.

r77 I'm I my sixties, so that might explain the difference. Though, I have to admit, literally and truthfully, I haven't thought of Joey Heatherton in the last day or so.

It's a long, complicated story. I'll spare you.

What killed Heatherton’s career? Lack of talent, drug or alcohol abuse, her marriage to Lance Retzel and his arrest? Or maybe he variety shows she appeared on all died out …

In SF circa early 70s, we’d use a brush and a bit of Clorox on jeans to accentuate the cock area. VPL were easy to create.

Joan Rivers, Debbie Reynolds, Liberace, umm that blonde - is it Joey heatherton or one of those 60s bimbos? And maybe Sonny bono, but can’t tell from the height.

Didn’t want to look - but not bad from before I was born!

I got them all in five seconds, a marvelous photo, of course.

I can't believe I got Dionne Warwick right and Joey Heatherton wrong!

Shit. Crisco-and-sugar icing and not a line in sight anywhere. I assumed Sonny Bono snorted it all before I got there. Looks like he did.

R74 but nothing Joey did except foe slamming a woman's head into the counter survived beyond the 60s or 70s. No movie, TV show or song that became a lasting part of culture.

It’s the cast of the failed Star Trek pilot “Colonize Uranus”.

Tom Jones was before my time, but I can't see why he was a sex symbol. He was downright homely, imho.

James Darren has joined the party.

There’s omeone mostly hidden behind Tom. You can see his right hand on Sonny’s shoulder. I’m gonna go with 70s wildcard guess, Dick Gautier.

Whoops I was wrong it’s James Darren. Sorry R91.

His hip thrusts were very exciting on prime time in the 70s, R90.

R16 do you really think Jones looked 50! Seth Meyers is 48 and he looks like the crypt keeper and Matthew Perry is 52 and has looked worn out, baggy-eyed and chinless for years and like Meyers has a huge forehead. And 45-year Ryan Reynolds in his recent commercial looks like an old homeless person. Jones was a manly man and even at his youngest was never boyish whereas the aforementioned were.

R91. Who's the guy on the far right, white shirt with his hand in his pocket?

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I got them all except the lady between Sonny and Joan.

Their drug dealer r96

What goes here...

Tom blowing out the candles on Liberace's candelabra

Joan Rivers, Joey Heatherton (I think), Sonny Bono, Samuel L Jackson, Debby Reynolds, Liberace

Debbie ^^^

Sex bomb!

Of course that's Joey Heatherton. Gurl, please.

In the 90's in London I saw a great short film on TV about a female Punjabi cab driver who's obsessed with Tom Jones. Then she gets a package she has to deliver to him at the Grosvenor. Wish I could find this.

A very typical 1970s staged press photo. Notice how each person is looking at an assigned spot off in the distance? Even the birthday boy? The camera flash units were those big external jobs (think Jimmy Olsen’s from Superman) and caused red eye if your photo subject looked right at the lens. I had an old one in the 1980s. When you tilted the head of the flash up and aimed it at the ceiling you could light a ballroom for a photo. I wonder if this group of people all had the same agent?

Dataloungers who think Tom didn’t look youthful enough at 34 👇

He looked old AF for only 34

He looked “old” because he dressed and comported himself like an adult male. Most thirty-something males today still dress and act like they’re in high school with their hoodies and trainers.

No, he looked old in the face. Eldergays hate when you point out that people look more youthful today. It's shocking how much older "young" people looked back in the day.

No everybody has a trainer r110. That's absurd.

Always been curious about this: Was Jones’ song “Sex Bomb” banned from American radio stations? It was such a hit in the UK.

R45 "It's very working class singing in the miner's bar"

1) Oh dear. Just the one miner? Miners' bar, no?

2) You know this because you've been to such bars?

3) "Miners bar" affectations would be a turn ON for many of us.

4) Where can I find such miners bar with sexy singing miners?

Debbie was real friends with LIberace and almost 40 years later would go on to play his Mother in Steven Soderbergh's "Behind the Candelabra".

R112 - In Britain, "Trainer" means "sneaker."

Joan Rivers, Joey Heatherton, Sonny Bono, David Ehrenstein, Debbie Reynolds, Liberace

I thought Dionne was Cicely Tyson.

The guy on the far right in R91's pic is comedian Shecky Greene. Still alive at age 96 by the way.

The drums are stained with blood.

Miss Warwick looks like the help in that schmatta.

[quote]He looked “old” because he dressed and comported himself like an adult male.

This??

Joan Rivers, Joey Heatherton, James Darren, Sonny Bono, Angela Lansbury, Tom Jones, Amy Winehouse, Dionne Warwick, Billy Dee Williams, Clive Davis, Florence Larue, Debbie Reynolds, Adele, Liberace.

I knew Joey would be there BEFORE I CLICKED THE LINK.

1974 is a very unappreciated year. It’s due for some period-correct treatment in some 8 part streaming series. But what happened in 1974 that could provide the backdrop? I only remember the music and the mood rings. Seriously…what happened in 1974?

Angie Dickinson, Ann-Margret, Joey Bishop, Lola Falana, Andy Williams, Claudine Longet, Robert Goulet

R82 Where Love Has Gone (1964)

R125 - Nixon resigned

Viola Davis, Lyndsay Graham, Babs Windsor

R125 I starred in the seminal movie "Chinatown" you little bomosecual boy!

Tom Jones famous for always showing his bulge.

Joey's father when very young was cute. You see him in photos of the original Broadway production of Babes in Arms. Not difficult to see how she turned out so pretty. Wonder what he thought of her performance in Burton's very trashy Bluebeard. Daddy dear you won't know your daughter.

Ray Heatherton, singer, musical theater performer, and radio and television personality, most famously as "The Merry Mailman."

R128 Good thing because I was wrong about mood rings…they were introduced in ‘75.

My eyes always go straight to Tom's bulge. Do we know if it's a sock, or the real thing? He apparently loved to show it off via intimate encounters with women so I am guessing real.

34? He looked 54. Why did people back then always look so damn aged before 30?

^ Because popularity was based on talent, charisma not on how much plastic surgery you had to make you look, 20years younger than your real age

r137 it really has nothing to do with celebrities. When I look at pictures of ordinary people from back then, it's shocking how much older they looked.

r138 Smoking cigarettes and too much sun—without sunscreen.

Not everybody smoked or had too much sun back then r139. They still looked old as shit.

R136 Go out into the real world. Most people look like shit.

R141 - exactly. When we see photos of celebrities, chances are they've been made-up or enhanced. In real life, when we see someone remarkably attractive, well, yeah, they're remarkably attractive, but, if you look around them, there are a dozen or so plain Janes. But, those of us who are plain Janes are drawn into the illusion that we can also be remarkably attractive.

[quote]My eyes always go straight to Tom's bulge. Do we know if it's a sock, or the real thing? He apparently loved to show it off via intimate encounters with women so I am guessing real.

According to Elvira/Cassandra Peterson in her book...

Back then the style for anyone over 21 dressed and had the same style as someone 40. That's why people looked older, there was an "adult" look that everyone assumed as their style that would last for 2 decades without change. Then suddenly old.

Tom Jones was only 34 there?! That's a rough 34!

People looked old in the face r144

I think I see Madonna in the background.

R147 - I would believe it, but can you imagine her not taking over the foreground?

[quote}I think I see Madonna in the background.

Of course, it's not Madonna, but that woman in the background, with the dark hair, looks more like Lourdes Leon.