For some reason I was reminded of this today. I hadn’t seen it in years, probably not since it came out; I remember seeing it on Rage at the time and thinking about how strange it was… not that Tom Jones should be singing about Elvis (I now discover it’s actually a cover of a song by Gillian Welch), but the particular form that song took, in which the backing is basically a thick electronic bass pulse pitched low enough that the note changes are quite hard to discern, it just seemed awfully odd for Tom Jones to go down that road so late in the game. And on relistening it still does, but I kind of love it, the combination of the minimalism of the backing and Jones being Jones makes for a fascinating result. If you’re going to do a cover that wants to be faithful yet different and distinctive, this is certainly one way to do it, I suppose.
For comparison, the Gillian Welch original (I was going to post the actual music video but the second verse got cut from it):