Talk:Aled Jones

Botany? Really?
Aled has recently read out an email on his show from a listener citing Aled's Wikipedia article as a source of his supposed keen-ness of botany - and has mentioned that he has no idea what the listener was on about.

It seems, then, that the mention of botany is a red herring.Abarthaddict 18:58, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Cleaning up
I followed the advice of the "fansite" tag and tried to clean the article up, reducing it to the essentials. What do you guys think?

(Note: I only rearranged the information given, I have no idea about the accuracy and sources. Would be nice if somebody could supply them...)

Cheers, -- Syzygy (talk) 10:08, 3 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Fanish stuff is creeping up again, with the dance shows and what not. Brevity is the wit. Does anybody mind if I cut it down again? --Syzygy (talk) 09:20, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Please, people, Aled's a media person: Not every appearance on stage or on the air is noteworthy. If you feel otherwise, please discuss here, rather than reinserting the tidbits... Thank you. --Syzygy (talk) 11:51, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Pope John Paul II, the Queen, and the Prince and Princess of Wales in a private recital
Wow, that was some recital. Was that really the case? Is it possible that this sentence requires editing, and more than one recital is involved here? Varlaam (talk) 20:39, 25 June 2010 (UTC) Oh, sorry, I wont do it again, sorry. Civilian knowledge (talk) 22:13, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Television appearances are noteworthy
The article gave a good indication of Aled's discography, but did not say much about his television work. Given that he has often presented Songs of Praise, and has recently (as of October 2011) presented The One Show, I thought that his television appearance was noteworthy enough to merit its own section. I have therefore added a new subheading to indicate this. What do others think? We could extend it to "Television and Radio Work" if people want to mention his presentation of the Radio Two series "Good Morning Sunday". ACEOREVIVED (talk) 15:26, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

He also had a guest appearance as himself on the BBC comedy series "Twenty Twelve" (Episode: Loose Ends). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.181.60.228 (talk) 19:16, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

The article misses the point
Aled Jones, is a famous welsh singer, is a nice, sweet lovable TV personality with a pleasant voice. Like so many others.

But .... as a boy soprano he rocketed to international fame, did concerts up and down Britain, sang with famous entertainers, orchestras and conductors, had a repertoire of everything from plain song to Paul Simon, and was regularly pronounced as the greatest choir boy of the decade, if not of the century.

Aled Jones was an extraordinary boy soprano. This is why it was Aled whose voice ultimately recorded "Walking in the Air", and not the exquisite, pure and perfectly precise voice of Peter Auty which features in the film. Aled's voice was not simply pure, precise and exquisite. It had a rich and distinctive quality, and the boy had an extraordinary ability to use it.

His precocious musicality gave him this extraordinary ability to use his voice in a way that highly-trained adult lyric sopranos do, but is totally beyond the capability of most cathedral choir soloists. What Aled did was listen to recordings of adults, and then make his voice do what theirs did. He played with his voice to perfect his abilities, in the way a physically adept 12 yr-old will practice on a skate board until he can do jumps and flips. The only other boy recorded in the English-speaking world in the last century who developed such advanced musical skill with his treble voice was the New Zealander, Richard Bonsall. There have been a dozen or more other boys who have achieved fame, sometimes, like Roy Goodman, on the strength of one single recording (in that case the Miserere). But Aled Jones and his voice were regarded as a phenomena.

The leading paragraph needs to make it clear, not just that Jones began as a treble and proceeded into the media, but that he was a choir boy who became famous overnight, on the quality of his voice. His name became a household word, internationally, in the same way as Susan Boyle, and without the benefit of You tube.

Amandajm (talk) 14:09, 16 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm surprised noone has responded to this. Of course you're absolutely right. Jones came to widespread fame as a teenager and has subsequently become a presenter on the back of that. I've amended/augmented the intro. Sionk (talk) 04:09, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
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Songs of Praise should be mentioned
This articles says, in Lines 6-7 of the article, that Aled Jones has presented, for the BBC, Escape to the Country, Cash in the Attic and Going Back Giving Back, but does not say here that he is quite a frequent presenter of Songs of Praise. Vorbee (talk) 15:47, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Escape to the Country
The section on Aled Jones' television work gives the dates of his presenting Escape to the Country as 2009 to present, but the Wikipedia article on Escape to the Country says he presented this series from 2010 to 2013. Vorbee (talk) 14:36, 27 June 2019 (UTC)