READ MORE: Tom Jones releases Bob Dylan cover 'as reminder to fight temptation'It turns out Janis didn't fancy walking and singing through some plastic raindrops.
So ABC, who Sir Tom says had spent a lot of money building the set, totally scrapped it. The 80-year-old shared: "So we had to strip the set down.
She did it bare bones. Then we did the duet together. "And she looked at me and said, 'Wow, you can really sing!' I said, 'Well, thank you.
So can you. '"Janis would tragically die on October 4, 1970 at the age of just 27, having just recording her iconic a cappella track Mercedes Benz four days previously.
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