Editing Tommy James and the Shondells (section)

===1980s and later===
In the mid-1980s, Tommy James began touring in oldies packages with other acts from the 1960s sometimes billed as Tommy James & the Shondells, although he is the group's only original member. A [[Greenwich Village]] nightclub appearance was filmed and released as ''Tommy James & the Shondells: Live! At [[The Bitter End]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/211726/Tommy-James-the-Shondells-Live-At-the-Bitter-End/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226220826/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/211726/Tommy-James-the-Shondells-Live-At-the-Bitter-End/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 26, 2009 |title=Tommy James & the Shondells: Live! At the Bitter End (2000) <!-- not provided -->|last=Deming |first=Mark |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2009 |access-date=January 2, 2009}}</ref>  

On January 6, 1987, original drummer Peter P. Lucia Jr. died of a heart attack while playing golf at the age of 39.

In 2008 "I'm Alive" was covered by [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]] and released on his ''24 Hours'' album.

In 2009 James and the surviving Shondells, Gray, Vale and Rosman, reunited to record music for a soundtrack of a proposed film based on James' autobiography, ''Me, the Mob, and the Music'', released in February 2010. 

In March 2011 the Tommy James song "I'm Alive" (co-written with Peter Lucia) became a top 20 hit in the Netherlands for UK singer [[Don Fardon]] after his version had been used in a [[Vodafone]] commercial. 

In 2012 "Crystal Blue Persuasion" was used in the eighth episode of Season 5 of ''[[Breaking Bad]]'', "[[Gliding Over All]]", during a montage depicting the process involved to bring main character [[Walter White (Breaking Bad)|Walter White]]'s methamphetamine operation and its signature blue crystal meth to an international level.

In 2015 Gray, Vale, and Rosman decided to reunite and form their new group, The Crystal Blue Band. They recruited their longtime friend and drummer Mike Wilps to replace the late Peter Lucia.  That group disbanded in 2022.