What inspired Tom Jones' ballad Delilah?

Delilah's songwriter Barry Mason said he was inspired by Frankie Laine's hit Jezebel as well as his ordeal of a girl he met on holiday telling him she had a boyfriend, leaving him 'sick with jealously'.

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