![]() ![]() Just a few years previous big, aching ballads and torch songs had been massively popular. Proby in fact seemed to belong to an earlier era, but one which had passed rapidly with the arrival of the Beatles. ![]() Yet Proby was never really a pop singer: he had a massive voice and right from the start would cover show tunes (Somewhere from West Side Story was an early hit) and his albums were often full of big-voiced ballads. He split his trousers in performance (which meant he was banned in some places, but incorporated it into his act) and that - plus his outspoken belief that he was better than anyone - ensured plenty of headlines. He cracked a number of big pop hits in '64-'65 (Hold Me, Mission Bell, Let the Water Run Down) and with his velvet suits and ponytail (adopted from the movie Tom Jones) he cut quite a figure. The Texas-born singer had been doing demos for various people in the States (including Elvis) and arrived in the UK to appear on a Beatles television special. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.When PJ Proby burst onto the British pop scene in 1964 he was an amazing anomoly. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. ![]()
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