I remember PJ Proby's singular voice from when I was a mere teen, back in the Sixties. I remember his signature ponytail as if it were only yesterday. I just watched him sing "Somewhere" on YT, and I found myself just as mesmerized by his voice than I was then... maybe even more so. When I watched him sing, he looked so much like Elvis that I can't really know whether he was copying Elvis, or the other way around!! But he did this body gesture that reminded me so much of what Elvis eventually did in his Vegas act, somehow I think that maybe Elvis took more from PJ than we'll ever know. In any case, RIP Elvis, and rock on, PJ Proby, one of the true "greats."
P.J. has had a mainly wonderful life!!! Many ups & a few downs!! Why his book can't find a publisher I'll never know. Some people have suggested making a musical of his life story.....that would be fantastic ! What a singer....what a character!!
Elvis is bigger in the sense that Parker lost the stranglehold control of Elvis underwraps and keep them wanting and waiting The flood of access to info and the seeing of elvispresleys talent as a whole has garnered new fans and A real respect for the man and his name. Dd
P.J.Proby His " SOMEWHERE " " MARIA " " I APOLOGISE " My favourite one & " WALK HAND IN HAND " + " WHISKEY & YOU " Its only a few examples the MOST SENSATIVE & TENDER SONGS OF THE WORLD' S POP MUSIC IN HIGH LEVEL WITH " Q " MARK. KRZYSZTOF LOGAN TOMASZEWSKI SONGWRITER POLAND
Denise Jones The truth is PJ Proby tells untrue stories about entertainment stars like Elvis to make himself look more important. He said in an interview last week that he worked ALL OVER Texas with Elvis and thought he was just another country singer. In an interview last year he said the only time he ever saw Elvis perform live was at The Hitching Post (according to Proby, a small bar in Houston that held 50 people). PJ Proby would get more respect if he showed respect for his fellow artists and got his stories straight.
He does not. You don't know shit about him and the truth so don't ask us to respect this liar. He was known to lie again and again on all his interviews so wake up and grow up.
I am in touch with Dotty now & again although I've never met her personally.I know someone who visits her every year in Malibu. Rest assured every Proby/ Dotty /Elvis story is true. Read her tribute to P.J in his birthday book released in 2008. Ron
Rock Legend P.J.Proby is an explosive character & a singer better than any other. He seems to attract many "weirdo's" who criticise him non stop! Good job that for every negative YT person there are 50 positive ones!!
PJ Proby mimed Love Me Tender in the companion video to this one. If he's such a great singer why couldn't he sing it live? You're right about him being explosive though. He looks like he could explode with jealousy when he's asked questions about Elvis. Or maybe he's just scared he'll be asked which Elvis HITS he demoed. LOL
Elvis is the greatest selling & most popular singer ever. P.J. knows this & has tremendous respect for The King. He's jealous of nobody! He & his fans know that if he was the same age as Elvis back in 1954 it could have been him that the Colonel turned into a world super-star. P.J. has never said he demoed hits for Elvis,he demoed film songs!!
rontenn In recent years PJ Proby has been promoted as Elvis' demo man. At least 20 of the Elvis film songs were also hits but they weren't demoed by Proby. His claim of being the demo man for Elvis is just as empty as his claim of being a legend. Elvis is the legend.
Elvis was The King.....Proby could have also been a King if all things in his career had gone right! He was not a "yes" man & to get to the top & stay there you have to be!
At the 2013 UK Americana Festival in July PJ Proby told an audience that Elvis and Priscilla were living together in Germany when she was 11 years old. Priscilla was born in May 1945. The year she was 11 Elvis, his parents and grandmother lived in a 1-story 4-bedroom house on Audubon Drive in Memphis. The same year showgirl Dotty Harmony spent Christmas there. Elvis first met Priscilla in Sept 1959 at a party in Bad Nauheim Germany. Telling dirty lies about another person is despicable.
This story does not end or even help the debate as to whether P.J. & Elvis knew each other; But there are lots of other stories that do! The earliest one being that Elvis dated P.J.'s step sister Betty before he got really famous. Ron
castleon the river, I am a good friend of P.J. & he gave me the pic with Ruth Batchelor.I am not the guy who took that pic in 1962 although I have photographed P.J. many times. If you look closely you can see Ruth is slightly nearer the camera than P.J. plus she has a broad kind of face & big hair so I can see where you are coming from. P.J. has the reputation of being a "big head" but in reality his head is quite normal! Ron Ron
Great interview clip, PJ PROBY himself should be as BIG and respected himself as Elvis. He's been robbed of so much global fame its untrue, CHECK OUT PJ SINGING LOVE ME TENDER which is also posted on this channel, Fantasic version which is just as good as the Elvis version.
Some bad comments on here about PJ but why? The guy was and still is so talented, and I believe humble, which is a rare thing in show biz.......On another note, the interviewer, dont know his name, asking what Elvis did you girls, he's the guy who just got bollocked for making sexist remarks at a tennis match hahahaha
Where was you? I suppose you mean 'where where you'?... Well, I wasn't anywhere, why should I be? It looks like PJ did something to upset you Captain so instead of telling us all to stop respecting him, why don't you share your secret then we can judge for ourselves instead of taking your word for it, that he is a liar
Alright fair enough. At the moment I'm more concerned why Leicester City Football Club can't win a game this year than what PJ or Elvis did or didn't to. Anyway, you have to admit that PJ has a great voice, right ?
steve FromEngland Would you believe I been there. I lived in Holland for 8yrs and we both know how England was always a power house and how Holland lost their way to the world cup through mistakes. I moved to So. Calif. at a young age, but got a small busn. jet through my dad and uncle company which I started for them. I flew back to Europe 20X, 7x times on my trips around the world. I always sit and talk with the locals and soccer was our number one subject and every country I was in always shows a fair for England every four years in the World cup coming up. Steve, it is hard for me to like the guy because he claims so many things including how well he knows Elvis and his story's are just bull. Remember the bass singer with Elvis. They were good friends and he was interviewed and he said that the stories PJ told are just a bunch of bull. These interviews were shown here on TV in America so I guess you never heard of them in England. Last thing, I would come into England by way of Iceland and I can't understand why you folks drive on the wrong side of the road. And you have so many circles on your roads. Have a nice day.
castle on the river That pic is genuine!! When there is a pic people say it's a phoney & when there isn't one they say Proby is lying..the guy just can't win!!, Ron
Hi grizzlygalore, Sorry! I looked in my archives & I spoke too soon.The pic is not of Leon but of Marshall Leib & Steve Venay with Jett Powers onstage at some Hollywood club in March 1961; sorry for being too hasty!! Ron
People should remember what a greedy man parker was all he saw was money Elvis didn't tour Europe because parker was an illegal alien he was Dutch had he left the USA he wouldn't have got back in. Elvis should have fired parker
Toni DeSarsi, Legend has it P J Proby actually set- up home with Elvis's ex girlfiend, so he must have been around then, and apparently, Elvis wasn't very pleased about this, and told P j he didn't approve of booze so P J didn't bother going back to visit his Buddy again.
Parker should not get any credit, except for holding Elvis back and for ripping him off. Any decent manager would have done at least as good as the Colonel, and most would have done much more for Elvis and not stole as much.
His memory went when he was awfully young. He was telling his Elvis "stories" in the UK in 1964. It must have impressed people there. It sure wouldn't have in the states. Of course the average American knew a whole lot more about Elvis and the people around him than people in the UK did.
Pictures,pictures!!!......I've met the Queen but I don't have a picture to prove it!!! A picture doesn't necessary mean a thing 'cos anyone could fiddle a pic these days anyway with modern computer technology!!! No photo does not mean P.J. is lying,it just means no-one was around with a camera way back then!!!! SO WHAT! Ron
This guy is not telling the truth.. He was not even active until the 60's singing and Elvis was not active sining in "Hillbilly Clubs" in the 60's.. I would doubt Elvis knew him at all.. Complete MBE!!
I've read dozens of books about Elvis and not once was PJ Proby mentioned. He's a talented singer but I don't believe he was ever part of the Elvis scene. He's been saying these things for years. It's a pity Marty Lacker and Lamar Fyke have passed as they'd clear it up once and for all. Another guy who is full of it is Tommy Steel.
P.J. Proby thinks Elvis was a product? What does he think HE was except a ponytailed cover artist created and marketed by Jack Good? He was only a demo singer back in the US. He never demoed any of Elvis' hits and his stories about working with Elvis in Houston in 1952 and 1953 are sheer fantasy! It's no wonder he looks nervous as a turkey at Christmas in this video.
He said he "always thought he learned it off a colored man". Obviously, the way you spell "colored" you are from the UK. So maybe you're not aware of that "colored" was the acceptable term for blacks in the 50s and 60s. Even the organization NAACP uses it in their title (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). There is also something called UNCF, the United Negro College Fund. Are these organizations ledges also?
Suspicious Minds is one of my least favorite Elvis songs. I'm not a fan of that country soul style he adopted in the 1970s, except in a few cases. I do like his version of Snowbird better than Anne Murray's original, and also I like this version of Green Green Grass of Home better than Tom Jones's.
"Elvis stole from the blacks"? Elvis took from the blues,country music,opera and various crooners/ balladeers ... Until Suspicious Minds sold 30 Million records It's Now or Never was his biggest record. Taken from the Italian Operatic Oh Solo Mio, should we say Elvis stole from the Italians?! 'Surrender' another one of his biggest hits was also an Italian song Torna a Surriento. Ballads like Are you Lonesome tonight and Love me tender were obviously influenced by Dean Martin( Dino Crocetti)
Are you on drugs? Or just really jealous? Elvis was the greatest musical innovator the world will ever know! The biggest selling(by far) of all times! RCA estimates 1.5 Billion records sold! He was a gift from God! I saw him in person and in my 60 years on the planet have never seen another man as flawlessly good looking and as charismatic. As an example of stage innovation; when did anyone ever see Karate incorporated into a musical act?! Since he was a master singer and a master at Karate it was magnificent to see how well it worked!
By 2002 even British audiences should have questioned PJ Proby's stories about working with Elvis. His job as a part-time demo singer for Ben Weisman has been exaggerated into being the demo man for the Elvis films. He's turned his younger sister (who actually dated Tommy Sands) into an older sister who dated Elvis. Just saying "I knew Elvis" seems to be all it takes to wow TV watchers in England.
It's odd what people in the UK still believe about the U.S. and Elvis. PJ Proby's ridiculous stories about what he did and who he knew in Houston Texas in the early fifties continue to run in the British press as FACT. Brits must be in awe of anyone who ever cut a record.
John Arby Nope not really we moved on its odd how you think the UK still gives a hoot, Elvis as big as he was seems like from these comments almost cult worshiped we had our own stars believe it or not.
***** I'm sure the majority of people in the UK moved on but P.J. Proby is still being interviewed on BBC radio stations as though he were an Elvis insider. A segment of British audiences laps up every word he says about doing demos for all the Elvis movies even though he can't prove it. He even toured in 2012 billed as Elvis' "demo man". And he continues to tell tales about performing in Texas bars with Elvis in the early 50's, long before Elvis had ventured beyond the outskirts of Memphis. Elvis is an industry, just like The Beatles - each started a new wave of music. P.J. Proby split his trousers.
his association with elvis is not a strong one and to be honest he has stretched the truth ..there are no photos of him and elvis together, if he spent as much time with elvis as he makes out to have done then surely at some point a photo would have been taken.
This guy sure makes some wild claims, he once said that his grandfather who was a prison warden took him into jail and strapped him into the electric chair when he was 5 years old. He generally demands a high fee for an interview, why anyone would want to interview a compulsive liar is beyond me. Nothing he says adds up, he was just a created pop star with an image. He's blurred the line between his image and his real self. Lots of actors do the same, they think they are their sterotype superhero onscreen character
Well I lived my life with any part of elvispresleys Right there to I'm now 62 and this is the first time I've ever heard or seen him. If the name elvis wasn't there in the vid title Who would listen? And that goes for a whole Lotta them. Dd
@@cheriegoodwin6819 …. Many stars tell TALL stories. Most of Elvis entourage never heard of PJ. it’s like Engelbert He goes around telling folks that he gave Elvis the inspiration for Sideburns. Just sing your song guys
Elvis was a superstar before he broke the racial barriers. He was a superstar before he got famous.
so brightening to hear this legend speak on another legend
Just saw PJ last night still a legend and all the others in the Sixties Show a trip down memory lane great fun!
I remember PJ Proby's singular voice from when I was a mere teen, back in the Sixties. I remember his signature ponytail as if it were only yesterday. I just watched him sing "Somewhere" on YT, and I found myself just as mesmerized by his voice than I was then... maybe even more so. When I watched him sing, he looked so much like Elvis that I can't really know whether he was copying Elvis, or the other way around!! But he did this body gesture that reminded me so much of what Elvis eventually did in his Vegas act, somehow I think that maybe Elvis took more from PJ than we'll ever know. In any case, RIP Elvis, and rock on, PJ Proby, one of the true "greats."
Wonderful to see PJ talking about Elvis.
What a smooth voice huge talent
What a treat to see PJ talking ,thank you
P.J. has had a mainly wonderful life!!! Many ups & a few downs!! Why his book can't find a publisher I'll never know. Some people have suggested making a musical of his life story.....that would be fantastic ! What a singer....what a character!!
PJ Proby is a intelligent attractive talented man .
Love is a many splendid thing
I was alive during the 50's and beyond and saw Elvis in 1970, and I don't think he's bigger today. I think Elvis has become more commercial.
Elvis is bigger in the sense that Parker lost the stranglehold control of Elvis underwraps and keep them wanting and waiting
The flood of access to info and the seeing of elvispresleys talent as a whole has garnered new fans and A real respect for the man and his name. Dd
P.J.Proby
His " SOMEWHERE "
" MARIA "
" I APOLOGISE " My favourite one
& " WALK HAND IN HAND "
+ " WHISKEY & YOU "
Its only a few examples the MOST SENSATIVE & TENDER SONGS OF THE WORLD' S POP MUSIC IN HIGH LEVEL WITH " Q " MARK.
KRZYSZTOF LOGAN TOMASZEWSKI
SONGWRITER
POLAND
Very interesting. As I recall, Proby was actually known as Jett Powers (?) in his early days in the US. Damn fine talent.
I love to hear P.J. talking & of course singing..what a character!!
Ron
Met Jim on many occasions. ALWAYS polite and a real gent.
True he is stretching some stories but he did do a few demo's for Elvis and sounded just as good.
Whatever the truth is, give P J Proby the respect he deserves.
Denise Jones The truth is PJ Proby tells untrue stories about entertainment stars like Elvis to make himself look more important. He said in an interview last week that he worked ALL OVER Texas with Elvis and thought he was just another country singer. In an interview last year he said the only time he ever saw Elvis perform live was at The Hitching Post (according to Proby, a small bar in Houston that held 50 people). PJ Proby would get more respect if he showed respect for his fellow artists and got his stories straight.
He does not. You don't know shit about him and the truth so don't ask us to respect this liar. He was known to lie again and again on all his interviews so wake up and grow up.
P.j proby .....fantastic voice....met him twice.....
brilliant interview, thanks Dave
I am in touch with Dotty now & again although I've never met her personally.I know someone who visits her every year in Malibu. Rest assured every Proby/ Dotty /Elvis story is true.
Read her tribute to P.J in his birthday book released in 2008.
Ron
That interviewer was very rude PJ is a legend in his own Right and a powerful singer
I love you ELVIS. My memory ihas returned.
Rock Legend P.J.Proby is an explosive character & a singer better than any other. He seems to attract many "weirdo's" who criticise him non stop! Good job that for every negative YT person there are 50 positive ones!!
PJ Proby mimed Love Me Tender in the companion video to this one. If he's such a great singer why couldn't he sing it live? You're right about him being explosive though. He looks like he could explode with jealousy when he's asked questions about Elvis. Or maybe he's just scared he'll be asked which Elvis HITS he demoed. LOL
Elvis is the greatest selling & most popular singer ever. P.J. knows this & has tremendous respect for The King. He's jealous of nobody! He & his fans know that if he was the same age as Elvis back in 1954 it could have been him that the Colonel turned into a world super-star. P.J. has never said he demoed hits for Elvis,he demoed film songs!!
rontenn In recent years PJ Proby has been promoted as Elvis' demo man. At least 20 of the Elvis film songs were also hits but they weren't demoed by Proby. His claim of being the demo man for Elvis is just as empty as his claim of being a legend. Elvis is the legend.
Proby was a demo man for Elvis along with many many others.
He was born in 1938. If he knew Elvis since he was 14 that is 1952 Elvis didn’t make it till July 1954
Elvis was The King.....Proby could have also been a King if all things in his career had gone right! He was not a "yes" man & to get to the top & stay there you have to be!
Ronald Tennant I loved proby
At the 2013 UK Americana Festival in July PJ Proby told an audience that Elvis and Priscilla were living together in Germany when she was 11 years old.
Priscilla was born in May 1945. The year she was 11 Elvis, his parents and grandmother lived in a 1-story 4-bedroom house on Audubon Drive in Memphis. The same year showgirl Dotty Harmony spent Christmas there.
Elvis first met Priscilla in Sept 1959 at a party in Bad Nauheim Germany.
Telling dirty lies about another person is despicable.
b
This story does not end or even help the debate as to whether P.J. & Elvis knew each other;
But there are lots of other stories that do!
The earliest one being that Elvis dated P.J.'s step sister Betty before he got really famous.
Ron
He didn't seem sure whether Betty was his stepsister or half-sister.
This man is so charismatic!
Thanks Lindgren33 !
I met him twice, once in the sixties and once in 2004
castleon the river,
I am a good friend of P.J. & he gave me the pic with Ruth Batchelor.I am not the guy who took that pic in 1962 although I have photographed P.J. many times. If you look closely you can see Ruth is slightly nearer the camera than P.J. plus she has a broad kind of face & big hair so I can see where you are coming from.
P.J. has the reputation of being a "big head" but in reality his head is quite normal!
Ron
Ron
ELVIS AARON PRESLEY
ELVIS WAS A BIG BIG SUPER STAR'S I GROWN-UP ON ELVIS PRESLEY. I LOVE HIM EVER CENT AND ALWAYS WILL LOVE YOU❤ ELVIS ALWAYS
Great interview clip,
PJ PROBY himself should be as BIG and respected himself as Elvis.
He's been robbed of so much global fame its untrue,
CHECK OUT PJ SINGING LOVE ME TENDER which is also posted on this channel, Fantasic version which is just as good as the Elvis version.
Some bad comments on here about PJ but why? The guy was and still is so talented, and I believe humble, which is a rare thing in show biz.......On another note, the interviewer, dont know his name, asking what Elvis did you girls, he's the guy who just got bollocked for making sexist remarks at a tennis match hahahaha
You don't know about this liar so stop asking folks to respect this jerk. He has lied on so many interviews, where was you???
Where was you? I suppose you mean 'where where you'?... Well, I wasn't anywhere, why should I be? It looks like PJ did something to upset you Captain so instead of telling us all to stop respecting him, why don't you share your secret then we can judge for ourselves instead of taking your word for it, that he is a liar
steve FromEngland Well Steve, more that a few have posted the same thing I posted.
Alright fair enough. At the moment I'm more concerned why Leicester City Football Club can't win a game this year than what PJ or Elvis did or didn't to. Anyway, you have to admit that PJ has a great voice, right ?
steve FromEngland Would you believe I been there. I lived in Holland for 8yrs and we both know how England was always a power house and how Holland lost their way to the world cup through mistakes. I moved to So. Calif. at a young age, but got a small busn. jet through my dad and uncle company which I started for them. I flew back to Europe 20X, 7x times on my trips around the world. I always sit and talk with the locals and soccer was our number one subject and every country I was in always shows a fair for England every four years in the World cup coming up. Steve, it is hard for me to like the guy because he claims so many things including how well he knows Elvis and his story's are just bull. Remember the bass singer with Elvis. They were good friends and he was interviewed and he said that the stories PJ told are just a bunch of bull. These interviews were shown here on TV in America so I guess you never heard of them in England. Last thing, I would come into England by way of Iceland and I can't understand why you folks drive on the wrong side of the road. And you have so many circles on your roads. Have a nice day.
castle on the river
That pic is genuine!! When there is a pic people say it's a phoney & when there isn't one they say Proby is lying..the guy just can't win!!,
Ron
Huge fan of PJ during high school days, wore my ponytail the same!!
I love him singing "I Apologize"
Hi grizzlygalore,
Sorry! I looked in my archives & I spoke too soon.The pic is not of Leon but of Marshall Leib & Steve Venay with Jett Powers onstage at some Hollywood club in March 1961;
sorry for being too hasty!!
Ron
Houston Texas ! Elvis was a product and he was sold ! WOW !
Interviewer - "It goes doesn't it, the memory goes"... and "sing for us later, got enough air this morning?" Not very gracious to say the least...
Ppl give Parker too much credit. Fans were going crazy over Elvis before Parker and it is too bad a better manager didn’t find him first.
People should remember what a greedy man parker was all he saw was money Elvis didn't tour Europe because parker was an illegal alien he was Dutch had he left the USA he wouldn't have got back in. Elvis should have fired parker
Only one ELVIS
Toni DeSarsi, Legend has it P J Proby actually set- up home with Elvis's ex girlfiend, so he must have been around then, and apparently, Elvis wasn't very pleased about this, and told P j he didn't approve of booze so P J didn't bother going back to visit his Buddy again.
grizzlygalore,
I have a photo of Jim Smith with Leon Russell onstage taken about 1959.
Ron
Parker did elvis wrong elvis lost lots of money be cAuse of parker an people who wAs stealing
So elvis did what he had to do
Elvis sang at Vegas to pay off Parker's gambling bill to the mafia elvis didnt make no money
Parker should not get any credit, except for holding Elvis back and for ripping him off. Any decent manager would have done at least as good as the Colonel, and most would have done much more for Elvis and not stole as much.
His memory went when he was awfully young. He was telling his Elvis "stories" in the UK in 1964. It must have impressed people there. It sure wouldn't have in the states. Of course the average American knew a whole lot more about Elvis and the people around him than people in the UK did.
Pictures,pictures!!!......I've met the Queen but I don't have a picture to prove it!!! A picture doesn't necessary mean a thing 'cos anyone could fiddle a pic these days anyway with modern computer technology!!!
No photo does not mean P.J. is lying,it just means no-one was around with a camera way back then!!!! SO WHAT!
Ron
his memory does go
that was true ELVIS was Parker's product a he did sale Elvis Presley a use him.
This guy is not telling the truth.. He was not even active until the 60's singing and Elvis was not active sining in "Hillbilly Clubs" in the 60's.. I would doubt Elvis knew him at all.. Complete MBE!!
What have PJ Proby and the Mccanns got in common?
They both talk shit in interviews.
I've read dozens of books about Elvis and not once was PJ Proby mentioned. He's a talented singer but I don't believe he was ever part of the Elvis scene. He's been saying these things for years. It's a pity Marty Lacker and Lamar Fyke have passed as they'd clear it up once and for all. Another guy who is full of it is Tommy Steel.
I've read maybe 30 books on Elvis as well and this is the first time I've ever heard of this guy. Seems like a
delusional and jealous man.
Red West! Oh yeah! I remember him..the guy who betrayed Elvis & beat up countless fans.....a real gent!
Ron
P.J. Proby thinks Elvis was a product? What does he think HE was except a ponytailed cover artist created and marketed by Jack Good? He was only a demo singer back in the US. He never demoed any of Elvis' hits and his stories about working with Elvis in Houston in 1952 and 1953 are sheer fantasy! It's no wonder he looks nervous as a turkey at Christmas in this video.
"He learned it of the coloured men." The coloured men!!!! Lol. What a ledge.
He said he "always thought he learned it off a colored man". Obviously, the way you spell "colored" you are from the UK. So maybe you're not aware of that "colored" was the acceptable term for blacks in the 50s and 60s. Even the organization NAACP uses it in their title (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). There is also something called UNCF, the United Negro College Fund. Are these organizations ledges also?
Sounds as though PJ wanted to talk about himself rather than Elvis.
Suspicious Minds is one of my least favorite Elvis songs. I'm not a fan of that country soul style he adopted in the 1970s, except in a few cases. I do like his version of Snowbird better than Anne Murray's original, and also I like this version of Green Green Grass of Home better than Tom Jones's.
do some research. Elvis' first record is 1954, Little Richard and Chuck Berry recorded later. So the original is Elvis.
Those weren't the people Elvis was inspired by.
This guy told a lot of falsehoods in regards elvis's musical origins and intention. But we was right on the Baptist and Pentecostal origins.
Elvis and the mass distribution of Television : Bingo !
Book writing bad I deal
pj never met elvis......simples
what kind a beard is this
he lies I can see it in his eyes,, Don't remember moments with Elvis hello
He knew Elvis
come on now.....Proby didn't say that....did he? unless he has dementia....
"Elvis stole from the blacks"? Elvis took from the blues,country music,opera and various crooners/ balladeers ... Until Suspicious Minds sold 30 Million records It's Now or Never was his biggest record. Taken from the Italian Operatic Oh Solo Mio, should we say Elvis stole from the Italians?! 'Surrender' another one of his biggest hits was also an Italian song Torna a Surriento. Ballads like Are you Lonesome tonight and Love me tender were obviously influenced by Dean Martin( Dino Crocetti)
Are you on drugs? Or just really jealous? Elvis was the greatest musical innovator the world will ever know!
The biggest selling(by far) of all times! RCA estimates 1.5 Billion records sold! He was a gift from God! I saw
him in person and in my 60 years on the planet have never seen another man as flawlessly good looking and
as charismatic. As an example of stage innovation; when did anyone ever see Karate incorporated into a musical act?!
Since he was a master singer and a master at Karate it was magnificent to see how well it worked!
By 2002 even British audiences should have questioned PJ Proby's stories about working with Elvis. His job as a part-time demo singer for Ben Weisman has been exaggerated into being the demo man for the Elvis films. He's turned his younger sister (who actually dated Tommy Sands) into an older sister who dated Elvis. Just saying "I knew Elvis" seems to be all it takes to wow TV watchers in England.
It's odd what people in the UK still believe about the U.S. and Elvis. PJ Proby's ridiculous stories about what he did and who he knew in Houston Texas in the early fifties continue to run in the British press as FACT. Brits must be in awe of anyone who ever cut a record.
John Arby
Nope not really we moved on its odd how you think the UK still gives a hoot, Elvis as big as he was seems like from these comments almost cult worshiped we had our own stars believe it or not.
***** I'm sure the majority of people in the UK moved on but P.J. Proby is still being interviewed on BBC radio stations as though he were an Elvis insider. A segment of British audiences laps up every word he says about doing demos for all the Elvis movies even though he can't prove it. He even toured in 2012 billed as Elvis' "demo man". And he continues to tell tales about performing in Texas bars with Elvis in the early 50's, long before Elvis had ventured beyond the outskirts of Memphis. Elvis is an industry, just like The Beatles - each started a new wave of music. P.J. Proby split his trousers.
never knew that about him thanks for the informed answer
+Topsy Krets But Elvis is still loved world wide.
Too many greedy people
itsthetruthhok
Prove it otherwise!
Lies. Lies. Lies. Elvis and I. He has said to lots of people I have never heard of PJ proby
The interviewer really needed to do some work . Uncomfortable.
He looks a little smug to me. Kinda full of himself.
He dident seem to have that much to say worth hearing.
Proby was good looking and sexy but Elvis was sooooo....pretty.
I thought PJ Proby was British. duh
Much better singer than elvis ever was
ha ha ha 😂
@@greyeyes2872I know right Elvis has a richer tone in his voice and he has a southern accent not like most of the people do.
his association with elvis is not a strong one and to be honest he has stretched the truth ..there are no photos of him and elvis together, if he spent as much time with elvis as he makes out to have done then surely at some point a photo would have been taken.
Lies Lies and more Lies from P J Proby .... he done 3 demos for Elvis ..... he never met him and that part about his sister is total crap
This guy sure makes some wild claims, he once said that his grandfather who was a prison warden took him into jail and strapped him into the electric chair when he was 5 years old.
He generally demands a high fee for an interview, why anyone would want to interview a compulsive liar is beyond me.
Nothing he says adds up, he was just a created pop star with an image.
He's blurred the line between his image and his real self.
Lots of actors do the same, they think they are their sterotype superhero onscreen character
Well I lived my life with any part of elvispresleys
Right there to
I'm now 62 and this is the first time I've ever heard or seen him.
If the name elvis wasn't there in the vid title
Who would listen?
And that goes for a whole Lotta them.
Dd
Famous mainly for splitting his trousers on stage( which was planned anyway0 and drunken brawls.
Lies he never met Elvis ....never
How long did you know Elvis for then ...
@@cheriegoodwin6819 …. Many stars tell TALL stories. Most of Elvis entourage never heard of PJ. it’s like Engelbert He goes around telling folks that he gave Elvis the inspiration for Sideburns. Just sing your song guys
poor Jim, totally delusional
It's a pity he put so much weight on.