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P. J. Proby

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P.J. Proby (born James Marcus Smith, November 6, 1938) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. [1]

84 relations: Anarchy in the U.K., Ballad, Barry Mason, Bertelsmann Music Group, Best of the EMI Years 1961–1972, Big Jim Sullivan, Billboard Hot 100, Blues, Bobby Vee, Cabaret, Country music, Croydon, Culver Academies, Daily Express, Decca Records, Delilah (Tom Jones song), Demo (music), Down the Road (Van Morrison album), Duet, Duets: Re-working the Catalogue, Easy listening, Elvis (musical), Elvis Presley, EMI, Focus (band), Focus con Proby, Gloria Jones, Hit record, Hold Me (1933 song), Houston, I Am P. J. Proby, I Apologize (1931 song), In the Air Tonight, Independent record label, ITV Granada, Jack Good (producer), Jackie DeShannon, Jim Ford, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, Lennon–McCartney, Les Reed (songwriter), Liberty Records, List of newspapers in the United Kingdom, London Palladium, London Records, Love Me Tender (song), Love Will Tear Us Apart, Luton, Marc Almond, ..., Maria (West Side Story song), Michael Cassio, Musical theatre, Nightclub, O mein Papa, Othello, Quadrophenia, Rhythm and blues, Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu, Roy Orbison, San Marcos Baptist Academy, Select Records, Sharon Sheeley, Sign o' the Times (song), Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Somewhere (song), Sound recording and reproduction, Steve Rowland (record producer), T. S. Eliot, Tainted Love, That Means a Lot, The Beatles, The Real California License, The Who, Three Week Hero, Together (1928 song), Tom Jones (singer), Top 40, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, Van Morrison, West Side Story, Western Military Academy, William Shakespeare. Expand index (34 more) »

Anarchy in the U.K.

"Anarchy in the U.K." is a song by the English punk rock band the Sex Pistols.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Barry Mason

John Barry Mason (known professionally as Barry Mason) (born 12 July 1935) is an English songwriter, grew up in the village of Coppull, near Chorley in Lancashire.

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Bertelsmann Music Group

Bertelsmann Music Group (abbreviated as BMG) was a division of German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008.

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Best of the EMI Years 1961–1972

The Best of the EMI Years: 1961-1972 is a compilation album released in 2008 celebrating the career of P. J. Proby.

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Big Jim Sullivan

James George Tomkins (14 February 1941 – 2 October 2012), known professionally as Big Jim Sullivan, was an English musician whose career started in 1958.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bobby Vee

Robert Thomas Velline (April 30, 1943 – October 24, 2016), known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer, songwriter and musician who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films.

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Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Croydon

Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south of Charing Cross.

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Culver Academies

Culver Academies is a college preparatory boarding school located in Culver, Indiana, which is composed of three entities: Culver Military Academy (CMA) for boys, Culver Girls Academy (CGA), and the Culver Summer Schools and Camps (CSSC).

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Daily Express

The Daily Express is a daily national middle market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Delilah (Tom Jones song)

"Delilah" is a song recorded by Welsh singer Tom Jones in December, 1967.

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Demo (music)

A demo (from "demonstration") is a song or group of songs recorded for limited circulation or reference use rather than for general public release.

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Down the Road (Van Morrison album)

Down the Road is the twenty-ninth studio album by Northern Irish singer Van Morrison (see 2002 in music).

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Duet

A duet is a musical composition for two performers in which the performers have equal importance to the piece, often a composition involving two singers or two pianists.

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Duets: Re-working the Catalogue

Duets: Re-working the Catalogue is the 35th studio album recorded by Northern Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison.

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Easy listening

Easy listening (sometimes known as mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s.

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Elvis (musical)

Elvis is a jukebox musical based upon the life of Elvis Presley, conceived and directed by Jack Good and Ray Cooney.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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Focus (band)

Focus are a Dutch rock band formed in Amsterdam in 1969 by keyboardist, vocalist, and flautist Thijs van Leer.

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Focus con Proby

Focus con Proby is the seventh studio album by the progressive rock band Focus.

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Gloria Jones

Gloria Richetta Jones (born October 19, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California.

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Hit record

A hit record is an audio recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" (appeared on) one of the popular chart listings.

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Hold Me (1933 song)

"Hold Me" is a popular song by Jack Little, David Oppenheim, and Ira Schuster.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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I Am P. J. Proby

I Am P. J. Proby is P. J. Proby's first studio album, released on the Liberty label.

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I Apologize (1931 song)

"I Apologize" is a popular song written by Al Hoffman, Al Goodhart, and Ed Nelson.

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In the Air Tonight

"In the Air Tonight" is the debut solo single by the English singer-songwriter and drummer Phil Collins.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding of or outside major record labels.

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ITV Granada

ITV Granada (formerly Granada Television; informally Granada) is the Channel 3 regional service for North West England and the Isle of Man.

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Jack Good (producer)

Jack Good (7 August 1931 – 24 September 2017) was a British television producer, musical theatre producer, record producer, musician and painter of icons.

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Jackie DeShannon

Jackie DeShannon (born August 21, 1944) is an American singer-songwriter with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards, as both singer and composer.

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Jim Ford

Jim Ford (August 23, 1941 – November 18, 2007) was an American singer-songwriter originally from Johnson County, Kentucky.

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Jimmy Page

James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Lennon–McCartney

Lennon–McCartney was the songwriting partnership between English musicians John Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) and Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) of the Beatles.

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Les Reed (songwriter)

Leslie David Reed OBE (born 24 July 1935, in Woking, Surrey, England) is an English songwriter, arranger, musician and light orchestra leader.

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Liberty Records

Liberty Records was a United States-based record label.

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List of newspapers in the United Kingdom

There are newspapers distributed nationally in the United Kingdom and some in Scotland only, and others serving a smaller area.

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London Palladium

The London Palladium is a 2,286-seat Grade II* West End theatre located on Argyll Street in the City of Westminster.

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London Records

London Records is a record label in the U.K. that marketed records in the U.S, Canada, and Latin America from 1947 to 1979 before becoming semi-independent.

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Love Me Tender (song)

"Love Me Tender" is a 1956 song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music from the 20th Century Fox film of the same name.

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Love Will Tear Us Apart

"Love Will Tear Us Apart" is a single by the English post-punk band Joy Division, released in June 1980.

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Luton

Luton is a large town in Bedfordshire, England, Luton east of Aylesbury, west of Stevenage, northwest of London, and southeast of Milton Keynes.

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Marc Almond

Peter Mark Sinclair "Marc" Almond, (born 9 July 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and musician.

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Maria (West Side Story song)

"Maria" is a song from the Broadway musical West Side Story, sung by the lead character Tony.

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Michael Cassio

Michael Cassio, or simply Cassio, is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's Othello.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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Nightclub

A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.

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O mein Papa

"O mein Papa" is a German song, as related by a young woman remembering her beloved, once-famous clown father.

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Othello

Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603.

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Quadrophenia

Quadrophenia is the sixth studio album by the English rock band The Who, released as a double album on 26 October 1973 by Track Records.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu

"Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" is a song written and originally recorded by Huey 'Piano' Smith in 1957, who scored a minor hit with the song (No. 52 Billboard).

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Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter and musician known for his impassioned singing style, complex song structures, and dark emotional ballads.

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San Marcos Baptist Academy

San Marcos Academy or SMA (also known as San Marcos Baptist Academy or SMBA) is a private, coeducational, college preparatory Christian school that is affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

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Select Records

Select Records is an American record label.

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Sharon Sheeley

Sharon Kathleen Sheeley (April 4, 1940 – May 17, 2002) was an American songwriter who wrote songs for Glen Campbell, Ricky Nelson, Brenda Lee, and Sheeley's former fiancé, Eddie Cochran.

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Sign o' the Times (song)

"Sign o' the Times" is the lead single from American musician Prince's 1987 album of the same name.

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Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Sigue Sigue Sputnik were a British new wave band formed in 1982 by former Generation X bassist Tony James.

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Somewhere (song)

"Somewhere", sometimes referred to as "Somewhere (There's a Place for Us)" or simply "There's a Place for Us", is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story that was made into a film in 1961.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

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Steve Rowland (record producer)

Steve Rowland (born Stephen Jacob Rowland, 3 September 1932, Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American singer, columnist, record producer and actor.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".

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Tainted Love

"Tainted Love" is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of American group the Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964.

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That Means a Lot

"That Means a Lot" is a song written (mainly) by Paul McCartney, but credited to Lennon–McCartney.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Real California License

The Real California License is a 2011 re-release of California License and contains all known recordings from Jett Powers and Orville Woods aka P.J. Proby.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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Three Week Hero

Three Week Hero is an album released by rock singer P.J. Proby on April 8, 1969 by Liberty Records.

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Together (1928 song)

"Together" is a 1928 popular song with music by Ray Henderson and lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva and Lew Brown.

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Tom Jones (singer)

Sir Thomas John Woodward (born 7 June 1940), also known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Van Morrison

Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer.

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West Side Story

West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

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Western Military Academy

Western Military Academy was a private military preparatory school located in Alton, Illinois, in the United States.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._Proby

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