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LOL - here’s one to sort the seedlings from the craggy oaks… i’ve just booked “concert tickets” to see (“alive”, presumably…)
one night only
special appearance
none other than
the all-time great
brightest star in the firmament
the all-singing
all-dancing
"GREATEST ROCKER OF ALL TIME"....
p.
j.
proby !

WHO?

(I assumed he was dead years ago but evidently not, The Return of, Carry on PJ!)

Not a lot to do with gardening but this is Chit Chat after all, “LET THE WATER RUN DOWN” was possibly the closest he ever got to a gardening song (unless you count, tweaked slightly, “YOU’VE COME BACK Cabbage Whites” and “SOMEWHERE I planted parsnip seeds but they’ve yet to appear”). But then perhaps one of his songs should be the anthem of Grapevine: “I CAN’T MAKE IT ALONE”!

Welcome back PJ.

So who do you remember (just about)?

bb


ps For those still completely in the dark PJ Proby was a major major star of the early 1960s, one of his first jobs was recording demo records for a guy who went by the unlikely name of “Elvis Presley”… For some time PJP was seen as “the new Elvis”, his singing and stage act deemed so emotional and provocative that in 1965 he was banned from British theatres and British TV. BANNED! (Bear in mind that this was all happening before such things as “Swinging London”, “Carnaby Street” and “Mary Quant fashions” etc; “Beatlemania” was just getting going….) Amongst other things he is credited with being the first western male in the Twentieth Century to wear his hair in a pony tail! He’ll be 70 next year. Rock on, PJ…

So who do you remember (just about)?

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I remember stories of his trousers splitting on stage (no offence, Wellie)!

KK

Bassaboy, was he the guy who split his trousers on stage. Not that i would remember of course Only hearsay you understand.

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And when you're back stops aching,
And you're hands begin to harden.
You will find yourself a partner,
In the glory of the garden.

Rudyard Kipling.

OK. Kiki Dee sat on the stage with knee-length white socks on RSG with Kathy 2I'll give it five" McGowan. Can't remember what she was singing - not sure I even heard it!

KK

I'm afraid the trouser incident is all I know of him too (then again, it was 'the olden days' wasn't it? ).

The tracks that accompanied my childhood were mainly folk music - Martin Carthy, Bert Jansch, June Tabor and the like (my father once declared that my mother was a hippy before anyone else thought of it!).

I was too young for punk really, so my bedroom listening was bands like The Jam (still in love with Paul Weller! ), Madness, Prince and (though it wasn't very cool to admit it) The Human League.

Claire

lol, some good tales coming out here! Kiki Dee! She's still going, I think she's in her 60s now... As indeed is Blondie if you saw her on TV recently. Yes PJP was banned for splitting his trousers when gyrating on stage. He claimed it was an accident but it also happened again in subsequent performances! The world wasn't ready for it and he subsequently wrote a song "I Apologise". Yup, Seahorse, it was indeed "the olden days" LOL - but when did they end and "the modern days" begin? 2002?

bb

It was 1974.

I remember my eldest (then 6) finding an old penny in 1974 and asking if that was the money we used in the olden days!

KK

I remember PJ..................PJ Harvey.

or Pearl Jam, but that's about my extent.

Mum subjected me to a lot of ABBA as a child - which is probably why I can't stand them now. Then again, the same could be said of Dolly Parton, and I quite like a few of hers.... Apple Jack, Me & Little Andy....

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I was born in 1974 but my kids still think i grew up in the "olden days!"

See - I keep telling my kids, born in the late 60s and 70s, that it's about time I had grandkids.

KK

Well, I hate to break it to you, you were!

I was born in the modern era!

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This has made me think of an incident that happened here lastnight! I was having a bit of a moment with the lovely Mr Johnny Cash when, at about 9.30pm, my 10 year old told me (rather forcibly!) to turn my music down.

Surely that's not the right way round!!!???

Claire

Gotta love the man in black. "Hurt" gives me a lump in my throat (I know it's a "new" one), but - you try watching the video without getting a little.........well, you know....

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It's official then boo hoo hooo.....

Yeah, I definitely get 'a little....well, you know...' too when watching that video. In fact hankies and a glass of something stronger than Tizer were required on the first viewing! Seriously though, I think it's one of the most stunning interpretations of a song I've ever seen. I believe Trent Reznor now refers to it as a song that 'isn't mine anymore'.

Claire

S'okay - I arrived the following year, but that makes me a "late" 70's child! lol.

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Indeed, but testament to a damned good song to begin with I guess, although I do think JC made it his own. Spookily "The Mercy Seat" just came on my iPod as I type!! I might just put it into Johnny Cash mode...

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Honestly. You young people and your music. I don't know what the world is coming to!

KK

Hey, be careful who you're calling "olden" - there's more than one here born in 1974 - an excellent vintage I believe!!

... and more than one born in 1949, too!

KK

That's true KK. (Bum! What a give-away!)

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My only consolation is that my brother is already sixty!

KK