This sounds like a demo for a group like The Drifters.Jett Powers/P.J.Proby demoed many songs for many, many songwriters as well as his own compositions.In my opinion this was not done for Elvis.I think this song is fantastic,love to know who the writers were. When P.J. did a demo song intended for Elvis he sounded exactly like him.
@BroaderScope You're very well mannered aren't you? NOT! As for all the questions you asked me.....I'll adapt your attitude & reply with an ill-mannered answer....stick those questions up your ass!
@rontenn You never have any answers about details no matter who asks or how they ask it. You just talk big about many no-name songwriters and no-title demos for Elvis. If PJ Proby was the big star you're always claiming he'd have something to say besides who he did demos for.
You think the Proby recording of "In My Dreams" sounds exactly like Elvis? You've never listened to Elvis or you don't know anything about voices .
@BroaderScope You know absolutely nothing! Many Elvis fans truly believe that it IS Elvis singing "In My Dreams" & refuse to acknowledge it's Proby. So that can only mean that Proby's Elvis voice is as good as that of Elvis himself. As for answers & details to jerks like you.....you're just not worth bothering with! This reply is an exception as I can't stand the jibberish some YouTubers talk. Proby is easily as good as Elvis & much more versatile!
@rontenn You're hanging out with many Elvis fans? The Proby "In My Dreams" track was on a 1978 bootleg Elvis CD. Elvis fans dismissed it as NOT Elvis years ago!
If by versatile you mean Proby's a mimic you're right. Elvis didn't have to sing like anybody else. Hundreds of millions of people have bought records done in HIS voice.
Have the names of those many, many songwriters Proby did demos for slipped your mind? Blowing off the question just confirms the claim isn't true.
This song was recorded by The Legends (a group from Milwaukee) in 1963 on Capitol on a single (5014) as a B-side to Summertime Blues and on an lp for Capitol.
If anybody has this record, could you please inform us who the writer of the song is?
@srvprezmgmt Thank you for the info! I've looked up Sonny Hendrix and he's also written a song for the Elvis Movie Roundabout. It is my guess that Run to the Movies was one of the songs P.J. Proby demoed for either this Elvis movie or one before and the song wasn't chosen for the movie in the end. PJ used to do all the demos for the Elvis movies, from Kid Galahad till he got successful in the UK in 1964 with the release of Hold Me...
@manjadolan The Roustabout song was written with D. Fuller who wrote other songs for Elvis films. Barkan (Hendrix) didn't collaborate with her on this one. He was still a school teacher and part time songwriter in New Jersey when it was released.
Interesting theory you have about this track except I thought Proby was supposed to sound like Elvis when he demoed for Elvis. If this was an example of one of those demos he wasn't very good at it. In fact he wasn't good at it at all.
@srvprezmgmt Thanks again! The Legends released this song in July 1963. Did you get the writers info from their single? Sonny Hendrix isn't registered with Ascap, but the well-known cowriter of Run To The Movies, George Goehring was ("Lipstick On Your Collar"), who later wrote Suppose for Elvis (1967). It is my guess he was the main writer, who was in contact with the Elvis movie makers in Hollywood.
PS I respect your opinion that PJ wasn't very good in sounding like Elvis. Although P.J. Proby is known as the man with the thousand voices, Elvis is absolutely unique of course. The demos were only meant for Elvis to easily be able to learn the songs from, if the songs were chosen. It was not a competition. PJ did his best to sing them "the Elvis way", but that's all there is to it. I hope more of these gems will turn up.
@manjadolan My information came from ASCAP. I'm not going to guess about anything. You seem out to prove this track has a connection to Elvis that isn't evident in anything I've seen. PJ Proby's main selling point for being hired to do Elvis demos seems to have been the ability to sound like Elvis. Or at least that's what he's said in interviews on this site. Anyone who thinks this track sounds anything at all like Elvis must be thinking about somebody besides Elvis Presley.
@srvprezmgmt I'm not out to prove anything :), I'm merelu trying to piece together some history. so let's stick to the facts. P.J. Proby made demos for a living in Hollywood in the beginning of the Sixties. He did so for Metric Music (Liberty's songwriters department), for songwriters Ben Weisman and Ruth Bachelor and for different other songwriters on behalf of the Elvis movies. A nice piece of history. We'll release a CD of the Metic Music demos soon. A pity you don't like PJP!
@manjadolan I didn't say anything about disliking him just that this track doesn't sound at all like Elvis. From the looks of things around Youtube Proby's trying to turn demo singing into a major occupation. Plenty of people worked as demo singers before they made a name for themselves and some of them demoed those Elvis film songs too. They don't usually talk about it though. It's a job to help pay the rent. Not something you put on your resume unless that's all you've ever done.
@manjadolan You don't brag about being a demo singer unless you want a job as a demo singer. A demo singer just needs to be a quick study and sing better than the songwriter. Otherwise the songwriter will do his/her own demo. I think somebody's confusing demo singers with session singers.
If this is how PJ Proby sounded on his demos for Elvis it's proof he couldn't sing like Elvis unless he had an Elvis record to copy. Elvis wouldn't sound like this demo in his worst nightmare.
@manjadolan Strange that Proby's "Elvis demos" only sound like Elvis when it's a song Elvis recorded. He talks about demo singing as though nobody ever had a hit without one of his demos. Glen Campbell joked back in the 90's about his early career and how he'd been a "hot demo singer in L.A." and that it paid $10 a song. He didn't drop names of who he did demos for but according to Ben Weisman he sang on demos for Elvis. Campbell didn't feel the need to brag about it like Proby does.
@manjadolan The Legends version is on LGN45838's channel. I like theirs a lot better than this one but that's my opinion. The Legends sound like a young band in tune with a young audience. To me PJ Proby sounds like a 30 year old man singing the words of a kid who's running to the movies after school. I can't see why anybody thinks a songwriter would write a song like this for Elvis to sing in 1962.
@manjadolan Are you aware some youtube uploads of PJ Proby's early tracks (Somewhere, Maria etc) are blocked from viewing by anyone in North America and Japan?
His website looks like he assumes the right to copy and sell anything connected with him including Elvis' voice from movie soundtracks and tracks of his own voice produced by major record labels. Those record companies are on the warpath if blocking on youtube is any indication.
@manjadolan George Goehring was one of the NYC Brill Building crowd during the 50's and early 60's. Brill songwriters did their own demos or used singers there, not singers in L.A. Songs were churned out fast and furious in hopes of a big hit. There wasn't a lot of time or money spent on demos. Have you heard Carole King's demo of Take Good Care of My Baby?
Another fabulous demo song from the one & only P.J.Proby. Sounds like something The Drifter's would record. Brilliant production & the best voice ever!!!
@MyKeetje Thanks for the translation. Visit Proby's main site for everything you want to know about him. Also a wonderful selection of records,photos,DVD's etc. Great singer.....great site!
This sounds like a demo for a group like The Drifters.Jett Powers/P.J.Proby demoed many songs for many, many songwriters as well as his own compositions.In my opinion this was not done for Elvis.I think this song is fantastic,love to know who the writers were. When P.J. did a demo song intended for Elvis he sounded exactly like him.
rontenn 1 month ago
@rontenn The writers of this song have already been discussed below in the comments. Can't you read?
How many of those PJ Proby demos for Elvis have you heard? Where did you hear them and what are the song titles?
Maybe you'd like to name ten of those many, many songwriters Proby did demos for. Or maybe you can't.
BroaderScope 1 month ago
@BroaderScope You're very well mannered aren't you? NOT! As for all the questions you asked me.....I'll adapt your attitude & reply with an ill-mannered answer....stick those questions up your ass!
rontenn 1 month ago
@rontenn You never have any answers about details no matter who asks or how they ask it. You just talk big about many no-name songwriters and no-title demos for Elvis. If PJ Proby was the big star you're always claiming he'd have something to say besides who he did demos for.
You think the Proby recording of "In My Dreams" sounds exactly like Elvis? You've never listened to Elvis or you don't know anything about voices .
BroaderScope 1 month ago
@BroaderScope You know absolutely nothing! Many Elvis fans truly believe that it IS Elvis singing "In My Dreams" & refuse to acknowledge it's Proby. So that can only mean that Proby's Elvis voice is as good as that of Elvis himself. As for answers & details to jerks like you.....you're just not worth bothering with! This reply is an exception as I can't stand the jibberish some YouTubers talk. Proby is easily as good as Elvis & much more versatile!
rontenn 1 month ago
@rontenn You're hanging out with many Elvis fans? The Proby "In My Dreams" track was on a 1978 bootleg Elvis CD. Elvis fans dismissed it as NOT Elvis years ago!
If by versatile you mean Proby's a mimic you're right. Elvis didn't have to sing like anybody else. Hundreds of millions of people have bought records done in HIS voice.
Have the names of those many, many songwriters Proby did demos for slipped your mind? Blowing off the question just confirms the claim isn't true.
BroaderScope 1 month ago
@BroaderScope You know as much about Elvis as you do about P.J.Proby.....ZILCH!
rontenn 1 month ago
coool tune, like it very much, yet another gem i'd never heard before.lot's of pics here i've not seen before to.
thnx for posting steve,
theBESTelvis 7 months ago
Not a great song BUT the voice oh Wow legend in hi life time
cleavecolin 9 months ago
Forgot to mention the pics accompanying this clip are super cool !!
rontenn 10 months ago
Listen to the version by The Legends.....it's good but not a patch on this demo version by a REAL Legend...P.J.Proby
rontenn 10 months ago
This song was recorded by The Legends (a group from Milwaukee) in 1963 on Capitol on a single (5014) as a B-side to Summertime Blues and on an lp for Capitol.
If anybody has this record, could you please inform us who the writer of the song is?
manjadolan 10 months ago
@manjadolan Written by Stanley Howard Barkan aka Sonny Barkan aka Sonny Hendrix
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srvprezmgmt 2 months ago
@srvprezmgmt Thank you for the info! I've looked up Sonny Hendrix and he's also written a song for the Elvis Movie Roundabout. It is my guess that Run to the Movies was one of the songs P.J. Proby demoed for either this Elvis movie or one before and the song wasn't chosen for the movie in the end. PJ used to do all the demos for the Elvis movies, from Kid Galahad till he got successful in the UK in 1964 with the release of Hold Me...
manjadolan 2 months ago
@manjadolan The Roustabout song was written with D. Fuller who wrote other songs for Elvis films. Barkan (Hendrix) didn't collaborate with her on this one. He was still a school teacher and part time songwriter in New Jersey when it was released.
Interesting theory you have about this track except I thought Proby was supposed to sound like Elvis when he demoed for Elvis. If this was an example of one of those demos he wasn't very good at it. In fact he wasn't good at it at all.
srvprezmgmt 2 months ago
@srvprezmgmt Thanks again! The Legends released this song in July 1963. Did you get the writers info from their single? Sonny Hendrix isn't registered with Ascap, but the well-known cowriter of Run To The Movies, George Goehring was ("Lipstick On Your Collar"), who later wrote Suppose for Elvis (1967). It is my guess he was the main writer, who was in contact with the Elvis movie makers in Hollywood.
manjadolan 2 months ago
PS I respect your opinion that PJ wasn't very good in sounding like Elvis. Although P.J. Proby is known as the man with the thousand voices, Elvis is absolutely unique of course. The demos were only meant for Elvis to easily be able to learn the songs from, if the songs were chosen. It was not a competition. PJ did his best to sing them "the Elvis way", but that's all there is to it. I hope more of these gems will turn up.
manjadolan 2 months ago
@manjadolan My information came from ASCAP. I'm not going to guess about anything. You seem out to prove this track has a connection to Elvis that isn't evident in anything I've seen. PJ Proby's main selling point for being hired to do Elvis demos seems to have been the ability to sound like Elvis. Or at least that's what he's said in interviews on this site. Anyone who thinks this track sounds anything at all like Elvis must be thinking about somebody besides Elvis Presley.
srvprezmgmt 2 months ago
@srvprezmgmt I'm not out to prove anything :), I'm merelu trying to piece together some history. so let's stick to the facts. P.J. Proby made demos for a living in Hollywood in the beginning of the Sixties. He did so for Metric Music (Liberty's songwriters department), for songwriters Ben Weisman and Ruth Bachelor and for different other songwriters on behalf of the Elvis movies. A nice piece of history. We'll release a CD of the Metic Music demos soon. A pity you don't like PJP!
manjadolan 2 months ago
@manjadolan I didn't say anything about disliking him just that this track doesn't sound at all like Elvis. From the looks of things around Youtube Proby's trying to turn demo singing into a major occupation. Plenty of people worked as demo singers before they made a name for themselves and some of them demoed those Elvis film songs too. They don't usually talk about it though. It's a job to help pay the rent. Not something you put on your resume unless that's all you've ever done.
srvprezmgmt 2 months ago
@manjadolan You don't brag about being a demo singer unless you want a job as a demo singer. A demo singer just needs to be a quick study and sing better than the songwriter. Otherwise the songwriter will do his/her own demo. I think somebody's confusing demo singers with session singers.
If this is how PJ Proby sounded on his demos for Elvis it's proof he couldn't sing like Elvis unless he had an Elvis record to copy. Elvis wouldn't sound like this demo in his worst nightmare.
hillcitysite 2 months ago
@manjadolan Strange that Proby's "Elvis demos" only sound like Elvis when it's a song Elvis recorded. He talks about demo singing as though nobody ever had a hit without one of his demos. Glen Campbell joked back in the 90's about his early career and how he'd been a "hot demo singer in L.A." and that it paid $10 a song. He didn't drop names of who he did demos for but according to Ben Weisman he sang on demos for Elvis. Campbell didn't feel the need to brag about it like Proby does.
BroaderScope 2 months ago
@manjadolan The Legends version is on LGN45838's channel. I like theirs a lot better than this one but that's my opinion. The Legends sound like a young band in tune with a young audience. To me PJ Proby sounds like a 30 year old man singing the words of a kid who's running to the movies after school. I can't see why anybody thinks a songwriter would write a song like this for Elvis to sing in 1962.
wheaties1945 1 month ago
@manjadolan Are you aware some youtube uploads of PJ Proby's early tracks (Somewhere, Maria etc) are blocked from viewing by anyone in North America and Japan?
His website looks like he assumes the right to copy and sell anything connected with him including Elvis' voice from movie soundtracks and tracks of his own voice produced by major record labels. Those record companies are on the warpath if blocking on youtube is any indication.
costareno 1 week ago
@manjadolan George Goehring was one of the NYC Brill Building crowd during the 50's and early 60's. Brill songwriters did their own demos or used singers there, not singers in L.A. Songs were churned out fast and furious in hopes of a big hit. There wasn't a lot of time or money spent on demos. Have you heard Carole King's demo of Take Good Care of My Baby?
inc2468 2 months ago
Wieder ein tolles Video, tolle Simme, toller Mann........ich liebe ihn einfach!!!
MyKeetje 10 months ago
@MyKeetje WOT?
rontenn 10 months ago
Another fabulous demo song from the one & only P.J.Proby. Sounds like something The Drifter's would record. Brilliant production & the best voice ever!!!
rontenn 10 months ago
@rontenn .....another great video, great voice, great man.......I just love him!!!
MyKeetje 10 months ago
@MyKeetje Thanks for the translation. Visit Proby's main site for everything you want to know about him. Also a wonderful selection of records,photos,DVD's etc. Great singer.....great site!
rontenn 10 months ago
@rontenn Thank you very mutch for the good Tipp!!
MyKeetje 10 months ago
@MyKeetje I can't give you the site address on You Tube it's not allowed but just type in The House Of Proby on yahoo or google.
rontenn 10 months ago
@rontenn Oh, i had been wondering! I found a page on Google, is that correct??
MyKeetje 10 months ago
@MyKeetje The 3 "w"'s plus a punt & then pjproby.net
rontenn 10 months ago
@rontenn :-) ok.....many thanks und viele Grüße!!
MyKeetje 10 months ago
@MyKeetje My pleasure!! The more P.J. fans the better. There are 5 Proby sites....the best one of all says OFFICIAL.
rontenn 10 months ago
@rontenn ...sorry, the Server did not found the Adress!!!
MyKeetje 10 months ago
@MyKeetje Keep trying on yahoo or google. P.J.Proby-OFFICIAL site. Best of luck!
rontenn 10 months ago
@rontenn Ok
MyKeetje 10 months ago