PJ Proby: Sittin on the dock of bay (Live 1968)

PJ Proby appeared in the swedish radioshow Opopoppa with seven songs, recorded live at Stockholm´s outdoormuseum Skansen July 31st 1968. The band is Lasse Samuelssons Dynamite brass. Here´s Otis Redding´s wellknown Sittin on the dock of bay.

The seven songs were presented in this order:

1. Show Business 2. Cry like a baby

3. Sittin on the dock of bay

4. Hold me

5. Going out of my head

6. My Elusive Dreams

7. Somewhere Five of them are now available on Youtube. I hope to upload No 5 and 7 in the near future.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• PJ
• Proby
• Otis
• Redding

[rontenn]

@RocksNoChaser He does not sound like a black guy on this song at all....he sounds like a white guy from Texas. I said on another clip that Proby plays harmonica,piano,guitar & drums. I compared him to no-one in that statement. Proby is Proby.....UNIQUE!

[RocksNoChaser]

@rontenn Faulty hearing you say? I guess Proby just naturally sounds like a black guy from central Georgia with a speech impediment. "Si'in' on the dock of the bay". Funny that he sounds like a white redneck in interviews. Aren't you the guy who posted on another video that one-chord-strumming Proby is a talented guitar player? Who were you comparing him to?

[rontenn]

@RocksNoChaser P.J.Proby sounding just like...er..P.J.Proby. If you think this is him impersonating Redding then your hearing is faulty!!

[rontenn]

In my view & many others this guy P.J.Proby is the most versatile vocalist ever!

[RocksNoChaser]

@leonaoffical The number of people appreciating this performance or any other PJ Proby performance has always been limited. You might go for a white singer who was out to prove he could sound like Otis Redding but most of the world didn't want a Redding impersonator covering Redding hits. Proby proved he was nothing more than a versatile mimic. He was never able to maintain a sound of his own across a large number of songs.

[akkademicks]

brill

[leonaofficial]

@merrysnotproud or like me they would more than likely have been appreciating the song and performance and not stuck up their own politically correct arses as some white people are

[merrysnotproud]

As a whole I think the 1968 Stockholm concert is the best thing Proby ever did. But his attempt to mimic Otis Redding's speech pattern in this song is insulting to Redding fans and to the memory of an icon. Proby has his stock "British" and "Liverpool" accents, his stock "black" accent, etc. His enunciation in this song is a caricature not unlike George Kingfish Stevens. If there were African Americans in the audience I'm certain they were very unimpressed by his attempt to imitate Redding.

[luvureally]

Sounds like he's singing while having his molars yanked out by Dr. Orin Scrivello.

[rontenn]

You've shot yourself in the foot with that answer.