Best of the EMI Years 1961–1972

Infobox Album
Name = The Best Of The EMI Years: 1961-1972
Type = compilation
Artist = P. J. Proby


Released = Start date|2008|6|16
Recorded = 1961—1972
Genre = pop music, easy listening, Rhythm and blues, soul music, rock music
Label = EMI
Last album = "20th Century Hits "
(2005)
This album = "Best of the EMI Years: 1961-72"
(2008)

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

Overview

This P. J. Proby collection is the first to be released by EMI in 10 years. The project was devised as a way of celebrating Proby's 70th birthday in November 2008. It compiles some of his biggest and best recordings released for the EMI Group between 1961 and 1972. Included are international chart hits, key album tracks, rare B-sides, fan-favourites and 2 previously unreleased songs ("Delilah" and Jim Ford's "I’m Ahead If I Can Quit While I’m Behind").

The album includes a number of different producers and songwriters including Dick Glasser, Charles Blackwell, Jackie DeShannon, Randy Newman, Jack Nitzsche, Les Reed and Jim Ford.

= Track listing [citeweb|title=Blog created by this CD's project coordinator |url=http://www.pjproby.blogspot.com |work=P.J. Proby The EMI Years |accessdate=2008-05-20] =

# "Try To Forget Her" (Dick Glasser)
# "Hold Me" (Little Jack Little/Dave Oppenheim/Ira Schuster)
# "Cuttin' In" (Johnny "Guitar" Watson)
# "Somewhere (song)" (Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim)
# "Just Like Him" (Jackie Deshannon)
# "Answer Me" (Gerhard Winkler/Fred Rauch/Carl Sigman)
# "What's On Your Mind" (Nick De Carro)
# "I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore" (Randy Newman)
# "My Prayer" (Georges Boulanger (violinist)/Jimmy Kennedy)
# "Mission Bell" (William Michael/Jesse Hodges)
# "If I Loved You" (Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II)
# "Maria" (Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim)
# "Quando Tornera" (Gentile & Lentini)
# "I Can’t Make It Alone [Alternate Mono Single Version] " (Gerry Goffin & Carole King)
# "Niki Hoeky" (Pat Vegas/Lolly Vegas/Jim Ford)
# "Mama Told Me Not To Come" (Randy Newman)
# "Give Me Time" (Alberto Morina/Amedeo Tommasi/Peter Callander/Pietro Melfa)
# "I’m Comin’ Home" (Les Reed & Barry Mason)
# "And The Sun Will Shine" (The Bee Gees)
# "Delilah" (Les Reed & Barry Mason)
# "Today I Killed A Man (I Didn’t Know)" (Roger Cook & Roger Greenaway)
# "Daddy's Home" (William Henry Miller/James Sheppard)
# "I’m Ahead If I Can Quit While I’m Behind" (Jim Ford)
# "Clown Shoes" (James Marcus Smith)
# "We'll Meet Again" (Hughie Charles/Ross Parker)

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