Brian did not mention P.J.'s birthday on his programme on the 5th November.....I e-mailed & pointed this out & suggested that this morning maybe on the latest programme he could make the Proby fans happy with a belated birthday wish to P.J. & a song. Sadly nothing happened.Is it so difficult to remember a Legend's birthday?especially when no other music star of any significance has a birthday on the 6th November.I'm very disappointed in "S.O.T.S."
     Ron 

I know Brian is quite ancient now but his programme organisors & production team should make sure he has the correct info & make sure they sort out the requests for P.J. 's birthday that I know arrived at Radio 2!
   On the other hand for the rest of the year P.J. gets a lot of play time on Brian's show so no complaints there!
      Ron

On the most recent "S.O.T.S." radio programme Brian played a Walker Brothers album track. A song I didn't even know they had recorded "I don't want to hear it anymore". Of course we all know that P.J. did this song & it was the B side to "Let the water run down" from 1965.
   Well Scott sang " I don't want to hear it anymore" as a solo singer,Gary & John were nowhere to be heard on this number. Scott's vocal was perfect but the actual impact of the song & the way he did it was nothing compared to P.J.'s version. As usual P.J. put his heart & soul into the recording & made it so believable.That's the difference between P.J. & so many other top class vocalists...P.J. "lives" the song,the rest do not!
      Ron

I have everything by Gene McDaniels. They groomed him as a crooner but he was so much better than that. Later in his career he went a bit weird & recorded some strange stuff saying to the world that is how he really was. Scott Engel went down the same road & also started to do strange songs. On one of Scott's later recordings he had a huge piece of raw meat in the studio & was banging on it with a stick as part of the background effect.O.M.G.!!
  My fave Gene song? "Another Tear Falls" this must be on YouTube.
    Ron

Brian's a real stalwart for PJ, I heard the programme - it's a must to listen to for our type of music.  I think it's about the only time we get PJ on radio, even though it's not enough times per year.  I've requested for my birthday in April but I shan't be holding my breath.  It was the last record played if anybody wants to take a listen.

I missed Wicked Woman as didn't catch SOTS last weekend - will listen via listen again as the show is available until the start of this weekend's episode.

I should point out though that SOTS is not the only BBC radio show to play or mention PJ. Bill Kenwright played JB's chart hit of PJs composition, Clown Shoes, on his Golden Years show yesterday (23/01/12) before discussing his work with PJ in the West End before playing Connie Francis' version of Together. In addition, JB was also played by Bill a few weeks ago, with Bill again stating that Clown Shoes was his last hit and penned by PJ.

Other shows which have played PJ on the BBC are Pick Of The Pops (60s UK hits only for obvious reasons) - if you visit the PJ artist page on the bbc a list of programmes that have played PJ recently is available there.

Hi Devil

Thanks for the Bill Kenwright Radio snippet. That was really interesting. Any more like that please let us know.


Andy