Anyone remember PJ Proby?

[PhilT]

Do you like soul music?

No!

Well, do The Trouser Press, baby,

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SsX6sKL3hRg&feature=related

[uwe]

My fave novelty dance was this:

Little Eva's original:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=i1mQwXW2MVg&feature=related

What a couple of white boys from Flint, Michigan, did to it:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sSQOeQakExU (noteworthy for Herr Schacher's flamboyant choice of color  and Herr Farner's ability to unabashed solo in a minor scale over harmonies that cry for a major one - tip for the future: play your blues scales three frets down from where you would play them over minor harmonies in the relevant key and you'll sound major all of the sudden, Eric Clapton "invented" that!  )

And finally some Australian sit com actress I believe ... with a version so sultry I don't believe you guys anymore about those novelty dance titles not being double entendres!!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RUv0ARBfLbM&feature=related

[Dave W]

Another one I remember well was the Mashed Potato. Looked for a Dee Dee Sharp video that would actually show the dance and found this medley of Mashed Potato Time and Slow Twistin' (her duet with Chubby Checker), only Chubby's part here is sung by a young Billy Preston: http://youtube.com/watch?v=r_wD1r8enUE

Both hits were from '62, so if Billy was 19 this would have been from '65. Dee Dee wasn't much older, I think she was a star at 16.

[PhilT]

You gotta swing your hips now
Come on baby, jump up, jump back ...

... Chug-a chug-a motion like a railway train now
(C'mon baby do the loco-motion)
Do it nice and easy now don't lose control

No double entendre there, pure straight forward filth 

[PhilT]

Returning to PJ Proby for a minute, this is the bit I remember, and I guess why there's the sound of ripping cloth at the end of The Bonzo Dogs' "Canyons of Your Mind".

For most of his 58 years, Mr Proby has been in trouble - seeking it, courting it, revelling in it. But even he wasn't prepared for the reaction to the night of 29 January, 1965, at the Castle Hall, Croydon, when his blue velvet trousers split onstage from knee to crotch and plunged him towards Palookaville.

An alderman's wife who attended the concert said the act "left me physically sick and should be banned". The trouble might have been invisibly mended, but two nights later, at the Ritz in Luton, Proby's unfeasibly tight strides abruptly bifurcated once again during a Fate-tempting leg-split, and the curtain came down on his career.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19961109/ai_n14080456

Quite extraordinary vocal style though, and he knew how to get the girls going.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ReE2HCwdmc&feature=related