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

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, Ron Richards, Les Reed, and Jim Ford.