Jay then signed with the Event label, a subsidiary of Polydor records and released “I Feel Love Comin’ On” which quickly reached the Top Ten in many of the metropolitan areas in the country.

“Number Onederful” is a high energy, heavily orchestrated disco hit which also reached the Top Ten in all the major NY discos. “This record was ahead of it’s time,” recalls Proctor.  “Disco hadn’t hit it’s peak yet. If it were released a year later, who knows what would have happened.”

During a December 1991 concert at the Allentown Symphony Hall featuring The Temptations (Jay’s favorite artist), Jay & The Techniques thrilled the sold-out crowd as the knock-out opening act.  As reviewed in the December 28, 1991 Morning Call article by Paul Willistein, “Proctor, dressed in a blue/violet double-breasted suit with rhinestone-trimmed lapels, displayed a welcome unpredictability in his half-hour set, pausing before completing a lyric and, at one point, stepping from behind the microphone to sing without amplification.  The Allentown recording artist opened with “Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie” and concluded with a rearranged, slowed-down rock version of his other big hit, “Keep The Ball Rollin’. And during an extended version of “My Girl,” in which the “Temps” invite people from the audience to sing the song, Proctor joined in.”

In 1996, the group performed at the Rock ’n Roll Hall of Fame, and in the same period, Mercury Records released The Best of Jay & the Techniques, which contained the first new recording in over a decade with “Love’s Just Not For Sale.”

During his career, Jay has performed with many of the nation’s other top artists.  I asked Jay who he would have liked to perform with, but never did, and he surprisingly said “Nat King Cole.  The guy was a musical genius. He was so smooth.”

He has sung in front of a packed Houston Astrodome, in Madison Square Garden and Philadelphia’s Uptown Theatre, and in colleges and universities across the country.  He has also appeared for many charity benefits and has given free concerts at Army bases and prisons throughout the United States.

Other past members of his ensemble included notable artists like Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson (Ashford and Simpson) and Melba Moore, all as backup singers.