How to pass column name trough a parameter

Hello ,please help me
Is it possible to pass a column name through a parameter
something like this
create procedure dbo.paramerers
@parameter varchar
as
select @parameter from table1 where....

because it doesn't give me an error but it also doesn't work

try
Exec('select ' + @parameter + ' from table1')

it worked before because you're selecting a value itself, basically you're not selecting any real fields from the table.

Al