(but that hat is NOT timeless...)Ok, Procol Harum had one monster hit, "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", around '67 or so and that's what most people remember. They exploded in popularity right out of the box and went through a long period of decline in that popularity from '67 -' 77, when they broke up, only to occassionally re-form and release new material in '91 and '03.But, popularity aside, I thin...
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I was listening to marketplace on NPR and heard a story about the organist who played that haunting solo on Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale":http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=77625&si=rhino that dropped in 1967 and has sold 10 million singles since...now the keyboardist wants some of those bucks but he won't get a red cent because the solo was (wait for it) heavily ba...
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...whether Procol Harum was the last group that hit the Big Time whose breakthrough release was produced in mono only, with no true stereo version in existence?(Any copy of *A Whiter Shade of Pale* that claims to be stereo is actually fake stereo. I once spent most of two years looking for a mono copy of the lp...)If there was someone else after them who Made It and began with a mono-only firs...
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Tonight CBS's "Cold Case" ran a story set in 1969, the day that we landed on the moon. At the end of the episode they played Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" as the case was being wrapped up.I have always loved this song, though the lyrics are, well, nonsense (unless you've taken LSD, in which case they make sense). And dig the outfits, man! Outa-sight! I keep expecting the lead sing...
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PROCOL HARUM "A Whiter Shade Of Pale (Original Single Version)"(Brooker / Reid)We skipped the light fandangoturned cartwheels 'cross the floorI was feeling kinda seasickbut the crowd called out for moreThe room was humming harderas the ceiling flew awayWhen we called out for another drinkthe waiter brought a trayAnd so it was that lateras the miller told his talethat her face, at first just gho...
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