This has really moved me

Enjoyed that treble. Lovely version of a classic song , thanks for posting.

Far better than the original.

Beautiful  version. Singer still in fine voice after all these years too.
Very special, Thanks for posting.

It was 8 years ago. His voice may not be fine now.

Yep, 8 years ago , but considering  he's been singing this since 1967  - his voice is still strong !

is it could to listen to on magic mushies

Yes, it was good. Never really liked the song on the 60s. Too dreary. Far better stuff around. Homburg was better.

As of 2009, it was the most played song in the last 75 years in public places in the United Kingdom,[6] and the UK performing rights group Phonographic Performance Limited in 2004 recognised it as the most-played record by British broadcasting of the past 70 years.[

Good few bob in royalties earned then ?

You could have been even more moved by my submission of "WSOP" and "A Salty Dog" on 17th October!

Really enjoyed that.Thanks for posting.

Six minutes well spent.This kind of discovery is the reason i log into chit chat.. simply beautiful....thanks treble.

Get a big, full sounding, song, add in a full orchestra, horns and a choir......
Voila.

Very nice. More songs should get this treatment.

I used to work (in a casino) with a bloke named Tony Marsh, who was the Bass player (I think) with Procul Harum in the 60's, AFTER this song had been a hit though.

Just as an aside..what is the song about?

^ - and I actually searched to see what - Procul Harum - meant, aswell.

STUDYFORM    27 Oct 14 11:30 
Get a big, full sounding, song, add in a full orchestra, horns and a choir......
Voila.


viola you twerp

Yeah viola, you bassoon.

C&Pd from my earlier thread.................

Too easy to forget that "Whiter Shade of Pale" wasn't their only masterpiece.....

Check out this fantastic performance...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gi7Z3-T_qQ

Also see how orderly are the Danish audience. Not a beer can in sight, which is interesting seeing that they brew the stuff, and no massive banners,
and girls sitting on guys shoulders and whooping and wailing etc........

..........Procol Harum's lyricist Keith Reid wrote the words to this song. He told us: "It's sort of a film, really, trying to conjure up mood and tell a story. It's about a relationship. There's characters and there's a location, and there's a journey. You get the sound of the room and the feel of the room and the smell of the room. But certainly there's a journey going on, it's not a collection of lines just stuck together. It's got a thread running through it." Reid got the idea for the title when it came to him at a party, which gave him a starting point for the song. Says Reid: "I feel with songs that you're given a piece of the puzzle, the inspiration or whatever. In this case, I had that title, 'Whiter Shade of Pale,' and I thought, There's a song here. And it's making up the puzzle that fits the piece you've got. You fill out the picture, you find the rest of the picture that that piece fits into."..........

^ Then he stubbed out the 9 inch long, half-an-inch thick, special cigarette .... that he had been smoking - "[i}when it came to him at a party[/i]."

^ irrelevant