Procol Harum "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" REACTION Video | best reaction video to 60s music
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Having grown up hearing the original I believe this is the most beautiful version and also one of the best live performances of any song I have ever heard.
Yes
agree one of best live performances i ever seen besides any NIGHTWISH live performance
Totally agree.
Same...lump in my throat every time.
I can't agree more!
Gary Brooker pianist was the lead singer of the group Procol Harum. Sadly he passed away in early 2022. Thankfully though he left us with this beautiful memory.
This is a masterpiece. It is an anthem I remember from the 1960's beautifully sung by the wonderful Gary Brooker who was lost to the world in February this year. RIP legend!
Yes I believe Gary Brooker was the original singer of the song.
@@zella417bcarter9 Yes that is correct. It's pretty amazing that he still had such power in his voice when singing at this concert all these years later. A wonderful version of that 1967 classic number one hit.
I'll always remember it because he passed away on my birthday, February 19.
Best live performance of a song ever. ❤
I was their
I was only 19 with my dad and it was magical. We were on the hill watching over the stream.
Life changing.
When that Hammond organ comes in with that iconic sound. Ah, days of my youth!
That Hammond B-3 just hits different 😆
That Hammond B-3 just hits different 😅
Saw Gary Brooker open for Eric Clapton maybe 35 yrs ago.....he sat and sand this song 20 feet in front of me....amazing.....
He was in his 60s when he sang this, his voice hadn't really changed over the years. A true artist. Along with Comfortable Numb always brings tears to my eyes.
Paul McCartney once said this was his favorite song from the 1960s.
So did John Lennon. And Ringo Starr. I don't know what George thought but 3 out of 4 of the Beatles in the bag is a fairly good start. Simply the most beautiful song ever recorded. And while I still prefer the original, this live version is just astonishingly good.
Further info, this is one of the most important songs in Rock history! It marked the transition of Rock from a fluffier thing in an artistic endeavor! The lyrics and their meaning have been analyzed and gone over for decades! Notice the lack of a rhyming of the lyrics! It’s neither linear or vertical but 4 dimensional!
One of the best pop song ever wrote
To get an idea of how "big" this song is look it up on wikipedia..sold over 10,000,000 globally, putting it in the top 40 or so songs to have achieved this feat !...
And this performance is "Perfection" his voice, the orchestra, the choir , location , everything its Perfection
Its from a concert in Denmark, its the Danmarks Radio symfoni orkester (the Danish Radio symphoni orcestra) playing with Procol Harum, they make concerts every year with different artists at the same place
Simply one of the finest live performances ever recorded. Period.
This is the greatest live version of this song. Am glad he gave it to us before he passed away. 8 years old when I first heard it back in 67. I remember cause it made me cry my mom laughed. Telling me it's only a song. It's making me feel sad. But I am right back there in that moment whenever I hear it.
Best version of this song ever
I believe John Lennon said this was the most beautiful song ever written
It's nice to see young people appreciating the music I grew up with. We had so many great vocalists that sang WITHOUT auto-tune . Just pure talent, passion and soul.
Gary Brooker's voice has only improved with age; and this is as good as it gets. I've loved this since my teens. Absolutely superb. I believe he did the orchestration himself.
He passed away in Feb. of this year. And yes, his voice only got better with age.
The best rock song ever , quote by John Lennon
I loved this song in the 60's, but this performance was on another level. RIP Gary Brooker.
All written by an English man back in 1387-1400 the canterberry tales. Made of a volume of short stories. One of the books is title "The Miller's Tale" I have been listening to Procol Harum for 50 years Mr Gary Brooker past away February 19 2022
If anyone out there wants to write lyrics about romance without being cheesy/clichéd/dumb, this right here is your masterclass. RIP Keith Reid.
The lyrics were based on the Miller's Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, where the carpenter's wife was accused of having an affair. She then turned 'a whiter shade of pale' at being found out.
That makes the most sense that I’ve ever heard about this song’s lyrics. Always loved the song, but could never quite get all the lyrics, nor the genius connection to Chaucer. Thanks for sharing.
There is definitely a link to Chaucer. But many believe there is more to it than that. Gary Brooker himself was not too forthcoming when asked about the lyrics.
@@pigknuckle1 I never tried to fully understand the literal meaning of the lyrics, I just felt the feel of the song. When I don't get all the lyrics or all the meaning, I enjoy learning it bit by bit over the years, it keeps the song fresh for me.
Someday I'm going to read Chaucer!
Quote from an interview with the writer. - “It’s like a jigsaw where you’ve got one piece, then you make up all the others to fit in. I was trying to conjure a mood as much as tell a straightforward, girl-leaves-boy story. With the ceiling flying away and room humming harder, I wanted to paint an image of a scene.” Skip the lights fandango is the mating dance you might be familiar with were the woman plays castanets. The Miller in this story is the bartender informing the woman about the man and her ghostly face turns a Whiter Shade of pale.
Usually, a piece of music in its original version is the best thing you can hear. I have known this piece since it was released in 1967, it has accompanied me all my life. Here Gary Brooker has managed to interpret A Whiter Shade Of Pale even better than he did in 1967. Unfortunately, he has already passed away. R.I.P. Gary
The orchestra behind is the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir. The concert is one of Ledreborg Castle Concerts where the orchestra is celebrating the summer season. Try to listen to the theme from Once upon a time in the west from this orchestra ...
This is one of the most magical tunes ever composed, JS Bach & Procol Harum
John Lennon would have his driver drive him around in his Rolls Roy ace and play this over and over when it came out...one of his favorite songs.
One of the anthems of the 1967 Summer of Love, it is one of the most commercially successful singles in history, having sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. In the years since, "A Whiter Shade of Pale" has become an enduring classic, with more than 1,000 known cover versions by other artists. Oh, and the name Procol Harum came from a friend's pedigree Siamese cat. The band members liked the name, so they used it.
60's music is just incredible, I don't think that there will be another decade like that ever
unfortunately most people miss the fact that the music in this song was written by Bach - I believe it was called dreamers awake or dreamers arise.
Not as long as autotune exists.
One of the most iconic songs from the 60's. RIP Gary Booker who was an amazing singer even in his later years. This performance was the best ever. Thank you ladies. Good analysis of the song. Thank you. 🙏☮❤
Incidentally, Gary Brooker (the Procol Harum singer) was another ‘name’ who collaborated with Kate Bush. He played keyboard/Hammond Organ on a few of her songs.
The castle is not in the middle of the woods, however it is fairly big castle with lots of land, there are rolling hills, and a tree lined road that leads up to the castle. It is located about 25-30 miles in land from Copenhagen.
Grandma used to call it flushed! When all the blood seems to drain from your body! My first slow dance my first love to this song ! Summer 1967! I remember, father was Navy I was 14 island of Guam! Later that night she told me she would be returning to the States! Her father's tour was over! I remember! Knowing we would probably never see one another again! Both our faces turned a whiter shade of pale!💔! Thank you for this wonderful memory!❤! Yep stepped on her foot!☺! We never saw one another again, but I hope she remembers when herring this song!🥰 And had a Beautiful life!❤❤❤
That absolutely was one of the best arrangements of any song that you'll ever hear...
"Her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of pale." Accordion to one story I heard, Gary Booker overhead someone use that phrase at a cocktail party. And thus genus is created.
Gary Booker just passed away back at first of this year. God bless an God speed brother. An the man sang that song better at this event than when he was a young man in the sixty's.
Thank you for checking this out. It certainly goes on my list of 10 greatest songs of all time. And this version is a masterpiece.
Go back and listen to the 1960's version. Hard to believe, but I actually grew up in the 60's, 70's. An incredible experience! Especially since I grew up in San Francisco. Time indeed flies by. I'm actually grandpa old!!!
Basically it is a couple falling out of love and the man doesn't see what the woman means so his eyes might as well been closed. This has always been one of my favorite songs .
Imagine the equivalent of a surrealist painting in rock music. This is it.
Parts of scenes showing faces turning pale from around 1385 (the Millers Tale) onwards.
the best live performance ever for this song originally sang in the late 60s. Gary Booker is 60 years old here. sad to say he passed away on February 19, 2022 at the age of 76 after a long battle with cancer.
One of my all time favorite songs for over 50 years! So glad I grew up in the era of music like this. RIP Gary Booker
I'm old enough to remember parties in the 60s. When came the last dance they would often play a slow, sentimental song like "Unchained Melody" (Righteous Brothers), "The Long & Winding Road" (Beatles) or this beautiful song by Procol Harum. Even without lyrics, it still stirs the soul and is full of longing. There is something sacred, almost religious about that tune, maybe because it resembles the music of Bach. A timeless song indeed.
They meet and Skip the lights fandango which is the mating dance you might be familiar with with the woman having castanets, When she finds out from the bartender (The Miller) that she made a mistake about the man , her ghostly face turns a whiter shade of pale. From an interview with the writer. “It’s like a jigsaw where you’ve got one piece, then you make up all the others to fit in. I was trying to conjure a mood as much as tell a straightforward, girl-leaves-boy story. With the ceiling flying away and room humming harder, I wanted to paint an image of a scene.”
For myself as far as Procol Harum goes, there is only one, Live, fully orchestrated,
"Conquistador" .
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One of the greatest songs ever, this live performance takes it to a new level
It's amazing what you can do with great music.
The Miller’s Tale is a story from The Canterbury Tales. It’s rather naughty. If you learn about the ending, you’d turn a whiter shade of pale.
This song was no 1 just about all over the world ,not sure how it charged in America . This song will be played and played over years to come .😎
I came into my adult life with this song as my carpet ride. It never ever gets old ....
Ladies, this is one of many of your excellent reviews/ reactions …especially from one of the biggest bands in the world! 👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This is the first reaction video - to this performance -where the reactor knew when the vocalist came in. Indeed, many reactors were totally surprised when the singer appeared thinking by then that it was an instrumental piece of music. SO, I guess the younger woman must have read up in the performance beforehand OR had even watched previously.
Nope. First time hearing this song and performance. I could tell by how the orchestra was changing and slowing down, that it was a natural break and possible switch up in the song. I never thought it was an instrumental piece because the thumbnail of the performance was a man sitting at a piano and singing into a mic. We have been told many times in previous videos to pause at more natural parts of the songs, so when the instruments started winding down I thought that was a good time to pause and make a comment.
A Whiter Shade Of Pale By Procol Harum is a classic song from the late 60's. I've heard it many times but never seen it performed live and accompanied by an orchestra. This was really good.
It amazes me is he had this voice when he was 25 .
It seems almost incomprehensible to me that there are people out there who have not heard Whiter Shade of Pale.
I am also jealous of the pleasure of hearing it for the first time as to me and my generation it is a classic that has been flogged to death so much you become complacent as to its genius.
Apparently a favorite song of John Lennon.
This concert was recorded by DR, which is a public service TV station in Denmark. They go back to 1925.
The choir and orchestra was also theirs. They also have a nice concert hall, different kinds of bands, like big band etc., as well as girl's choir, boy's etc.
Their symphony orchestra is also the national symphony orchestra of Denmark. DR has its own RUclips channel for all their music. The channel name is "DR Koncerthuset". They have a lot of great music there. They are well known for doing music from games, movies and TV shows.
Their most popular performance is "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", which has almost 110 million views and growing. It is very popular on reaction channels, like this one.
Till this day I don't know what this song is about! But I treasure it, since it first hit the airways!
RIP Gary Brooker and thank you🙏 You certainly left your mark on this world 👍
Gary passed away not so long ago.😞 a wonderful man, working class northern (UK) lad who never forgot his roots, he will be sorely missed R.I.P. Gary..❤️
Well Northern London anyway...but you were right about everything else 😉😊🥰
@@eddhardy1054 😳 so he was..😳 for a minute there I was thinking Dire Straits neck of the woods 🙄 I bet ya his granny was Irish though...😄😄😄
@@annettemoore7264 almost certainly 😊
One of the more distinct features of Procol Harum is that they have a member who only does the writing. I understood he tried to create an ambience like a Dali painting. Also Procol Harum has one of its roots in classical music (the other is blues); in this song they used Bach as basis.
Gary Booker was so good. Got to see Procol open for Jethro Tull in 1993 at San Diego State college.
My kind of music too. Great song and group. Great performance. Transformative.
I was going to see them here in Cambridge UK about 1967 but they were exhausted due to their tour. So we saw a replacement group: The Jeff Beck Group. Jeff Beck (ex Yardbirds) , Ronnie Wood (now Rolling Stones), Aynsley Dunbar (very well known drummer) and Rod Stewart as lead singer!! Pretty good replacement group! Saw some amazing groups here in Cambridge in the’60’s.
R.I.P. the lead singer of Procul harem who sadly passed away in february 2022.🙏
I've been a musician for over 50 years and have heard this song since it was new. It was just played on a Hammond B-3 organ without the orchestra. The melody is hauntingly beautiful as is the chord progression. The first time (and every other time) I heard this version with the orchestra it brought a tear to my eye because it was so beautiful. The somber mood is associated with songs in minor keys in general but I don't think the message is necessarily sad or negative. He describes a night in a bar where he'd had too much to drink and felt a little "seasick" but the crowd called out for more so apparently, he was performing. They called out for another drink and the waiter brought a tray. It doesn't explain who the woman was but she seemed to turn from ghostly to a whiter shade of pale based on the miller's tale. There is no mention of a relationship as far as I can tell. In all these years I've just enjoyed the song even though the story doesn't really seem to go anywhere in particular.
I think he did say that it was about a night of heavy drinking before, during, and after their performance. The miller and the woman turning so pale refer to Chaucer's Canterbury tales, which I really have to get around to reading one of these days.
I was stunned by this version; one aspect being that his voice had matured and filled with age. One minus in it is that I feel that the choral arrangement was a little over the top!
As absolutely beautiful as this live version is I still have to go with the studio version and the haunting sound of the organ. As for the story Apparently the miller told her something about the man she has been dancing the fandango (A mating dance with castanets) and she realizes that it is a mistake to be with him. Interview with the writer - “It’s like a jigsaw where you’ve got one piece, then you make up all the others to fit in. I was trying to conjure a mood as much as tell a straightforward, girl-leaves-boy story. With the ceiling flying away and room humming harder, I wanted to paint an image of a scene.”
@@oldmanghost219 Thanks
This song went straight to no 1 in the UK 🇬🇧 one of my favourite bands when I was younger my era you need to listen to 60s early 70s bands and singer Janis Joplin in my opinion one of the greatest rock blues singers of all time . Here’s another one for you "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" By the Hollies
rip brooker, one of the greatest songs ever
This is one of the best live performances.....EVER🎼!! As others have noted, their lead singer is Gary Brooker, who passed away in Feb from cancer at the age of 76. Please do listen to the original sometime when you get a chance, as his voice sounds the same then in 1967🎤.
whoever put the arrangment together was spot on
This is better than the hit in 67. RIP Gary Booker.
Beautiful rendition of this song. Sadly the singer Gary Brooker passed away earlier this year.
His voice never failed him...R.I.P.
Hello Ladies ! yes many years ! i ve known that band since the early 70s ! There s so many other great songs ! i hope you listen to all the other ones ! he s like the captain of a ship ! definately one of my best bands ! And the organ is the famous Hammond B-3 wich is the best organ sound ! most rock bands play with that !
From the same concert, the song "Conquistador," without doubt, the best song Procol Harum ever made, so much so, when they released it, in August 1972, l bought it the next day. It has been reacted to only once on RUclips, that l can see. Make sure you are the second, you will love it.
RIP Gary Booker, another legend taken from us too soon.
One f the first bands I saw live, I wish I could have seen him when Gary Brooker did again 50 years later.. Rip
Best music ever from '65 to '75. I know it's subjective. My first 8 track was Procol Harum and there were other great songs on the album. Cool reaction. Thanks, take care.
Ladies, please check out CONQUISTADOR from the same live performance in Denmark. Conquistador was the encore song right after this one.
Gary Brooker the lead singer, such a distinguished voice, sadly passed away in February of this year.
We had a LOT of great bands back in that day.
Him and his voice have aged well. He sounds better then when he first sang this song.
The original was released in 1967, and the most amazing thing is how little Gary Brooker's voice had changed in all that time. As a 22yr-old in 1967, he had a mature voice even then. You really should do a reaction to the original for comparison's sake.
The meaning of the lyrics has remained a subject for debate over the decades, with apocryphal stories, literary assurances, and lyricist's denials leaving it a mystery. What remains is a sentiment in keeping with what Freddie Mercury said about "Bohemian Rhapsody", that it's really up to each person to interpret as they please and by so doing it makes the song personal to each listener.
The tune itself was a misremembering of a Bach piece, which created a unique song with a classical feel to it. This was a foundation for a style that came to be known as 'progressive rock'. Going by what Gary Brooker said, it was just chance that the lyrics (one of two sets messengered to him that morning) were matched to the Bach-ish tune he was composing at home. But the meaning of the lyrics can never be exactly known. What can be said is the lyrics work perfectly with the music to make a 'mood', which is often a characteristic of particularly artistic-based progressive rock.
This video of Brooker performing at a Danish music festival is so perfect and beautiful...RIP Gary.
By the way, not necessarily for reaction video, but for your personal enjoyment, you should listen to Procol Harum's "A Salty Dog", another 'mood' piece with some ambiguity in the lyrics, but it's set in 19th Century ship culture, wooden ships years at sea. It was released as a concept album in 1969 with orchestration backing. It really is worth a listen.
I was born and raised in Denmark. I'm of the sixties generation (I was a teenager and in my twenties then) I have loved this song since I first heard it in the late sixties. However, this version is my favorite, the castle where the concert takes place is close to where set of my grandparents lived, I have been by there many times.
I love how you 2 lovely ladies keep picking some of my favourite songs for you videos. Keep up the good work! David x
It's hard to believe they released that song in 1967. And, he could still belt it out like that, all those years later.
Hi, just had to write and say that your interpretation of this song is so on mark you could have written it yourself. This song is from the 1960s and I heard it then and loved it and I loved this rendition. You are a very perceptive person, thank you.
Song was everywhere during the Summer of Love. The original featured Matthew Fisher on organ.
Every time I see this, I am blown away by how Gary Brooker's voice never changed with age. If anything, the years help him add emotion that his young self couldn't quite match. Btw, this was a hit in 1967!! RIP, Gary.
A masterpiece from the PSYCHEDELIC age, 1967, The Summer of Love!!
Thank you ladies, this rendition is perfect. I watch it almost every day for two reasons. One, it is a great performance of Whiter shade of pale, and two, the oboe at 1.35 brings back memories of a dear friend. I will probably listen again tomorrow. Lee.
Hard to believe you've never heard the song. This is an incredibly powerful version of it. The 1967 original is amazing too they've always painted beautiful pictures in my mind, I never looked at it as melancholy, but joyous
you ladies must watch : group Jethro Tull" and song : MY GOD. Ian anderson has deep lyrics and classical guitar and the best flute playing ever, Truly talented old english rock genre..
RIP gary booker. sadly taken from us earlier this year ..thank you for the music
Thanks "Generation Gap Reacts" from Germany for this good music and Procol Harum with singer on the piano Gary Brooker! (RIP Gary and "A whiter shade of pale " forever.)
Not many singers can sound as good or even better than they did the 40 years after they recorded the song originally. His voice is spot on but a bit deeper and grittier but in a very good way. Superb version.
"As The Miller told his Tale" is the key phrase in this song. "The Millers Tale" in the English literature classic The Canterbury Tales was a tale about a wife's infidelity towards her husband. That's the key phrase and that's all you need to know to unlock the rest. Now others will disagree and even the song-writer (years later) denies it (I think because he felt bad about making his initial feelings PUBLIC), but there's no damn reason to mention THE MILLERS TALE in a song unless it is important and has meaning, decades later denial be damned. So, yeah, a sad song about betrayal and regret and sadness.
Gary Brooker, lead singer & founder of the band began in '67, he passed away last yr. For anyone interested, see video "Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale | The story behind the song | Top 2000 a gogo” where Brooker and lyricist Keith Reid talk about the story behind 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' -- ruclips.net/video/Pf73XwjZIFQ/видео.html); many people believe it was about a drunken one-night stand. It's also been written that Reid died before he revealed its meaning. Procol Harum is supposed to have been the name of a friend's cat -- the name is a mis-spelling of the Latin phrase Procul Harun (roughly meaning “far beyond these things”), or that it was a corruption of Procellarum, a vast ocean on the Moon. This is the Danish National Concert Orchestra, which fits beautifully for this piece, & filmed by Ledreborg Castle in Denmark .The song has been the most played song in the U.K. for the last 75 yrs. It was inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach's “Sleepers, Wake!” and “Air on the G String” but contrary to popular belief, the song is not a direct copy or paraphrase of any music by Bach although it makes references to both pieces. As per Reid, the line "as the miller told his tale" is definitely NOT a reference to Chaucer's Miller's Tale. Reid has repeatedly explained he'd never read The Canterbury Tales when he wrote A Whiter Shade of Pale.
This is the best recording of this song I've heard.
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" is a song by the English rock band Procol Harum that was issued as their debut record on 12 May 1967. The single reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart on 8 June and stayed there for six weeks. Wikipedia.
Such a lovely song. And this happens to be my favorite performance of it. That voice. Gary Brooker. RIP