PROCOL HARUM - A WHITER SHADE OF PALE

A WHITER SHADE OF PALE

PROCOL HARUM

SONGWRITERS: Gary Brooker & Keith Reid

PRODUCTOR: DENNY CORDELL

COUNTRY: U.K.

WHERE: live in Denmark 2006

ALBUM: In Concert with the Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir

LABEL: EAGLE RECORDS

GENRE: PROGRESSIVE ROCK

YEAR: 2009

In Concert with the Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir, by Procol Harum, is a live album released 2009. It was recorded in Lederberg Castle in Denmark.

This album is also noteworthy because it contains a song that Procol Harum has never released before - "Sympathy [sic] for the Hard of Hearing". This is a song about the Second World War that was previously on Gary Booker’s solo album "Lead Me to the Water".

Procol Harum (/ˈproʊkəlˈhɑːrəm/) are an English rock band formed in 1967. They contributed to the development of symphonic rock, and by extension, progressive rock. Their best-known recording is their 1967 hit single "A Whiter Shade of Pale", which is considered a classic of popular music and is one of the few singles to have sold over 10 million copies. Although noted for its baroque and classical influence, Procol Harum's music also embraces the blues, R&B, and soul.

We skipped the light fandango

Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor

I was feeling kinda seasick

But the crowd called out for more

The room was humming harder

As the ceiling flew away

When we called out for another drink

The waiter brought a tray

And so it was that later

As the miller told his tale

That her face, at first just ghostly

Turned a whiter shade of pale

She said, 'there is no reason

And the truth is plain to see

But I wandered through my playing cards

And would not let her be

One of sixteen vestal virgins

Who were leaving for the coast

And although my eyes were open

They might have just as well've been closed

And so it was that later

As the miller told his tale

That her face, at first just ghostly

Turned a whiter shade of pale.