Mom and dad met in a diner in 1968. He was in the army and she waited tables in the local diner. He played this song every night on the jukebox for her. They married three weeks after meeting. Dad passed away in 2018 of cancer .. Mom followed shortly after.. Hers was cause by grief. I miss them. I come here to remember them and to cry.
The song has haunted me (in a good way) my whole life. I hear the introduction of A Whiter Shade Of Pale and get lost in the song. Every time is like the first time. Only a handful of songs do that to me. So one more time now.
My father died at dawn today. He loved this song very much. I hope I can be a good person. I want my father to be proud of me. I love you so much and I will always remember you... :'( (sorry for my bad english)
My dear uncle died Thursday morning. This song has come to my soul and has provided strength and loving tranquillity. Rest in peace forever, beloved uncle Rudolph.
This song is almost spiritual to me. I am 61 and grew up around music because my father was professional musician in the late 50's and up until 1970. The echoes of the music of the 60's stays with me to this day. But this song is different. It conjures up imagery and emotions that I cannot articulate. My dad's band was called THe Sabres. They were a very talented group in the Carolinas, and cut several records that achieved decent success. But when I hear this I go racing back to these fading images. The sights and smells of the bars in Charlotte, NC in the late 60's. My dad played in the "Topless bars", and the band succumbed to the grind of playing every night in the bars of Charlotte, and stopped recording. The 1960's for a child were magical, limitless and free. The Summers were endless days of wonder and imaginative. I can still remember staying out way past dark on hot Summer nights running around the neighborhood with no worries, only the reckless abandon only a child can enjoy. I feel so sorry for kids today, especially with this lockdown. Anyway, my apologies. I just wanted to say something about this song.....
You don't need to apologizes anybody.Your comment is great and I love it.I like when somebody talking about good old times it makes me happy,sad and very nostalgic.Don't worry people who live back then and some others like me understand you very well.That was good old times and you should be happy that you was young back then😀😀😀😀😀
This song reminds me of a Christmas in my childhood, maybe when I was 4yrs old...or 5 but it feels so happy, makes me feel warm and safe in the world, music will always play a big part in my life, thanks to a music loving family.
I was 2 when this song came out . My older sisters played it. We all have our own interpretation of the song but I think the guy is tripping while he plays in front of a crowd drinker Millers. He had a lot of women but this one he just can't get over. Ahhhh the good ol days tripping on acid!
My mother absolutely loved this song. She would sing out loud, whenever it came on. She had such a beautiful voice. I will always remember her when I hear this song, and all the beautiful memories. I love you mom. I miss you like hell.
@@SUGAR_XYLER It's scary to see your mom getting old, and thinking than she might be gone soon, tell her every day how much you love her, that's the most important thing !!!
Gary Brooker, the lead singer of Procol Harum, died on 19 February 2022. He was lead singer throughout the 55 years of the group. Many of us have been listening to this song since 1967, and still find it wonderful. Thanks Gary, for one of the best songs ever. Rest In Peace.
I was also 21 in ‘67…and 5 years later I was there in London for a month. Those photos make me feel I am there again in Trafalgar Square, and in the downtown streets.
So sad to hear the passing of Gary Brooker, this song takes me back to the school summer holidays of 1967. I was 10 and this song seemed to be forever on the radio one of my all time favourites, a classic. RIP
This beautiful song makes me cry for a better time with memories of days and nights spent with good people that had hopes and dreams that are now gone and faded to the sands of time.
Xavier Smith no, the sixties were when things were the best, it’s the eighties crowd who turned everything into the present day crap you probably enjoy so much
This is my wife and I song. It was on the radio on one of our first dates and has been in our hearts ever since 1/23/1987. Absolutely hauntingly beautiful.
This song came out when I was 16 years old. I loved it then and it has endured as one of the best songs ever. Period . I have been privileged to live for almost 70 years and consider music to be one of the blessings given to us all.
I live in Indonesia, I heard this song since 1970 when I was 17 years old. 50 years have passed, now I am 67 years old, I still hear this song as often as before. Not boring, is one of the old songs that I like.
Sans doute une des plus belles chansons du monde. J'étais adolescent quand je l'ai entendue la première fois. Et je l'écoute toujours, c'est comme une madeleine de Proust, et un sentiment de joie et de nostalgie.
This song overwhelms me with a sense of melancholy. I was a little girl in 1967, so this music was not exactly "my generation", but it was still very much a part of my experience . . .of time past . . . and there is no turning back. :-(
Me too. I am about the same age as you. When I was little I thought this song was mysterious sounding and made me feel sad. The 60s were a great time to be a little kid.
The music here is great however the singer has a terrible voice . His voice ruined this track . I would rather listen to the music without the singers voice .
Oh My God... My childhood. It all came flooding back! What a beautiful memory. What a beautiful sound. I miss all of it. When life, and the world made sense...
Things seemed simple and more fun - but we were all younger. Hopefully the teenagers of today can look back as we do but looking at an i phone all day doesn't seem so exciting!!
@@nadinewheeler6972 Life was so simple in many ways - OK no mobile phones which as we had never had them we never missed them. In the year of WSP I was running a beach club in Spain. Came back to UK and built a computer company. But still look back on that wild year with happy memories - even if I was heartbroken every 2 weeks when the two week holiday ladies went home!! (until the next bus arrived!!)
Greatest church-organ riff in history .... one of the most memory invoking songs of all time, also a pleasant reminder how fast time is passing.. Rest In Greatness G. Booker!
Ok I'm coming here to share my memories. This song makes me very emotional for two reasons. First, this is a song my mum always played and asked me to play at her funeral whenever she died. Unfortunately, she passed away about 10 years ago, when I was 20. She was a music lover and since I was a kid she would play all her 60s and 70s favourites. In order to overcome the sadness attached to it, I tried to re-own it. I'm a lover of the 60s and 70s, musically and aesthetically. Six years ago I moved to London to fulfil my dream of studying music and try to revive that atmosphere this clip shows I loved so much. Not too long after starting the course, around October, I went to an open mic and performed this song with a fellow musician. A few days later, I saw perform this gorgeous guy who had Gary's vibes in the video, but gingery, absolutely dressed as if he had come out from the 60s. I instantly told myself I had to meet him. We fell for each other and he became my boyfriend for almost three years. He was a rock musician too and we lived some unforgettable times in London going to his gigs, playing and listening to our favourite music (we had the same taste) and just trying to feel as if we were a couple from that time. We were very happy together for quite long. Sadly, love ended on his part and I left London to came back to my country. I haven't experienced yet a time as beautiful as the fall of 2014, neither I've found love again. I wish things could be as special as they were back then, but I'm afraid I can't feel as excited and innocent about life as before. I come here now and again to rekindle that beauty and cry a little bit over that time of my life I wish I could live again. I didn't live in the 60s but those were "my musical sixties" in "swinging London".
I can remember when my dad bought this album and brought it home and played it for us kids:) Great Memories! September 1967, I was 6 yrs old and fell in love with it have loved it ever since.
Definitely one of the all time great songs. I love the sound of that Hammond organ, props to Matthew Fisher, and especially the glissandos at 1:21, 3;04, 3:55...I can listen to this over and over for hours. It brings back memories of my younger days. The vintage video almost seems laughable by today's standards, but I still love it. For you fellow guitarists, that's Robin Trower in the white jacket. Rest in peace Mr. Brooker; you''ve made your mark.
This song was played at our wedding 42 years ago today as my husband Frank loved it and didn’t want “traditional” church music. He died suddenly almost seven years ago and I miss him every day 💚
Annette, that's funny you mentioned this, not funny haha funny because....my brother died as well in 1992, took his life. My brother and his band played this song all the time in our house in the basement in the 60's. I think of him still every single time I play this song. I listen to this song at least a few times a week, i feel I have to. I also love it to pieces. Did you see the Live version from 2006 in Denmark yest with the lead singer Gary Brooker? Boy oh boy he can still sing this!! And I also want to say I am So Sorry for your loss. Take Care now....
The TRUTH about the best rock decade debate is we were all fortunate to live from the mid 50s to mid 90s that was the birth and death of rock at least as a mainstream force. I just feel sorry for kids these days with no Godlike rock bands and songs like this they have no reverence for the blues and don't even have it in their heart. How could such a thin skinned offenced generation ever make blues rock.
Sure. A calm world. Cities on fire, riots in the streets, everybody stoned out of their gourds, hate and confrontation, cops and students trying to kill each other, napalm in Nam, body counts, revolution on campuses. What's not to love about that? In truth, friend, what you're nostalgic about is just lost youth, just like the billions and billions that have preceded us. It's all that makes sense.
@@mikewhitney8615 Maybe unlike today, many of us then were living in the magnificence of a better world. And the vision meant to rout out the restrictive, unjust, inhumane. The turmoil and pain was inspired by something greater. MANY of us know it, live it, appreciate it - then and now. If you do not, can not see this, be my guest. Gratefully there was SO much more greatness and goodness beyond and concurrent with the upheaval. Just like today.
@@MellowWind The world prior to the late 60s was a far better world, pal. There was order rather than chaos, respect for essential and necessary authority figures, divorce and broken homes were rare, kids grew up living with their biological parents, there was no drug abuse in the middle class because recreational drugs were unheard of, wages were sufficient for dad's one income to meet the family's needs so mom got to stay home and see to her kids' needs, religious belief was strong whereas today atheism and cynicism are rampant, young people knew what sex they were (!) so girls enjoyed being girls and boys enjoyed boys. As far as "the unjust," there will always be injustice - it's baked into the cake. Besides, like beauty, injustice lies in the eyes of the beholder. One man's "injustice" is another man's fairness and decency. Now I know why you talk about "calmness," a "calm mind," "everything was possible." It's simple: You were a head, a bombed-out-of- your-mind druggie and probably a hippie too. You wanted an "unrestrictive" society. Well an unrestrictive society is a chaotic one, and when we eliminate restrictions we have total chaos. You must be loving the 21st century.
Sending a simple and honest psychic hug to all of you who are listening this with nostalgic memories of parents, brothers, sisters and dear friends. Blessed Be to you all!
This is one of the great song from The 60 When people sing and the lirics meant something , thank you for this When London was A beautiful place ,❤️❤️❤️❤️
Iain Botham Definitely not ! I like all the great singers ,and groups if the music and the lyrics good ! We have few good band even now , but I don't like rapp no matter who is rapping ,
One of the most beautiful tunes in the history of music. Unbelievable! A transcendental experience. It makes you reminisce of your youth, of what was and what could have been. Of the time lost and the time well spent but, alas, gone forever. The feelings a few notes can provoke. I could write an essay! Crazy!
I agree whole-heartedly ..the music is heavenly and the lyrics are a little bit closer to earth. It is calls up thoughts of lost loves and lost possibilities and regret.
Я б теж написав. Про юність, її невимовні мрії і пориви. Про юнацьке очікування чогось примарного, чистого, високого. Чого не буває. Бо воно живе тільки у наших душах.
My father passed away on August 16th,1967. I was only an infant at that time, one day I was playing this song in front of my mother and she told me this was one of the last songs my father was singing before he died. he was also enjoying the release of the Beatles Sgt. Peppers.
@@peterkellock7825 Thank you Peter😭Today marks exactly 3 months. Listening to it again, and will probably do every 16th of each month😪 Hard times. Thanks for your condolences.
One of the greatest songs of all time , it never gets old and remains one of the long lasting hits still played on classic fm online etc, so beautifully orchestrated 🌹
This was the first rock song I was able to get my father to really listen to in 1966, and we both tried to figure out the words. It was the first of many more opportunities for communication between us, which had been hard because of the generational differences and being a 16 year old who liked different music than my parents. God bless Procol Harum for this song, and for it initiating the time to really communicate with my father which I will never forget - God rest his soul.
Ich weiß nicht, wie oft ich dieses Lied mit meinen unglaublichen 63 Jahren schon gehört, dieses Video schon gesehen habe. Aber jedes Mal die gleiche Reaktion: Nach wenigen Sekunden Tränen in den Augen, Kloß im Hals. Verbunden mit einem tiefen Glücksgefühl. Das passiert mir mit keinem anderen Lied! Und seit einigen Jahren dann gleich im Anschluss... Dänemark 2006. Danke, Gary Brooker.
I was on sea as a seafarer once. Just an apprentice. I had a great relationship with the Chief Engineer. Funny bloke, he would sign off my tasks for a bottle of rum. Then, another apprentice joined. Good kid, only problem he had was he was getting seasick quite often. We were in the officers mess for dinner, when he would turn all pale and throw up again. At that moment, the Chief Engineer started to smile, and decided that "a whiter shade of pale" would forever be this apprentic' song. Good ole days.
I was 9 years old when this came out in the USA. A haunting song, I was hooked for life. Now some 50 plus years later it's melody is still haunting. I can say it is still my all time favorite song.
Un chez d œuvre retraçant cette sombre époque de la guerre du Vietnam merci Procol Harum et Mr Gary Brooker !,,,,,',, I am found of this sound and melody!
If there was one song that summed up not just the summer of love, not just 1967 but the late 1960s, it is this masterpiece. One of the greatest songs of all time, hauntingly beautifully and powerful. A Whiter Shade of Pale is simply timeless and like I said it is musical masterpiece. RIP Gary Brooker and thank you.
I am always loved it but couldn't find it till I watched "the big chill " and bought the soundtrack for myself. I was so happy to find it and wanted it to be played at my funeral.
I was 12 when this song came out and I always loved it. Interesting to me are all the comments in languages other than English; obviously, this was not only a timeless classic, but an international timeless classic. Thank you, Gary Brooker, for bringing comfort to the world.
Me and my husband skated to this song/music by Procol Harum back in the 70’s at a skating rink place called The Terrace in Toronto, Canada. Actually when this music played, they would announce that only couples would be allowed to skate. So memorable...sadly as I write this my husband now suffers from Dementia. He’s had it for over 6 years now. It is gradually getting worse, each day that passes by is a blessing for me, however difficult it is. This song is truly so dear to my heart.
My sister I understand what you are going through. The person in front of you looks just like the the one you shared love and life with, but they aren't there. I know some day there will be a cure for and I am trying to help find it. Both my folks suffered from it and I am in a study locally to help find a cure. I just hope my small contribution can help find the key. We can only hope that when the key is finally in the lock those that have it will be freed and can love those that care about them again. Be well and safe, peace to you and yours.
I am a product of 1977 and this type of music has always been special to me. My Dad brought me up on Country and the Oldies and I can say that this still outlasts today's music by far.
Mais um pedaço da minha juventude que morre, agora com a partida de Gary Brooker. Uma Banda símbolo duma geração, um tema para a eternidade. Obrigado Gary Brooker, descansa em paz.😪🙏
It wasn't a period of time that resonated for any other reason than that we were alive and breathing and coming into, being in and out of a time warp of music trends. The lyrics were a hodge podge that melded perfectly with the music; even the music was melancholic in its tempo and for no explicable reason, it caught on. Without it we would never had known the difference but we did have it and it made such an incredible impact on the youth of that time and has done ever since. It really is one of my 'go to songs' when I am just wanting to remember the transition, in my case, of middle teens to late teens. All I can add now is that we will always remember you Procul Harum, not because of the lyrics or tune but just that you came along at the right time and we were who made it famous because the confusion of the 'new age' was gathering motion and we did not know how to identify with all of that. Everything had the perfect balance of melancholy, as we were living it and the hodge podge lyrics because nothing made sense to us anyway. We had come from WW2, Korea and we were being swept up in Imperialism and the fight against Communism as mounting pressure from 'the free world' dictated that we get involved in Vietnam. All those wars before and no one, not one took into consideration for the destruction we all knew would come.
I am so grateful to have grown up in a time when there was so much wonderful music. These videos and memories are golden. Singing in heaven with all the other greats.
My dad told me once that when he was a teen in the 60s all they thought about was the future. And now that the future was here he only wanted to go back.
I am flat out saddened to hear of Brooker's passing. My very first slow dance in Junior High with Dana Mongueu was to 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' an unforgettable song and a most unforgettable dance with Dana. Love this song ever since. It just hovers forever in my consciousness.
Hey Mark, you owe it to yourself to find Dana Mongueu and tell her you remember those times. I too went to dances with my high school sweetheart and danced to great songs like this. When I found Debbie Barrows she was living in Key West and battling cancer. We communicated for a year before she died of that awful disease. All the best to you. gb
I'm 73 and I could listen to this every single day. There was a movie called New York Stories and one of the stories is about an artist played by Nick Nolte who painted in his loft and while he painted his huge abstracts he played this song on high volume every time. It was his inspiration music I guess.
Yes, this song takes me back memories in 70's when I was young a teenager, listening until now 2020 ,just love these Song of Procol Horum. A WHITER SHADE OF PALE.
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Mom and dad met in a diner in 1968. He was in the army and she waited tables in the local diner. He played this song every night on the jukebox for her. They married three weeks after meeting. Dad passed away in 2018 of cancer .. Mom followed shortly after.. Hers was cause by grief. I miss them. I come here to remember them and to cry.
What a special couple. Remember the good times.
God bless you!
May their memories be Eternal.
No ofense , but sounds like one of those perfect love stories that i like congratulations and i am sorry for their passing 😢😢😢
Thanks for sharing your story! Beautiful song!
Gary Brooker. Thank you for the timeless music. RIP.
I thought another guy wrote it?
One of the greatest, most beautiful songs of all time.RIP Gary Brooker
Definitely in my Top 10 songs list of all time.
RIP Gary Brooker.
You're 100% right. I loved this with a passion.
Yes
Really perfect. RIP GARY BROOKER.
The song has haunted me (in a good way) my whole life. I hear the introduction of A Whiter Shade Of Pale and get lost in the song. Every time is like the first time. Only a handful of songs do that to me. So one more time now.
힘들때마다 듣고있어요 넘나좋은곡 ❤
My father died at dawn today. He loved this song very much. I hope I can be a good person. I want my father to be proud of me. I love you so much and I will always remember you... :'( (sorry for my bad english)
Good English has nothing on being the good son.
In the twinkle of an eye....caught up to meet him in the clouds! Your Father is there, we have time.
You are a very good human being.
Pain never goes. Live each day to his honour... Dad died in 75, I still miss him..
Sending you a psychic hug across time and distance. Your English is perfect, and I am sure that your father will be so proud of you!!
My dear uncle died Thursday morning. This song has come to my soul and has provided strength and loving tranquillity. Rest in peace forever, beloved uncle Rudolph.
🙏🙏🙏🙏
This song is almost spiritual to me. I am 61 and grew up around music because my father was professional musician in the late 50's and up until 1970. The echoes of the music of the 60's stays with me to this day. But this song is different. It conjures up imagery and emotions that I cannot articulate. My dad's band was called THe Sabres. They were a very talented group in the Carolinas, and cut several records that achieved decent success. But when I hear this I go racing back to these fading images. The sights and smells of the bars in Charlotte, NC in the late 60's. My dad played in the "Topless bars", and the band succumbed to the grind of playing every night in the bars of Charlotte, and stopped recording. The 1960's for a child were magical, limitless and free. The Summers were endless days of wonder and imaginative. I can still remember staying out way past dark on hot Summer nights running around the neighborhood with no worries, only the reckless abandon only a child can enjoy. I feel so sorry for kids today, especially with this lockdown. Anyway, my apologies. I just wanted to say something about this song.....
Exactly. almost spiritual the songs these legends created somehow actually change and inspire so many of us average guys
You don't need to apologizes anybody.Your comment is great and I love it.I like when somebody talking about good old times it makes me happy,sad and very nostalgic.Don't worry people who live back then and some others like me understand you very well.That was good old times and you should be happy that you was young back then😀😀😀😀😀
Yeah, no need to apologize. Was great reading that story. Cheers.
This song reminds me of a Christmas in my childhood, maybe when I was 4yrs old...or 5 but it feels so happy, makes me feel warm and safe in the world, music will always play a big part in my life, thanks to a music loving family.
What a great story!! I was born in 1981 and I had a very wonderful Carefree childhood but I can only imagine how it was growing up in the sixties
Who's still around listening and chillin to some great tunes.2024!
This tune heard it first time in Guyana in 1960st was a very young person this tune stuck in heart till now 2024 great tune
Dec 2024 still my most listened to song ever and it’s still the best song ever!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂
A classic that will never be bettered
Love❤ the 🎵🎶🎵🎶
I was 2 when this song came out . My older sisters played it. We all have our own interpretation of the song but I think the guy is tripping while he plays in front of a crowd drinker Millers. He had a lot of women but this one he just can't get over. Ahhhh the good ol days tripping on acid!
This song was my beloved father’s favourite; every time that I listen to it, it reminds me of him; may he rest in peace.
my dad showed me this song. He died on Saturday. It's been one of my favorite songs since he showed me it but now it's my go to. Love you Dad.
So sorry for your loss, this song will be another great memory.
@@derekm2368 thank you
rip
It's so nice of you to remember him with the music he loved.
Absolutely a great work of art.❤
Liam.
RIP Gary. Thank you for the beautiful music. Thank you for sharing your talent with the world.
Music like this will never go out of style and will never die, a masterpiece will be recorded for history!
My mother absolutely loved this song. She would sing out loud, whenever it came on. She had such a beautiful voice. I will always remember her when I hear this song, and all the beautiful memories. I love you mom. I miss you like hell.
Hey mate feel your pain we all miss our mum's.
Lost my mum in 2016 she was a soft soul from the 60s a special time indeed.
😂 My mom is 77
This was a song my little sister loved. Me too, but I never bought the album, so I guess it meant more to her.
@@SUGAR_XYLER It's scary to see your mom getting old, and thinking than she might be gone soon, tell her every day how much you love her, that's the most important thing !!!
One of the most beautiful songs ever!!!!
Never ages.
This music is with humanity forever...the purest diamond...I am happy that we love the same thing all over the world...there will be no war!
this song for Peter R de Vries
What a beautiful piece of 🎶 music! Holds many memories! RIP Gary ! Great job lovely boy!
Gary Brooker, the lead singer of Procol Harum, died on 19 February 2022. He was lead singer throughout the 55 years of the group. Many of us have been listening to this song since 1967, and still find it wonderful. Thanks Gary, for one of the best songs ever. Rest In Peace.
Wonderful memories of '67. Surely one of the greatest songs ever. Sleep well Gary, and thank you. RIP
R.I.P. Gary you will be missed
signature tune for radio stations of Malaya,Singapore and HK in the late 1960s.
Country music fan here and I recognize this as one of the greatest songs of all time
now , i' m 74 years old ,. i love this song so much.....original song by procol harum around 1966/67.....
J'écoute ce chef d'œuvre au moins 1 fois par jour depuis sa sorti.
I was born 1967, and soooo appreciate and always will love this beautiful classic
1967 when I was having a 'gap year' from boring jobs - in Spain. The chords will always be in my memory!!
🙏🥀♥️🥀🙏
Oooh, I remember well.
I was 21 in '67.
What a time.
Thank you, Gary Brooker.
🥀.. and R.I.P.
so was I
Wonderful band
I was also 21 in ‘67…and 5 years later I was there in London for a month. Those photos make me feel I am there again in Trafalgar Square, and in the downtown streets.
I was 12 - What a Time!
Were you in Tamariu - Dolphin Club?
So sad to hear the passing of Gary Brooker, this song takes me back to the school summer holidays of 1967.
I was 10 and this song seemed to be forever on the radio one of my all time favourites, a classic. RIP
This beautiful song makes me cry for a better time with memories of days and nights spent with good people that had hopes and dreams that are now gone and faded to the sands of time.
I feel you
It was definitely better days back then ! ✌☮
Just keep dancing ur hopes and dreams are alive as long as ur alive
Damals war die Welt noch in Ordnung
Große Klasse, auch heute
Xavier Smith no, the sixties were when things were the best, it’s the eighties crowd who turned everything into the present day crap you probably enjoy so much
This song is a master piece, a work of art. It does not age at all. So romantic, so beautiful
This is my wife and I song. It was on the radio on one of our first dates and has been in our hearts ever since 1/23/1987. Absolutely hauntingly beautiful.
One of the best songs ever written
This song takes me back to another, precious time in my life. Loved PROCOL HARUM!!! R.I.P. my friend.
Definitely up there with the greatest songs of all time
This song came out when I was 16 years old. I loved it then and it has endured as one of the best songs ever. Period . I have been privileged to live for almost 70 years and consider music to be one of the blessings given to us all.
I was born 1968 in Poland is song my parent's i grove up with this song i love Procol Harum.ENGLAND never be like 1970 i am here 16 years i see
💞💞
It truly is.
I live in Indonesia, I heard this song since 1970 when I was 17 years old. 50 years have passed, now I am 67 years old, I still hear this song as often as before. Not boring, is one of the old songs that I like.
Do you remember when Deep Purple came to your country in 1975?
Considering this song boring is a sin
You are not alone. It´s my alltime Fav since 1973...I´am 56 now
It's a good song & it's deeply ingrained in our culture.
Я тоже не знаю песни лучше этой)
This is my all time favorite song!!!!!! It tugs at me emotionally in such a way I can't even describe ! One in a million !!
From the second it starts you can't help but be emotional.Incredibly moving song
Alex La canzone preferita di John Lennon 😉
Yes it is amazing and very emotional song.
Or hear Bach....
Wunderbare Erinnerungen an das Lied !
Sans doute une des plus belles chansons du monde. J'étais adolescent quand je l'ai entendue la première fois. Et je l'écoute toujours, c'est comme une madeleine de Proust, et un sentiment de joie et de nostalgie.
This song overwhelms me with a sense of melancholy. I was a little girl in 1967, so this music was not exactly "my generation", but it was still very much a part of my experience . . .of time past . . . and there is no turning back. :-(
Me too. I am about the same age as you. When I was little I thought this song was mysterious sounding and made me feel sad. The 60s were a great time to be a little kid.
✌ I was 3 then and never heard this song until a few years ago thanks to UA-cam
Not your generation! Neither mine, I was born in the 70s, and still love this song, discovered it in the 90s. A classic. And the lyrics! Very smart.
:-(
The music here is great however the singer has a terrible voice . His voice ruined this track . I would rather listen to the music without the singers voice .
Oh My God... My childhood. It all came flooding back! What a beautiful memory. What a beautiful sound. I miss all of it. When life, and the world made sense...
Things seemed simple and more fun - but we were all younger. Hopefully the teenagers of today can look back as we do but looking at an i phone all day doesn't seem so exciting!!
Agree! We enjoyed REAL life experiences vs virtual. Also felt good when we actually faced adversity/challenges and conquered them. Fearless!
@@nadinewheeler6972 Life was so simple in many ways - OK no mobile phones which as we had never had them we never missed them. In the year of WSP I was running a beach club in Spain. Came back to UK and built a computer company. But still look back on that wild year with happy memories - even if I was heartbroken every 2 weeks when the two week holiday ladies went home!! (until the next bus arrived!!)
@@richardlewis5316
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU 👍👍👍👍 👍 THANK YOU FOR SHARING 👏👏👏👏👏
Greatest church-organ riff in history .... one of the most memory invoking songs of all time, also a pleasant reminder how fast time is passing.. Rest In Greatness G. Booker!
Ok I'm coming here to share my memories. This song makes me very emotional for two reasons. First, this is a song my mum always played and asked me to play at her funeral whenever she died. Unfortunately, she passed away about 10 years ago, when I was 20. She was a music lover and since I was a kid she would play all her 60s and 70s favourites. In order to overcome the sadness attached to it, I tried to re-own it. I'm a lover of the 60s and 70s, musically and aesthetically. Six years ago I moved to London to fulfil my dream of studying music and try to revive that atmosphere this clip shows I loved so much. Not too long after starting the course, around October, I went to an open mic and performed this song with a fellow musician. A few days later, I saw perform this gorgeous guy who had Gary's vibes in the video, but gingery, absolutely dressed as if he had come out from the 60s. I instantly told myself I had to meet him. We fell for each other and he became my boyfriend for almost three years. He was a rock musician too and we lived some unforgettable times in London going to his gigs, playing and listening to our favourite music (we had the same taste) and just trying to feel as if we were a couple from that time. We were very happy together for quite long. Sadly, love ended on his part and I left London to came back to my country. I haven't experienced yet a time as beautiful as the fall of 2014, neither I've found love again. I wish things could be as special as they were back then, but I'm afraid I can't feel as excited and innocent about life as before. I come here now and again to rekindle that beauty and cry a little bit over that time of my life I wish I could live again. I didn't live in the 60s but those were "my musical sixties" in "swinging London".
thanks for sharing this.
Sad loss, this song is an all-time classic. I have loved listening to this great song over the years....
I’ve lost my mother and father and my dear wife and this song brings them back. Love everyone please! It’s never to late. 🙏🏻
A masterpiece in music history, Gary Brookers voice brings me to heaven
I can remember when my dad bought this album and brought it home and played it for us kids:) Great Memories! September 1967, I was 6 yrs old and fell in love with it have loved it ever since.
Definitely one of the all time great songs. I love the sound of that Hammond organ, props to Matthew Fisher, and especially the glissandos at 1:21, 3;04, 3:55...I can listen to this over and over for hours. It brings back memories of my younger days. The vintage video almost seems laughable by today's standards, but I still love it. For you fellow guitarists, that's Robin Trower in the white jacket. Rest in peace Mr. Brooker; you''ve made your mark.
Totally agree with you ☺️
I don't find the video laughable. It sends me into a trance because I've walked through Trafalgar square many times but years later.
*_PROCOL HARUM "A Whiter Shade Of Pale"_*
*_60's the best Song_* 🎵🎵🎵🎹🎸
*_Wonderful Voice Sir. Gary Brooker._* 👍😎
Formidable
This song was played at our wedding 42 years ago today as my husband Frank loved it and didn’t want “traditional” church music. He died suddenly almost seven years ago and I miss him every day 💚
I just can't figure how hard it can be...
Hold on, and don't lose yourself...
All I wanna send to you is a warmer shade of love ;)
Sorry
RIP.,I m old drummer from Warszawa.
Annette, that's funny you mentioned this, not funny haha funny because....my brother died as well in 1992, took his life. My brother and his band played this song all the time in our house in the basement in the 60's. I think of him still every single time I play this song. I listen to this song at least a few times a week, i feel I have to. I also love it to pieces. Did you see the Live version from 2006 in Denmark yest with the lead singer Gary Brooker? Boy oh boy he can still sing this!! And I also want to say I am So Sorry for your loss. Take Care now....
@@BugzKiller No, I didn’t see the live version, I’ll look out for it. So sorry for your loss too, and thanks for your kind words
I’ve said it before,and I’ll say it again.....the 60s....the best decade ever!
No the 80 !
Gli anni 60. The best ..for me ..
I was born in 1964 so I agree with you.
YES, SIR!
The TRUTH about the best rock decade debate is we were all fortunate to live from the mid 50s to mid 90s that was the birth and death of rock at least as a mainstream force. I just feel sorry for kids these days with no Godlike rock bands and songs like this they have no reverence for the blues and don't even have it in their heart. How could such a thin skinned offenced generation ever make blues rock.
SO good. Just takes me back, to such a calm mind, a calm world...beauty, love, articulation, everything possible. And so it was...
And so,it went.
John Lennon once said “ This is the most beautiful song I have ever heard”
Sure. A calm world. Cities on fire, riots in the streets, everybody stoned out of their gourds, hate and confrontation, cops and students trying to kill each other, napalm in Nam, body counts, revolution on campuses. What's not to love about that? In truth, friend, what you're nostalgic about is just lost youth, just like the billions and billions that have preceded us. It's all that makes sense.
@@mikewhitney8615 Maybe unlike today, many of us then were living in the magnificence of a better world. And the vision meant to rout out the restrictive, unjust, inhumane. The turmoil and pain was inspired by something greater. MANY of us know it, live it, appreciate it - then and now. If you do not, can not see this, be my guest. Gratefully there was SO much more greatness and goodness beyond and concurrent with the upheaval. Just like today.
@@MellowWind The world prior to the late 60s was a far better world, pal. There was order rather than chaos, respect for essential and necessary authority figures, divorce and broken homes were rare, kids grew up living with their biological parents, there was no drug abuse in the middle class because recreational drugs were unheard of, wages were sufficient for dad's one income to meet the family's needs so mom got to stay home and see to her kids' needs, religious belief was strong whereas today atheism and cynicism are rampant, young people knew what sex they were (!) so girls enjoyed being girls and boys enjoyed boys. As far as "the unjust," there will always be injustice - it's baked into the cake. Besides, like beauty, injustice lies in the eyes of the beholder. One man's "injustice" is another man's fairness and decency. Now I know why you talk about "calmness," a "calm mind," "everything was possible." It's simple: You were a head, a bombed-out-of- your-mind druggie and probably a hippie too. You wanted an "unrestrictive" society. Well an unrestrictive society is a chaotic one, and when we eliminate restrictions we have total chaos. You must be loving the 21st century.
I never get tired of listening to this song, one of the best ever....
We think the same 😀
@@helenakatic1690 Yes, we do......
Ditto 💕
Many, many millions of times danced to this song all over the world.
Yo a los 16 .
Sending a simple and honest psychic hug to all of you who are listening this with nostalgic memories of parents, brothers, sisters and dear friends. Blessed Be to you all!
too hard,Dude :)
Thank you Naledi!
This is one of the great song from The 60 When people sing and the lirics meant something , thank you for this When London was A beautiful place ,❤️❤️❤️❤️
Iain Botham Definitely not ! I like all the great singers ,and groups if the music and the lyrics good ! We have few good band even now , but I don't like rapp no matter who is rapping ,
Iain Botham but nothing can touch the sixties it was the good old days ! We head the best time of our life ,it was wonderful , ❤️🇬🇧
You're so welcome. Look at London now.
One of the most beautiful tunes in the history of music. Unbelievable! A transcendental experience. It makes you reminisce of your youth, of what was and what could have been. Of the time lost and the time well spent but, alas, gone forever. The feelings a few notes can provoke. I could write an essay! Crazy!
It's wandeful music👍👍👍💖💖💖на все времена! Привет из Нижнего Новгорода! Russia! 😁🖐️🖐️🖐️
I agree whole-heartedly ..the music is heavenly and the lyrics are a little bit closer to earth. It is calls up thoughts of lost loves and lost possibilities and regret.
It really is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. It should be played today just to let young people know what real singing is.
Я б теж написав. Про юність, її невимовні мрії і пориви. Про юнацьке очікування чогось примарного, чистого, високого. Чого не буває. Бо воно живе тільки у наших душах.
Yes, an awesome song that never gets old. Such memories!
My father passed away on August 16th,1967. I was only an infant at that time, one day I was playing this song in front of my mother and she told me this was one of the last songs my father was singing before he died. he was also enjoying the release of the Beatles Sgt. Peppers.
Saw them several times in Montreal, a real treat, thank you so much for REAL music
Such a beautiful song what happened to all our music I’m 76 and need my music
I'm 45 and need this music
I am minus 2 and need this song
I hear you Sue
Let an old drummer just shake your hand for your comment mate!🤝🏻✌️🏻
It's all here on UA-cam.
Please enjoy.
one of those classics in rock that will live on forever!!!!!!!
Still loving this song in 2024.
An iconic tune from the sixties has aged so well.
My dad was murdered...2 months ago😪😪😪😪This was, and will always be his song😪😪😪😪😪
Miss you dad!!!!😪😪🤗🤗
Really!? That's awful! I'm so sorry. I hope this song can give you a connection to your Dad and may the memories of him be forever good.
@@peterkellock7825 Thank you Peter😭Today marks exactly 3 months. Listening to it again, and will probably do every 16th of each month😪
Hard times. Thanks for your condolences.
My condolences.. so Murdered by?
Sorry. Rest in peace your beloved father
So sorry for your terrible loss; at least I hope the murdener is in prison 🙏🏼🌹
The 60’s. We need to make a video…..but we don’t know how to.. this is what we got. Fantastic.
One of the greatest songs of all time , it never gets old and remains one of the long lasting hits still played on classic fm online etc, so beautifully orchestrated 🌹
This was the first rock song I was able to get my father to really listen to in 1966, and we both tried to figure out the words. It was the first of many more opportunities for communication between us, which had been hard because of the generational differences and being a 16 year old who liked different music than my parents. God bless Procol Harum for this song, and for it initiating the time to really communicate with my father which I will never forget - God rest his soul.
Cresci ou vindo está lá Bella cancion
Ich weiß nicht, wie oft ich dieses Lied mit meinen unglaublichen 63 Jahren schon gehört, dieses Video schon gesehen habe. Aber jedes Mal die gleiche Reaktion: Nach wenigen Sekunden Tränen in den Augen, Kloß im Hals. Verbunden mit einem tiefen Glücksgefühl. Das passiert mir mit keinem anderen Lied! Und seit einigen Jahren dann gleich im Anschluss... Dänemark 2006. Danke, Gary Brooker.
I was on sea as a seafarer once. Just an apprentice. I had a great relationship with the Chief Engineer. Funny bloke, he would sign off my tasks for a bottle of rum. Then, another apprentice joined. Good kid, only problem he had was he was getting seasick quite often. We were in the officers mess for dinner, when he would turn all pale and throw up again. At that moment, the Chief Engineer started to smile, and decided that "a whiter shade of pale" would forever be this apprentic' song. Good ole days.
I was 9 years old when this came out in the USA. A haunting song, I was hooked for life. Now some 50 plus years later it's melody is still haunting. I can say it is still my all time favorite song.
In 1967 I finished the first elementary class in Poland as a kid, but this song was always with me. Thank You Procol Harum. RIP Gary Brooker.
A firm favourite of mine. Beautiful sung. Thank you for this beautiful melody.
Un chez d œuvre retraçant cette sombre époque de la guerre du Vietnam merci Procol Harum et Mr Gary Brooker !,,,,,',, I am found of this sound and melody!
"A Whiter Shade of Pale", the most beautiful SOUL SONG ever written. I am from PROCOL HARUM's time ... I miss you Gary, and all the 60's + 70's songs.
It's almost impossible to describe the tearing nostalgia and melancholy that this song emanates.Superb.
This song brings back so many memories... I wish I could go back to those times.
Господи! Насколько невероятно красиво...
Слёзы текут по щекам...
If there was one song that summed up not just the summer of love, not just 1967 but the late 1960s, it is this masterpiece. One of the greatest songs of all time, hauntingly beautifully and powerful. A Whiter Shade of Pale is simply timeless and like I said it is musical masterpiece. RIP Gary Brooker and thank you.
Saw Procol Harum in Melbourne in the '70s's, one the most memorable concerts ever.
A timeless classic that still sounds fresh today!
One of the greatest songs of all time!! I just love it!!
Isn't it powerful when songs like this from the 60's still make an impact on our lives. Music from the 60's and 70's is when music was Music.
R.I.P GARY BROOKER, i am listening to whiter shade of pale at the moment
with heavy heavy heart,goodbye mr. brooker you gave us wonderful music.
I have loved this song since I first heard it in the 70"s. Wish I knew more about it.
Teresa Schillig
I am always loved it but couldn't find it till I watched "the big chill " and bought the soundtrack for myself. I was so happy to find it and wanted it to be played at my funeral.
And bought the soundtrack. I later thot I would like to have it played at my funeral. Teresa Eckert
All I knew is was provol harum played it. On salty dog album or soundtrack. Now I know Gary Brooks wrote it.
I was 12 when this song came out and I always loved it. Interesting to me are all the comments in languages other than English; obviously, this was not only a timeless classic, but an international timeless classic. Thank you, Gary Brooker, for bringing comfort to the world.
Amen brotha!😇
I could listen to this over and over .. best song ever
Totally agree one of the most beautiful songs ever❤️
A true, timeless classic that never grows old. Thank you for all the incredible music you left us, Gary. R.I.P. Gary Brooker
This and "Light My Fire" really get me choked up. I was in the Navy on Pensacola Beach when these were in the top ten.
Me and my husband skated to this song/music by Procol Harum back in the 70’s at a skating rink place called The Terrace in Toronto, Canada. Actually when this music played, they would announce that only couples would be allowed to skate. So memorable...sadly as I write this my husband now suffers from Dementia. He’s had it for over 6 years now. It is gradually getting worse, each day that passes by is a blessing for me, however difficult it is. This song is truly so dear to my heart.
My sister I understand what you are going through. The person in front of you looks just like the the one you shared love and life with, but they aren't there. I know some day there will be a cure for and I am trying to help find it. Both my folks suffered from it and I am in a study locally to help find a cure. I just hope my small contribution can help find the key. We can only hope that when the key is finally in the lock those that have it will be freed and can love those that care about them again. Be well and safe, peace to you and yours.
I love Gary Booker...and his talent...I think of him often...The 1960s have some good memories.Hes
One of them.
one of the greatest Songs ever written!
Without smoking pot or something else it would have been impossible based on his eyes.
Yes it is!
It was stolen from J S Bach.
@@BigEightiesNewWave I think "stolen" is a pretty harsh word. "Inspired".
@@TonyEnglandUK I would say 'Bach wrote a great hit" ;)
Love the song. Would love to meet Gary
The beat is so haunting and the way he sang it just pulls you in. that's my reason for loving this song.
I am a product of 1977 and this type of music has always been special to me. My Dad brought me up on Country and the Oldies and I can say that this still outlasts today's music by far.
Been listening to music from 1957 but this song blew mind on first hearing. Nothing like it prior to 1967. Rog. Pacific sunset records .
Mais um pedaço da minha juventude que morre, agora com a partida de Gary Brooker. Uma Banda símbolo duma geração, um tema para a eternidade. Obrigado Gary Brooker, descansa em paz.😪🙏
E minha tb...Um saludo de Italia....Amo Brasil...Vi a eles ao vivo em Londres no 1974
Matthew Fisher''s Hammond organ is essential for the heartache that pervades this great song. So many covers of this tune miss that emotion.
👌👌
It makes the whole song originality!!!
and the "Leslie " loudspeaker ...
@@nikosmarsellos3894 Yes, everyone forgets the rotating Leslie.
Sitting in the living room listening to this on a pair of Klipsch Lascala’s, magical.
It wasn't a period of time that resonated for any other reason than that we were alive and breathing and coming into, being in and out of a time warp of music trends. The lyrics were a hodge podge that melded perfectly with the music; even the music was melancholic in its tempo and for no explicable reason, it caught on. Without it we would never had known the difference but we did have it and it made such an incredible impact on the youth of that time and has done ever since. It really is one of my 'go to songs' when I am just wanting to remember the transition, in my case, of middle teens to late teens. All I can add now is that we will always remember you Procul Harum, not because of the lyrics or tune but just that you came along at the right time and we were who made it famous because the confusion of the 'new age' was gathering motion and we did not know how to identify with all of that. Everything had the perfect balance of melancholy, as we were living it and the hodge podge lyrics because nothing made sense to us anyway. We had come from WW2, Korea and we were being swept up in Imperialism and the fight against Communism as mounting pressure from 'the free world' dictated that we get involved in Vietnam. All those wars before and no one, not one took into consideration for the destruction we all knew would come.
I am so grateful to have grown up in a time when there was so much wonderful music. These videos and memories are golden. Singing in heaven with all the other greats.
Che nostalgia ascoltarla adesso e ricordare i tempi in cui eravamo ragazzi.....bellissima💕😷
bellissimi anni
My dad told me once that when he was a teen in the 60s all they thought about was the future. And now that the future was here he only wanted to go back.
So do I - I don't like the world they are preparing ... (French lady aged 67 )
We missed the '60s, man. Accept it.
true dat
true
@@williamdiffin28 Mostly the music tho, for me.
RIP Gary Brooker - loved this song when it came out in the late 60's.
I am flat out saddened to hear of Brooker's passing. My very first slow
dance in Junior High with Dana Mongueu was to 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'
an unforgettable song and a most unforgettable dance with Dana. Love
this song ever since. It just hovers forever in my consciousness.
Just read it in the german news. 76, man that is too young by todays standards.
Me too, man:)!
@@DasIllu you are right. Unfortunately he had been ill for some time... sig!!!😰😰 🙏🙏
Hey Mark, you owe it to yourself to find Dana Mongueu and tell her you remember those times. I too went to dances with my high school sweetheart and danced to great songs like this. When I found Debbie Barrows she was living in Key West and battling cancer. We communicated for a year before she died of that awful disease. All the best to you. gb
I can't see the keyboard for the tears.
This has been, since I was a teen, and continues to be as I approach 50, one of my top ten all-time favorite songs.
I'm 73 and I could listen to this every single day. There was a movie called New York Stories and one of the stories is about an artist played by Nick Nolte who painted in his loft and while he painted his huge abstracts he played this song on high volume every time. It was his inspiration music I guess.
Heartbeat TV series brought me here, and now i love this song and play it over what a song.
Yes, this song takes me back memories in 70's when I was young a teenager, listening until now 2020 ,just love these Song of Procol Horum. A WHITER SHADE OF PALE.
Wish I had a time machine ... ✌🎼🎶🎶🎼
Cette chanson me donne toujours le frisson je ne m'en lasserai, jamais ma jeunesse refait surface
yes mee too,when all our loved ones were aroundnsoo lonely nowmy only son in the uk
Jose Montenegro check this live version ua-cam.com/video/St6jyEFe5WM/v-deo.html
If you get a chance,listen to their song:Conquistador. A overlooked gem.