First Time Hearing PROCOL HARUM - A Whiter Shade of Pale, live in Denmark 2006
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Whoa! This is my first time ever hearing Procol Harum perform "A Whiter Shade of Pale". Though it does sound familiar! Where do I know it from?! It's live in Denmark, 2006, and I am absolutely mesmerized. The moment those opening notes hit, I was transported.
🎶 "We skipped the light fandango, turned cartwheels 'cross the floor..." 🎶
It’s just so hauntingly beautiful! And how about this line: “The room was humming harder, as the ceiling flew away.” What an image! This song truly feels like it’s floating through space and time.
The live performance is next-level, and Gary Brooker's voice? Still giving me chills with “And although my eyes were open, they might have just as well been closed.” That mix of nostalgia and surrealism makes it a masterpiece. Every lyric is like a poetic punch, and the band's energy is just stunning.
If you're a fan of classics like this, you'll understand how hard it is to get this tune out of your head once it hits.
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Based on Air On a G string by Bach about a Cherabanc party gone wrong.
Too much drink.
Sung in a Percy Sledge way..percy returned the favor by doing it as a cover.
My favorite performance of this. RIP Gary.
🥰
When Brian Wilson, John Lennon and Paul McCartney are enthralled by your song you know you have something special.
The greatest generation of rock and roll. Thanks for listening. Was one of my first 8 track albums.
Gary Brooker's majestic powerful pipes were a wonder to behold. I'm so glad I drove about 6 hours a decade ago to see Gary and Procol Harum sing their classics, including this signature gem of course. Tears were welling up all over the theater. Gary still delivered it with power. So glad I finally saw this live before he passed away. I've always felt a bond or connection with this epic tune since I first heard it in the late 60s on AM radio as a kid.
This song and The Animals cover of The House of the Rising Sun.
I've literally seen this video probably 30 times, and cry every time. Simply, just beautiful.
🥰
Have you seen/ heard any of Metallica's symphonic collaborations? Very powerful. It's Metallica S&M, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
This has been one of my 3 favorite songs for 55 years! I remember it playing over the PA during one of my radiation treatments. Calmed me right down.
Aww that’s powerful
A lot of people who weren't around in the 1960's were introduced to this song because it we used in the 1983 film "The Big Chill". The soundtrack album to this film sold very well.
I really do enjoy it when new people find music I grew up with and enjoyed so much and give it the love and respect it deserves.
I have loved this song since it came out in 1967.
Never has a drunken night with friends been told so poetically.
Sounds like they were performing on a cruise ship
"I was feeling kind of seasick
But the crowd called out for more.
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another dream
The waiter brought a tray"
Yes that sounds like a hell of a party
To my ears this is the best performance of this song I've heard. I really enjoyed it when it was released, but this brings it to a whole other level for me!
This is just an epic performance
I have heard this song many times. The original album version did not have the full orchestra and choir, making this an exceptional arrangement. Watching your joyful reaction on hearing this for the first time, was like exposing a friend to a favorite film, and hoping they enjoy it as much as you do. Your reaction did not disappoint.
Aww that’s exactly what I like to hear thank you. So pleased you enjoyed it
This song is so well blended into the orchestra and his voice is great!
It's hard to find older people who still have such powerful singing voices. 🤗
That’s a really great point! It’s a muscle I guess so has the same wear out ability.
I was kind of shocked at how good his voice sounded after all these years
Perhaps David Gilmour could qualify for an older man with a great voice?
@@TrianglesAndCircles If you're talking about the voice in his fingers then definitely yes.
@@wiseman5076 I like that a lot. Not too bad on the vocals, but the strings definitely sing.
Well, they don't have music like that on the radio nowadays! Thanks for not pausing!
Diane . . . . that was soulfully majestic . . . . was it not ? . . . . . yes, indeed it was !!!!!!!!!!!! . . . . . . .so glad that you were able to experience this brilliant performance !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Danny in Mississippi
I saw this band live with the Edmonton Philharmonic, then next day I bought the LP, and then the cassette much later....The Commitments is always a guilty pleasure... always... Thanks for playing this!
Was a massive number one worldwide in the summer of love 1967, this version will never be beaten.
Has been beautiful from day one till the end of time
Thanks for reacting to it Diane!
My pleasure!!
I’ll get in a mood & end up listening to this song on repeat. It really is a great song that’s well performed.
The melody is BACH Air On A G-String & Sleepers Wake
" I know that song!" Is the most interesting remark, because the "song" is Johann Bach's "Air" from the seventeenth century. Few American folks under 30 would even recognize it. Bravo!
Air on the G String. It's a standard classic. Any trained musician knows it.
Yes, but not every untrained musician knows it. The point was about Americans' limited exposure to classics. Sorry it was all too high brow for you.
@@EverendeverGroup Why American? The reactor is Irish! 🙂
@martinbynion1589 some people are members of the "hate America first" crowd. Logic is usually lost on them.
@@EverendeverGroup lol wut? You seem not to know what "highbrow" means. I can play Bach on guitar. Can you?
What a good song. I too was feeling all kinds of emotions from this song.
Totally!
One of the most beautiful songs ever written.
I never cared what they meant. I was just one more incredible piece of music written in the 1960's. People today may want to know what it means but none of us listening to it gave a single damn about that, it was just a mesmerizing song melody and lyric. Nothing else was required. You were even reacting to it, like we did 57 years ago.
same here .. exactly . Never was interested in the meaning of the lyrics
I just enjoyed the passion of the song and how it carried me off somewhere. Many years later it simply occurred to me, without thinking about it, that the phrase :-
"That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale"
:- meant that she was deathly ill, then paled when she died. I'm not sure what that says about me.
I've known that song my whole adult life, but this live version was amazing. Thanks Dianne!
I really enjoyed it too! 🥰
I really like that song! Timeless!
I'm an American and here is my interpretation of this song. It is beautiful musically with a haunting organ riff that is impossible to forget.
Very underrated band in an era that had great, great bands.
5:39 gotta love a Chaucer reference
"Ah, Bach."
Such a great performance! The song is classical music input into rock, along with gospel, soul, and psychedelic. "The Miller's Tale," referenced in the lyrics, is from Chaucer, and it's a tale of adultery.
MASH reference.
@@jwrockets "I'm partial to the fugue"
Get Bach, Tojo
What a special moment that performance was. I wonder if the people in the audience had any inkling of what was in store for them.
Your music reactions are the best.
Thank you! Aww 🥰
Just lovely Diane.
Music is how feelings sound.
From my Junior High School (grades 7,8,9 in US) dances starting in 1967. Brings back so many memories. Another slow dance like Nights in White Satin.
Let us say when I was slow dancing with my date it was very much a couples song.
Your reaction at the end says it all .. A truly jaw dropping performance
I was literally speechless
Several prominent pop songwriters (including Peter Frampton), when asked what was the greatest song of the era, named Whiter Shade of Pale as their choice tune.
Good choice! I get it
This song is clearly about Chewie being the best boy. 🙂
I can't say that I know what the song is about, but I can interpret this comment to be about a long-time listener trying to earn another pin.
Hahahaha so close! Luv it
If you had said "best boi", Jason, she would have given it to you! 😅
Ooooo...Now listen to "Conquistadore" from that same performance
Where A Whiter Shade of Pale is at times hauntingly beautiful, Conquistador is a very moving tale and to tell the truth I am not sure which one I like better. Thanks for mentioning it.
Conquistador
I have the 45 single (Conquistador). I have to go back and listen to it again.😅
Thank you for this, Diane!
There was no orchestra, but I did get to see them live in 1975 ish.
Great memories!
❤
Goosebumps 💯
Great reaction, Diane! It's sometimes surprising, but the mix of classic rock and symphonic, orchestral elements can sound really amazing!
My first time seeing this video. Really hits the spot. Awsome💚
For interpretations, This song hit me in America as a kid during the Vietnam war, and the lyrics always invoked a woman at a party hearing about her boyfriend being killed in the war. “When the miller told this tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale”.
Thanks for your interest in older music that so many love Diane! The '60s,/''70s/''80s was an incredible era for innovative music that will not be found again. Not just an evolution, but a revolution!
Totally agree about the 60s and 70s but not so much about the 80s The 80s ruined rock ‘n’ roll
More of a hymn than anything I ever heard in church.
The first and only time (other than this vid) I saw him perform this song was when he was in his early 20's. He sounds even better in this performance.
Great song, love watching Diane’s reaction 😃❤️
Thanks for the video 👍🏻
This is a beautiful version of this song, although it’s always been very powerful to listen to
Unreal! Maybe the most powerful we’ve listened to so far!
I was 11yo when it came out - love at 1st site and still today!
it doesn't matter what its about, it means something different to each person. its a beautiful song and its only gotten better with age
This is an epic 60's song. It played on the am radio all the time, for a long time🙂🙂🙂
Procol Harum is a group that I am little bit more intimately familiar with than just having listened to their music on the radio, or having bought their albums, both of which I did. I was actually in the audience when they recorded the album Procol Harum Live in Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra on November 18, 1971. This album became the first album with an orchestra to sell “gold" and eventually “platinum” . My important part was being one of the over 2000 people clapping, cheering in the audience. Yep, the group couldn't have done it without me. NOT. A Whiter Shade of Pale was one three songs that made me line up for tickets to see this performance.
I remember hearing this song on the radio and going who the hell is this, it is so unique and beautifully haunting compared to most rock music being released at the time. I never really gave the lyrics much thought other than it was about heing and sheing described in an uniquely poetically manner.
The other two songs were A Salty Dog, and Power Failure, a tune which was big on the radio just before the concert. These songs were lyrically very different from each other, and musically both innovative and classical at the same time. Conquistador was the hit single from the concert I attended. Any of these three song would be great for you to react to.
I didn't remember A Whiter Shade of Pale being used in the sound track of The Commitments. A film, I love. Which would make a great movie for Twitch watch party, if you ever return to doing those.
As always another great musical reaction video.
Did you claim royalties for your part?
@@lawrencedavis9246 Damn, I was just there for the music. Another time that I missed my chance to get rich.
Very cool info! Thanks
One of my favorite songs of all time.
I totally respect why
I have loved this song since the first time I heard it, probably in the 1970's or 80's. I have never thought of meaning for the lyrics, just everything from the music to the lyrics makes me feel good, and his voice just gets me every time.
Back in the Early '70's, they recorded a live Album with the ESO, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Unfortunately this song was not on the Album. To all the Canadian fans of Diane, have a safe Canadian Thanksgiving. 👋🏻🇨🇦
You should listen to the studio version from 1967. Also, there is a beautiful version (video) performed in a church.
My cellphone accidentally took a 10 minute video of my shoes yesterday.
It was some pretty good footage.
😂😂😂really?!
You can't go wrong when your backing track was written by J. S. Bach.
a whiter shade of Bach as Mick Jagger called it back in the day.
This! Wow, top 10 performance of all time and space in my humble earthly opinion.😊
This sounds better then when he first sung the song. Aging has been a blessing to his voice.
The Miller's tale is one of the Canterbury Tales. It is a rather bawdy tale that might make a prudish person hearing turn a whiter shade of pale. "And so it was that later, when the miller told his tale. That her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of pale."
Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Gary Booker was the man!!
Thank you for not pausing though song like so many reactions do and when they pause i switch off so grats to you.
This song was the best plain to dance onto . The studio original, of course ! this song was in every juke box in bars and restaurants !It was a 45 rpm record ! I was playing it eveywhere i could ! You must listen to it too ! a bit different than this live version indeed ! but it s always the original, we get hooked on ! And they have so many other great songs ! take it froma 68 year old french man ! lol 😎
I have heard Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale and seen the original music video. First Time seeing the live version with the Orchestra. The band has the easy listening genre sounds to it. I like The Commitments movie about a band forming in Dublin, Ireland. I like Your singing and voice.
I like songs with keyboard sounds lots of 60s, 70s, 80s songs have keyboard sounds. Enjoying Your Reaction, Sharing the Music Journey, Dancing to the Music and Learning about Procol Harum. My mother listened to this song a lot on the classic radio stations. I was in choir too in junior high school(grades 7th to 9th).
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Try listening to their song "Conquistador" from the same Denmark concert.
I'm quite familiar with this song, but this is the first time I've heard it performed with a full orchestra.
So pretty 🤩
I grew up on this song ❤. Thanks for the great review ❤
Thank you!
That was a great reaction, Thank you Diane
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Thank you Hello Fresh, for helping you cook veg and beans
And Thank you Procol Harum, but I don’t know what your song means
Sounds like the song is about performing on a cruise ship. Seriously.
"The Commitments" is such a great movie.
Wasn’t that lovely? Thanks Diane!
I have no clue what this song is trying to say , but I could not care less . All I know is I could listen to this version once a day for the rest of my life , and be happy . The strings just kick , what was a great song , right over the top . That voice , that voice . Mature and still stronger than ever .
Totally 💯
Hi Diane, cannot wait to see the HelloFresh cooking videos! Have a great weekend.
Me too!! Thanks for the big support on them Tim!
I remember this being used as the musical accompaniment to characters succumbing to hallucinogenic mushrooms in “The 10th Kingdom”, a NBC fantasy miniseries from 2000; a decade plus before ABC/Disney’s “Once Upon A Time” and Disney’s “Descendants“ played with modernizing fairytale tropes and exploring what happens after Happily Ever After.
P.S. Its title sequence has a magical transformation of New York City’s World Trade Center (one year before its destruction) that now makes me want to cry.
Thanks Diane! That song has always pulled at my heart strings even though I never could make out most of the lyrics. 😢
It’s soooo funny that isn’t it cos I didn’t notice the lyrics much either
the Miller's Tale is from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
It is such a great song and so of course it was added into movie soundtracks to help evoke a whole vibe for movies set in certain decades. One especially was The Big Chill.
Man with this setting and the music wish I had been there!
This was a concert, where The Danish National Symphony Orchestra did several concerts with different artists. In this case they invited Procol Harum. And they did this fine tune together. I believe the original song was released in 1967.
I love this channel, and been a fan since your Try channel videos. But your musical experience videos has been wonderful.
So glad you like them thank you! Hopefully you’ll enjoy the upcoming cooking vids too!
@@DianeJennings I would gladly watch you cook, play Uno, and build Legos! Keep up the great work, and I promise to keep watching!
I've always loved this song!
It’s very epic
Never heard of them. Thanks for expanding my musical horizons as well😊.
Our pleasure!
I remember this song from back in the day. Heard it play a lot on the radio. Never saw it performed with an orchestra though. Thanks for sharing and reacting to it. Hope you have a wonderful weekend. Stay safe! 🙏🏼
Thanks for listening 💞
@@DianeJennings Thanks for being you!
For me, this song has always been about the strong emotional vibe it conveys as much as the great music & vocals. This and your recently reviewed "Nights in White Satin" by the Moody Blues are at the top of my list of emotionally evocative tunes. As always, +1.
This was entertaining!
Please give Steely Dan a listen. Most who react to Steely Dan become fans after one song. Aja is a great song to start with but Steely Dan just doesn't disappoint.
how many rock songs reference Chaucer? what an epic song and epic performance!
4:47 ❤the poetry in this song
❤ his voice
Love it! Thank you Miss Diana! Suggestion? For the 1,077th time... Bernadette Peters singing 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry' live on the Johnny Carson show. (Say hi to Chewie!)
When John Lennon was asked in 1967 what music he really liked he said this tune!!
On the great soundtrack of The Big Chill. Good Watch
To me, it seem to be recalling good old days, when the speaker didn't know they were going to be the good old days.
I never heard this. I enjoyed this video. 😊❤