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  • My favourite genre is jazz, my favourite band The Doors, neither has anything to do with Procol Harum....but Whiter Shade Of Pale is my favourite song for ever and ever. Beautiful.

  • generalnie to uwazam,ze powinnam sie urodzic w tamtych czasach.niestety teraz zostaly mi tylko plyty....i to dobre choc slyszec to na zywo...!!!

  • Anoter master peace with golden voice,just cant lisent inaf of it..superb...................

  • Otra de las mejores canciones del siglo 20th. con las cuales me deleitaba en mi adolescencia, y estoy muy orgulloso de pertenecer a esa generación, aunque ahora sea un viejo para algunos.

  • This was one of my standards when I was singing Karaoke. I can't believe it's been almost 10 years ago.

  • @WorgenGrrl As a karaoke host. Good job. It's seldom gets requested. Once a year probably.

  • @kinggrand99

    What's it like to be a karaoke host?

  • 4 minutes and 6 seconds of pure magic

  • Still great to listen to now loved it then and now same same

  • so fucking beautiful

  • i love this song, i grew up listening to it.

  • My dad used to sing this to me when I was a wee thing...good memories.

  • the best pop song ever

  • @2m6m3sbx RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • The organists of the 60's were among the most miraculous musicians on the face of the earth...:Listen to what that man does with the Hammond C3(designed in 1935 to replace the cathedral organ)...This song is the marvelous inspiration of Bach...Air on a G string..NO not THAT G string you stupid perverts!!!

  • @ToneDeafecation Fuck yeah man, this is Wonderfull

  • @ToneDeafecation Love the crack about the G string. And yes I agree it is a great song, just the fact that we are listening to it nearly half a century later proves that. Even if we are getting too old to appreciate the G string.

  • @petersuperstar1 ...That other tune is of course the well known...Hair on a G string(great for flossing)..which we'll only stop appreciating when we die.

  • Fabulous! (I think the song was about the Titanic sinking...)

  • a toutes les couilles desinges qui n ecoute que du rap cultives vous!!!!!

  • i was confused by this song but at least I know ...who has covered this?

    IT WAS A SCOPITONE?!?!?!

  • I seriously love this song. Its possibly the best I've come in contact with. Mum and I used to sing this in the car on the way to school, then we stopped... I read the perks of being a wallflower, and my love for this came back.

  • Christ why is everyone so angry. Fuck the comments just enjoy the music... PA-LEASE

  • @LogicNReasonMan I agree totally!! this site isnt for venting anger!!!  Enjoy and chill out folks!!!

  • \/ veio por causa do funky

  • Funky black cat

  • Clássica, show

  • FunkyBlackCat

  • In these stormy days, I love to listen to those old classics :)

  • why was i born in the fuckin 80´s :(

    

  • I cant tell if this makes me happy or sad. Great song

  • @lcjj7 It's a bitter sweet mixture of both..The blissful agony of longing.

    Whenever I played this song on my C3 a friend of mine would sit next to me and weep....a hardened,badly battlescarred streetfighter called Giovanni.

  • Hello Frankie, you have my respect,any Service man and use women have my respect. Hope you have a long life, but if you had too go from hear couldnt have picked a better song to go out with.x

  • Come on guys this song needs 23 millions hits! not stupid Rebecca Black or the dumb nyan cat!

  • @Mikeyboyv7 Don't despair...If they'd had YouTube when this song first came out,it would be well over a billion by now.

  • WoW

  • it relates to my brother and i because......he is 58 and my older siblings turned me on to music,and when jack heard this song he played the living shit outa it. My first song i ever learned was not a limrick it was Joy to the world.....I have aunt and uncles that turned me on to Nancy Sinatra and many others. So does that help with the confused person.

  • In the 60's God was on form in this decade, or on some good s**t !

  • Great sailing in the clouds of our dreams. Чудное путешествие.

  • Que de souvenirs se rapportant à l'année 1967 !

  • "And here's a real long song and i hope im here at the end of it" from the boat that rocked i cried both at the line and the damn song =') just an absolute beautiful song plus its the first 7" vinyl single i brought :D

  • Chriddof brought me here. Not that it matters, this is still a bloody good song.

  • ...dedicata a peppino impastato...

  • reminds me of H.R.Udy

  • sembra senza luce

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  • my brother passed away today n this was his favorite song.

  • @1zombiemum - I'm sorry to hear that, your brother had good taste in music. All the best !

  • What can i say...Love these Guy's....Say's it all really'''haha....Good taste in music my friend....

  • Im sorry but this song should have more views than crap music! Long live the good music: 50s-90s!

  • sounds little like church music great sounds!!

  • no comment just will cry..

  • RIP Lou my old bar buddy who always played this on the jukebox.

  • I remember this being played by my father's friend. Guy got divorced (left his cold wife) and was hanging around our house.

    That divorce definitely improved my music taste!

  • @LMB222 great comment ; D

  • @LMB222

    Damn, when I was reading your comment, I thought it was gonna say your father's friend was found hanging somewhere (as in he hung himself). Gross. But good song indeed :)

  • @cougher989 Bwahaha! Sorry it made you feel uncomfortable, that dude is doing well, retired now, enjoying life.

  • God, what emotions some songs can give you..just never want the song to end...tnx for posting this!

  • tune just makes me wanna cry out in joy!! put up with me lol, but seriously.. re-hearing it has me shedding some...

    ahh.. the mems...

  • what a classic and thank you soooo much for posting..

  • The best aspects of humanity are portrayed through beautiful pieces of music like this.

    Universal we all appreciate it.

  • mille souvenirs d'une jeunesse malheureusement passée trop vite MERCI a tous ces groupes de mes belles années...et celle de bien d'autres personnes...severic2009.

  • Menneisyyteni musiikkia ,onpa hyvä että kirjoitan jotakuinkin oikein........

  • MOST PERFECT EVER LOVING!

  • This song will allways have a place in my musicheart! Love to play it on my bass and sing it, especially with my band Riverside.

  • Godspeed, Broccoli Dog.

  • was watching the movie The Big Chill, and had to hear this song all the way through. It is one  of my favorite songs from the movie.

  • gota say though i just posted about this playing at my dads funeral yesterday and i wonder if they ever knew this song would b so widely used at funerals ,reading all these posts

  • hi just wanted to say it was my dads funeral yesterday and he had this playing as they brought him into the chapel .and it was very fitting and moving.thank you x

  • Oh my God, in stereo, the song is even more touching and moving! so much feelings and emotion are aroused by the lyrics as well the music and the unforgetable organ.

    I have chills every time i hear this master piece.

  • Ok ignore the people high on PCP this song was NOT written about the Titanic, geesh where do people come up with this crap? The song is about sex, or drunken sexual romp, just like 90% of the songs written in the 60's.

  • @ShoreStudios you mean it is not about the revnege on the HOOD ?

  • This song was played at my Grandma's funeral, nearely 6 years ago. This is the first itme I've listened to it since, and it's beautiful. RIP Grandma <3

  • jestem z rocznika 92 i dziekuje rodzicom ze wychowali mnie na klasyce!!nie wyobrazam sobei ze mialabym zyc i sluchac muzyki rihanny itd;/....

  • my best friend had a dream last night that I was being married to this song... I'm a pasty ginger and described a whiter shade of pale hahaha

  • THIS IS SO FABOLOUS IN NOWADAYS

  • That 60's organ !

  • i can not stop listen to it for the last nearly 40 years

    i just love it

  • mmh Im a young girl with the most incredible smile

  • @85valarieparks85d

    Meet......snaketorture. A match made in heaven. LOL.

  • Like I said before you uneducated MORON there is NO interpretation ask the MOODY BLUES this SONG IS ABOUT THE TITANIC YOU DUMB FUCK it is a tribute to those who died on the ship

  • A timeless classic!!!

  • I always heard the song was about drinking. I love this song. This was my brother's favourite band. He passed away a few years ago. Thanks for bringing back so many nice memories.

  • this guy below is a moron this song is and always be about the titanic wake up youngster

  • :)

  • Everything so perfectly balanced resulting in this timeless beautiful master piece.

  • still awesome.

  • WOWWWW!!! This tune brings back memories .... still seductive :)

  • thnxx 4 this great upolad 

  • Conocí a Procol Harum en vivo en un concierto que dieron en guadalajara, Mexico allá por 1975. Ésta canción es un himno de los tiempos más fantásticos de la música pop-rock entre 1967 y 1973 (¡qué suerte de haber vivido esos años!

  • I wanna have sex while listening to this song...

  • quel joli slow , et qu'elle musique , qui me rappelle mes 16 ans , MERCI a toi

  • /watch?v=X778LvF-FAk Russian cover.

  • A classic, still gives me goosebumps :)

  • My name is also Frank. I am from Amsterdam Netherlands.In 67 when I was 11 years old, my mother play this record on and on. She learned me what good music is. Excuse me for the bad english.

  • @assmannlang my name is frank and your mom's a skank

  • @fleischpudding You're an asshole!

  • @shanny9574 NO, YOU'RE AN A**HOLE

  • @johnwaynegacy94 nobodys talkin to you fatty. Mind your own fuckin business.

  • @shanny9574 STOP ACTING LIKE AN A**HOLE, A**HOLE!

  • @shanny9574 Fuck you, I'm Talkin with @shanny9574

  • Wolfee1 this is for U

  • I always thought this was recorded by Moody Blues.

  • let's chill ;D

  • Wow great song, why can't music be like this any more:(

  • @jdf360pwn agreed.....and I was born long after this song came out!

  • Thank you, my name is Frankie ,I am a naval vet who who was hon./med discharge in 80. This song I will request for my funeral when that day arrives.It is after all a mainers song and I come from an italian fishermans familyso thesea has always been in my blood and i will retun someday. Amen!

  • @frank02111

    No it is not a mariners' song, it is about a bad LSD trip. Sorry, to destroy your illusion.

  • @055697 Were did you get your info on that? I was told it was a mariners song when I was on vacation in Italy on the Island of ponza. They actuallity had an italian version.

  • @055697 seriously shut your fucking mouth, its open for interpretation

  • @frank02111 you have to be a nice person Frank! When my father died we put " Sounds of Silence"

  • Oh my god! Does this take me back!

  • c bo cha hein ? lol! mdrr ♥ ♫ ☼ ► ♦ ♣ ♠ ♥

  • Timeless

  • Is the keyboard's line from Bach? Somebody told me that once.

  • great song

  • Learned to play this way back in the day when I was a keyboard player for a band out of NC and anytime I get even close to a B-3 Hammond or anything even close to one I still have to play some of this. Something about it always relaxed me and the notes just flow. Thanks for posting from an error when groups had to be able to sing and actually play an instrument.

  • TheHotFalafel In my opinion nowadays artist are just no able to create this kind of profound, inner quality music..they jut are not capable. They are just as superficially as the world they live in today. The best they can do is cover or recreate.

  • I was watching "The Big Chill" and it brought back memories.... Thank you for posting! ;)

  • This was my time I wish!!

  • My genoration: lil Wayne, dubstep, Bieber, Dj Pauly D, Ke$ha = :(

    I wish I lived through my grandpas generation rather mine... it just sounds kinda depressing that I hate my generation...

  • @TheHotFalafel totaly agree with you :(

  • @TheHotFalafel I wish the same thing.

  • The "Vestal Virgins" were the virgin holy priestesses of Vesta, the goddess of the hearth and home. There were six of them chosen by lot and they were sworn to celibacy. Their main task was to maintain the sacred fire of Vesta. The Vestal duty brought great honor and afforded greater privileges to women who served in that role. The Vestals lived in the Atrium Vestae near the circular Temple of Vesta at the eastern edge of the Roman Forum.

  • Am I the only one who views the lyrics of this song as a response to suicide?

  • Excelente audio...grandios canciòn...Gracias por el recuerdo!

  • erm I'm a crazy American girl

  • stupenda canzone quanti ricordi qualcuno parla italiano

  • stupenda canzone quanti ricordi 

  • ...and i still keep on rocking with my husband and my granddaughter! groovy baby...

  • great band, great song, mathew fisher on Hammond, BJ Wilson on drums, amazing gary brooker s lead vocals, London in the 60s...a grandma fan of procol harum, moody blues, pink floyd, genesis, the beatles, the who, yes, and...yes, those were wonderful times indeed.what an era...peace...

  • @kloudzjia A little more history to your great thread. The drums on this track were layed down by session drummer Bill Eyden.

  • @DoubleVisionandco when did BJ Wilson joined them? for what period? He s my favorite although this guyBill Eyden sounds fantastic.tks for the info.

  • @kloudzjia At the time of the recording, PH`s drummer was Bobby Harrison. At the recording session for A Whiter Shade Of Pale, Harrison struggled and couldn`t play the drums to the producers satisfaction so the producer called in Bill Eyden, who was a famous Jazz drummer who also did session work.

    After AWSOP was released and shot up the charts, the band fired Harrison and replaced him with BJ Wilson.

  • @DoubleVisionandco  Thanks!

  • For some odd reason, when I was a very young child (I was born in Jan. 1967 - only a few short months before this song was released) I always felt like crying when I heard this song on the radio. It always sounded so sad to me, almost as if it were part of some kind of memorial service. Maybe because the organ gives it such a majestic religiosity. A song one doesn't easily forget, unlike what is rammed down people's throats nowadays!!

  • ohhhhjaaaaa, wie schöööön, wie wunderschön, da bekomm ich wieder Gänsehaut und schwelge in Erinnerungen, wie hab ich diesen Song geliebt, darauf getanzt und ich war sooo verliebt. Danke für längst vergessene Erinnerungen, die nun wieder hoch kamen. Danke..glg ilse..

  • thx for the stereo sync-up mix of this old treasure :)

  • RHYME.. ????? (2ND GRADE STUFF) LOL !!!

  • @claptongroupie Thanks for your message. After visiting your channel, which is fantastic by the way, I appreciated your comments even more. Rock on!!!

  • ....................A Whiter Shade Of Pale

  • This is the first song my late husband and I ever made out to,,thanks for sharing :-)

  • Класс!!!!

  • the French love this...they almost ruined a summer holiday of mine by wearing it out in every available juke box... despite the the fact none of 'em understood a damn word of the song... but neither did any native English speaker! Still don't...

  • the French love this...they almost ruined a summer holiday of mine by wearing it out i every available juke box... despite the the fact none of 'em understood a damn word of the song... but neither did any native English speaker! Still don't...

  • @gimmigiois..Hey Lorenzo..deep question..not enough room to answer here. But consider the poetry of the times and the psychic waters into which it was born. The biggest drug was freedom (along with all the other good stuff). I see a parallel with S.T.Coleridges"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (opium-induced?) mythology and allegory of its times, just like"Whiter Shade of Pale". Study of one could lead to understanding of the other.

  • I've just come back from Menorca where a 3 piece band & singer made a reasonable fist of it, they didn't try to match the original just played it straight, good enough to remind you that you hadn't heard it in a while.

    I was 9 when this was first released I can remember waiting for a bus back from the beach with my Mum, brother &sister late on a sunday afternoon just a great chill out song.

  • @cloudjia Since you seem to be so stuck on peace, here is a song of ultimate peace, which I am sure you have heard many times. I am hooked on it right now and my day starts with this anthem everyday.

    youtube.com/watch?v=lVdTQ3OPtG­Y

  • @cloudjia Good Lord, Has dementia set it? God forbid! You are damn right it was Nights in White Satin. Well, I am 60 too.

    As for Elvis, I have named my son after him. I daresay Elvis was and still is part of me.

    Nice to meet someone with the same thoughts that I have

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  • Of all the millions of songs ever written or going to be written, this and Moody Blues' Whiter Shades of Pale are the best. Yes, not excluding the Beatles and Elvis, though it is hard to say it.

  • I want to thank cloudjia, mags981, lkirsner, and others. I am 36, and listened to music of the 50's and 60's with my sister. Maybe it was because my parents listened to this music, or maybe it was becuase this music has a universal appeal, I dont know; either way, I am endeared to it. Some times I wish life could go back to the way it was "before". I am jealous of the 60's generation. You lived life so full, had so much hope, so much energy...we have nothing but parady and cynisim.I feel cheated

  • Oh Grandma's I am right with you with the memories and the peace we so hoped for. How we protested against the war and how the vets coming home thought we were protesting against them. How sad it was they didn't understand how much we loved them and wanted them home and safe. Here we are once again, praying for our troops and wishing peace that never came. I remember where I was, what I was doing. This is my all time favorite song.

  • EIGHTEEN PEEPLE HURTH BLURFLLE BLURTH!!!! YEAAAAHHH!!!! I GOT MY LIGHTER UP!!!! DRUUUNNKKK!!!

  • to redevye420chronic, is that supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing? such a lovely song to sway too....

  • I would just like to take a moment to dedicate this song to every woman i've ever slept with.

  • For a song that remains as fresh as it was played the first time...it must reach and capture the soul of the listener, this song does it and does it well, truly an evergreen!

  • I went to a concert in the park last night and they played this.........did a journyman like job. Man did the memories of my youth come flooding back.

  • If music be the food of love

    then laughter is its queen

    and likewise if behind is in front

    then dirt in truth is clean

    My mouth by then like cardboard

    seemed to slip straight through my head

    So we crash-dived straightway quickly

    and attacked the ocean bed

  • @cloudjia Hi! Absolutely nothing you wrote was boring, actually I loved your story . You really helped me to remember the date, because I fell in love with this song when I was in my teens, as soon as it hit the charts. I traveled a lot back then, as this one special tune and in particular, became a universal favorite...cool way of meeting other fellow travelers too,over a great song! Thanks so much for the memories...music is magic!

    Peas to ewe :)

    Lady Soul

  • WOW...just WOW!!

  • Beautiful song, This was played at my fathers funeral xxx

  • @davespages I can understand why. WSOP is on my list to be played at my viewing.

  • my fren sue love dis song very much

  • Nights in white Satin or this ..You'll need a fucking gun to make me decide..John,Paul, George,Ringo

  • this songs makes me wish i was born in a different time....my parents grew up during the 60s and for some reason i feel a strong connection with this song especially... when I hear this song I certainly "turn a whiter shade of pale". Thanks Mom and Dad.

  • This song makes me really miss the 60's, even though I'm just 19 now

  • amazing-pure perfection--<3

  • strong, strong, and strong

  • Thank-you for the song and the video...really a pretty song and blast from over 40 years ago! Wow! Memories.....Kate

  • Poetry, yes poetry!

  • this song always reminds of my long-gone Daddy....

    RIP SHAKY....<3 me

  • When ever i hear this i think of the the boat that rocked sence where its played when the boat is sinking