Posted on 07/23/2013 5:04:32 PM PDT by virgil283
Procol Harum performing A Whiter Shade of Pale.. the 1967 version.... This is the original 16mm Scopitone conversion, from the 'summer of love' 1967 hit record. Vocals and piano played by Gary Brooker, Matthew Fisher played the Hammond organ, and these original lyrics were written by Keith Reid...[H/T maggiesfarm]
(Excerpt) Read more at americandigest.org ...
How many of today’s lyrics make sense?
I have several of his albums (from my dad’s collection from the 1950s.)
I also have a reel of 4 trak tape that I can play on my old reel to reel...
Notice on the 1967 video, the cameraman’s excellent work during the “16 Vestal virgins” verse.
Eddie Duchin?
Not uncommon during that era. Lucy was in the sky with diamonds, and someone was always leaving the cake out in the rain...
Nowadays lyrics make sense, like "who let the dogs out" and "I touch myself"
Dittos to that!! Get Hot!!
Nice, thanks.
I wouldn't know. I don't think I could name a single hit song from the past ten years.
Gosh, I saw them twice over 20 years ago and they were called dinosaurs back then. They were already using female vocalists to hit the high notes and using a second drummer. I think Ray Thomas retired a few years ago.
enlightening, as per the comments:
The original song has four verses. The final two verses were cut to reduce the length of the song to a duration that could be played on radio. The lyrics above make no narrative sense because the final two verses are missing—the story ends midway through, before the narrative is complete.
The song is about a man examining his drunken seduction of a (probably married) woman in a bar, their subsequent sexual encounter, and her shame over the act—hence her face turns a whiter shade of pale.
Also, the “mirror” lyric is incorrect. It is “the miller”, which is a reference to The Miller’s Tale, another story of sexual seduction of a married woman.
Clean music...Ahem...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rws_7mLTqj8
It’s “as the miller told his tale” both times, not “as a mirror told its tale”!
While Judy was in disguise with glasses.
Actually more than a half million people showed up from around the country, the arrests alone were almost 13,000, and involved almost 20,000 federal troops police and National Guard.
They came out in ‘73 with “ A Darker Shade of Black” and it all evened out
It was D.C. Coliseum where I started out.
So, you were a secret leftie once, too?
There were some nice booties back then.
We are as far away in time from 1967 as 1967 was from 1921.
bfl
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