{"id":52582,"date":"2021-11-18T10:23:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/?p=52582"},"modified":"2021-11-18T10:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:23:26","slug":"whiter-shade-of-pale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/whiter-shade-of-pale\/","title":{"rendered":"How Procol Harum\u2019s \u201cA Whiter Shade of Pale\u201d Turned Baroque Pop into a Psychedelic Masterpiece."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"produ-leaderboard-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;margin-bottom: 30px!important;\" id=\"produ-1500038812\"><script async=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/tag\/js\/gpt.js\"><\/script>\n<script> var googletag = googletag || {}; googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || [];<\/script>\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-1370015784540-0\">\n  <script>\n\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tgoogletag.defineSlot( '\/21927241144\/728x90-Leaderboard', [728,90], 'gpt-ad-1370015784540-0' )\n\t\t.addService(googletag.pubads());\n\t\t\t\twindow.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers || {};\n\t\tconst timers                     = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers;\n\n\t\ttimers['gpt-ad-1370015784540-0'] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\tconst id = 'gpt-ad-1370015784540-0';\n\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t}, 1000 );\n\n\t\tif ( typeof window.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotRequested', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\ttimers[id] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}, 2500 );\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotResponseReceived', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] !== 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tif ( ! ev.slot.getResponseInformation() ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\twindow.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener = true;\n\t\t}\n\n\t\tgoogletag.enableServices();\n\t\tgoogletag.display( 'gpt-ad-1370015784540-0' );\n\t} );\n  <\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1967, Procol Harum was still in the process of putting together it\u2019s original line-up when it got the chance to record its first single, \u201cA Whiter Shade of Pale.\u201d Two weeks later, they had the number 1 hit in the UK and shortly after it was dominating the charts through Europe and the US. The song kicked off the summer of love in England with its melancholy, psychedelic sound world and soulful performance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Procol Harum emerged from an English beat group called The Paramounts whose hit single \u201cPoison Ivy\u201d (a cover of the Leiber and Stoller song) had reached No. 35 on the UK Singles Chart in 1964. In 1966, The Paramount\u2019s pianist and vocalist Gary Brooker was introduced to lyricist Keith Reid by Island Records\u2019 Guy Stevens. Brooker recalled:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOne afternoon I was over at Guy\u2019s place and Keith was there and we were introduced to each other\u2026.Guy said to me. Keith writes words &#8211; lyrics. \u2018Why don\u2019t you put some music to them?\u2019\u00a0 What made Guy think of that, I don\u2019t know, because I had never written any music&#8230;.Anyway, I went home with this envelope full of words from Keith. I think I read them but didn\u2019t do anything about them for a while.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After several months, Brooker finally sat down at the piano with Reid\u2019s lyrics\u00a0 and immediately wrote three songs.\u00a0 Amazed at the ease with which he could write to Reid\u2019s words, Brooker reached out to the lyricist and the pair began writing songs together a couple of days a week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first, the pair thought they would sell their songs to other artists and groups, but eventually settled on forming their own group. Reid explained: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t try for very long. It just became obvious that the only thing to do was form a group.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bassist Dave Knights soon joined the pair, answering an ad Brooker and Reid had placed in the back of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melody Maker.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other founding members included Ray Royer, Matthew Fisher and Bobby Harrison. But while the band was still trying to put together this original lineup, their demo recording caught the attention of producer Danny Cordell who brought them into the studio to create their iconic debut single \u201cA Whiter Shade of Pale\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA White Shade of Pale\u201d seems to have been one of the songs that Brooker and Reid had written before the formation of Procol Harum.\u00a0 Reid credits the now-famous title line to a chance moment in which he overheard someone say \u201cyou\u2019ve gone a whiter shade of pale\u201d and the phrase had intrigued him. Turning it into a song lyric meant exploring and creating a whole world around it. Reid reflected: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe songwriting process is a funny one, like making a pot&#8230;you get your initial idea. Here I had that line \u2018 A Whiter Shade of Pale\u2019. So you&#8217;ve got your bit of clay, and then you just try to make a pot out of it. And you use your imagination, you shape it and play with it, until you\u2019ve got something that looks like a pot or sounds like a song.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For decades, listeners and fans have argued over the meaning of the lyrics. Some view it as a drunken, one-night stand gone wrong, others have interpreted it as a drug trip.\u00a0 Fans have also pointed out that the Miller\u2019s Tale referenced in the song is an intellectual nod to Chaucer and his 14th century Canterbury tales. However, Reid has stated in interviews that he had never read Chaucer before writing the song and didn\u2019t intentionally reference the Canterbury tales. Instead, Reid simplifies the meaning of his lyrics to an attempt to capture the emotional distress of a classic \u201cgirl-leaves-guy\u201d story: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c\u200b\u200bI had the phrase \u2018a whiter shade of pale\u2019, that was a start, and I knew it was a song. It\u2019s like a jigsaw where you\u2019ve got one piece, then you make up all the others to fit it. I was trying to conjure a mood as much as tell a straightforward, girl-leaves-boy story. With the ceiling flying away and room humming harder, I wanted to paint an image of a scene. I wasn\u2019t trying to be mysterious with those images, I was trying to be evocative.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For all the disagreement about the lyric\u2019s meaning, it is undeniable that the song expresses a powerful melancholy.\u00a0 And perhaps the exact lyrics<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> less important than the emotional effect of the song\u2019s sound world, as evidenced by the fact that two of the original four verses got cut out for the final release. Regardless of the exact meaning of the song\u2019s lyrics, there\u2019s a soulful longing in his performance.\u00a0 The bass equally contributes to the deep melancholy with its seemingly-endless descending melodic lines.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The drums sit back into the groove and the treble-heavy cymbal and snare pulse adds to that spinning room sensation that Reid wrote into the lyrics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But perhaps the most powerful element of this melancholy mood is carried by the keyboard part &#8211; a double keyboard part, to be precise.\u00a0 The keyboard pairing is a unique element of Procol Harum\u2019s sound, right from the beginning. Brooker explained:\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe wanted an organ player. Someone with a Hammond. We specifically wanted that sound of both a piano and an organ, which was a bit of a luxury in those days.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They found organist Matthew Fisher while placing an ad looking for an Hammond organ player in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melody Maker, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fisher had simultaneously placed an ad for himself, looking for gigs.\u00a0 Reid recalled:\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMatthew advertised. We saw his advert&#8230;It was magic finding him. He was just a fantastic musician. It was unbelievable that we found him. Definitely a bit of magic that our paths crossed.\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2009, Fisher was also granted co-writing credits for his part in the song\u2019s creation.\u00a0 The double keyboard part fuses together the rhythmic pulse of the piano underneath the harmonic harmonic color and melodic ornamentation of the Hammond Organ.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The keyboard part has often been compared to Bach\u2019s Air on G string. And there certainly is some resemblance between the two. There is &#8211; as musicologist Allan Moore has pointed out &#8211; a certain \u201cfamily resemblance\u201d between the two pieces, but Procol Harum does not actually quote the Bach piece. Instead we are left with the evocation of a 17th century organ part, coming together with the contemporary sound of 60s psychedelia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the mid-sixties, the idea of bringing Baroque sounds into pop music, was actually in vogue. The past became a fungible toolbox of interesting sounds and ideas which transversed the classical and popular music worlds.\u00a0 For example, Joshua Rifkin\u2019s 1965 album \u201cThe Baroque Beatles Book\u201d takes musical themes and ideas for Beatles songs and reworks them in the style of 17th to mid-18th century Baroque music. Simultaneously, the Beatles were releasing songs like \u201cYesterday\u201d in which they incorporated a string quartet.\u00a0 There is no one reason that 20th century musicians started showing an interest in the Baroque.\u00a0 For instance, Musicologist Elizabeth Randell Upton has identified at least 5 recurring categories of meaning for the use of the harpsichord in sixties popular music:\u00a0 1) humor, 2) novelty, 3) representation of a specific eighteenth century past or the historical past in general, 4) representation of aristocracy or an elite upper class, and 4) personal nostalgia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Procol Harum\u2019s participation in this Baroque renaissance of the sixties is interesting, because it appears to be quoting a specific Bach piece (even though it isn\u2019t actually the same musically). Since Bach is one of the most well known composers of the Baroque period, and Air on G string is one of his most popular pieces in the public consciousness, it seems as though that the band is trying to evoke a very specific past.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And for audiences, perhaps it does somewhat operate in this way.\u00a0 It connects Procol Harum\u2019s music to the artistic lineage of Bach. It is music that is both emotionally evocative, but also intellectually engaging &#8211; listeners love when they recognize something of the past in a piece of music, and it\u2019s even more exciting when you can name the reference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is also essentially what happens with the Miller\u2019s Tale reference in the lyrics.\u00a0 Reid has claimed that he did not intend to reference Chaucer, but of all of Chaucer\u2019s stories in the Canterbury Tales, this is the one perhaps most known to the general public. His audience would have heard it as a Chaucer reference, regardless of what Reid actually intended.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interestingly, though, the lyrics and the music seem to reference two very different time periods.\u00a0 The Canterbury tales were written in the late 14th century and Bach lived in the early 18th century.\u00a0 These periods are certainly very different, culturally, artistically, and stylistically, but to 20th century listeners, they share the common trait of being <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">old.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Procol Harum\u2019s Baroque reference is thus not really about being Baroque. Bach, like Chaucer, is really about being a gateway to the past &#8211; a way of accessing artistic meaning and connecting this progressive, psychedelic sound to its larger place in history.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA Whiter Shade of Pale\u201d was recorded at Olympic Sound Studios in London with producer Denny Cordell. Cordell, who was still in his early twenties, had already produced hit singles like Georgie Fame\u2019s \u201cYeah Yeah\u201d and The Moody Blues \u201cGo Now.\u201d Mike Lease (who would later play in the band Freedom, with some of the original Procol Harum musicians) described Cordell\u2019s process in the late sixties: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPrimarily Cordell was always looking for a sound. He could create a great atmosphere in the studio and though he never intervened with the musicians\u2019 way of playing he nevertheless managed to always end up getting things the way he wanted them.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cordell booked a three hour session to record the song, and it only took two takes with no overdubs.\u00a0 Perhaps this was due to the fact that the band members already knew the song well; they had recorded a demo version previously, which had gotten them the attention of Cordell in the first place. So when they entered Olympic studios there really was only one missing piece\u2026. A drummer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The demo had been recorded with a musician nicknamed \u201cTubs Drubs\u201d but Cordell wasn\u2019t convinced by his playing.\u00a0 The band held auditions for a new drummer, and only found Bobby Harrison, a day before the recording was scheduled. Reid explained:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGary had worked with [former Rockerfella drummer] Bobby Harrison in the past, and we were trying him out. Denny Cordell had already booked Olympic Studios to record \u2018A Whiter Shade Of Pale\u2019 and some other songs. He had told us he was going to get Mitch Mitchell of the Jimi Hendrix Experience to record with us, which we were excited about, but on the day he said he couldn\u2019t get either Mitch or Bobby, so he booked Georgie Fame &amp; The Blue Flames drummer Bill Eyden instead.\u201d<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harrison was in the studio that day and a few days later would play on the re-recorded versions of the song that the band did at Advision Studios in New Bond Street. These sessions were discarded, but Harrison only found out later that his playing never made the released track.\u00a0 He recalled: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs far as I knew they were going to release the version of \u2018A Whiter Shade Of Pale\u2019 with me playing. So when the record came out I was actually convinced it was me playing on it. I thought I was number one in the charts! Then of course I was told it was Bill Eyden, and it felt, well, pretty strange!\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA Whiter Shade of Pale\u201d was released on May 12, 1967. 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