I was in love with a girl when we were 14 in 1967. She liked me but we were so shy and never connected after that year. I went in the service in 1971 and moved across the country when I got out with a toddler son to raise myself. 40 years later I was visiting my brother where we grew up and I ran into that girl. She had lost her husband. We have been together 14 years now and it has been the best time of our lives. We have never before felt the love we do for each other.
I am 78 years old. I did enjoy listening to this song, but even more I enjoyed reading the many memories that you all wrote. Some memories made me smile and some made sad, but I can relate to them all. My dearest friends all are gone now, but today I felt like I had friends here! Thanks.
I understand. All my close friends have passed as well. I'm 57, and all my close friends didn't make it to this age. I think of them many times while hearing the older songs. A couple of my friends were musicians and could play many of the older songs. Enjoy the music!
Hi Rosalie , some songs have a really strange effect on us ! When we are happy we love the music , but when we are sad we understand the lyrics ! 😅 ❤ Take Care Friend
When you're in your 20's your life travels at 20 MPH, 30's at 30 MPH so on and so forth.. Now that I'm in my 70's every day goes by in a blink of an eye. Make it count my friends. Make it count!
When I was in my 20's, I'd see old people with their white hair and walking sticks and just categorise them as a different species to me. It still shocks me when I look in the mirror and see I've become one of that species.
I'm 52 years old. Retired from military, been there, done that. Divorced after 27 years. Depression is a part of my life, might be forever. This song makes me cry and feel good at the same time because it gives me a good cry, for nothing and everything. I hope someone understands. God bless us all for doing no wrong but for doing what we were asked and expected to do on both sides of the fence. 😑 I hope that made sense. 🥰
Well, 52 is a good age. I believe there is still could be more good things in future than you have seen so far. You still can find the love of your life! Or enjoy being single.
My husband & I celebrated our 50th Wedding Anniversary this year & every single time I hear this moving song I remember dancing with him as teenagers with chills from head to toe gliding across the dance floor with stars in our eyes. What a fine love story we have lived! Paul is now 71 & I am 70...may there be many more Whiter Shade of Pale dances!♥️♥️
Congratulation my wife and I will this December 27 and I will dedicated this song to her withold pictures of ourself in Tic Toc ...congratulation again .
Congratulations on your 50th wedding anniversary 💕 nice Memories two young lovers who were meant for each other.💍 I also just recently celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary November 10th, 1973 - 2023 🥂
Im at 42 yrs, I am 60 he is 72 🎯 Dosebt sound so bad now, But when I was 16 he was 28 . Ya , I caught a good one. But he really hit the 💥 JACKPOT 💥 ITS BEEN HARD SOMETIMES, But worth the time 💜💙💚💛🧡❤️
I remember secretly watching my Mom and Dad slow dance in the living room to this beauty. They are both together in Heaven now. I hope there is a ballroom there for them to dance in. I miss you Mama and Daddy! See you soon.....❤
You speak of the world??? We are the children......Africa and the USA and everywhere.... God bless the whole WORLD and everyone who lives with in!!!!!!!!!!
@@user-kl8mz4wh1q”For God so loved the world 🌎 🌍🌏 He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him might not perish but have everlasting life. For He did come into the world to judge the world but that through Him the world might be saved.” John 3: 16-17 “He’s got the whole world in His hands!” ✋🏾🌍🌏🌎🤚🏾 🙌🏼🕊️🙏❤️🙌🏼
I’m 60 years old. I’ve buried my Mom and Dad both sets of grandparents and a brother. I’m not in great health myself. I’ve had a good life. Of course some struggles as well. Music has always been my driving force. I’ve played drums and piano. Stay positive even through the bad. Keep jamming. Enjoy the ride it’s over in a snap. Godspeed.😎❤️
I'm 75 and I still fight back the tears💔.... Got no idea what makes this music touch me so deep... I was in Vietnam when I heard this music.... Maybe that's why I feel like crying.... My friends... Gone 💔💔💔
I think the song is generally about someone learning of an unpleasant reality of which he had been blissfully unaware. And I think it resonated with people of a certain age at that time who were learning, had learned, or we're about to learn, some unpleasant life lessons.
The first time I heard this song I was 15 and heard it on my lunch break at home for lunch. I walked back to Algebra class and could not get it off my mind. I knew then that it was a very special song. I’m a old lady now but it still brings so many emotions when I hear it. Truly a beautiful masterpiece
I am 98 yrs. old, and I love this song. I might even sing it at a karaoke! (Lots of old guys still have their wits). Besides, we are not old! We were just born before you!
When I hear this song I am transported to a small village in Switzerland.A tall handsome, young Canadian pulling me on the dance floor.Holding me tight!So handsome that I was so shy and wondering what he saw in me.Then we went walking in the in the moonlight until the chalets looked small below us.The mountains still snow covered in summer!The crisp heady air!What a romantic evening and memory.I am 70 years old now and still remember that evening as if it were last night!
65 to 76, an era in music that has no equal in mans history, nothing even close. Nor ever will be. Thank you john for what you did to this world. You changed everthing. Everything
Well, my music was the '40s thru the 50s and we were able to dance to all of our music. Slow, jitterbug, lindy, and so on. 70s music? You just had to listen to it. There is nothing like dancing a slow dance with your girlfriend, turned wife. And just embrace each other and feel the love you have for each other. Now, those are memories, my wife of 56+ years went home. She passed on July 20th, 2020 .We danced to In The Still of The Night on her 75th birthday. Never knowing that that would be Our Last Dance. Not saying your music was bad, but you couldn't close dance alot. Well, take care and God Bless You.
In the fall of 1968 I went to a dance at the union hall when the band called out a ladies choice. And so it goes... A girl I knew but little tapped me on the back. 63 years, 6 kids,12 grandkids and all the and when we hear that organ, she still smiles we hang on tight and dance slow crcles to a whiter shade
LYRICS: We skipped the light fandango Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor I was feeling kinda seasick The crowd called out for more The room was humming harder As the ceiling flew away When we called out for another drink The waiter brought a tray And so it was that later As the miller told his tale That her face, at first just ghostly Turned a whiter shade of pale She said "there is no reason" And the truth is plain to see But I wandered through my playing cards Would not let her be One of sixteen vestal virgins Who were leaving for the coast And although my eyes were open They might have just as well've been closed And so it was that later As the miller told his tale That her face, at first just ghostly Turned a whiter shade of pale And so it was that later
11/30/20 To @Lorraine Cortes - *So very, very sorry for your loss.* 💔😢 ~~ 2o2o has *SUCKED* in every way possible for me & for most in America, that's for sure. I lost my sig other this year on 3/10/20, 15 days before the COVID panic, hysteria & the lockdown set in. I have no more words for this loss.💔 ~~ I'll just be so glad & relieved when it's finally Jan 1, *2022.* (I've already written off 2021 as a total loss & waste! 😷👎) Hopefully by 2022 this COVID nightmare 😵 will be over with & both the battles AND the war will have been won with the development of successful vaccines in 2o21.🤞😷😷 ~~~ Meanwhile ... as we all exist in social isolation & begin forgetting what the lower half of the human face looks like 😶 ... we can all dig deep into RU-vid, *find & listen to the BEST music ever made* & live on memories, laugh to the current & biting parodies & sarcasm of #StephenColbert, #JimmyFallon, #SNL, #DaveChappelle, #SethMeyers & others & wait it out until this COVID nightmare is over. 👍
Lorraine, I was very sorry to read about your brother. I have lost 3 brothers and three sisters. The pain is more tolerable as time goes on. Take Care.
Im 47, and when i was a kid, every once in a while, my parents would cut off all the lights, light a couple of candles, smoke a joint, and listen to music. This was one of the songs they would listen to. They've been dead for years, but to the day they died, they never stopped doing that. I miss them.
Gosh! It is that kind of song indeed. I’m 77 and most of my school mates are gone; my siblings; my husband. Wow! Lots to shed tears for, sadness and joy. Memories!🙏🏽❤️
If you trace the chordal element, it does a bar or two of Bach's 'Air on a G String' before it veers off. That spark was all it took. I wasn't consciously combining rock with classical, it's just that Bach's music was in me. -Gary Brooker
Depression is a song. Don't listen to it. God thru Jesus Christ is beautiful music to your heart and soul. He's real. Stand up, shake it off tell him you're ready to live in this beautiful world he created for us. God Bless you!
Lyrics : We skipped the light fandango Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor I was feeling kinda seasick The crowd called out for more The room was humming harder As the ceiling flew away When we called out for another drink The waiter brought a tray And so it was that later As the miller told his tale That her face, at first just ghostly Turned a whiter shade of pale She said "there is no reason" And the truth is plain to see But I wandered through my playing cards Would not let her be One of sixteen vestal virgins Who were leaving for the coast And although my eyes were open They might have just as well've been closed And so it was that later As the miller told his tale That her face, at first just ghostly Turned a whiter shade of pale And so it was that later
This song is heavier than Nights in white satin. Nearly an impossible accomplishment. And your correct. The people in 2360 will be listening to this absolutely magnificent tune with the equal admiration we do.
This was my husband's favorite song way back then. He's passed away now but I can see him clearly smiling as he did years ago when he played this gem over and over and over.
Driving with my mother back in the 60's she loved this song, playing on the shitty AM radio singing along. Thank you Mom, you were the best mom a kid could ask for. 🙏
I am 59 years old. I was living at the countryside. Theres one girl i always sang this song. She's my childhood sweetheart ... It sad i lost her. Now, i sang this song at StarMaker apps. There's a good feedback for the listeners. I am happy this song never fade...❤❤❤😊😊😊
This song apparently used to be the favourite of Dutch journalist and fighter against injustice Peter R. de Vries, who died on the 15th of July after being shot a week before by criminals. It's hard to explain here what De Vries meant for the Dutch (except being on the telly just all the time) but in his, too short, life he did so many good things and helped heal those who were broken before. While The Netherlands appears to be a nation in mourning this week, I hope many will come to this song in his remembrance to honour him. For me this song will forever be Peter's.
This song was my father's favorite, he just passed away a month ago at the age of 37, i still have a video of him singing this song while playing ukulele Everytime i listen to this song, i can't hold my tears.. miss him so much..
Gave you a thumbs up ,friend. My condolence. I am 66 and still, i listen to the song. It is beautiful. Please have your Late Dad's video put on a dvd. Cheers from SA.🇿🇦👍
Everytime I am playing and listenin this song am always teary eyed.😥so many memories happy and sad.. Thank you for having this immortal song .am 65 yrs old and I love it ❤️
I began my first semester at Sacramento City College as l let my hair grow down to my ass, dropped acid, designed psychedelic anti Vietnam War protest signs Made love not war then got my 'Greetings you be drafted for Vietnam" letter 1970... returned shredded spiritually 1972 to get called vile names and spit on my uniform..
Eu tenho 52 anos e, ainda hj trabalho duro pra sustentar minha família e toda vez que escuto essa música os meus olhos se enche de tantas lágrimas misturadas de saudades de um tempo que não volta mais. Mas aproveitei cada momento da minha vida junto das pessoas que amo. Enquanto houver vida vou escutando esse clássico mundial com muita alegria no coração ❤️❤️
Tenho 62 anos, sou do interior pernambucano temos 02 filhas com 29 anos, gêmeas, são meus amores. Continuamos ainda todos na mesma casa, sempre lutando por dias melhores e ouvindo belas canções como esta, que realmente nos emocionam. ❤ ❤ Um abraço Marcos Fernando, muita saúde e paz para todos !
Me too....they send me a lot of ekecteonuc stuff. I'm not against it. Have beeb dancing free sryle up to now, U'm 54..but it's not the same used ro at violoncello in orchestra since U was,10 ..😉☺🙃😘Up to16..and never stoped singing and performing. Music saved my life!!!💚💛❤💯💣💥
I met my Husband 55 years ago, in a Bar on the back Street In St. Thomas Virgin island. I was there with a friend who worked there. On the Juke Box this song was playing, as I walked in, Whiter Shade of Pale, I heard that song for the first time. It stayed with me through the years. We are still together. That Song is special to me, I heard a guy from Nigeria singing it today. I looked it up, so many versions from different Artists, singing this song. Remarkable, how some things and songs stay with you always. Love it.
I was in grade 10 in High School in 1967. This song always makes me want to cry. Some of the best music was written in the 1960's + 1970's. Thank you. God bless you. 💗➕💗
I was born in 80 and as amazing as my childhood was and my teens In the 90s I can only imagine how magical being a teen in the 40s 50s 60s 70s or even 80s. There was still magic mystery and discovery for us but not anymore for these children.
I am 53 . The song was produced the year I was born . My parents played this song so many times when I was a kid . Always wondered what it was about …?
I have lots of songs from the 60s up to the 90s that make me feel that way. Go on and cry. It's a beautiful thing to have feelings of nostalgia that deep. It makes you remember to not take life for granted. I'm realizing that "kush got me like" , so that's all. ✌🏾♥️🤘🏾🙏🏾
I was 7 years old when i first Heard this Voice and Organ...a Seed was planted and Music has ever since Played an important Part of my Identity and Gary,s Song has remained the Golden Standard. The Original Song is longer then We know !
That Organ is ethereal! This song is other worldly. I heard it on the radio and was changed. Like when you go to church and really see and hear God and feel His peace ( my take) IMHO. Hard to describe that feeling.
This song had been played today July 21th 2021 at 11:00 for Peter R. De Vries by all Dutch radiostations. He has been murdered for his believe to be honoust. He never bended a knee for criminals until bullets of a coward made him bend😢 On bended knee is no way to be free... Rest in peace Peter🙏🇳🇱
He sounds like my kind of fellow. The darkness always tries to extinguish the brightest lights,but they never put them out completely. Ben Franklin said any society that give up some of it's freedom for a little security deserves niether. This man knew that.
Just saw the news about 10 minutes ago, then came here. The song was perfect back when I heard it when it first came out and it's still perfect today (02-22-2022). R.I.P. Gary Brooker! Condolences to his family, the band and we fans. Thanks for uploading!
My 81 year old mom is crying her ❤ out longing for my dad that passed on 2 years ago😢 this was their song ...let it out mommy😢 think about your yester years with your happy times with daddy❤2024 blessed as well as sad times with my mom❤
used to hear this song while patrolling the DMZ in Vietnam on my Armored Personnel Carrier in 1969. Though the lyric was nothing about where I was, I still associate this song with that time I spent expecting to die. If you were fighting, you weren't writing songs, you were listening to them because you grew up on rock n' roll.
My dad introduced me to this song, I absolutely love it. I'm a guitar player. This is one of my favorite songs to sing along to.i wanna learn the chords so I can play along to it as well
I agree this would be a wrong choice for a wedding song. lol If you listen to the words it’s about a girl who overdosed on drugs in a bar. In those days the phrase the millers tells his tale means to die while tripping on drugs.
I was 14 years old the last time I heard this song. Now I am 70. It hit me as hard today as when I heard it 56 years ago. Absolutely floored me! Still not over it. This has never happened to me before and I doubt it will ever happen again. No doubt this is divine inspiration. God bless them!
My not quite 13 years old granddaughter said today, “ they sure don’t write songs like they used to. “. Old soul, old school that one. I am 67. This song makes me cry, still.
I'm 40 and this song is beautiful no matter what age you are. It's truly a masterpiece and should go down in the history books as one of the greatest songs ever written. 💖
My mom is 72 years old and absolutely loves this song, I play it once a week for her it always puts a smile on her face, and I happen to like it too ❤️
Oh! This brings back so many wonderful memories. This song played at every school dance and us girls would just pray that that "special" boy would ask us to dance. Then if he did you would get on the dance floor, sway to the music and for a few minutes you were in heaven.
My dad played this song when I was young. I loved it as a child but I never knew the name, plus my pops passed when I was 11 so I couldn't ask him. Needless to say I'm happy I found it!
I don't understand ... This song is about a woman who had an adulterous affair!!! The miller told his tale is a reference to Chaucer's Canterbury tales.
My dear dad requested this be played at his funeral back in February. I didn't think much to it as he was young, just 60 years old and I didn't think I would be burying him just yet. However, he took his life this September. For weeks I tried to find the song, we had played it together on RU-vid as he wanted me to hear it but it had disappeared from my search history. Anyway, 3 weeks after he passed I thought I would try one more time to find the song and there it was just there as I opened my search bar. This song makes me cry for obvious reasons but I feel close to my dad when I listen to it. Such a beautiful song and I'm glad he got his last wish of it being played at the funeral. God rest his soul. 💔
I used to stay up and watch a show with my dad late on Sunday nights when I was a kid in the eighties. They played songs from the 70s. I remember this song ever since then. I was mesmerised by it even as a kid and I'm thinking of my dad and my childhood now listening to it.
Oh Claire...I'm so very sorry for the loss of your dad. Your story breaks my heart. I hope you find peace and one day are able to remember only the love and not the pain of losing your dad that way. You'll be in my thoughts and prayers. 🎵♥️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️♥️🎵
I have loved this song FOREVER 💖✌🏼🌻🌺. It's just not the same anymore 😭😁, I wish we could go back to the 60s and get rid of all the mean people and start over 🥰✌🏼🌻🌵🌺
Our generation is going so fast, I'm 66 and my children grew up with this music and I think that's why both of them are musicians, I'm a musician myself, and I know we left something sublime behind for them to remember us, feel sad at this moment, perhaps is nostalgia.
I've got you by 3 years. 😁 Similar in that my daughter's were all brought up with all kinds of music but leaning strongly towards songs and groups like this. I wanted them to be exposed to it all. I'm a musician too playing several instruments. It brings me peace daily. One daughter out of 3 sings. She has a powerful 4 octive range. But all must have music too in their lives. It's always been such a gift to me. Hang in there. Peace. 🎵🎶🎵😁🎵🎶🎵
Socrates (469-399 B.C. ): The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households.
best song of '68, and maybe the greatest of all time..., january 1st, 2021, 4 am in Uruguay...let a whiter shade of hope come to us with the new year....
LOVE THIS SONG! IT REACHES DEEP INTO YOUR SOUL AT THE SAME TIME WRAPPING AROUND YOUR HEART! WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SONG! I PRAY FOR LOVE AND PEACE TO OUR BEAUTIFUL HUMAN RACE. LOVE U BROTHERS AND SISTERS!
Won't happen until we realize what home is, what we are, and what we need to be doing, and BOTH times in history, people rejected the truth. First with christ, then with hitler. And because of this rejection of truth, one day beautiful melodies like this will cease to exist entirely.
@@Xander081987 I AGREE BROTHER. BUT I BELIEVE IN OUR HUMAN RACE BECAUSE THERE IS MORE GOOD THAN BAD. I HAVE HOPE AND PRAY MUCH. GOD BLESS U AND YOUR FAMILY AND ALL THE HUMAN RACE!
