Incredible reaction!! Tim please get that violin & learn. Don't put it off, music is in your soul Sir. Don't turn around many years from now & wish you did. 🎶
I’d never seen this amazing arrangement with a full orchestra. How beautiful. Live versions sometimes aren’t perfect but they have so much genuine emotion.
Booker's voice did not change much over the decades. Always amazingly soulful. As I've heard before the original recording was reminiscent of Percy Sedge's 'When A Man Loves A Woman'. I can only imagine Percy killing on this one.
@@boblozaintherealworld3577 Percy did a version of this not long after the original came out - check it out if you've not already heard it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P04QGS78QdQ.html
That was a beautiful version that I’d never heard before. As a music writer said, “If you spend too much time trying to figure out Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade Of Pale,” you might miss out on its majestically-rendered sorrow.”
It's one of those songs that has a different personal meaning for everyone that hears it depending on if they are in the woman's shoes or the man's shoes.
You have the right idea about instruments. I've played 7. Piano & Viola were my forte, but anything with a keyboard or strings, I played it. I so love this performance. I remember my first solo with a famous maestro and a symphony. Very overwhelmed
Tears here, a song from my youth also. Keep in mind this was first released in 1967! Gary had that snow white hair by the time this was recorded live in 2006. Thanks so much for doing this one, love your respectful and emotional reaction to an old classic. I keep dreaming every time I watch one of your videos that someday you have a music history show on MTV!
Wow. That brings back memories! Gary had an amazing voice! They are from England. The song was first released in 1967. That was Gary Brooker singing and playing piano. Sadly, he passed away earlier this year. Thanks for doing what you do Tim. Please tell Fred that we’re thinking of him and sending positive vibes at his barbershop school. 💈 ✨✨💇🏾⚡️✨💫⭐️
I graduated from high school in 1968, and we used this song for the processional to march into the gym. We thought we were so cool 😎 because the traditional music was “Pomp and Circumstance “ and we broke the “rules”! Class of ‘68!
"I love you, kid!" Just kept saying this as I saw your reaction. Songs I've heard a thousand times, but new through your eyes. I so appreciate your appreciation.
This version is so superior to the hit record, I have a new appreciation for it. Tim, if you want to play violin, then go for it - what’s stopping you? I’ve played guitar for 48 years and can tell you, once you’ve learned one stringed instrument, the others are easier to pick up. The first (and only) time I picked up a banjo, I was able to play Oh Susanna. Same premises on both, just different notes and strings. It’s wonderful to have hobbies that don’t require electricity, j.s. Love you both.
I was 16 or 17 when this song came out in 1967 and Gary Brooker was the lead singer with Procol Harum. He just died this year..He still sounded great in this video.
I was 15 when this song was "born"!! It will continue to be a classic through time and eternity!!! Gary Brooker had the most incredible voice!!! Rest in Paradise dear man!!!💜💜🎶🎼🎵🎧🎸🎤🥁🎹🎙🤘🤘🤘
*Love this performance...it is near 40 years after the original recording and Gary Brooker still sounded really good. This song is burnt into my memory for having heard it numerous times when I was young (me; born in 1962).*
@@ms.dirtybird7779 I wrote near 40 yrs between it being recorded in '67 and this concert in the vid, which happened in 2006....so 39 yrs in between. But yep....time goes! I'm hitting 60 yrs, myself, next month. [enter same emoji you used; *here*]
@@Roh_Echt Happy birthday soon, Roh... I will be reaching my sixth decade in October myself. And, personally, having played in symphonic bands in my youth, I prefer this version of this song over the original release (though the original release was/is wonderful as well).
@@leonardshevlin7260 Forever and always, sir! ;) (Actually, I don't give an eff* about my age as long as I can see my kid continue to grow, marry, and love!)
Something about this dude makes me tear up…can feel his soul through this song. He reminds me of my late Grampie 🙏Phenomenal performance & great reaction!
That was a monster hit back in the day!! Not often do live performances hold up to the studio recording, but that one did! And Timothy, your reaction was awesome, reminded me of some of those from back in the day!! And cranking out the content today!! 💗🙏💥
I grew up listening to this song. Haunting melody! So happy you guys are receptive to all genres and generations of music. I'm also from Gary, you make us so proud! Blessings and love ❤
Amazing that a 2006 live production sounds more crisp than the 60ies studio version I have in my head. And the voice held up all those decades so beautifully! Thanks for this.
This is one of the songs I could listen to every day. So so sad that Gary died. You're so young. I am happy you appreciate my generation's music. This song is one of the best.
Pleasse consider, The Moody Blues, nights in white satin is also an all time great. They also say forever autumn. It was also featured on jeff Wayne's war of the world's album.
Great t-shirt! If you don't know, this is the album cover for Jimi Hendrix's album "Electric Ladyland" which is an incredible album; can't play most of it on You Tube though. btw, Gary Brooker, the singer and keyboardist for Procol Harum, recently passed, R.I.P.
Thank you for taking "your" time to share with us a timeless memory that so many of us have lived. You have given us the chance to look back, relive our youth, and be thankful for what we now have because you gave "your" time to listen. It is the greatest gift we can share. Your review helps us realize that this gift is still alive and our music has not been forgotten.
Beautiful song, this was amazing live recording. Thank you for sharing, and by your reaction I’d recommend you get that violin. There is music in your soul.
I've been fascinated by this song from the first time my brother, who was ten years older than me, played it. Procol Harum's lyricist Keith Reid wrote the words to this song. In an interview, he explained: "It's sort of a film, really, trying to conjure up mood and tell a story. It's about a relationship. There's characters and there's a location, and there's a journey. You get the sound of the room and the feel of the room and the smell of the room. But certainly there's a journey going on, it's not a collection of lines just stuck together. It's got a thread running through it." Reid got the idea for the title when it came to him at a party, which gave him a starting point for the song. Says Reid: "I feel with songs that you're given a piece of the puzzle, the inspiration or whatever. In this case, I had that title, 'Whiter Shade of Pale,' and I thought, There's a song here. And it's making up the puzzle that fits the piece you've got. You fill out the picture, you find the rest of the picture that that piece fits into."
