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[@marymargaretmoore9034]

Such a classic, beautiful song. I remember when it came out. R.I.P. Gary Brooker.

[@NAIATHEDRAGON]

💫💫💫💫🎶

[@RobertDeMartin]

This is the living definition of what music is and should always be. This video will very soon go over 100M views.

[@NAIATHEDRAGON]

I agree. It's beautiful!

[@danielstevens4198]

Goodbye Gary. You will always be a legend for our generation. RIP wherever you are.

[@ronnie237]

After all these years, I still get chills from listening to this performance.

[@mstewart109]

Me too Ronnie!

[@maryannturton9830]

Chills EVERY time!🎶🎙👊

[@curiousman1672]

Gary Brooker's voice is just legendary. And that Grand left hand on the Yamaha. Ugh. My favorite rendition the classic. RIP Gary.

[@NAIATHEDRAGON]

💫💫💫🎶🎶🎶

[@ritagryphon222]

This song was a big hit in the sixties with Procul Harum. The single sold 10 million copies. Maybe you should listen to it. Gary Brooks voice is even better here.. Sadly he passed away this year. And yes, there i s a castle around the corner (:

[@NAIATHEDRAGON]

🙏🙏🙏😇. I'm a visit Denmark if it's that magical!

[@rayj1011]

That was the Danish National Orchestra playing with Procol Harem.

[@dimedraweriv258]

Gary's voice gives me actual chill bumps when he sings. There's only a few singers that's ever did that to me.

[@bobbyg7102]

Thank you for not interrupting this classic. Do yourself a favor and check out Conquistador from the same concert. Conquistador was the encore song.

[@NAIATHEDRAGON]

Thank you Bobby G!

[@BOOMNERD51]

Great reaction to a performance that I'm, ve watched in awe a great number of times. Gary Brooker, what a voice and presence!

[@scotttrainer9704]

This would be a bad choice for a wedding, it's about the ending of love. 😆

[@bella-xp7qd]

Gary was 61 years old in this video. His voice became richer. RiP Gary

[@janetsilverhawk7204]

I was 11 years old when this song came out,and 55 years later I still it.

[@ProdigyBowlersTour]

Gary Brooker, the lead singer of Procol Harum, was one of the victims of 2022, a year in which we lost several giants of the music industry. No one else sounds like him. No one ever will.

[@jwhiteuk]

The world lost the legend Gary Brooker about a year ago. This is a masterpiece!

[@buddystewart2020]

I'm not a huge Procol Harum fan, but this was a truly great performance. So many singers, as they age, lose the best quality of their voice. He's not a young man in this, and yet, he sounds better to me then he ever did. Incredible.

[@joanfisher1079]

There are certain songs that are timeless and create goosebumps every time you hear them. Gary Brooker created this magic over 50 years ago and then was able to recreate it to a T live here in 2006. Not many vocalists can sing their recordings as they were 5 decades ago. Gary was specially gifted.

[@beeseewill2407]

One of my favorite songs from the 60s revived classically beautiful.

[@georgelynch6139]

The Danish National Symphonic Orchestra and Choir have consistently elevated the bar for amazing concert material. Even to this day they are sold out of every performance for almost a half year into the season. I purchased tickets for a performance in May 2023. Check out their vid of the “Good the Bad and the Ugly”. A amazing performance that’s gone viral on the YTube...enjoy

[@NAIATHEDRAGON]

Thank you! 🤜🤛

[@uksuef7218]

well worth listening to the original 1967 procul harum version of this tack as well.Gary Brookers voice is mesmerising and the song is almost difinitive of that era. it is a song you can spend a lot of time wandering about the lyrics or just take in the beauty of it. It refers to the 14 c english book the canterbury tales by Chaucer. Also worth mentioning the brilliant guitarist from this band Robin Trower , very good but not as well known as he should be. He went on to have his own self titled band into the 70's - my favourite track- Daydream. Procul Harum alos do a good version of an interesting song called Morning dew by American folk singer Bonnie Dobson, which has been covered by dozens of good bands including Jeff Beck with Rod stewart, nazareth , episode six ( featuring Ian Gillan from Deep Purple) Mick Taylor from rolling stones, Robert Plant, the National and many others. There is areason why it has ben covered so much,it is a really good song.

[@loadedorygun]

Wow, heard the song a million times and seen more than a couple live versions over the years, but that was sublime. That took an already epic song and made it a total musical experience. That was so well arranged. All the depth of symphony but losing NONE of the original rock magisterial vibe. And Gary’s voice is still super on point here, almost better than the original because it’s colored by age but it doesn’t stray off pitch or lose power. Holy smokes that is THE version for that song. I’d be afraid to perform it after that lol.

[@jeffreybooth5129]

The best band ever in my opinion, I still remember the first time I heard this song .I have been lucky enough to see them live 8 times and was due to see them again before Gary passed away in February. I would encourage any one to listen to their magnificent catalogue of music.

[@danielmesery2904]

He put this song on the charts In the 60s RIP MR GARY BROOKER ☮️🌎🙏🍺

[@mcove09]

Honestly… could you imagine being there live!? As just another American I am truly humbled by this song and it’s divinity!

[@ronparsons8786]

One of the finest live performances ever captured. Bar none

[@johnvansplinter3874]

Just once I’d like to get though this performance without dicing onions. I recommend Nightwish for amazing live performances

[@Mike-rk8px]

NAIA, you’re actually right about there being a castle in the place this concert was filmed. It’s Ledreborg Castle in Lejre, Denmark. You can see some of the castle in the video, but just a small portion of it, it’s actually a huge castle on a huge amount of land. In the short summers in Denmark it’s been a tradition for a long time to have orchestras perform, or plays put on, on the lawn of the castle.

[@eannemarie739]

Thank you mike, Kind regards from the netherlands 🇳🇱🌷⚘️

[@lisaheathcock7924]

WOW… it’s like you’re in my head… this is also one of my Best Songs EVER!!! It’s so Beautiful… and I think this is my favorite version of it, even better than the original!!! You are on 🔥my guy!!!! 🤘🤘🔥🔥🥰💜

[@NAIATHEDRAGON]

Much love Lisa! 🤜🤛🎶🎶

[@oldmanghost219]

Many like this live version and no doubt it is absolutely beautiful, BUT it is not what made this song so iconic and memorable. Before I listen to the video I bet that you will not mention what did make iconic. What I am talking about is that there was no orchestra or choir overshadowing the haunting sound of the organ. It is the original studio version with the organ that I will always hear in my head

[@pamelajohnson6199]

In my top 5 favorite live performances. RIP Gary Brooker

[@oliver6749]

I respect you for how you have such a respect for music

[@elsievickie]

I love your going down this road... The Danish National Symphony... The Good the Bad and Ugly...Soundtrack from 1969 movie... FANTASTIC PERFORMANCE

[@thomassicard3733]

The oboist is excelling! GREAT sound!

[@andrewwhyte9944]

Gary Brooker interwove his melody with the sounds of a J.S. Bach cantata. A brilliant song. Many of the fans from that era consider this song the greatest pop/rock composition of all time!

[@spacefanatic]

Loved the original studio version from the 60's but think this version is even better as it has more depth due to the orchestra and choir. Gary Brooker's voice aged like fine wine. R.I.P.

[@triton199]

there are so few artists that just have that presence, that energy that gives them that studio recording sound live and this man is one of them,. this is such a gorgeous song

[@Royal_BLT]

You are aware that a REAL 'Songwriter' not only writes the lyrics but also the Score/Music and might also include the Arrangements !?! 🇨🇦 The music has to be written for ALL the instruments, and this Orchestra has 100 members ! The music and arrangements have to be written also for the Choir of about 70 members ! All the arrangements are a collaboration of the Author/Artist and the Conductor !

[@SG-js2qn]

Primo psychedelic rock from the Sixties! IMO, the song is about a man who is going about his day with his wife, and feeling miserable and sick to his stomach, he confronts her with her infidelity. Caught, she turns pale. Referenced in the lyrics, "The Miller's Tale" is from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," a medieval English anthology written around 1390 AD. "The Miller's Tale" is about a wife who commits adultery. When he sings so painfully, "And so it was," he's recounting the moment his life fell apart. One of the somewhat under-credited inputs to rock in the 60s-70s is medievalism, which shows up well here. FWIW, if you're ever interested in seeing the bands in their youth, there are videos of Procol Harum and the Moody Blues performing their signature songs (period music videos). For something completely different, I see you have yet to cover Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein" (1972). It's an instrumental that hit #1 in 1973. Also a phenomenal hit from 1971-72 is "Roundabout," by Yes. If you want another killer vocalist from the period, it doesn't look like you've heard Janice Joplin yet. Maybe try the iconic "Piece of My Heart" (1968).

[@NAIATHEDRAGON]

No wedding song then 😅

[@SG-js2qn]

@@NAIATHEDRAGON Haha, no. :)

[@pebblehilllane]

"A Whiter Shade of Pale" has sold in excess of 10,000,000 copies which is a remarkable feat, especially for a song released as a single. Only about 40 songs in history have ever achieved this great feat. In 2004 the song also made it onto the top 60 of Rolling Stone’s notable ranking of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 1998, it was inducted into the highly-distinguished Grammy Hall of Fame. And in 1977 the Brit Awards gave it the distinction of being The Best British Pop Single 1952-1977, an accolade it shared with “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975) by Queen. Also in 2018 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame changed its criteria, allowing singles to be inducted into the institution as opposed to only musicians themselves. And “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was amongst the first songs to be enshrined therein. The success of this song has led to “a whiter shade of pale” being adopted as a common phrase in the English lexicon.

[@amybeavis5834]

Oh gosh, such a classic song and a distinct voice! I've loved this song since I was a kid. ❤

[@debramoore7513]

Paul McCartney was once asked if there was one song he wished he had written .. A Whiter Shade Of Pale!! OMG! I found out later it’s because this song was playing when he met Linda Eastman, Paul’s first wife! I’m digging your channel and reactions!! I grew up during the 60’s & 70’s .. this music is right up my alley of great memories!! SUBBED 🎉

[@FUBAR1986]

I forget the name of the movie, but this was part of the soundtrack. Hopefully someone else will remember but in that movie, the whole soundtrack was a masterpiece

[@oldmanghost219]

Interesting. I will look for it but I doubt I will find it as it will be hard to google with so little info.

[@SG-js2qn]

Are you thinking of "The Big Chill" ...?

[@FUBAR1986]

@@SG-js2qn yes that’s the one. Thank you for that.

[@patricklemeur4607]

merci GARY pour ton oeuvre , magistral !....

[@mstewart109]

I suggest you also go back to hear this song when he sung it years prior when first released without the orchestra. It still was an amazing song...

[@GrandmaEllen]

Hello, Master Dragon. I loved this back in the day. I still play it when I get hungry for it. Takes me back. I'm so finely aged! LOL! So is he. LOL! I love all those European outdoor concerts. Way to go. Thanks for this, Master Dagon. I love seeing someone younger enjoying the music of my youth. 💜

[@jnywd8450]

You'll like an older version of this tune, from when they were young hippies.

[@user-ht9pq5gf2c]

You had the same reaction as all the other reviews. A big smile on your face said it all.

[@sst3d]

I have never seen a more respectful; better reaction in my life…A+ all the way..subscriber on my first view. Just perfect

[@strettoasino9006]

One of the few songs on jukeboxes in urban demographic bar's in the 60s...

[@joelliebler5690]

This is one of those songs that one may dream of if you were hearing as you enter the gates of Heaven. A classic song 50 years later after it was originally done by this same lead vocalist and organ player.

[@jeffreybooth5129]

Not being disrespectful but the organist on the original version was Matthew Fisher this is Josh Phillips,,sorry but Procol Harum are my favourite band of all time,I'm not trying to be clever.

[@joelliebler5690]

@@jeffreybooth5129 Thank you for the correction.

[@jeffreybooth5129]

@@joelliebler5690 no problem, keep listening to the band though whichever line up it is.

[@williambrown7206]

I appreciate you listening/watching this video and not interrupting to give an analysis. I heard that song when first released. Props to you

[@peachesb-georgia1125]

Glad you liked something from my era...a time gone by 😜... thank you...

[@protonneutron9046]

Hard to believe I first heard this 55 years ago... ❗

[@eannemarie739]

Thank you so much Naia,this was the favorite of Peter R de Vries our dutch crime reporter who was murdered on July 15, 2021 in Amsterdam.They played it at his funeral and played it at eleven in the mornig together all the radio stations in our netherlands it was broadcast on dutch 't.v Maybe Naia you know Peter he unravels the murder of the American Natalie Holloway. Peter has this beautiful saying On a bended knee you never are free. All good wishes for Newyear to you annemarie 🇳🇱🌷⚘️

[@karenpowell6063]

Chills ❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥

[@janetsilverhawk7204]

Love it

[@christopherhuot2826]

EXTRAORDINARY!!!

[@NAIATHEDRAGON]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jackw467]

Great reaction from you .. listening and appreciating the performance

[@edwardwadsworth9959]

Been to Denmark. Was at the place where the concert was held. Iron Maiden was playing.

[@Matt-gj3uf]

Absolute masterpiece.

[@johnwinton2209]

So much respect for this. All of this.

[@tomroome4118]

NAIA, if you haven't heard the studio version from 1967, you should. It might have been better to hear it first, then see how Gary Brooker can still sing it 39 years later.

[@romanazzitube]

Step 1 - Orchestra prelude Step 2 - Gary Brooker and orchestra Step 3 - Gary Brooker + orchestra + band (Procol Harum) + choir “A WHITER SHADE OF PALE” was released by Procol Harum in 1967 and it was their first single ❤ RIP Gary Brooker 1945 - 2022 *PROCOL HARUM is a latin expression that means "beyond these things”, but the legend tells that was a Burmese Blue cat, that belonged to a friend of the band and that he lived until 1972. The cat’s name was actually Procul Harun, but the cat’s name was misspelled.

[@frankphillips5660]

Thanks for getting to this one so fast! Wish I could have been there. I did see Gary Brooker 25 or 30 years ago with Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band in Ft. Lauderdale and the band played this song with Gary on the famous Hammond organ. I've seen some of your Zepplin videos and I'm leaving a link for another performance of Stairway To Heaven. This time the 3 surviving members of the band are being honored by Pres. Obama and First Lady Michelle at the Kennedy Center in DC. They are presented with a cultural achievement award. You see the 3 members looking down from the balcony almost in tears at times as the band HEART featuring the great Nancy Wilson singing and her sister Ann on guitar. It is performed in a similar way as the one you just watched with an orchestra and chorus backing and it's beautiful. Even Jimmy Paige said "why didn't we think of that", LOL. Zepplin's drummer, John Bonham had passed but his son is on the drums wearing the bowler hat that his father was known for. You will see some stars in the audience most notably the President and Michelle. This video has 35M views from 2012. It's another highly reacted to video I'm sure you'll enjoy: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnfbgJR6mq-gjs0

[@kathyedleman633]

You really need to check out the studio version from the 60's :)

[@lifeandfaith]

Beautiful.

[@richardagvent7179]

A masterful production

[@NAIATHEDRAGON]

🔥🔥🔥

[@drichards7217]

Try Johnny Winter & Eggar Winter, Tobacco Road Live Garentee to blow your mind.

[@marlonsummey1983]

You have a new subscriber because of the way you react. You make it about the song and not yourself. Much Respect

[@jerrybrooks4717]

A song for history

[@ptyptypty3]

the band's name is pronounced, "Pro -Coal Hair-Em" I had to look that up.. lol.. GREAT Song! wow.. Talk about catching Lightning in a Bottle!

[@bobshaw8319]

Masterpiece

[@user-fs9fi8nx7s]

It's angelic for Sure This sounds like something you might hear when you come face to face with God

[@lt.spears1889]

Perfection

[@dandundon9503]

R.I.P. Gary Brooker

[@philipsavickas4860]

Robin Trower was there original lead guitarist

[@williamwarlick3497]

Read the Miller's Tale.

[@chuckyoneill9029]

Conquistador same concert!

[@oldmanghost219]

Wedding??? LOL That kind of reminds me of - "Every Breath You Take" -- that people played at weddings not realizing that it is a stalker song. - "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" is what her face became when she realized that the guy she was dancing the fandango with was a creep. It is a guy meets girl. They dance and girl leaves guy song.

[@NAIATHEDRAGON]

Ohhhhhh 😳😅

[@wesalker3479]

SPEAKING OF DENMARK, How about checking out "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" performed by The Danish National Orchestra? . . .

[@pebblehilllane]

While the sound of the song might be like something that would be played at a wedding, if the person picking the song knew it's lyrics writers meaning it would be far from being something to play at a wedding. "There is seemingly a whole lot going on in “A Whiter Shade of Pale”. Not only is the instrumental partially based on a song dating all the way back to the 17th century, but there are also references to the likes of “the miller”, “16 vestal virgins” and “Neptune” which truly gives the lyrics a mythological, esoteric feel. But as the man who actually wrote the words, Keith Reid, has explained, his goal in writing this classic was to put forth a “straightforward, girl-leaves-boy story”. A girl leaves boy song/story wouldn't really be fitting at a wedding. Very interestingly, "A Whiter Shade of Pale" has held a particularly strong standing in Procol Harum’s homeland of the United Kingdom. For instance, it has been recognized as being both the most-played song in public and the most-played song on air in the UK throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. As far as hits go, no act could have asked for a bigger success than “A Whiter Shade of Pale”. The song came out as part of Procol Harum’s debut album, which itself is entitled Procol Harum. And the track reached number 1 in nearly 15 different countries, including most notably the UK Singles Chart. After topping the Dutch Top 40 in 1967, it went on to also do the same on the Netherlands’ Single Top 100 in 1972, having also recharted on the UK Singles Chart that year. Additionally it reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, despite receiving limited promotion in the United States. In fact this track holds the distinction of being one of the highest-selling singles of all time. Or stated otherwise, it has sold in excess of 10,000,000 copies which is a remarkable feat. That means it wasn't a Gold song or a Platinum song but instead a Diamond song. And for the record, only about 40 songs in history have ever achieved this great feat.

[@lynnieiapichino1121]

☮️💙💙💙🔥🔥😎

[@carstenhull2475]

Please - react to the Danish National Symphony Orchestra playing the theme from Godfather..

[@richdiddens4059]

And if you think his voice is good, just remember that this is the last song of about a 10 song concert.

[@df3575]

Nah. Nah. Nah man. This was just the wrong damn version of this cut to hear for the 1st time. I know its 50 years plus and cats gotta change shttt up at times. But there's no way in h3ll those strings capture the texture and emotion of that analog Hammond sound. This is a hard ass no for me, from the rip....

[@raymondmanderville505]

Why do you react to a song that was recorded 50 years ago being preformed by a now geriatric band ? Why not watch the original video , it’s on KZbin .

[@djpj9174]

What a completely asinine thing to say. Perhaps it's because this is considered by some to be even better than the original being as it's performed by the same band and lead singer but now with 50 years of vocal maturity. RIP Gary Brooker

[@SG-js2qn]

The original video is a fine one to watch and listen to. It's interesting to see the bands in their youth and to hear the original release. But IMO, Brooker delivers the performance of his life in this one.

[@NAIATHEDRAGON]

You mean why do I actually do peoples recommendations?

[@frankphillips5660]

One of my favorite songs from my youth. This production is a MASTERPIECE of an iconic song still sung by the original artist who happens to sound even better 40 years later with one of the best orchestras in the world. This is pure art!

[@karowak1]

1967 listened to this on my Grandma's jukebox

[@karowak1]

Conquistador on the same video. Excellent