procol harum - a whiter shade of pale (early version, with cold end)(march 1967) - stereo remix

Edit for headphones, December 2021. This is an edit of track one of the second cd of the two cd remastered reissue - the 2015 deluxe edition - of the January 1968 album "Procol Harum" by Esoteric Recordings (catalogue number ECLEC 22497). He he he. Great opening line, isn't it.

"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" was the debut record on 12 May 1967. In 1967 it charted number one for five weeks in the Dutch Top 40 and was in the charts for 13 weeks; and then in 1972 it was for 12 weeks in the Dutch charts, including three weeks at number one. In 1967 it reached number one in the UK Singles Chart and stayed one for six weeks. It reached number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was one of the anthems of the 1967 "Summer of Love" (which in real was a summer of big income for the record companies & the parasites who usually surround musicians)(and at the bottom of this text is the proof that even some band members were double crossing another...). It is one of the most commercially successful singles in history, having sold more than 10 million copies worldwide...

personnel on the album:

hammond organ – Matthew Fisher
lead guitar – Robin Trower
bass guitar – David Knights
percussion – B.J. Wilson
vocals, piano – Gary Brooker
engineer – Eddie Offord, Frank Owen, Gerald Chevin, Keith Grant, Laurence Burridge
producer – Denny Cordell
mastered by – Nick Robbins

tracklist of the double album:

original album released as Regal Zonophone LRZ 1001 in January 1968:
1-1 Conquistador 2.33
1-2 She Wandered Through The Garden Fence 3.21
1-3 Something Following Me 3.33
1-4 Mabel 1.50
1-5 Cerdes (Outside The Gates Of) 4.59
1-6 A Christmas Camel 4.42
1-7 Kaleidoscope 2.49
1-8 Salad Days (Are Here Again) 3.33
1-9 Good Captain Clack 1.25
1-10 Repent Walpurgis 4.04

bonus tracks:

1-11 A Whiter Shade Of Pale [Single Version] 4.04
1-12 Lime Street Blues [Single Version] 2.50
1-13 Homburg [Single Version] 3.52
1-14 Good Captain Clack [Single Version] 1.28
1-15 Alpha 3.50
1-16 Salad Days (Are Here Again) 4.12
1-17 Understandably Blue 3.29
1-18 Pandora's Box [Instrumental] 3.05
1-19 Cerdes (Outside The Gates Of) [Alternate Mono Mix] 4.45
1-20 Something Following Me [Alternate Mono Mix] 3.38

2-1 A Whiter Shade Of Pale [Extended Early Version - March 1967] 6.04
2-2 Homburg [Extended Stereo Version] 5.33
2-3 Repent Walpurgis [Extended Stereo Version - August 1967] 7.27
2-4 Conquistador [1971 Stereo Mix] 2.39
2-5 She Wandered Through The Garden Fence [1971 Stereo Mix] 3.27
2-6 Something Following Me [Stereo Mix] 3.47
2-7 Mabel [Undubbed Stereo Mix] 1.55
2-8 Kaleidoscope [Stereo Mix] 3.08
2-9 Cerdes (Outside The Gates Of) [Stereo Mix] 5.23
2-10 Homburg [1971 Stereo Mix] 3.56

BBC "Easybeat" session, June 1967:
2-11 Morning Dew 3.11
2-12 A Whiter Shade Of Pale 5.12
2-13 Mabel 1.37

BBC "Top Gear" session, September 1967:
2-14 Homburg 3.50
2-15 Good Captain Clack 1.17
2-16 She Wandered Throu