{"id":310797,"date":"2025-12-29T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=310797"},"modified":"2025-12-26T07:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:24:38","slug":"a-white-shade-of-pale-music-video-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/12\/a-white-shade-of-pale-music-video-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"A White Shade of Pale (Music Video of the Week)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Procol Harum at Gala du Midem, 27 Jan 1968, Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France. Transmitted by Eurovision, this show has not been included on any officially released video or DVD.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Procol Harum - a white shade of pale, at Gala du Midem 1968\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F6AaRtQFn5Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lyrics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We skipped the light fandango<br \/>\nTurned some cartwheels across the floor<br \/>\nI was feeling kind of seasick<\/p>\n<p>When the crowd called out for more<br \/>\nThe room was humming harder<br \/>\nAnd the ceiling flew away<\/p>\n<p>When I called out for another drink<br \/>\nThe waiter brought a tray<\/p>\n<p>And so it was later<br \/>\nWhen the miller told this tale<br \/>\nThat her face at first just ghostly<br \/>\nTurned a whiter shade of pale<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cThere is no reason<br \/>\nAnd the truth is plain to see\u201d<br \/>\nThat I wandered through my playing cards<\/p>\n<p>And could not let her be, no<br \/>\nOne of 16 vestal virgins<br \/>\nWho was leaving for the coast<\/p>\n<p>And although my eyes were open<br \/>\nThey might just as well have been closed<\/p>\n<p>And so it was later<br \/>\nWhen the miller told this tale<br \/>\nHe said that her face at first just ghostly<br \/>\nAnd then turned a whiter shade of pale<\/p>\n<p>And so it was later<br \/>\nWhen the miller told this tale<br \/>\nHe said that her face at first just ghostly<br \/>\nThen turned a whiter shade of pale<\/p>\n<p>Oh, just a whiter shade of pale<br \/>\nThen turned a whiter shade of pale<\/p>\n<p>_________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musixmatch.com\/pro\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musixmatch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Whiter Shade of Pale lyrics \u00a9 Onward Music\/essex Retentions C\/o Bucks Music, Onwards Music Ltd.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Procol Harum at Gala du Midem, 27 Jan 1968, Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France. Transmitted by Eurovision, this show has not been included on any officially released video or DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[871],"class_list":["post-310797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-video-of-the-week","tag-music-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310801,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310797\/revisions\/310801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}