Procol Harum - Procol Harum [Deluxe Edition] (2015) FLAC Beolab1700

Procol Harum - Procol Harum [Deluxe Edition] (2015) FLAC Beolab1700



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Procol Harum - Procol Harum (Deluxe Edition)
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Artist...............: Procol Harum
Album................: Procol Harum (Deluxe Edition)
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2015
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20071117
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 49 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........:

Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 01/08/2015

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Tracklisting
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CD 1:

Conquistador
She Wandered Through the Garden Fence
Something Following Me
Mabel
Cerdes (Outside the Gates of)
A Christmas Camel
Kaleidoscope
Salad Days (Are Here Again)
Good Captain Clack
Repent Walpurgis
A Whiter Shade of Pale (Deram single DM 126, 1968)
Lime Street Blues (Deram single DM 126, 1968)
Homburg (Regal Zonophone single RZ 3003, 1968)
Good Captain Clack (Regal Zonophone single RZ 3003, 1968
Alpha (recorded at Olympic Studios, March 29, 1967)
Salad Days (Are Here Again) (recorded at Olympic Studios, March 29, 1967)
Understandably Blue (recorded at Olympic Studios, July 17, 1967)
Pandora’s Box (Instrumental) (recorded at Advision Studios, August 24, 1967)
Cerdes (Outside the Gates of) (Alternate Mono Mix)
Something Following Me (Alternate Mono Mix)

CD 2

A Whiter Shade of Pale (Extended Early Version) (recorded at Olympic Studios, March 29, 1967)
Homburg (Extended Stereo Version) (recorded at Advision Studios, August 1967)
Repent Walpurgis (Extended Stereo Version) (recorded at Advision Studios, August 1967)
Conquistador (1971 Stereo Mix)
She Wandered Through the Garden Fence (1971 Stereo Mix)
Something Following Me (Stereo Mix)
Mabel (Undubbed Stereo Mix)
Kaleidoscope (Stereo Mix)
Cerdes (Outside the Gates Of) (Stereo Mix)
Homburg (1971 Stereo Mix)
Morning Dew
A Whiter Shade of Pale
Mabel
Homburg
Good Captain Clack
She Wandered Through the Garden Fence
Kaleidoscope

Tracks 11-13: previously unreleased Easybeat session, June 14, 1967
Tracks 14-17: previously unreleased Top Gear session, September 27, 1967

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The self-titled Procol Harum marked the album debut of the band then consisting of Gary Brooker (vocals/piano), Robin Trower (guitar), Matthew Fisher (organ), David Knights (bass) and B.J. Wilson (drums). (Brooker, Trower and Wilson had all previously played in The Paramounts, the group that scored a minor U.K. hit in 1964 with Leiber and Stoller’s “Poison Ivy.”) With all but the closing track, Fisher’s “Repent Walpurgis,” penned by the team of composer Brooker and lyricist Keith Reid, Procol Harum heralded bold new voices in the British rock scene with its progressive blend of psychedelia, classical and blues idioms. The LP, produced by Denny Cordell and released on Regal Zonophone, had been preceded by two single releases. May 1967’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” reached No. 1 in the U.K. in June and stayed in that position for six weeks. (Guitarist Ray Royer, whose tenure in the group was short-lived, played on “Whiter Shade.”) “Homburg” then followed in October, making No. 6 on the pop chart. Surprisingly by today’s standards, neither song was included on Procol Harum in the U.K., but “Whiter Shade” was added to the LP for its U.S. release. It replaced “Good Captain Clack” in a reshuffled sequence. “Whiter Shade” would make No. 5 in the U.S., with “Homburg” performing less impressively at No. 34.

Esoteric has Procol Harum, remastered from the original mono tapes (no stereo version exists), available in both 1-CD and 2-CD iterations. The single disc has the original 10-track U.K. album plus four bonus tracks – the singles “A Whiter Shade of Pale” b/w “Lime Street Blues,” and “Homburg” b/w “Good Captain Clack.” This edition is seven tracks short of Salvo’s 2009 version of this LP. However, Esoteric also has the album in a 2-CD deluxe edition with 15 bonus tracks – seven of which are previously unreleased and two of which are making their CD debuts. The seven previously unreleased cuts encompass the band’s 1967 BBC performances for Top Gear and Easybeat. The other bonuses include B-sides, alternate takes and stereo mixes.

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