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Beyond
the Pale

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A Whiter Shade of Pale


Israel

196?

A Whiter Shade of Pale / A Salty Dog / Homburg

Polydor (ECHO 101)

Denmark

1967

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Lime Street Blues :  Deram (DM 126)

'Procol Harum is neither a group nor an individual, but five people who have come together to experiment with music and ideas. They don’t create a ‘sound’ but a collection of individual sounds blended together by mutual sympathy and respect. There is no final product only a series of experiments on a theme, experiments which are never conclusive. Music, words and execution are one as can be heard in their first single release, A Whiter Shade of Pale, on Deram.'

Denmark 1967

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Lime Street Blues

Deram (DM 126)

Colour variant

(thanks Lars)

Germany

1967

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Lime Street Blues

Deram (DM 126)

France

 1967

A Whiter Shade of Pale / Lime Street Blues

(Deram Hit-Parade 17,000)

Holland

1967

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Lime Street Blues

Deram (DM 126)

Belgium

1967

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Lime Street Blues

Deram (DM 13)

This was formerly listed as a sleeve from Israel ... corrected by Eddy Smit

Israel

1967

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Lime Street Blues

PAX (ISDM 126)

Italy

 1967

A Whiter Shade of Pale

Other side of DM 126:
clumsy picture edit to include MF!

Italy

 1967

A Whiter Shade of Pale / Lime Street Blues
DM 126: front of sleeve

Spain

 1967

A Whiter Shade Of Pale (Con Su Blanca Palidez) / Lime Street Blues

Deram ME 323, promotional copy (Disco promocion no vendible)

Sweden

1967

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Lime Street Blues

Deram (DM 126):

 

Yugoslavia

 1967

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Lime Street Blues

Deram / Jugoton (SDE-8138)

Denmark

Not
1967
!

A Whiter Shade of Pale / Lime Street Blues (Deram 126)

An obvious mistake: "The Scandinavia 1967"-issue cannot stem from 1967. The picture in the upper right corner shows the Home / Broken Barricades line-up. Even though I am not absolutely sure about it, I would say it is from Denmark. Tormod Ringvold

My wife, Ingelise, remembers having bought it in Denmark, long before I met her (it might be the reason for marrying her :-) ) when she returned from a job in Frankfurt in 1970. There is no date on the sleeve, but '1967' is printed on the record itself. The price, DKK 12,50, appears on the back of the sleeve. It's not easy to come up with a firm conclusion. Peter Justesen

Germany ?
A Whiter Shade of Pale / Lime Street Blues
 
Deram DM 126

(Thanks, Lars)

 

Japan

1967 ?

Long-playing EP: A Whiter Shade of Pale / Lime Street Blues, backed with Night of Fear and I Can Hear the Grass Grow by the Move.

Thanks to Discovery Records in Sydney, Australia

Japan

1967 ?

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Lime Street Blues

Cube (DW-1063)

Japan

1967 ?

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Lime Street Blues

Deram D1012

Mexico ? A: Una Palida Sombra (A Whiter Shade of Pale) / Conquistador

B: Vagaba por el jardin (She Wandered Through the
Garden Fence
) / Algo me sigue (Something Following Me)

Cube 2257
Mexico
 

Mexico

1969

A Whiter Shade of Pale (Una Palida Sombra)

(A Whiter Shade of Pale, Mabel, Caminando a Traves del Jardin (She Wandered Through The Garden Fence), El Conquistador (Conquistador)

Deram / Peerless (EPP 1099)

?? ?? A Whiter Shade of Pale (Con su blanca palidez) / A Salty Dog

Cube 2016013. Stereo

Thanks, Lars
 

 

Germany

 197?

A Whiter Shade of Pale / Homburg / Conquistador
Maxicube 1, Germany: #2016-020

Belgium

 197?

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Conquistador (Cube / Electric Records 2016 020)

 Italy

1972

 A Whiter Shade Of Pale (4:10) / A Salty Dog (4:37)

Cube 2016 013

France

1972

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / A Salty Dog

Polydor 2121 200

Thanks, Malène

France

1972

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / A Salty Dog

Polydor 2121 200

Sleeve illustration by Pierre Bigourie

Germany

1972

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / A Salty Dog

Cube (2016 013)

UK

1972

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Conquistador

Taken from A Whiter Shade of Pale album - TOOFA 7

Cube (HBUG 77)

Detail of the above

 

1972
?

Bug 77: this Flyback single, juxtaposing A Whiter Shade of Pale and Homburg, is unusual for naming the musicians ... though probably not for getting them so wrong.

 

If you can confirm the date and country of this release, please let us know.

Germany

1972?

A Whiter Shade of Pale (4:10) / Homburg (3:52) / Conquistador(2:32)

Cube (2016 020 / Maxicube 1)

Germany 1972?
Record 1:  
A: Conquistador
B: Homburg
 
Record 2: 
A: A Whiter Shade of Pale 
B: A Salty Dog
 
Cube 2607403

Liner note here

(thanks, Lars)
 

USA

1973

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Lime Street Blues

A&M (AM-1389)

White label promo

Japan

1973

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Lime Street Blues (Deram D-1012)

Angola

1973

A Whiter Shade of Pale / Lime Street Blues (Deram SDM 126)

Japan 1976

A Whiter Shade of Pale / Conquistador

On the Philips label

'The lyrics printed on the sleeve are great fun.' writes Tormod Ringvold. 'Two examples from Conquistador: "'Conquistador, you stallion stands, beneath our country". Or what about: "Conquistador, won't you sit, upon your silver shield…"'

 

Germany

1979

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Conquistador

Intercord / Cube (INT 111.301)

Holland

197x

A Whiter Shade of Pale / Conquistador

Polydor (2002 111)

Germany

1979

A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Homburg

Cube (INT 111.307)

Even released as a 12" maxi Picture Disc (INT 136.300) with Conquistador as third track

UK 1982
A Whiter Shade Of Pale / Homburg

Old Gold OG 9225

England 1982 A Whiter Shade of Pale / Conquistador

Backtrackin'
Cube records
BAK 1 1982

(Thanks, Lars Johansson)

 Origin?

1982
A Whiter Shade of Pale / A Salty Dog

 

Flarenasch 181477

(Thanks, Lars Johansson)

 

 

Holland

1984

A whiter shade of Pale / Conquistador

Br. Music (45048)

Note the capital 'P'

 

1988

A Whiter Shade of Pale / The Devil Came from Kansas

Rio Digital Records 1988.

Germany No year stated A Whiter Shade of Pale / Conquistador
 
Polydor (Cube)
2016020

If you can confirm the date of this release, please let us know.
 

Portugal

No year stated

A Whiter Shade of Pale / Lime Street Blues

(Deram SDM 100)

If you can confirm the date of this release, please let us know.

UK

2007 A Whiter Shade of Pale / Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone) alt. version. 
(Salvo SV001)

A page about this vinyl re-release, with its unique 'Reid / Fisher' attribution, is here

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