Procyl ... Parocial ... Porocol ... Procul ... Procik ... Harem ... Haven
... Harom ... Harlum
Some nasty typos and 'thinkos'
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Jonny Moen writes to BtP
(regarding this article)
I almost go mad every time people write 'Procol Harum'
wrong!
There's a lot of ways to do it ... I try to argue with "what about
Rolling Stunes" or something like that, but I'm seldom heard!
Worst is when catalogues, pretending to be serious, do it the way this
illustration shows!
It's taken from Music Master by John Humphries in 1984.
Claiming to be "The world's greatest record catalogue", it
contains 860 enormous pages!
Nice - very nice!
Note the random oscillation between correctitude and impropriety |
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The UK's TV Times (mid-December 2000 ... see above) ought to know how
to punctuate Jools's ... but in the light of that incompetence, perhaps
the hilarious stupidity of 'Proul Haven' is understandable. Even by clicking
on the illustration, it's too late to put anything right, and we fear for the
sanity of Jonny Moen (see comment above).
Gary Brooker's comment (20 December) was simply, 'This one takes the
biscuit.' Click here to see the pictorial
response from Henry Spinetti.
All that BtP can say in favour of TV Times is that it's slightly less
useless than the corresponding Radio Times which didn't even bother to
mention Gary at all ...
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We'd like to tip our collective Homburgs to the sound-alike artists'
band 'Beyond the
Fringe', who cover Conquistador, and whose mis-spelling of
'Procol Harum' is among the most ghastly we have ever seen.
Doubtless they are more accurate when it comes to music! |
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USA's Monarch Record Manufacturing Co white label test pressing for
the 1972 A&M release of the first Procol album with the addition of (and
the title of) A Whiter Shade of Pale.
A Whiter Shade of Pale
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
The matrix numbers here are "A&M SP 4645-M1" and "A&M SP 4646-M1", though the
actual release came out as A&M SP 4373 (the 4646 catalogue number eventually
went to an LTD LP called Somebody to Love.) |
On one side the production controller has erroneously written With a
Shade of Pale by Parocial Harem.
Would this be more forgivable if 'parochial' were spelt correctly?
This hilarious test-pressing – luckily 'not representative of
the finished record' – scores a feeble one out of five, for managing to spell
'Dog' correctly.
Otherwise 'A' is missing from the song-title, 'Salty' has an intrusive 'r',
Procol has a rogue 'a' in place of the second 'o', and 'Harum' has gained an
'l'.
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Porocol Harum and The Prodical Stranger ... at
least 'Brooker' is spelt correctly. See it all
here And a shipshod effort from
The Times of 14 April 2009 may be winced at
here |
Advertisement for a gig probably in 1968, when 15 July was a Saturday
(thanks, Per)
February 2014: Wikipedia forestalls confusion between a classic rock band and
the congregation of People of
Tradition for Proselytism and Jihad
And here's why one of the BtP team didn't get his 2015 van-insurance reminder
by e-mail:
According to IMDB (click
here)
the 2015 film
Stonewall
contains 31 soundtrack items; it documents not only a song (Uptown Baby)
co-written by Procol's Josh Phillips, but also this curious semi-tautological
typological alias:
More Features at 'Beyond the Pale'
