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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI have to tell this story somewhere.
Some days ago, I attended a funeral for an eighty-some thing year old man. The funeral was conducted in the funeral home chapel.
Before the service began, recorded music was playing. Pretty stuff - acoustic guitar. I found myself playing Name That Tune. I was amused to identify "Layla" (as in "you got me on my knees, Layla" ). Given the age of the decedent, I was reasonably certain it was not one of his favorites.
At the end of the service - during the southern tradition of parading past the open casket - I identified another tune, again on acoustic guitar. This time, it was a very pretty arrangement of "Whiter Shade of Pale."
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
It had to be an inside joke of whoever put together the funeral home tracks. I'm afraid that I smiled quite inappropriately. "Whiter Shade of Pale" has been stuck in my head for nearly a week.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)TomSlick
(11,098 posts)Now, how do I get the tune out of my head?
CurtEastPoint
(18,650 posts)it's 'whiter' shade of pale.
TomSlick
(11,098 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,650 posts)TomSlick
(11,098 posts)Loved it! Thanks.
mariesa
(59 posts)Thank you.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Take Me To The River is also a fave of mine on it but it's pretty much all good ...
Ohiogal
(32,005 posts)Doncha think
A little too ironic
Yeah I really do think
lol
I wonder if anyone else there noticed what you noticed! Good catch!
Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)Theres more irony in that post than there is in that song, lol!!
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Though I appreciate your also mis-using it to make the point
Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)And thats why Im pretty sure were long lost brothers:
UTUSN
(70,706 posts)When I went away to college in '65, I came home for holidays with the classic Bob DYLAN album, and my classical music mother freaked out. Years passed and when I came back from Vietnam, I put it on the turntable and "Blowin' in the Wind" played, and my mother stopped in her tracks and said, "We sing that IN CHURCH!1"
Ohiogal
(32,005 posts)TomSlick
(11,098 posts)IADEMO2004
(5,555 posts)TomSlick
(11,098 posts)But (to steal from a movie line) he like both kinds of music, country and western.
IADEMO2004
(5,555 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Compared to the original especially it's just this plodding, boring-ass old people music (and I'm in my 50's) and lacks the awesome instrumental 2nd movement that totally makes the song IMHO.