Bonus Tracks (1968-1977)
An Alternate View
Culled from the 2009 Procol Harum bonus track reissue series. Another disclaimer is in order for this collection, as I didn’t bother to check any antiquated editions to see if there were other obsolete bonuses floating around. Being only a casual Harum fan, I’m not intimately familiar with the subtleties of these extras, but it’s a fun listen, regardless. Listen to a raw take of “Simple Sister,” below. We’ve got more Procol in the archives, including all the reissued albums and a box set, HERE. Don’t forget about our other Bonus Tracks posts for Zevon (HERE), Family (HERE), The Ramones (HERE), Jefferson Airplane (HERE), The Byrds (HERE), Electric Light Orchestra (HERE), Elvis Costello (17 discs worth) (HERE), Harry Nilsson (HERE), Spirit (HERE) & Mott The Hoople (HERE).
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A Whiter Shade Of Pale (4:16)
Lime Street Blues (2:53)
Homburg (Single Version) (3:56)
Good Captain Clack (Single Version) (1:33)
Il Tuo Diamante (Italian Single: Promo Version) (3:31)
Understandably Blue (Stereo) (3:39)
Pandora’s Box (Version 1: Backing Track) (Stereo) (3:46)
Alpha (Stereo) (3:52)
Conquistador (Stereo) (2:41)
She Wandered Through The Garden Fence (Stereo) (3:28)
Homburg (Album Version) (Stereo) (3:57)
Quite Rightly So (Single Version) (Mono) (3:50)
In The Wee Small Hours Of Sixpence (Single Version) (Mono) (3:01)
Monsieur Armand (Mono) (2:38)
Seem To Have The Blues (Most All The Time) (Mono) (2:48)
McGreggor (2:47)
The Gospel According To … (3:29)
Shine On Brightly (Early Version) (Mono) (3:23)
Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone) (Early Version) (Mono) (2:25)
A Robe Of Silk (Backing Track) (1:59)
Monsieur Armand (Backing Track) (2:42)
In The Wee Small Hours Of Sixpence (Backing Track) (3:03)
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Long Gone Geek (3:26)
Goin’ Down Slow (Live in the USA, April 1969) (7:50)
Juicy John Pink (Live in the USA, April 1969) (2:39)
Crucifiction Lane (Live in the USA, April 1969) (4:35)
Skip Softly (My Moonbeams)/Also Sprach Zarathustra (Live in the USA, April 1969) (5:26)
The Milk Of Human Kindness (Take 1: Raw Track) (3:49)
Still There’ll Be More (Take 3: Raw Track) (5:07)
Whaling Stories (Raw Track) (7:08)
Broken Barricades (Long Fade) (Raw Track) (4:06)
Simple Sister (Raw Track) (5:51)
Poor Mohammed (Backing Track) (2:45)
Song For A Dreamer (King Jimi) (Backing Track) (4:57)
Luskus Delph (Single B-Side) (3:46)
Simple Sister (From The Rehearsal) (3:22)
Shine On Brightly (From The Rehearsal) (4:05)
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Grand Hotel (Raw Track Without Orchestra) (6:16)
Bringing Home The Bacon (Raw Track Featuring Dave Ball) (6:08)
Drunk Again (4:38)
As Strong As Samson (Alt. Mix In D Flat) (5:22)
The Unquiet Zone (Raw Track) (4:33)
Taking The Time (Raw Track) (4:37)
Fool’s Gold (Raw Track With Guide Vocal) (3:55)
Backgammon (3:25)
You’d Better Wait (Live) (4:47)
This Old Dog (Live) (3:42)
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thanx for 2 fine new bonustrax-collections! capital idea, that! best wishes!
Yeah. I like these… Thanx~
Amazinggggggggggg!!!!!
I have become a huge Procol Harum fan over the past 10 years, after ignoring them for a few decades prior. This is due in part to your blog (present and past carnations) and some others, which gave me the opportunity to listen again, and discover the artistry and power behind the music.
It’s to the point where I skip over Whiter Shade of Pale and seek out some of the more obscure songs, though A Salty Dog freezes me in my tracks everytime and I stop to listen to the very last note.
Needless to say, I have since bought every CD and collected many bootlegs along the way.
Thank you!
Regards, Dave.
Cool. Many thanks, Dave.
Always loved Salty Dog, and more lately Home. Plus a weak spot for Broken Barricades. So thank you.
Willard,
All I can say is THANK YOU! Though the Robin Trower era is the best my current Procol favorite is Grand Hotel (the song) and the Shine On Brightly LP. Again it’s just so nice to have all this stuff in one place. Thanks for all your labors.
Love
Newman
Thanks for all your comments and participation Newman. It’s much appreciated.
I’m the last to wish you a happy new year, and thanks for the great music.
Thank you for these! Some fine listening ahead!
What a treat. I’m a long-time Procol fan and yet, hadn’t managed to collect all these bonus tracks. Until now!
It’s too bad “Whiter Shade…” is the extent (for the most part) of what they’re known for. The Procol catalog has so many other worthwhile selections. Even “Conquistador,” a US hit, rarely gets much airplay these days.
Those first 4-5 albums are all solid, quite a solid streak. And their live Edmundton album is still the benchmark for rock band-with-orchestra recordings, in my view.
Broken Barricades was such a departure for them, I think it alienated those fans accustomed to the “Whiter Shade/Salty Dog” extravagances. It’s really solid and has aged extremely well.
And if ever a band was devastated by losing a drummer, it was Procol. They just never had the same power once BJ Wilson was gone.
Many thanks, Willard. Looking forward to hearing this treasure trove.
Thanks Willard. These posts have brought me to a new appreciation of Procol Harum–so much so that I was moved to google the important question–What exactly is a Procol Haram? Not surprisingly it’s a common question & has oodles of answers–all of them funny. In a nutshell, it’s sort of a Latin phrase that unfortunately got “spelt wrong.” & was grammatically incorrect since the word “procul” should not have been followed by the genitive “haram {correctly spelled haran}”–it should have taken the ablative “his”. I never studied Latin so may be confusing the matter even further, but the phrase’s meaning if it were spelled correctly & the grammar was fixed could be translated as “being beyond this” or as was said back in the day–”far out.”. Another explanation given for the band’s name is that it was named after a cat that was owned by someone who was their dealer. Anyway–the name matters not but I do like their music.
Never knew that. Thanks.