The English band Procol Harum are among an elite group of artists that is smaller than fifty. They are one of the few that have sold over 10 million physical copies of a song, that being "A Whiter Shade Of Pale." Even more interesting is that song is in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but the band isn't. How does that make sense?
The list of artists who have sold over 10 million singles is a bizarre array of musicians if I do say so myself, and includes four more Christmas songs, along with "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas, and "My Sharona" by The Knack. Elvis has two songs, and The Beatles only have one.
Besides "Y.M.C.A." by The Village People, and "Macarena" by Los del Rio, I think the one that got to me the most was "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" by the Scottish group Middle Of The Road which has sold more than ten million copies, and to think I had never heard it before just a few minutes ago.
Back to Procol Harum, and my favorite of all their great songs, and that is their 17 minute masterpiece from this album titled "Shine On Brightly"
"Life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"
What is this? You've been blogging? I used to follow a couple of your blogs and you quit years ago, but just today I was cleaning up a bunch of RSS feeds on my feed reader and went to 13 1/3 to cry a little in fond memory, and under "my stuff" was this blog.
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