General Evans Above Archive for Mar 16, 2010

House features A Whiter Shade of Pale

Mar 16, 2010 – permalink

When Procul Harum’s A Whiter Shade of Pale was featured on an episode of House Monday night, it showed off the power of the internet.

In the ol’ days (yes kids, there wasn’t always a Web), people hearing a song on a TV show might talk about it with someone they were watching the episode with. Now, people head off to Facebook and Twitter and post “Did ya hear A Whiter Shade of Pale on House last night? Man, I loved that song!”

Maybe they’d think about replacing that long lost Procul Harum album. But they’d realize the record store was out of the way and abandon the idea. Now it’s a quick click over to Amazon or iTunes and suddenly they own the song.

The ability to remember, reminisce and, yes, purchase an old familiar song must make a lot of composers very, very happy.