[DOC] [TLE] Top Five Bach-Inspired Pop Hits - WQXR [PAR] Oct 31, 2014 ... Procol Harum photographed in the late 1960s (Monitor Picture ... The unexpected 
1967 hit "A Whiter Shade of Pale by progressive U.K. rock band ... Bach works 
and the single, for example the cantata Sleepers, Awake! [DOC] [TLE] Procol Harum Songs  Top Songs / Chart Singles ... - Music VF [PAR] Procol Harum Top Songs  #1: "A Whiter Shade of Pale"  #2: "Conquistador"  #3: 
"Homburg" ... US peak, US R&B peak, US rock peak, UK peak, Comment. 1. 05/
1967 ... UK, [artist #1 hit] ... melody based on the Bach cantata Sleepers Awake [DOC] [TLE] Procol Harum Songs  Top Songs / Chart Singles ... - Rock VF [PAR] Procol Harum Top Songs  #1: "A Whiter Shade of Pale"  #2: "Pandora's Box"  #
3: "All Our ... US peak, US R&B peak, US rock peak, UK peak, Comment. 1. 05/
1967 ... UK, [artist #1 hit] ... melody based on the Bach cantata Sleepers Awake [DOC] [TLE] billb_charts - Procol Harum [PAR] Procol Harum  British rock group formed in 1967 by Gary Brooker (vocals, piano
) and lyricist Keith ... From: The Billboard Book of Top Forty Hits  by Joel 
Whitburn  1996: ... melody based on the Bach cantata Sleepers Awake (see 
here). [DOC] [TLE] PS Harper in the UK's Daily Mail, 10 June 2003 - Procol Harum [PAR] Jun 10, 2003 ... Procol Harum's 1967 hit single was part-based on Bach's Air on a G String, ... 
Suite No 3 in D and his Cantata 140, which is known as Sleepers Awake. ... R&B 
tune, based on the Air on a G String melody [should be 'bassline'?]... [DOC] [TLE] Procol Harum  Album  Procol Harum  Rock VF, Rock music hits ... [PAR] Procol Harum  Album  Procol Harum  Rock VF, Rock music hits charts. ... by 
Procol Harum. Date: 1967 ... melody based on the Bach cantata Sleepers Awake [DOC] [TLE] The Life of a Song: 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' - Financial Times [PAR] May 15, 2015 ... Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade of Pale, released in May 1967, was a song that 
... contributing to the lugubrious chord progression of his hit song. ... Fisher 
claimed he based the melody on Bach's Sleepers, Awake cantata,... [DOC] [TLE] What was arguably the first 'progressive rock' album? - Quora [PAR] ... album by Procol Harum. The US version of the album included the hit single A 
Whiter Shade of Pale, derived from an organ melody based on the Bach cantata
... [DOC] [TLE] A Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procol Harum Songfacts [PAR] A Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procol Harum song meaning, lyric interpretation, ... I 
wasn't consciously combining rock with classical, it's just that Bach's music was in 
me. ... This was one of the biggest hits of the "Summer Of Love" (1967). ..... 
Sleepers, Awake: SCHUBLER CHORAL no 1 "Wachet auf" BWV 645 (not the 
intro, but... [DOC] [TLE] CHART BEAT CHAT | Billboard [PAR] Mar 21, 2003 ... "non-hit wonders," remakes of hit songs, and women on top of Billboard's Modern 
Rock Tracks ... "A Whiter Shade of Pale," Procol Harum, No. 5, July 29, 1967 (
melody based on J.S. Bach's 1731 cantata "Sleepers Awake") [DOC] [TLE] Procol Harum organist wins fight over right to Whiter tune - FT.com [PAR] Jul 31, 2009 ... Its melancholy melody made it one of the most distinctive pop songs ... awarded a 
share of the royalties from the 1967 chart-topping hit. ... Mr Fisher claimed he had 
based the melody on Bach's "Sleepers, Awake" cantata, and... [DOC] [TLE] What Goes On: Procol Harum, Otis Redding, Carl

Question: The melody of this 1967 Procol Harum hit was based on the Bach cantata "Sleepers Awake"
Answer: "A Whiter Shade Of Pale"