Thursday, November 23, 2023

If It's Thanksgiving, It Must Be Procol Harum

From 1969, here's the original classic lineup of the aforementioned Procol Harum...

......and their seraphically beautiful "Pilgrim's Progress."

Pilgrim -- get it? It's not rocket science, kids.

As long-time readers may recall, this song is something of a Thanksgiving tradition around here. Which is, of course, a pretentious way of saying I'm too lazy to come up with a new gag. Quel surprise.

In any case, enjoy the cranberry sauce and stuffing, everybody!!!

And be of good cheer; Weekend Listomania -- and a particularly cool one -- returns tomorrow!!!

PS: I have a really wonderful story about the instrumental fade-out of that song -- it involves a brilliant short film (a proto-music video, actually) shot by and starring some old college friends of mine circa 1970 -- and I'm going to tell it here one of these days. Promise.

2 comments:

ChrisE said...

Happy Thanksgiving, Steve, from Canada. Canadians have their Thanksgiving in early October. However, I'm thinking of applying for dual citizenship so that I can be even more of a glutton :-)

mistah charley, ph.d. said...

ChrisE - you're probably kidding - on the off chance that it has actually crossed your mind as a semi-serious intention, as someone who has gone the opposite direction - gotten dual citizen in canada by descent - my dad was a nova scotian before becoming a bostonian - i would like to point out one disadvantage of united statesian citizenship - you owe taxes to uncle sam no matter where in the world you are

i seriously thought we might move to my ancestral province, canada's ocean playground, when missus charley retired - but practically speaking it doesn't seem to be in the cards - before i concluded that i learned 'o canada' and even applied for and received my canadian passport and social insurance number - and i am even developing some fondness for our monarch, although of course he can never replace his mother