Scopitone
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Scopitone is a type of jukebox featuring a 16 mm film component. Scopitone films were a forerunner of music videos. The 1959 Italian Cinebox/Colorama and Color-Sonics were competing, lesser-known tech
Scopitone machine
A Scopitone film spool
Jewelbox Scopitones 1990
A Whiter Shade of Pale
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"A Whiter Shade of Pale" is a song by the English rock band Procol Harum that was issued as their debut single on 12 May 1967. The single reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart on 8 June and stayed
Scopitone
…Miss Go-Go"), Tommy James & the Shondells (“Mony Mony”), Jody Miller ("The Race Is On" and her biggest hit "Queen of the House") and Procol Harum ("A Whiter Shade of Pale"). In one Scopitone recording, Dionne Warwick lay on a white shag rug with an offstage fan urging her to sing "Walk on By". Another had Nancy Sinatra…
A Whiter Shadeof Pale Annie Lennox
The song's distinctive, Bach-inspired organ part was played on a Hammond M102.
One of the clips for the song was filmed at Witley Court, part of which was gutted by fire in 1937.
St Anne's Church, Highgate, second promotional clip