Procol Harum discography explained

Artist:Procol Harum
Studio:12
Live:11
Compilation:23
Video:5
Ep:3
Singles:34
Option Name:Box sets

This article presents the discography of English rock band Procol Harum.

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
CAN
[3]
DEN
[4]
FIN
[5]
GER
[6]
NL
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[9] [10]
US
[11]
Procol Harum 302047
Shine On Brightly
  • Released: September 1968
  • Label: Regal Zonophone, A&M
  • Formats: LP, 8-track, reel-to-reel
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A Salty Dog
  • Released: April 1969
  • Label: Regal Zonophone, A&M
  • Formats: LP, 8-track, reel-to-reel
272581932
Home
  • Released: 5 June 1970
  • Label: Regal Zonophone, A&M
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
492413634
Broken Barricades
  • Released: April 1971
  • Label: Chrysalis, A&M
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
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Grand Hotel
  • Released: March 1973
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track, reel-to-reel
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Exotic Birds and Fruit
  • Released: April 1974
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track, reel-to-reel
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Procol's Ninth
  • Released: 1 August 1975
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
416211952
Something Magic
  • Released: 25 February 1977
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Formats: LP, MC
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The Prodigal Stranger
The Well's on Fire
  • Released: 4 March 2003
  • Label: Eagle
  • Formats: CD, MC
Novum 82122
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
UK
AUS
CAN
DEN
GER
NL
NOR
SWE
US
  • Released: April 1972
  • Label: Chrysalis, A&M
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
48127530223135
BBC Live in Concert
Pilgrim's Progress
  • Released: December 1995
  • Label: MasterTone
  • Formats: CD+VCD
  • Germany-only release
Live at the Union Chapel
One More Time – Live in Utrecht 1992
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Gazza, Friday Music
  • Formats: CD
One Eye to the Future – Live in Italy 2007
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: Strongman Productions
  • Formats: digital download
Procol Harum – In Concert with the Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir
  • Released: 17 November 2008
  • Label: Eagle
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
Spirit of Nøkken
  • Released: February 2010
  • Label: Salvo/BMG
  • Formats: digital download
MMX
  • Released: July 2012
  • Label: Salvo/BMG
  • Formats: digital download
Some Long Road
  • Released: 5 May 2014
  • Label: Salvo/BMG
  • Formats: digital download
Easter Island: New York Broadcasts 1969
  • Released: 1 November 2019
  • Label: Unicorn, Parachutes
  • Formats: CD,LP, digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
UK
CAN
US
Flyback 4: The Best of Procol Harum
  • Released: March 1971
  • Label: Fly
  • Formats: LP, 8-track
A Whiter Shade of Pale / A Salty Dog
  • Released: April 1972
  • Label: Fly
  • Formats: 2xLP
26
The Best of Procol Harum
  • Released: October 1973
  • Label: A&M
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
  • North America and Australasia-only release
71131
Rock Roots
  • Released: March 1976
  • Label: Cube
  • Formats: LP, MC
Greatest Hits Vol. 1
  • Released: June 1978
  • Label: Pickwick
  • Formats: LP, MC, 8-track
Off the Record with Procol Harum
  • Released: November
  • Label: Sierra
  • Formats: 2xLP, MC
The Collection
Classics Volume 17
  • Released: October 1987
  • Label: A&M
  • Formats: CD
  • US-only release
Night Riding
  • Released: July 1988
  • Label: Knight
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
Portfolio
  • Released: May 1988
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP
The Chrysalis Years 1973–1977
  • Released: April 1989
  • Label: Chrysalis
  • Formats: CD, MC
  • North America-only release
Whiter Shade of Pale
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Castle Communications
  • Formats: CD, MC
30th Anniversary Anthology
  • Released: November 1997
  • Label: Westside
  • Formats: 3xCD
Classic Tracks & Rarities – An Anthology
  • Released: 11 February 2002
  • Label: Metro Doubles
  • Formats: 2xCD
A & B – The Singles
  • Released: 20 September 2002
  • Label: Repertoire
  • Formats: 3xCD
The First Four
  • Released: June 2003
  • Label: Metro Doubles
  • Formats: 2xCD
The Essential Collection 1967–1991
  • Released: 11 August 2003
  • Label: Repertoire
  • Formats: CD
Secrets of the Hive: The Best of Procol Harum
  • Released: 27 August 2007
  • Label: Salvo
  • Formats: 2xCD
All This and More…
  • Released: 28 September 2009
  • Label: Salvo
  • Formats: 3xCD+DVD
Then & Now – The Best of Procol Harum
  • Released: 7 February 2011
  • Label: Salvo
  • Formats: CD
Insideoutside – The Very Best of Live & in the Studio
  • Released: 7 April 2014
  • Label: Metro Select
  • Formats: 2xCD
Still There'll Be More – An Anthology 1967–2017
Hits'n'Flips 1967–1970
  • Released: 3 May 2019
  • Label: Fly
  • Formats: digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Video albums

TitleAlbum details
The Best of Musikladen Live
  • Released: 27 July 1999
  • Label: Pioneer Artists
  • Formats: DVD, VHS
  • US-only release
Live
  • Released: 30 July 2002
  • Label: Classic Pictures Entertainment
  • Formats: DVD
Special Edition EP
  • Released: May 2003
  • Label: Classic Pictures Entertainment
  • Formats: DVD
Live at the Union Chapel
Procol Harum – In Concert with the Danish National Concert Orchestra & Choir
  • Released: 26 May 2009
  • Label: Eagle Vision
  • Formats: DVD

EPs

TitleEP details
Homburg
  • Released: 18 April 2015
  • Label: Esoteric Recordings/Fly
  • Formats: 7"
A Whiter Shade of Pale 50th Anniversary EP
  • Released: 22 April 2017
  • Label: Fly
  • Formats: 12"
The One & Only One
  • Released: 24 November 2017
  • Label: Eagle
  • Formats: 10"

Singles

Title
(A-side / B-side)
YearPeak chart positionsA-side UK Album
UK
AUS
[13]
BEL (WA)
[14]
CAN
[15]
GER
IRE
[16]
JPN
[17]
NL
[18]
NZ
[19]
US
[20] [21]
"A Whiter Shade of Pale"
b/w "Lime Street Blues"
196711111147115
"Homburg"
b/w "Good Captain Clack"
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"Conquistador" (Australasia-only release)
b/w "She Wandered Through the Garden Fence"
31Procol Harum
"Quite Rightly So"
b/w "In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence"
19685033Shine On Brightly
"Il tuo diamante" (Italy-only release)
b/w "Fortuna"
"Repent Walpurgis" (France-only release)
b/w "Conquistador"
Procol Harum
"A Salty Dog"
b/w "Long Gone Geek"
196944823A Salty Dog
"Boredom" (US-only release)
b/w "The Devil Came from Kansas"
"Skip Softly (My Moonbeams)" (Japan-only release)
b/w "Rambling On"
197083Shine On Brightly
"The Dead Man's Dream" (Netherlands-only release)
b/w "About to Die"
Home
"Whiskey Train" (North America-only release)
b/w "About to Die"
"About to Die" (Italy-only release)
b/w "Piggy Pig Pig"
"Broken Barricades" (North America and Australia-only release)
b/w "Power Failure"
1971Broken Barricades
"Simple Sister" (US, Japan, Portugal and Spain-only release)
b/w "Song for a Dreamer"
"A Whiter Shade of Pale"
b/w "A Salty Dog"/"Homburg"
19721318121A Whiter Shade of Pale / A Salty Dog
"Conquistador" (live)
b/w "Luskus Delph" (UK); "A Salty Dog" (US)
2243379316Procol Harum Live
"Robert's Box"
b/w "A Rum Tale"
1973Grand Hotel
"Bringing Home the Bacon" (North America-only release)
b/w "Toujours L'Amour"
"Grand Hotel" (North America, Australasia and Continental Europe-only release)
b/w "Fires (Which Burnt Brightly)"
20117
"Souvenir of London"
b/w "Toujours L'Amour"
42
"Nothing but the Truth"
b/w "Drunk Again"
1974Exotic Birds and Fruit
"Beyond the Pale" (Netherlands and Germany-only release)
b/w "Fresh Fruit"
"Pandora's Box"
b/w "The Piper's Tune"
19751620Procol's Ninth
"The Final Thrust"
b/w "Taking the Time"
"As Strong as Samson (When You're Being Held to Ransom)"
b/w "The Unquiet Zone"
1976Exotic Birds and Fruit
"The Adagio di Albinoni" (France-only release)
b/w "The Blue Danube"
"Wizard Man"
b/w "Backgammon" (UK); "Something Magic" (US)
1977Something Magic
"Something Magic" (Netherlands-only release)
b/w "Fools Gold"
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" (Japan-only reissue)
b/w "Homburg"
198888
"(You Can't) Turn Back the Page" (Continental Europe-only release)
b/w "One More Time"/"Perpetual Motion"
1991The Prodigal Stranger
"All Our Dreams Are Sold" (promo-only release)95
"The Truth Won't Fade Away" (US and Germany-only release)
b/w "Learn to Fly"
"Sunday Morning"2017Novum
"Missing Persons (Alive Forever)"
b/w "War Is Not Healthy"/"Missing Persons (Alive Forever)" (Radio Edit)
2021
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: PROCOL HARUM full Official Chart History Official Charts Company . 2022-08-17 . www.officialcharts.com.
  2. Book: Kent, David . Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 . Australian Chart Book . 1993 . 0-646-11917-6 . illustrated . St Ives, N.S.W. . 241 . David Kent (historian).
  3. Peak positions for Procol Harum's albums in Canada:
  4. Web site: 2016-04-22 . danskehitlister.dk . https://web.archive.org/web/20160422212314/http://danskehitlister.dk/?artist_id=69 . 2016-04-22 . 2022-08-17 .
  5. Web site: 12 August 2015 . Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1960: Artistit PRI - PÄÄ . 2022-08-17 . Sisältää hitin.
  6. Web site: Suche - Offizielle Deutsche Charts . 2022-08-17 . www.offiziellecharts.de.
  7. Web site: Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl . 2022-08-17 . dutchcharts.nl.
  8. Web site: norwegiancharts.com - Norwegian charts portal . 2022-08-17 . norwegiancharts.com.
  9. Web site: Procol Harum - Se alla låtar och listplaceringar . 2022-08-17 . NostalgiListan . sv.
  10. Web site: swedishcharts.com - Swedish Charts Portal . 2022-08-17 . swedishcharts.com.
  11. Procol Harum – Billboard 200 . 2022-08-17 . Billboard . en-US.
  12. Web site: Palers' deal for the Live BBC Procol Harum CD . 2022-08-16 . procolharum.com.
  13. Book: Kent, David . Australian Chart Book 1940–1969 . Kent Music Report . Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd, Turramurra, N.S.W. . 2005 . 0-646-44439-5 . David Kent (historian).
  14. Web site: ultratop.be - ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS . 2022-08-17 . www.ultratop.be.
  15. Peak positions for Procol Harum's singles in Canada:
  16. Web site: The Irish Charts - All there is to know . 2022-08-17 . irishcharts.ie.
  17. Okamoto, Satoshi (2011). Single Chart Book: Complete Edition 1968-2010 (in Japanese). Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment.
  18. Web site: Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl . 2022-08-17 . dutchcharts.nl.
  19. Web site: flavour of new zealand - search listener . 2022-08-17 . www.flavourofnz.co.nz.
  20. Procol Harum – Billboard Hot 100 . 2022-08-17 . Billboard . en-US.
  21. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top Pop Singles 1955–2008 . Record Research . 2009 . 9780898201802 . 784 . Joel Whitburn.