Artist	Song
A Whiter Shade Of Pale	Procol Harum
Reflections Of Charles Brown	Rupert's People
Beechwood Park	The Zombies
Turquoise Tandem Cycle	Jason Crest
Reputation	Shy Limbs
Exploding Galaxy	Infantes Jubilate
World Spinning Sadly	Parking Lot
The Wind	Groove
Mr Boyd	Argosy
I Can Show You	Rupert's People
Anniversary (Of Love)	Ice
In The Land Of Dreams	House Of Lords
You Didn't Have To Be So Nice	Glass Menagerie
Requiem	Chocolate Watch Band (UK)
Light Of Your Mind	David
Haunted	Peter Thorogood
Whisper Her Name (Maria Laine)	Ice
Saga Of A Wrinkled Man	Fortes Mentum
Meditations	Felius Andromeda
Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus	Brigitte Bardot / Serge Gainsbourg
A Certain Kind	Soft Machine
The Cry Of Eugene	The Nice
Homburg	Procol Harum

Comment:

The popbiz always finds it easier to imitate than innovate. Discuss with examples.
After second division also rans The Paramounts turned round their fortunes with a name change & ditching R'n'B in favour of semi-classical licks & incomprehensible lyrics, quite a few followed suit. So, in came stately tempi and Hammond organ players for whom the initials JS meant Johann Sebastian rather than Jimmy Smith. And if the group called themselves after some cod-Latin doggerel, so much the better.
Even some relatively well-known acts (Soft Machine, Nice, Zombies) jumped on the Whiter Shade soundalike bandwagon and the methodology could also be applied to cover versions ( Lovin' Spoonful's "You Didn't have To be So Nice"). Nevertheless, the most accurate reproduction of the Whiter template came from Procol themselves with "Homburg" -a quite fabulous piece of auto-plagiarism.

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