Best Non Beatles Single Song?

A case can be made that A Whiter Shade Of Pale is the best non Beatles song ever. Ok so I am making it! I remember hearing this song and watching Procol Harum perform this song on Top Of The Pops while on vacation in England in 1967. At the time I did not care much for it all, but when I came back to Vegas that summer it began to grow on me.

Every time I hear A Whiter Shade Of Pale I get a warm feeling; it transports me back to England and being with my Grandmother. I can pick this tune in one note. All these years later I still have no idea of what the words mean; it just has such an evocative mood, something to do with the Bach like Organ. Anyway next time you hear this song see what you think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Whiter_Shade_of_Pale

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1131

We skipped a light fandango,

Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor.

I was feeling kind of seasick,
But the crowd called out for more.
The room was humming harder,
As the ceiling flew away.
When we called out for another drink,
The waiter brought a tray.

And so it was that later,
As the miller told his tale,
That her face at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale.

She said there is no reason,

And the truth is plain to see
That I wandered through my playing cards,
And would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast.
And although my eyes were open,
They might just as well have been closed.

And so it was later,
As the miller told his tale,
That her face at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale.