![]() ![]() Which is why I can’t get behind “Can’t Take It With You,” though it’s harmless and poppy. I just have never felt The Alan Parsons Project were at their best “One More River” is passable with no offense to vocalist Lenny Zakatek. Sometimes Woolfson sang (and he’s got a great voice), sometimes not. That’s the thing with Alan Parsons - he knew enough when to get the right vocalist for the right song. “The Eagle Will Rise Again” follows, this time with Blunstone contributing a fantastic vocal. ![]() All the usual ‘project’ guys are here besides Woolfson and Parsons - Ian Bairnson on guitar, Stuart Elliot on drums, Duncan Mackay on synths and various vocalists, including Colin Blunstone, Paton (who also plays bass) and Lenny Zakatek. God I love old Alan Parsons! Pyramid, released in 1978, starts just as I want an Alan Parsons Project to start an album, with a spacy instrumental “Voyager,” leading into a more poppy, singable “What Goes Up,” featuring a great David Paton vocal. This entire project was overseen by Parsons and Woolfson in hopes of satisfying fans and maybe a whole new listening audience. Stereotomy and Gaudi - have been reissued with previously unreleased bonus tracks. Now, the albums that followed - Pyramid, Eve, The Turn Of A Friendly Card, Ammonia Avenue, That album, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, and the follow-up, I Robot, are still my favorite Alan Parsons Project releases, showcasing not only the pair’s musicianship and songwriting but a progressive rock sensibility as well. It took no time at all for the two to begin working together in earnest with Woolfson quickly creating the idea of a concept album based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Songwriter, piano player, vocalist, producer and manager for such notables asĬarl Douglas (remember “Kung Fu Fighting”?), Eric Woolfson met Parsons when the former was looking for a manager. The song was the first Alan Parsons Project song (and single) to feature Eric Woolfson as lead vocalist, and one of the group's few songs in which Alan Parsons's own voice can be heard singing (background/counterpoint vocals).Beginning as a ‘tea-runner’ at Abbey Road studios, Alan Parsons graduated to engineering albums like the Beatles’ Let It Be and Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon. Outside the US, the song peaked at #30 in Canada. Cash Box ranked it as the 94th biggest hit of 1981. In addition, "Time" spent two weeks at #14 on Cash Box, making it the group's second most successful single (" Don't Answer Me" from 1984 also reached No. Adult Contemporary chart, "Time" peaked at #10. It was from their 1980 album The Turn of a Friendly Card. " Time" is a song released in 1981 as a single by the Alan Parsons Project. The Alan Parsons Project singles chronology 1981 single by The Alan Parsons Project "Time"įrom the album The Turn of a Friendly Card ![]()
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