The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( 1976 )

 

Track listing

All tracks are written by Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons except "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Woolfson, Parsons, and Andrew Powell.

Side one

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"A Dream Within a Dream"	Instrumental	4:14
2.	"The Raven"	Alan Parsons, Leonard Whiting	3:57
3.	"The Tell-Tale Heart"	Arthur Brown (additional vocals: Jack Harris)	4:38
4.	"The Cask of Amontillado"	John Miles (additional vocals: Terry Sylvester)	4:33
5.	"(The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether"	John Miles (additional vocals: Jack Harris)	4:20

Side two

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"The Fall of the House of Usher "Prelude" – 7:02 "Arrival" – 2:39 "Intermezzo" – 1:00 "Pavane" – 4:36 "Fall" – 0:51"	Instrumental	16:10
2.	"To One in Paradise"	Terry Sylvester (additional vocals: Eric Woolfson, Alan Parsons)	4:46

Personnel

• Alan Parsons – Organ, Synthesizer, Keyboards, Projectron, Guitar, Recorder, Vocals (Vocoder), Producer, Engineer
• Eric Woolfson – Synthesizer, Harpsichord, Keyboards, Vocals, Vocals (background), Executive Producer
• Andrew Powell – Keyboards, Arranger
• Francis Monkman – Organ, Keyboards
• Billy Lyall – Piano, Keyboards, Fender Rhodes, Drums, Glockenspiel, Recorder
• Christopher North – Keyboards
• Orson Welles – Narrator on A Dream Within a Dream on the 1976 version
• Leonard Whiting – Vocals on The Raven, Narrator on A Dream Within a Dream on the 2006 version
• Arthur Brown – Vocals on The Tell-Tale Heart
• John Miles – Guitar, Vocals on The Cask Of Amontillado and (The system of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether
• Jack Harris – Vocals on The system of Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather
• Terry Sylvester – Vocals on The Cask of Amontillado and To One in Paradise
• Jane Powell – Vocals, Vocals (background)
• English Chorale – Vocals
• Smokey Parsons – Vocals
• Bob Howes – Choir, Chorus
• The English Chorale and Played Ti – Choir, Chorus
• Kevin Peek – Guitar (Acoustic)
• Laurence Juber – Guitar (Acoustic)
• David Paton – Guitar (Acoustic), Electric Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Vocals (background)
• Ian Bairnson – Guitar (Acoustic), Electric Guitar
• David Pack – Guitar
• Joe Puerta – Bass
• Les Hurdle – Bass
• Daryl Runswick – Bass, String Bass
• David Katz – Violin, Leader, Orchestra Contractor
• Jack Rothstein – Leader
• David Snell – Harp
• Burleigh Drummond – Drums
• Stuart Tosh – Cymbals, Drums, Vocals, Tympani
• John Leach – Percussion, Vocals, Cimbalom, Kantele
• Dennis Clarke - Saxophone, Clarinet