Artists
Musicians featured in this piece are:
Leonard Whiting – lead vocals
Alan Parsons – vocals (through EMI vocoder)
Eric Woolfson – backing vocals, keyboards
David Pack (Ambrosia) – guitar
Ian Bairnson – guitar (added to the 1987 remix)
Joe Puerta (Ambrosia) – bass guitar
Burleigh Drummond (Ambrosia) – drums
Christopher North – keyboards
Andrew Powell – conductor, additional arranger
The English Chorale, choir master Robert Howes – choir vocals
Written by Eric Woolfson & Alan Parsons. Produced and engineered by Alan Parsons, recorded at Mama Jo’s Studio, North Hollywood, 1975. Released as the opening track on Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Charisma/20th Century Records, 1976); also issued as a single, peaking at #80 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s 1845 poem of the same name, “The Raven” is notable as one of the first rock recordings to feature a vocoder — the EMI-built device Alan Parsons spoke through was, according to the album’s liner notes, exclusively available at Abbey Road Studios at the time.
The Alan Parsons Project – The Raven Lyrics
The clock struck midnight
And through my sleeping
I heard a tapping at my door
I looked but nothing lay in the darkness
And so I turned inside once more
To my amazement
There stood a raven
Whose shadow hung above my door
Then through the silence
It spoke the one word
That I shall hear for evermore
Nevermore
Thus quoth the raven, nevermore
And still the raven remains in my room
No matter how much I implore
No words can soothe him
No prayer remove him
And I must hear for evermore
Quoth the raven, nevermore
Nevermore
Thus quoth the raven, nevermore
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