Showing posts with label Turn of a Friendly Card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turn of a Friendly Card. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Happy birthday, Alan Parsons!


Alan Parsons, born December 20, 1948 in London, England, is the mind behind The Alan Parsons Project and engineer extraordinare behind The Beatles' Abbey Road and Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

It is his partnership with Eric Woolfson, better known as The Alan Parsons Project, that I enjoy most.  Got all their albums!  Parsons has been nominated for a Grammy 11 times, two times each in 1976 and 1979. 

This month is the 33rd anniversary of Vulture Culture's release in 1984.  The first Alan Parsons Project tune I remember hearing on the radio was Damned if I Do, Damned if I Don't from Eve.  Several years later, I heard Time from Turn of a Friendly Card.  We all remember that one!


Wednesday, November 1, 2017

The Alan Parsons Project releases "Turn of a Friendly Card" 1980


The Alan Parsons Project released The Turn of a Friendly Card November 1, 1980, their fifth studio album.  I'm pretty sure that the theme of this album has something to do with card games.  Two hit singles came from the album, Games People Play and Time, the first time Eric Woolfson was featured in a lead vocal.

The album peaked at #13 on the U.S. Billboard 200.