The Turn Of A Friendly Card

Side one
1. ”May Be a Price to Pay (Woolfson)” Elmer Gantry 4:58
2. ”Games People Play (Woolfson)” Lenny Zakatek 4:22
3. ”Time (Woolfson)” Eric Woolfson 5:04
4. ”I Don’t Wanna Go Home (Woolfson/Parsons)” Lenny Zakatek 5:03
Side two
1. ”The Gold Bug (Parsons)” Instrumental 4:34
2. ”The Turn of a Friendly Card
i. The Turn of a Friendly Card, Pt. 1 (2:44) (Woolfson)
ii. Snake Eyes (3:14) (Woolfson/Parsons)
iii. The Ace of Swords (2:57) (Parsons)
iv. Nothing Left to Lose (4:07) (Woolfson)
v. The Turn of a Friendly Card, Pt. 2 (3:22) (Woolfson)”
Chris Rainbow (1, 2, 5) Eric Woolfson (4), Instrumental (3) 16:24

Stuart Elliott – drums, percussion
David Paton – bass guitar
Ian Bairnson – electric, acoustic and classical guitars; pedal steel guitar on ”Time”
Eric Woolfson – piano, harpsichord, lead vocals
Alan Parsons – Projectron on ”Games People Play”, whistling and finger snaps on ”The Gold Bug”, Clavinet on ”The Gold Bug” and ”The Ace of Swords”, harpsichord on ”The Ace of Swords”, additional vocals on ”Time”
Chris Rainbow – lead and backing vocals
Elmer Gantry – lead vocal
Lenny Zakatek – lead and backing vocals
The Philharmonia Orchestra, arranged and conducted by Andrew Powell
Produced and engineered by Alan Parsons
Executive producer: Eric Woolfson
Mastering consultant: Chris Blair
Sleeve concept: Lol Creme and Kevin Godley

Ted Jensen Original LP UK & US Pressings.
Additional instrumentation Edit
”The Gold Bug”, which references the same-titled short story by Edgar Allan Poe, includes a whistling part by Parsons, who imitates the style of Ennio Morricone’s legendary Spaghetti Western film themes,[3] and wordless vocals by Rainbow, while the main theme is played on an alto saxophone. The saxophone player, originally credited as Mel Collins, is instead credited on the liner notes for the remastered edition as ”A session player in Paris whose name escapes us”; this refers to the fact that the saxophone part is a composite of several separate takes.[4] Similarly, the accordion part on ”Nothing Left to Lose” is credited in the liner notes to ”An unidentified Parisian session player”. Also on ”The Gold Bug”, the newer liner notes credit a ”Harmonized Rotating Triangle” to drummer Stuart Elliott. This refers to the phasing sound effects heard throughout the rhythm-free introduction to the piece.

Alan Parsons Project, The

1980

07822182262

United Kingdom

12”

Concept Album

L37241

5

Acousti Studio, Paris

Album

N/A

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Vinyl Sleeve

~$139.99

2026-01-12

2018-06-28 16:19:32