Tales of Mystery and Imagination is a progressive rock album by The Alan Parsons Project, released in 1976 (see 1976 in music). The album's avant-garde soundscapes kept it from being a blockbuster, but the interesting lyrical and musical themes — retellings of horror stories and poetry by Edgar Allan Poe — attracted a small audience. Critical reaction was often mixed, such as Rolling Stone, whose Billy Altman concluded that the album mostly failed at reproducing Poe's tension and macabre fear, ending by claiming that "devotees of Gothic literature will have to wait for someone with more of the macabre in their blood for a truer musical reading of Poe's often terrifying works".
The Prelude of "The Fall of the House of Usher", although uncredited, is based on the opera fragment "La chute de la maison Usher" by Claude Debussy.
Tales of Mystery and Imagination peaked at #38 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart. "(The System Of) Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether" peaked at #37 on the Pop Singles chart.
In 1987 Parsons completely remixed the album for CD with some new instrumentation, and added narration by Orson Welles that was left off the original vinyl release, apparently at the request of the original record company. The CD notes that Welles never met Parsons or Collaborator Eric Woolfson, but sent a tape to them of the performance. The original 1976 mix had only ever been released in 1976, and on an MFSL gold CD until the 2007 Deluxe Edition included both versions remixed again by Alan Parsons during 2006.
Personnel:(Holy Shit!):
Alan Parsons - Organ, Synthesizer, Guitar, Keyboards, Recorder, Vocals, *Producer, Engineer, Projection
Eric Woolfson - Synthesizer, Harpsichord, Keyboards, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Executive Producer
Orson Welles - Narrator (1987 version only)
Arthur Brown - Vocals
The Alan Parsons Project - Performer
John Miles - Guitar, Vocals
Francis Monkman - Organ, Keyboards
Kevin Peek - Guitar (Acoustic)
Terry Sylvester - Vocals
Laurence Juber - Guitar (Acoustic)
Andrew Powell - Keyboards, Arranger
David Paton - Guitar (Acoustic), Bass, Guitar, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Ian Bairnson - Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Guitar (Electric)
Chris Blair - Assistant Engineer
Peter Christopherson - Photography
David Katz - Violin, Leader, Orchestra Contractor
Burleigh Drummond - Drums
English Chorale - Vocals
Jack Harris - Vocals
Bob Howes - Choir, Chorus
John Leach - Percussion, Vocals, Cimbalom, Kantele
David Pack - Guitar
Smokey Parsons - Vocals
Joe Puerta - Bass
Tony Richards - Assistant Engineer
Jack Rothstein - Leader
Darryl Runswick - Bass, String Bass
David Snell - Harp
The English Chorale and Played Ti - Choir, Chorus
Stuart Tosh - Cymbals, Drums, Vocals, Tympani [Timpani]
Tom Trefethen - Assistant Engineer
Leonard Whiting - Vocals, Narrator
Pat Stapley - Assistant Engineer
Aubrey Powell - Photography
Storm Thorgerson - Photography
Hipgnosis - Design, Cover Art
Sam Emerson - Photography
Colin Elgie - Artwork, Graphic Design, Layout Design
Billy Lyall - Piano, Drums, Glockenspiel, Keyboards, Recorder, Fender Rhodes
Gordon Parry - Engineer
Jane Powell - Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Andrew Hurdle - Bass
Christopher North - Keyboards
Songs:
"A Dream Within A Dream" [instrumental] – 3:43
"The Raven" – 4:01 (ft. Alan Parsons lead vocal through an EMI vocoder)
"The Tell-Tale Heart" – 4:40 (ft. Arthur Brown)
"The Cask of Amontillado" – 4:29 (ft. John Miles)
"(The System Of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether" – 4:15 (ft. John Miles)
"The Fall of the House of Usher: Prelude" [instrumental] – 5:51
"The Fall of the House of Usher: Arrival" [instrumental] – 2:36
"The Fall of the House of Usher: Intermezzo" [instrumental] – 1:06
"The Fall of the House of Usher: Pavane" [instrumental] – 4:44
"The Fall of the House of Usher: Fall" [instrumental] – 1:07
"To One in Paradise" – 4:14 (ft. Terry Sylvester)
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