The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn Of A Friendly Card 1

The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn Of A Friendly Card - 1980

Nippon Phonogram Co / ARISTA, Japan LP 1st pressing (25RS - 107)

LP, Vinyl Rip, 24/96, FLAC (tracks+.cue)

Thanks aksman

Side A
01 - "May Be a Price to Pay" (lead vocal Elmer Gantry) 4:58
02 - "Games People Play" (lead vocal Lenny Zakatek) 4:22
03 - "Time" (lead vocal Eric Woolfson backing vocal Alan Parsons) 5:04
04 - "I Don't Wanna Go Home" (lead vocal Lenny Zakatek) 5:03

Side B
01 - "The Gold Bug" (instrumental) 4:34
02 - "The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part One)" (lead vocal Chris Rainbow) 2:44
03 - "Snake Eyes" (lead vocal Chris Rainbow) 3:14
04 - "The Ace of Swords" (instrumental) 2:57
05 - "Nothing Left to Lose" (lead vocal Eric Woolfson) 4:07
06 - "The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part Two)" (lead vocal Chris Rainbow) 3:22

All tracks written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson


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Vacuum cleaning > TT > Brocksieper Phonomax > E-MU 0404 > WaveLab 6 (24/192) > manual click removal >
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > converted to 24/96 with iZotope RX Advanced 1.21
> split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)