Blu-ray, 3x CD (deluxe edition, remastered)

The Turn of a Friendly Card

Album by The Alan Parsons Project

Released November 1980

progressive rock rock pop rock

Tracklist

CD 1
1
May Be a Price to Pay
4:59
4.0 ★
2
Games People Play
4:25
4.1 ★
3
Time
5:14
5.0 ★
4
I Don't Wanna Go Home
4:52
3.4 ★
5
The Gold Bug
4:34
4.6 ★
6
The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part One)
2:44
4.2 ★
7
Snake Eyes
3:15
4.0 ★
8
The Ace of Swords
2:57
9
Nothing Left to Lose
4:07
4.4 ★
10
The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part Two)
3:32
11
Maybe a Price to Pay (intro demo)
1:32
5.0 ★
12
Nothing Left to Lose (basic backing track)
4:36
5.0 ★
13
Nothing Left to Lose (Chris Rainbow vocal overdub compilation)
2:02
5.0 ★
14
Nothing Left to Lose (early studio version with Eric's Guide vocal)
3:11
5.0 ★
15
Time (early studio attempt)
4:42
5.0 ★
16
Games People Play (Rough mix)
4:33
5.0 ★
17
The Gold Bug (demo)
2:50
5.0 ★
CD 2
1
May Be a Price to Pay
3:25
2
Games People Play
3:06
3
Time
4:06
4
I Don't Wanna Go Home
2:12
5
The Turn of a Friendly Card
3:19
6
Snake Eyes
3:14
7
Nothing Left to Lose
2:46
8
TOFC/ Snake Eyes/ I Don't Wanna Go Home
4:32
9
La La La Lah
1:17
10
Next Year
3:20
11
Someone Else
2:31
12
Taking It All Away
2:00
13
To Those of You Out There
3:13
CD 3
1
May Be a Price to Pay (early version - Eric Guide vocal & Unused Guitar Solo)
5:04
2
Games People Play (early version - Eric Guide vocal)
4:32
3
Time (Orchestra & Chris Rainbow backing vocals)
4:19
4
The Gold Bug (early Reference version)
5:07
5
The Gold Bug (Chris Rainbow backing vocals)
1:28
6
The Gold Bug (clavinet with no delay)
1:05
7
The Turn of a Friendly Card Part One (early backing track)
2:19
8
Snake Eyes (early version - Eric Guide vocal)
3:20
9
The Ace of Swords (early version with synth orchestration)
3:03
10
The Ace of Swords (early version with piano on melody)
2:40
11
The Turn of a Friendly Card Part Two (Eric Guide vocal and extended guitar solo)
3:31
12
Games People Play (single edit)
3:34
13
The Turn of a Friendly Card (single edit)
3:44
14
Snake Eyes (single edit)
2:26
Blu-ray 4: multichannel
1
May Be a Price to Pay
2
Games People Play
3
Time
4
I Don't Wanna Go Home
5
The Gold Bug
6
The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part One)
7
Snake Eyes
8
The Ace of Swords
9
Nothing Left to Lose
10
The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part Two)
11
The Turn of a Friendly Card (album advertisement)
12
Games People Play (promotional video)
13
The Gold Bug (promotional video)
14
The Turn of a Friendly Card (promotional video)

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Release credits

Alan Parsons
mastering, additional [3], clavinet [8], engineer [1-2, 4-7, 9], harpsichord [8], producer [1-2, 4-7, 9], vocal [3]
Andrew Powell
arranger [1.1, 1.3, 1.6, 1.8, 1.10, 3.11], conductor [1.1-3, 1.6, 1.8, 1.10, 3.11], orchestrator [2]
Chris Rainbow
background vocals [2-4, 9], lead vocals [6-7], vocal [3.11, 1.5, 1.10]
David Paton
acoustic guitar [3, 5], bass [1.1-10, 3.11]
Elmer Gantry
lead vocals [1]
Eric Woolfson
executive, harpsichord [1.6, 1.10, 3.11], keyboard [2], lead vocals [9], organ [1], piano [1.1, 1.3-4, 1.6-8, 1.10, 3.11], vocal [3]
Ian Bairnson
acoustic guitar [3, 5, 9], guitar [3.11, 1.1-8, 1.10]
Lenny Zakatek
lead vocals [2, 4]
Sally Woolfson
compiler
Stuart Elliott
drums (drum set) [3.11, 1.1-10], percussion [3.11, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5-8, 1.10]
[unknown]
accordion [9], saxophone [5]