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Track: Can't Take It with You
Artist: The Alan Parsons Project
Album: Pyramid (Expanded Edition)

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Name: The Alan Parsons Project
Spotify Genres: progressive rock, classic rock
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British Rock studio project initially formed to record a concept album about Edgar Allan Poe. They became best known for the power ballad "Eye in the Sky" and the instrumental "Sirius". [b]Official band members[/b] ● [a=Alan Parsons] – production, engineering, programming, composition, keyboards, guitar ● [a=Eric Woolfson] – composition, lyrics, piano, keyboards, vocals, executive production [b]Notable contributors[/b] ● [a=Andrew Powell] – composition, keyboards, orchestral arrangements (1975-1990) ● [a=Philharmonia Orchestra] ● [a=The English Chorale] – choir (1976, 1977, 1982, 1987) ● [a=Ian Bairnson] – guitar (1975–1990) ● [a=David Pack] – guitar (1976) ● [a=David Paton] – bass, vocals (1975–1985) ● [a=Duncan Mackay] – keyboards (1977–1979) ● [a=Richard Cottle] – keyboards, saxophone (1984–1990) ● [a=Laurence Cottle] – bass (1987-1990) ● [a=Stuart Tosh] – drums, percussion (1975–1976) ● [a=Stuart Elliott] – drums, percussion (1977–1990) ● [a=John Leach] – cimbalom, kantele (1976–1978) ● [a=Colin Blunstone] – vocals (1978–1984) ● [a=Chris Rainbow] – vocals (1979–1990) ● [a=Lenny Zakatek] – vocals (1977–1987) ● [a=John Miles] – vocals (1976, 1978, 1985, 1987) ● [a=Jack Harris] – vocals (1976–1978) ● [a=Dave Townsend] – vocals (1977, 1979) ● [a=Elmer Gantry] a.k.a. [a=Dave Terry (4)] – vocals (1980, 1982) ● [a=Graham Dye] – vocals (1985, 1990) Non-recurring vocalists include: [a=Arthur Brown] (1975), [a=Allan Clarke] (1977), [a=Peter Straker] (1977), [a=Jaki Whitren] (1977), [a=Dean Ford] (1978), [a=Clare Torry] (1979), [a=Lesley Duncan] (1979), [a=Gary Brooker] (1985), [a=Geoff Barradale] (1987), [a=Eric Stewart] (1990) Notable instruments: Projectron - A device built by Alan Parsons as an analog sample playback device, similar in general concept to a Mellotron. The Projectron consisted of a 24-track tape machine, with each playback channel routed to a voltage controlled amplifier; each VCA was in turn gated by a key of an attached keyboard. The device was used on the albums I Robot, Pyramid, and The Turn of a Friendly Card. But preparing tapes was a cumbersome process and the device was maintenance-intensive, so as soon as a Fairlight CMI became available to Parsons, he switched his sampling activities to that. Parsons scrapped the Projectron sometime after 1980, and no photos of it are known to have survived.

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Release: The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid
Year: 1978
Genres: Rock, Pop
Styles: Prog Rock, Pop Rock

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LYRICS

Well, I sympathize completely,
But there's nothing I can do.
I am just a humble servant
With a message here for you.
Well I know you have good reasons
And there's things you've got to do,
But the boatman won't be waiting
And he's leaving here with you.
And you can't take it with you,
No matter what you do.
No, you can't take it with you,
Not the place you're going to...

(One more mile, one more road, one last bridge, one less load.)

Well I sympathize completely,
But there's nothing I can do.
I am just obeying orders,
I'm a simple soul like you.
Well you really are persuasive,
But I've heard it all before
And the boatman's getting restless
As he stands upon the shore...
And you can't take it with you,
No matter what you do.
No, you can't take it with you,
Not the place you're going to...

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