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Old and Wise
1982 single by The Alan Parsons Project From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Old and Wise" is a ballad by the Alan Parsons Project from the album Eye in the Sky, released as a single in December 1982. The song reached number 74 in the United Kingdom, the first of the band's singles to chart in that country.[2]
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Background
The lead vocal on the original release of "Old and Wise" was performed by former Zombies vocalist Colin Blunstone.[3] Blunstone made several appearances on Alan Parsons Project albums, but "Old and Wise" was the only single with Blunstone as lead singer to gain airplay. Blunstone later re-recorded the song for his own two-disc Best Of album, titled Old and Wise, released in 2003.[4]
Alan Parsons applied a de-esser to the track during the mastering stage of production with the intent of attenuating some of the "s" syllables in the vocals. For earlier vinyl edition of Eye in the Sky, this process resulted in the reduction of higher frequencies in some of the instruments, particularly the snare drum. Parsons resisted the track for the 35th anniversary edition of Eye in the Sky to ensure that the de-esser was exclusively applied to the vocals.[5] An early version (without orchestration or the saxophone solo) featuring Eric Woolfson singing a guide vocal was included as one of the bonus tracks on the 2007 remastered edition of Eye in the Sky.[6]
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Personnel
- Colin Blunstone – lead vocals
- Eric Woolfson – piano, organ
- Ian Bairnson – guitars
- David Paton – bass guitar
- Stuart Elliott – drums
- Mel Collins – saxophone solo
- Andrew Powell – orchestral arrangement and conductor
Chart performance
References
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