"(The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether" is a 1976 single by The Alan Parsons Project which first appeared on their album Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe. The single reached number 37 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 62 in Canada.[1] Like the other songs on the album, it is based on a story by American author Edgar Allan Poe, in this case "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" (1845); the song was written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, and was originally recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London in September 1975.[2] The 1987 reissue featured a "cathedral organ".^{[citation needed]}

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Personnel

• Ian Bairnson — guitars
• Jack Harris — backing vocals
• Billy Lyall — piano
• John Miles — lead vocals, guitars
• David Paton — bass guitar
• Alan Parsons — cathedral organ (1987 reissue version), recorders
• Stuart Tosh — drums, percussion
• Eric Woolfson — keyboards
• Abbey Road Effects Library — crowd noises

References

External links

• discogs

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