The Turn of a Friendly Card is a single by Alan Parsons Project. The single appeared in 1980, but continued on a eleventh in the Tipparade stitches and took out the not Dutch Top 40 . Though it appeared regularly in the Radio 2 Top 2000. The instrumental b-side was The ace of swords.
The number will appear on the LP and compact disc named as The Turn part 2; part of a suite of the same name . It is a verse vocals by Chris Rainbow and then an outro.Rainbow should regularly exchange of voice registry. At the outro of the single and the LP track will put the melody in the orchestral repetition, where one or more brass instruments have a "k" (just not the right note). The order of appearance is vocals, electric guitar, horns and trombones, double basses and cellos and flutes. During that last one takes place a fade out .
Musicians[Edit][]
- Singer: Chris Rainbow
- Ian Bairnson - guitars
- David Paton – bass guitar
- keyboards - Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons
- percussion – Stuart Elliot
- the Munich Chamber Opera Orchestra leader Eberhard Schoener led by Andrew Powell
The cover is (nearly) equal to that of the album, so also by Lol Creme and Kevin Godley
Radio 2 Top 2000[Edit][]
| Number (s) with markings
in the Radio 2 Top 2000 |
' 99 | ' 00 | ' 01 | ' 02 | ' 03 | ' 04 | ' 05 | ' 06 | ' 07 | ' 08 | ' 09 | ' 10 | ' 11 | ' 12 | ' 13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Turn of a Friendly Card | - | - | - | - | 132 | 181 | 188 | 245 | 30S | 210 | 281 | 272 | 375 | 386 | 405 |