Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination is an album by Eric Woolfson. It contains some, but not all, of the songs from his musical Edgar Allan Poe.
Track listing
Personnel Eric Woolfson – keyboards, orchestration, lead & backing vocals Simon Chamberlain – keyboards, orchestration Haydn Bendall – keyboards & sequencing Austin Ince – sequencing John Parricelli – guitar Laurence Cottle – bass guitar Dermot Crehan – Irish fiddle Steve Balsamo – lead and backing vocals Fred Johanson – lead vocals on Train To Freedom, backing vocals Christian Phillips, Rob Thompson, Stefan Rhys Williams – backing vocals Brighton Festival Chorus & The Metro Voices – Chorus on The Bells and Goodbye to All That. Ian Thomas – drums Ralph Salmins – drums, percussion Martin Ditcham – percussion
CD release and stage musical version The music of Poe was first released on the studio recorded CD Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination, containing 10 tracks (including the 3 parts of The Pit and the Pendulum as a single track). The CD running order did not match that of the later stage show.
The stage musical version of Woolfson's Poe premiered at Abbey Road Studios in November 2003.
The musical contains seventeen songs. The seven songs which are missing from the 2003 Poe: More Tales from Mystery and Imagination CD are: Blinded By the Light The Raven It Doesn't Take a Genius The Devil I Know Trust Me Annabel Lee/Let the Sun Shine on Me What Fools People Are
The full complement of the musical's 18 songs is found on an expanded 2009 CD release, which is titled (like the stage musical itself) Edgar Allan Poe. This release includes the original 10 studio tracks, an orchestrated version of Tiny Star, and seven tracks taken from live concert performances. The running order of the Edgar Allan Poe CD is: 01. Angel of the Odd 02. Tiny Star 03. Wings of Eagles 04. The Murders in the Rue Morgue 05. Blinded by the Light 06. The Pit and the Pendulum 07. The Raven This track uses music from the original Alan Parsons Project track of the same title from their album Tales of Mystery and Imagination. It features the bass line and keyboard chords from the opening of the Alan Parson Project song. It also features a spoken reading of Poe's poem, without the use of vocoder found on the Alan Parsons Project song. 08. It Doesn't Take a Genius 09. The Bells 10. Goodbye to All That 11. The Devil I Know 12. Somewhere in the Audience 13. Trust Me 14. Annabel Lee/Let the Sun Shine on me 15. Train to Freedom 16. What Fools People Are 17. Immortal
The 2009 CD release Edgar Allan Poe effectively supersedes the 2003 Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination, since it contains all of the earlier tracks plus additional ones.
References
External links Poe Website: The Official Poe Website Eric Woolfson Website: The Official Eric Woolfson Website The Alan Parsons Project Website: The Official Alan Parsons Project Website Fred Johanson : http://fredjohanson.com/