The Alan Parsons Project ) I Robot ) 1977 (Arista US)

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I Robot is the 2nd studio album by The Alan Parsons Project, released on 8 July 1977 by Arista Records. Recorded between December 1976 – March 1977 at Abbey Road studios in London.
The album was intended to be based on the I, Robot stories written by Asimov, and Eric Woolfson spoke with Asimov himself, who was enthusiastic about the idea. As the rights already had been granted to a TV/movie company, the album's title was altered slightly by removing the comma in "I," and the theme and lyrics were made to be more generically about robots rather than to be specific to the Asimov universe. The cover inlay reads: "I Robot... The story of the rise of the machine and the decline of man, which paradoxically coincided with his discovery of the wheel... and a warning that his brief dominance of this planet will probably end, because man tried to create robot in his own image." The title of the final track, "Genesis CH.1. V.32", follows this theme by implying a continuation to the story of Creation, since the 1st chapter of Genesis only has 31 verses.
Paul McCartney unintentionally helped to inspire the song "Some Other Time". When Parsons had asked if McCartney could read a line of poetry for the band's 1st album in exchange for a favor Parsons had previously done him, McCartney replied by saying; "Some other time Alan, some other time". This gave the band an idea for a song title.
By pure coincidence, the album was released shortly after Star Wars came out in the United States. The group acknowledges that part of the album's success came from it being the only album with a robot on the cover during a time when robots were suddenly "all the rage".

David Paton – bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Stuart Tosh – drums, percussion, water gongs
Ian Bairnson – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals
Eric Woolfson – clavinet, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, piano, organ, keyboards, backing vocals
Alan Parsons – Projectron, Synthi-A Sequencer Programming, acoustic guitar, vocoder, tape loops and effects, backing vocals
Duncan Mackay – keyboards
B.J. Cole – steel guitar
Andrew Powell – Hammond B-3 organ
John Leach – cimbalom and kantele
Lenny Zakatek, Allan Clarke, Steve Harley, Jack Harris, Peter Straker, Jaki Whitren, Dave Townsend, the English Chorale, the New Philharmonia Chorus – vocals
Hilary Western – soprano vocals
Tony Rivers, John Perry and Stu Calver – backing vocals
Produced and engineered by Alan Parsons, executive producer Eric Woolfson
Orchestra and choir arranged and conducted by Andrew Powell

🔘 Side 1:
I Robot
I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You
Some Other Time
Breakdown
Don't Let It Show

🔘 Side 2:
The Voice
Nucleus
Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)
Total Eclipse
Genesis CH.1. V.32