"(The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether" is a song by the Alan Parsons Project.
[1] It first appeared on their debut album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe.
[3] As with the other songs on the album, it is based on a story by American author Edgar Allan Poe,[4] 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.
[4] It does not appear on either The Best of the Alan Parsons Project or The Best of the Alan Parsons Project, Volume 2, as the band moved from 20th Century Records to Arista after the release of Tales of Mystery and Imagination.