"The Raven" is a song by the Alan Parsons Project, recorded in April 1976 at Mama Jo's Studio, North Hollywood, Los Angeles.
[3] It is the second track on their debut album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, which is a tribute to author and poet Edgar Allan Poe.
[5] "The Raven" was one the first songs to use a vocoder developed by as manufactured by EMI Central Research Laboratories, which was used to process Alan Parsons' voice.
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is an instrumental suite that runs more than fifteen minutes and takes up most of side two of Tales of Mystery and Imagination, however, the prelude is trimmed down to 5:59.
[12] American rapper Danny Brown sampled the song for "Clean Up" on his 2013 album Old.