Old and Wise

"Old and Wise"
Single by The Alan Parsons Project
from the album Eye in the Sky
B-side	"Children of the Moon"
Released	December 1982[1]
Recorded	Late 1981
Genre	Soft rock
Length	Single: 4:55 Album: 5:06 7" single: 4:09
Label	Arista
Songwriter(s)	Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson
Producer(s)	Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson
The Alan Parsons Project singles chronology
"Psychobabble" (1982) "Old and Wise" (1982) "You Don't Believe" (1983)

"Old and Wise" is a ballad by the Alan Parsons Project from the album Eye in the Sky, released in December 1982.

The song reached number 21 on the U.S. Billboard AC chart^[2] in early 1983 and number 74 in the United Kingdom; the first of the band's singles to chart in that country.^[3]

Lead vocal

The lead vocal on the original release of "Old and Wise" was performed by former Zombies vocalist Colin Blunstone.^[4] Blunstone made several appearances on Alan Parsons Project albums, but "Old and Wise" was the only single with Blunstone as lead singer to gain airplay. Blunstone later re-recorded the song for his own two-disc Best Of album, titled Old and Wise, released in 2003.^[5]

However, an early (demo?) version (without orchestration or the saxophone solo) features Eric Woolfson singing lead. It was included as one of the bonus tracks on the 2007 remastered edition of Eye in the Sky.

Sampling

• Kendrick Lamar sampled "Old and Wise" on "Keisha's Song (Her Pain)", from his album Section.80.
• B.o.B sampled "Old and Wise" on "Campaign", from his mixtape F--- Em We Ball.
• Pryda sampled vocals from "Old and Wise" on the song "Shadows" from his album Eric Prydz Presents Pryda.
• Fat Jon sampled the song in "Everywhere" (track 4) of Lightweight Heavy.
• Styles P sampled the song on "Shadows", from the 2010 album The Green Ghost Project.
• Daft Punk sampled two micro vocal samples for their single "Face to Face" from the 2001 album Discovery.

References