The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

In the liner notes on BDP's 1992 album Sex and Violence, KRS-One writes: " BDP in 1992 is KRS-One, Willie D, and Kenny Parker!

") According to the liner notes of his first ( self-titled ) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot.

In the liner notes to Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, Billy Altman notes that " Peggy Sue " was originally written as " Cindy Lou " ( after Holly's niece ), but Holly changed it prior to recording as a tip of the hat to Crickets drummer Jerry Allison's girlfriend, Peggy Sue Gerron.

According to Billy Altman's liner notes to the Geffen / Universal compilation, Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, in addition to " True Love Ways ", during the October 1958 sessions at Decca's Pythian Temple, Holly also recorded two other songs, " It Doesn't Matter Anymore " and " Raining In My Heart.

He wrote the introduction to the liner notes and is visiting colleges across the nation discussing the significance of the set.

The album's liner notes included information about the songs, written by music journalist David Hepworth.

The liner notes confirmed that Crowded House had no plans to reunite at that time.

In his liner notes, Hogwood points out that these composers would typically have played the clavichord in the privacy of their homes.

Also removed were the following comments on those two songs and Time Fades Away, from Young's handwritten liner notes:

Additionally, the majority of commercial didgeridoo recordings available are distributed by multinational recording companies and feature non-Aboriginals playing a New Age style of music with liner notes promoting the instrument's spirituality which misleads consumers about the didgeridoo's secular role in traditional Aboriginal culture.

It also includes a theatrical trailer, screenplay excerpt, original ending, biographies, 10-page full-color fold-out with photos and liner notes, a 8 cm " Heathers Rules!

According to the liner notes of the 1995 compilation Love Story, Young stuck with the album project long enough to arrange the track " The Daily Planet.

" That was three different songs ... yet they were brought together to sound like one, which was fantastic ," lead guitarist John Echols said of " You Set The Scene " in the liner notes by Andrew Sandoval for the " Collector's Edition " of " Forever Changes " that was released by Rhino Records in 2008.

" In the liner notes to both sets, David Sinclair wrote that "' Forever Changes ' has always held a place of honour in the hearts of British fans.

The second disc contains a previously unissued alternate mix of " Forever Changes " ( according to the liner notes, the original master of " Forever Changes " is missing, although the alternate mix was made from it at some point ).

In the liner notes, Andrew Sandoval quotes Lee as saying, "... at the end of ' You Set The Scene ' somebody just starts rapping!

It also includes the liner notes from the 2001 release ( in English ), an insert with the lyrics in English and Japanese and an OBI strip.

Band members: ( from the liner notes of the 2008 " Collector's Edition ")

Additional contributions ( from the liner notes of the 2001 release )

The liner notes of the first recordings of the Davis Quintet for Columbia Records call it one of the most spectacular failures of the jazz club scene.

When the recording was presented on the Orange and Blue album, Campbell-Lyons's liner notes treated it seriously and with allusion to Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights.

" Rainbow Chaser " was one of the few Nirvana recordings that had any connection with " psychedelic " music, although " Orange and Blue " ( 1970 ) was acknowledged to have been written under the influence of LSD according to the liner notes of the eponymous album.

In the liner notes of the CD reissue of her 1966 album, Nancy In London, Sinatra states that she was " scared to death " of recording the song, and asked the songwriters: " Are you sure you don't want Shirley Bassey?

Throughout his life, Robert Palmer published scholarly liner notes on albums by dozens of top jazz, blues, rock and roll and world music artists, including Sam Rivers, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Yoko Ono, John Lee Hooker, Albert King, Bo Diddley, Ray Charles, Ornette Coleman, the Master Musicians of Jajouka, La Monte Young, and many more.

The liner notes for the vinyl LP feature an essay by Ono entitled " A Crystal Ball ".

Reich explained that this piece was part of his experiment with using " the human breath as the measure of musical duration ... the chords played by the trumpets are written to take one comfortable breath to perform " ( liner notes for Music for a Large Ensemble ).

As Martin explained in the liner notes of Love:

According to Samuel Freedman ( The New York Times, November 20, 2010 ), the metamorphosis to the " African " word Kumbaya was explained in liner notes to a 1959 Pete Seeger album, but " no scholar has ever found an indigenous word ' kumbaya ' with a relevant meaning .".

The liner notes for the series explained the term was popularized among Humans by a 2031 movie depicting Space War I.

Hammer would go on to explain within the liner notes of this album that he felt many of his so-called friends he staffed used and betrayed him, which contributed to a majority of his financial loss ( best explained in the song " Keep On ").

The disparity of the Soft Machine's concert as compared to the hall's usual fare is explained by Robert Wyatt on the Reckless album's liner notes:

Young explained the context of story when In the liner notes of his 1977 anthology album Decade, Young states that he wrote " Down by the River ," " Cinnamon Girl " and " Cowgirl in the Sand " while delirious in bed in Topanga Canyon with a fever.

It was explained on the CD's liner notes that it was due to legal reasons and added " Sorry Franke " which gave you a hint as to why " Understand This Groove " was excluded in the first  place.

Lenny Kaye used the term " classic garage-punk ," in reference to a song recorded in 1966 by The Shadows of Knight, in the liner notes of the anthology album Nuggets, released in 1972.

In the liner notes of De La Soul's 1993 album Buhloone Mindstate, Paul hinted at his future projects with the Gravediggaz: " I would like to thank all my friends and business cohorts who dissed me, played me, and jerked me when times were hard.

In the 2000 liner notes for the album's re-release, Chuck D. of Public Enemy would call the album "... a spectacular performance against all odds and expectations.

In addition he wrote the liner notes for their tribute album We're a Happy Family.

She previously dated actor Owen Wilson ; her album C ' mon C ' mon ( 2002 ) featured the song " Safe and Sound ", which was dedicated to him and which, according to the album's liner notes, was an autobiographical account of their relationship.

* Laurie Anderson, whose 1984 album " Mister Heartbreak " includes visual depictions of Synclavier sound waves in the liner notes

( Malins also wrote the liner notes for most of the CD reissues of Numan's albums in the late 1990s, as well as executive producing the Hybrid album in 2003.

Aykroyd wrote the liner notes for fellow Ottawa born blues musician JW-Jones ' album Bluelisted in 2008.

The liner notes for his album Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic featured a message about the cruelty involved in wool production.

In the liner notes to the Police's box set Message in a Box, Summers explains: " The attempt to record a new album was doomed from the outset.

" Because Tolhurst was still on the payroll during the recording of Disintegration, he was credited in the album's liner notes as playing " other instruments ", however it has since been revealed that he contributed nothing to the album in either performance or song writing.

* Heinlein revealed in the liner notes to the Leonard Nimoy – read album The Green Hills of Earth that he partially based Rhysling's unique abilities on a blind machinist he worked with at the Philadelphia Naval Yards during World War II.

Frank Zappa, a highly influential composer who drew his inspiration from a variety of musical styles and idioms, paid tribute to Dolphy in the instrumental " The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue " ( on the 1970 album Weasels Ripped My Flesh ) and listed Dolphy as an influence on the liner notes for the Mothers ' first LP, Freak Out !.

The liner notes claim the album was made without synthesizers.

Additionally, during the taping of their first LP Brian fought for, and won, the right to be in charge of the production-though his first acknowledged liner notes production credit did not come until the band's third album Surfer Girl, in 1963.

The liner notes of CD versions of the Motor Booty Affair album suggest that the "' P ' stands for ' Pure.

The liner notes of CD versions of the 1978 Parliament album Motor Booty Affair suggest that the " P " stands for " Pure.