♫♪♫ Their First Album Was Released in 1975...♫♪♫

 I heard this earlier on the 70s Pandora Station. When I came home and started playing

some of their songs I was researching the band.  This caught my eye on wikipedia:

Their first album, the eponymous Ambrosia, produced by Freddie Piro, was released in February 1975.^[7] It spawned the top 20 chart single "Holdin' On to Yesterday", as well as "Nice, Nice, Very Nice".^[7] The latter sets to music the lyrics to a poem in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.^[7] The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording (other than Classical).

 Alan Parsons was the engineer for Ambrosia's first album and the producer for their second.^[6] All four members of Ambrosia played on the first Alan Parsons Project album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, which was recorded soon after Ambrosia's first album. David Pack later appeared on the Alan Parsons album Try Anything Once (1993), co-writing, playing, and providing vocals on three songs.

 

Remember this is 1976 and the sound quality isn't that good:

 

 Now, where else have I heard of Alan Parsons?

Oh Ya...

The Dark Side of the Moon was recorded at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) between 31 May 1972 and 9 February 1973. Pink Floyd were assigned staff engineer Alan Parsons, who had worked as assistant tape operator on their fifth album, Atom Heart Mother (1970), and gained experience as a recording engineer on the Beatles' Abbey Road and Let It Be.^[29][30] The Dark Side of the Moon sessions made use of advanced studio techniques; the studio was capable of 16-track mixes, which offered greater flexibility than the eight- or four-track mixes Pink Floyd had previously used, although they often used so many tracks that to make more space available second-generation copies were made.^[31]

 

 Quite the prolific sound engineer wasn't he?

 

 Now let's see how it sounds 30 years later: