Ray Manzarek

"The first time I heard 'Carmina Burana' I was maybe a senior in high school, and I've always loved it, the power of it, and all these people singing in a Gregorian kind of modal thing with the sense of the throbbing rhythm. It's always been sitting there at the back of my mind as one of my favorite choral pieces."

"I bought the sheet music, the piano accompaniment for the whole piece....I started looking at...the whole score, and I fell in love with the music all over again, but this time performing it instead of just listening to it. This is like the Doors' music, like Ray Manzarek's music. This is my kind of stuff."--Ray Manzarek, Billboard October 15, 1983

It took about eight months to record "Carmina Burana." A&M Records gave Manzarek complete artistic freedom.

Charlie Minor, Ray Manzarek, Barry Korkin, unknown, unknown, Alan Oken