The Story of The Empire Strikes Back LP (1980)

The Story of The Empire Strikes Back is a 1980 record album presenting an abridged version of the events depicted in the film The Empire Strikes Back, using dialogue and sound effects from the original film.

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[nopcshere]

Had this as a kid. Couldn't stop listening to it after getting it. Glad to see it here.

[marcelaucoin]

I had this album on vinyl as a kid. I found it at a small department store back home (spring of either ‘81 or ‘82) and mistook it for the movie’s score. Got my mom to buy it for my upcoming birthday and was surprised to find this instead. If anything, I loved it even more than the musical score; this was before you could buy or rent the movie on VHS, so being able to relive watching it with actual dialogue and sound FX from the film was a dream come true. Thanks for sharing this! ❤😊

[BrettWMcCoy]

Man I used to crank this one (and the first Star wars LP) as loud as I could and listened to it endlessly.

[edenton]

Thank you to the poster. I listened to this daily for years when I was a kid❤

[Uzbug]

AT LAST! Been looking for this one! Have no idea how many times I heard this at my Nana's. Memories.

[willkomnath]

Wow the sound quality on this is amazing! It's narrated by Malachi Throne (Commodore Mendez in ST: the Menagerie). I have the vinyl but the cover has a painting of the Luke and Vader lightsaber duel at Cloud City.

[santigil]

The sound is crisp and clear.... nicely done

[Zobovor]

I'm surprised they kept the "then I'll see you in Hell!" line in a children's adaptation.

This is incredible! I did not know this existed, not sure if it was ever published in the Scandinavian part of the world. If I had this, I know I would have listened to it every hour of the day growing up in the 80s😃 Thanks for sharing this👍

It is incredible quality, and interesting to hear that they probably had access to some master tapes with clear voices and were using actual movie soundscape 👌 Interesting to hear the custom edits and flow for this mix, it is masterfully done and to think it was released same time as the movie, just👌

[JacobDreamWorks]

41:35 the line "princess, we'll find han, I promise." is an alternate take that can be heard in the original 70mm cut.

[gammaechofoundationproductions]

Hey, thanks for this! 👍🏻 I remembered when my parents got me the Return of the Jedi read-along album at a convenient store and it also had this one too. I've always wanted to get it years later, only to discover that it is here on YouTube, ditto for the Star Wars A New Hope 8-track! Thanks to YouTube and you, my collection of these read-along albums (apart from the DVDs) completes my collection! 👌🏻 I look forward to seeing more of your content! You just earned a new subscriber! 🙂

[MightyGreedo]

That was so good! They should make a movie version of this story.

[LogicBlaster]

This is really cool! I have The Story of Star Wars album on vinyl, but I don't have this one. Thanks for sharing this!👍

[doredormir]

This is real! I was starting to think I imagined it.

[oldsynth]

I remember this but I seem to remember my version was narrated by James Earl Jones

[mtallan]

I was asking ChatGPT to help me remember the film with the line “I feel like…” “Feel like what?” “Like I’m being watched” but it didn’t know then I remembered it was from Empire when Luke meets Yoda for the first time but apparently it want in the film so I figured it must have been in this recording that I listened to over and over again. Yep 17:10

[woodddj]

Is this not the same recording as The Adventures of Luke Skywalker?

[mgebay]

In an alternate universe, Malachi Throne would have made a great Darth Vader.

[geosword]

When Vader says 'put him in' at the start of the Carbon Freezing scene... that wasn't in the movie was it..?

[projectnerdvana]

Thank you so much for this!!! I just found out about these recordings and I'm in love!! I'm an 90s kid who hate everything they have done to this franchise more and days and listening to these is like the color wars but better!!!
This is not the same narrator from the return of the Jedi cat cassette from Ryan The Film Makers channel is it?