In the mid 1970s, POWER Records an imprint of Peter Pan Industries, long-time maker of records for children since the late 1940's, produced Story Records based on the UK television series SPACE:1999 which ran from 1975-1977. The first record set was a 12-inch 33-1/3 RPM LP record which included three different stories and was released in 1975. In 1976, four additional stories were released on LP for a total of seven total stories. That same year, two of the stories "Breakaway" and “Return to the Beginning" were released as a Book & Record set which was a 7 inch 45 rpm record and a read along comic book.
"It Played So Softly on the Ear" is Space: 1999 Story Record #7 and features an original story in which, a strange tune leads the Alphans to a habitable planet, where solar flares have placed the population in suspended animation. Two remaining conscious scientists, who can reverse the process with blood transfusions, abduct the Alphans to serve as donors.