Did Alan Watts and Ken Nordine Influence Spoken Word on 'Dark Side of the Moon'?

Pink Floyd’s use of disembodied voices and cryptic spoken snippets on The Dark Side of the Moon is often traced to the narrative ambitions of Sgt. Pepper and Tommy. Roger Waters has talked about wanting to create a unified album with a central theme, but the actual spoken-word samples came from a stack of cue cards with questions he wrote for random people in the studio. That raw, documentary-style audio wasn’t lifted from any earlier record.

Still, the idea of using voice as texture rather than pure narrative had already been explored in the 1950s and 60s by Alan Watts (the philosopher whose This Is It blended spoken Zen parables with jazz) and Ken Nordine (