Yes, I still own that record. A lot of people (including me) had a false memory of him reading of the "a long time ago..." line in the actual movie!

Sorry to hear about his passing.

Originally posted by: SKot
What I don't get though is this: if he narrated The Story of Star Wars, how is it that he has an English accent there? He doesn't seem to be British. So did he adapt a faux-British accent for that reading? And if so, why?

According to the CNN story, he was from New Jersey.
I don't think he used a British accent, he just had a very refined, well-educated American accent (much like James Earl Jones').