Track Listing
1. Yesterday Once More
2. Superstar
3. Rainy Days and Mondays
4. Goodbye to Love
5. It's Going to Take Some Time
6. I Won't Last a Day Without You
7. For All We Know
8. Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
9. Touch Me When We're Dancing
10. Please Mr Postman
11. I Need to Be in Love
12. Solitaire
13. We've Only Just Begun
14. (They Long to Be) Close to You
15. This Masquerade
16. Ticket to Ride
17. Top of the World
18. Only Yesterday
19. Sing
20. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Hal Blaine, Ray Parker, Jr., Tom Scott | | Distributor: | Phantom Import Distributi | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The Carpenters: Karen Carpenter (vocals); Richard Carpenter (keyboards, background vocals).
Additional personnel includes: Ray Parker Jr. (guitar); Tom Scott (tenor saxophone); Hal Blaine (drums).
Producers: Jack Daugherty, Richard Carpenter, Karen Carpenter.
Compilation producer: Richard Carpenter.
Recorded between 1970 & 1997. Includes liner notes by Richard Carpenter.
Remastered U.K. edition including a comprehensive booklet and sleeve notes.
Look no further for the definitive Carpenters collection; this two-disc, 40-song beauty tops them all. Not only do you get all of the band's hits (and they had many), but lots of equally great, lesser-known tracks sweeten the pot. Karen Carpenter's pure, gentle voice, and brother Richard's smooth-but-sophisticated arrangements and keyboards provided the signature sound of the soft-pop 1970s. You could put this collection into a time capsule for a hundred years and accurately inform subsequent generations of what AM radio sounded like in the '70s. This anthology is also a tribute the great talents of the Paul Williams/Roger Nichols songwriting team, from whose pens flowed "Rainy Days and Mondays," "We've Only Just Begun," "I Won't Last a Day Without You," and other mellow, tuneful gems--some of the classiest pure pop music of the era. Over the course of GOLD, the Carpenter's entire career is covered, and sparkling, ornately arranged melodic delights are in no short supply.
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