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. Rainbow Connection, The 8. Sing 9. For All We Know 10. Jambalaya (On the Bayou) 11. Touch Me When Were Dancing 12. Please Mr Postman 13. I Need to Be in Love 14. Solitaire 15. We've Only Just Begun 16. (They Long to Be) Close to You 17. This Masquerade 18. Ticket to Ride 19. Top of the World 20. Only Yesterday 21. Leave Yesterday Behind
| 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. Japanese version. 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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