Track Listing
1. Yesterday Once More
2. Superstar
3. Rainy Days and Mondays
4. Goodbye to Love
5. Its Going to Take Some Time
6. I Wont Last a Day Without You
7. For All We Know
8. Jambalaya
9. Touch Me When Were Dancing
10. Please Mr Postman
11. I Need to Be in Love
12. Solitaire
13. Weve Only Just Begun
14. 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
21. O Come O Come Emmanuel
22. Overture Deck the Halls / I Saw Three Ships etc....
23. Christmas Waltz, The
24. Sleigh Ride
25. Its Christmas Time / Sleep Well Little Children
26. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
27. Santa Claus Is Comin to Town
28. Christmas Song, The
29. Silent Night
30. Jingle Bells
31. First Snowfall / Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow, The
32. Carol of the Bells
33. Merry Christmas Darling
34. Ill Be Home For Christmas
35. Christ Is Born
36. Winter Wonderland / Silver Bells / White Christmas
37. Ave Maria
38. Weve Only Just Begun
39. Those Good Old Dreams
40. Superstar
41. Rainy Days & Mondays
42. All You Get From Love Is a Song
43. Top of the World
44. Ticket to Ride
45. Only Yesterday
46. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
47. Beechwood 4-5789
48. Touch Me When Were Dancing
49. Hurting Each Other
50. Please Mr Postman
51. Theres a Kind of Hush
52. Close to You
| 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.
Asian rerelease contains a bonus CD that includes 20 holiday favorites and a bonus DVD (PAL, Region 0) with 15 more tracks.
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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