Track Listing
DISC 1: 1965-1970:
1. Caravan
2. Parting of Our Ways, The
3. Looking For Love
4. I'll Be Yours
5. Iced Tea
6. You'll Love Me
7. All I Can Do
8. Don't Be Afraid
9. Invocation
10. Your Wonderful Parade
11. Goodnight
12. All My Life
13. Eve
14. Ticket to Ride
15. Get Together
16. Interview
17. Maybe It's You
18. Close to You
19. We've Only Just Begun
20. Merry Christmas, Darling
21. For All We Know
DISC 2: 1971-1973:
1. Superstar
2. Rainy Days and Mondays
3. Let Me Be the One
4. Bless the Beasts and the Children
5. Hurting Each Other
6. Top of the World
7. Goodbye to Love
8. Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
9. This Masquerade
10. Sing - (spanish version)
11. Yesterday Once More
12. Fun, Fun, Fun
13. End of the World, The
14. Da Doo Ron Ron
15. Deadman's Curve
16. Johnny Angel
17. Night Has a Thousand Eyes, The
18. Our Day Will Come
19. One Fine Day
20. Yesterday Once More - (reprise)
21. Radio Contest Outtakes
DISC 3: 1974-1978:
1. Please Mr. Postman
2. Only Yesterday
3. Solitaire
4. Good Friends Are For Keeps
5. Ordinary Fool
6. I Need to Be in Love
7. From This Moment On
8. Suntory Pop Jingle #1
9. Suntory Pop Jingle #2
10. All You Get From Love Is a Love Song
11. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
12. Christ Is Born
13. White Christmas
14. Little Altar Boy
15. Ave Maria
DISC 4: 1978-1982:
1. Where Do I Go From Here
2. Little Girl Blue
3. If I Had You
4. My Body Keeps Changing My Mind
5. Still Crazy After All These Years
6. Sing / Knowing When To Leave / Make It Easy On Yourself / Someday / We've Only Just Begun
7. Touch Me When We're Dancing
8. When It's Gone
9. Because We Are in Love (The Wedding Song)
10. Now
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Bob James, Michael Brecker, Tom Scott | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
The Carpenters: Richard Carpenter (vocals, keyboards); Karen Carpenter (vocals, drums).
Additional personnel includes: Tony Peluso (guitar, bass); Gary Sims, Ray Parker, Jr. (guitar); Red Rhodes (steel guitar); Bob Messenger (flute, tenor saxophone); David Shostac (flute); Tom Scott (recorder, tenor saxophone); Doug Strawn (clarinet); Earle Dumler (oboe, English horn); Tom Morgan (harmonica); John Phillips, Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone); Chuck Findley (trumpet); Pete Jolly, Bob James, Rob Mounsey, Greg Philliganes (keyboards); Joe Osborn, Chuck Del'Monico, Chuck Berghofer (bass); Hal Blaine, Jim Gordon, Ron Tutt (drums); The O.K. Chorale; Tom Bahler Chorale; Gregg Smith Singers.
Producers include: Jack Daugherty, Richard Carpenter, Karen Carpenter, Phil Ramone.
Recorded between 1965 & 1982. Includes liner notes by Richard Carpenter.
FROM THE TOP is subtitled "The Ultimate Retrospective." While the 12-CD box set released by British A&M may actually have a better shot at that title, this four-disc, 67-track box is geared towards fans rather than obsessives. FROM THE TOP encompasses the Carpenters' first single, 1969's "Ticket To Ride," the final tracks recorded before Karen Carpenter's 1982 death, and the many singles, significant album tracks, demos, live tracks, previously unissued recordings, and radio interviews in between. The collection even includes such wonderful curiosities as the few jingles Karen and Richard recorded for various companies. All Carpenters fans will treasure FROM THE TOP. The set comes with a nicely designed 36-page book that includes original liner notes and previously unpublished photos.
Editorial Reviews
3 Stars - Good - ..There's an alarming beauty to the early recordings...The Carpenters are pretty hard to match in the mellow, emotion-wracked world of heartache..
Q (03/01/1992)
..[proves that] the Carpenters made some of the classiest pop music of the '70s...Karen had pure tones and an effortless, conversational style..
Musician (02/01/1992)
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