Carpenters: Collected 2LP 180g Vinyl

Carpenters: Collected (2LP) [MUSIC ON VINYL]

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C$69.99

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A 27-song Carpenters collection as a 2LP set on 180g vinyl in a gatefold jacket, from "Close to You" and "Superstar" to "Top of the World" and "Yesterday Once More."

Why you'll love it

This 180g 2LP set comes in a gatefold jacket with a four-page booklet of liner notes and photos. It gathers the duo's run of hits, three No. 1 singles among them.

This edition

2LP set
180g vinyl
Gatefold jacket
4-page booklet

About the album

Karen and Richard Carpenter signed to A&M in 1969, and within a year a Burt Bacharach and Hal David song nobody had made a hit of, "(They Long to Be) Close to You," sat at the top of the charts. Karen sang lead and played drums, Richard arranged, played keyboards and stacked the harmonies, and for the first half of the 1970s the pair barely left the radio.

Collected runs from their slowed-down "Ticket to Ride" through "We've Only Just Begun," "Rainy Days and Mondays," "Superstar" and "Goodbye to Love," with its famous fuzz guitar solo, to "Top of the World," "Sing" and "Yesterday Once More." Their covers of "Please Mr. Postman" and "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" sit beside later gems like "I Need to Be in Love" and "Touch Me When We're Dancing," and Karen's voice, low and close and unhurried, ties the lot together. Richard's arrangements do the rest, all soft brass, choirs of overdubbed harmonies and that unmistakable polish.

Side D also brings "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft," written by Toronto's own Klaatu. It remains the most ambitious long-distance call ever placed from this city, and frankly the reception was excellent.

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Tracklist

Side A
1. Ticket To Ride
2. (They Long To Be) Close To You
3. We've Only Just Begun
4. For All We Know
5. Rainy Days And Mondays
6. Superstar
7. Bless The Beasts And Children

Side B
1. Hurting Each Other
2. It's Going To Take Some Time
3. Goodbye To Love
4. Top Of The World
5. I Won't Last A Day Without You
6. Sing
7. This Masquerade

Side C
1. Yesterday Once More
2. Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
3. Please Mr. Postman
4. Desperado
5. Only Yesterday
6. Solitaire
7. There's A Kind Of Hush (All Over The World)

Side D
1. I Need To Be In Love
2. Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem Of World Contact Day)
3. Sweet Sweet Smile
4. Touch Me When We're Dancing
5. Still Crazy After All These Years
6. Karen's Theme