This 20 track compilation features the most popular tracks by the Connecticut-born brother/sister duo. Their fusion of easy listening and MOR pop brought The Carpenters a decade of chart success. ‘Carpenters Gold’ includes fourteen tracks which reached the UK top 40 in the 1970’s.
Look no further for the definitive Carpenters collection; the Carpenters Gold contains 20 great songs! 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.
1. Yesterday Once More | |
2. Superstar | |
3. Rainy Days And Mondays | |
4. Goodbye 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 (The Recognised Anthem Of World Contact Day) |