Gold: Greatest Hits [35th Anniversary Ed

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. Recordedbetween 1970 & 1997. Includes liner notes by Richard Carpenter. Look no further for the definitive Carpenters collection; this two-disc, 40-song beauty tops them all. Not only do you get all of theband'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 alsoa 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.

Track Listing

• Disc 1
• • 1 superstar
  • 2 rainy days and mondays
  • 3 top of the world
  • 4 maybe it's you
  • 5 let me be the one
  • 6 reason to believe
  • 7 jambalaya (on the bayou)
  • 8 leave yesterday behind [previously unrel
  • 9 your baby doesn't love you anymore
  • 10 bless the beasts and children [from bles
  • 11 it's going to take some time
  • 12 the rainbow connection [previously unrel
  • 13 only yesterday
  • 14 sweet, sweet smile
  • 15 there's a kind of hush (all over the wor
  • 16 california dreamin' [previously unreleas
  • 17 solitaire
  • 18 we've only just begun
  • 19 this masquerade
  • 20 calling occupants of interplanetary craf
• Disc 2
• • 1 yesterday once more
  • 2 please mr. postman
  • 3 hurting each other
  • 4 i need to be in love
  • 5 merry christmas, darling
  • 6 (they long to be) close to you
  • 7 all you get from love is a love song
  • 8 sing
  • 9 make believe it's your first time
  • 10 ticket to ride
  • 11 goodbye to love
  • 12 i just fall in love again
  • 13 i believe you
  • 14 tryin' to get the feeling again
  • 15 for all we know [from lovers and other s
  • 16 touch me when we're dancing
  • 17 i won't last a day without you
  • 18 mr. guder
  • 19 a song for you
  • 20 karen's theme