Carpenters Gold - Carpenters

Carpenters Gold

Compilation by Carpenters

Released 1998

pop soft rock easy listening

Tracklist

Digital Media 1
1
Superstar
3:46
2
Rainy Days and Mondays
3:34
4.4 ★
3
Top of the World
3:02
3.6 ★
4
Maybe It's You
3:02
5
Let Me Be the One
2:24
3.0 ★
6
Reason to Believe
3:04
4.0 ★
7
Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
3:38
3.5 ★
8
Leave Yesterday Behind
3:32
9
Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore
3:50
3.0 ★
10
Bless the Beasts and the Children
3:14
11
It't Going to Take Some Time
2:57
12
The Rainbow Connection
4:36
2.0 ★
13
Only Yesterday
3:46
14
Sweet, Sweet Smile
3:01
2.0 ★
15
There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)
3:03
16
California Dreamin'
2:29
17
Solitaire
4:40
18
We've Only Just Begun
3:03
19
This Masquerade
4:53
20
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem of World Contact Day)
7:08
2.0 ★
Digital Media 2
1
Yesterday Once More
3:58
2
Please Mr. Postman
2:47
3
Hurting Each Other
2:47
4.5 ★
4
I Need to Be in Love
3:49
5
Merry Christmas, Darling
3:05
6
(They Long to Be) Close to You
3:40
3.0 ★
7
All You Get from Love Is a Love Song
3:46
3.0 ★
8
Sing
3:17
4.0 ★
9
Make Believe It's Your First Time
4:08
10
Ticket to Ride
4:09
3.5 ★
11
Goodbye to Love
3:55
12
I Just Fall in Love Again
4:03
13
I Believe You
3:54
14
Tryin' to Get to the Feeling Again
4:22
15
For All We Know
2:32
4.0 ★
16
Touch Me When We're Dancing
3:20
17
I Won't Last a Day Without You
3:53
18
Mr. Guder
3:21
19
A Song for You
4:36
20
Karen's Theme
2:41

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Release credits

Bob Messenger
bass [10], saxophone [2], woodwind [6]
Bobby Bruce
fiddle [14]
Buddy Childers
flugelhorn [12]
Carlena Williams
background vocals [7]
Chuck Findley
solo [9], trumpet [1.9, 2.6]
Danny Woodhams
bass [6]
Dave Iveland
engineer [1.14, 1.20, 2.7]
Dick Bogert
engineer [2.15, 1.5-6]
Douglass Strawn
woodwind [6]
Earle Dumler
oboe [1.9, 1.20, 2.15]
Ed Green
drums (drum set) [7]
Gary Sims
guitar [10]
Gayle Levant
harp [9]
Gregg Smith
chorus master [20]
Gregg Smith Singers
choir vocals [20]
Hal Blaine
drums (drum set) [2.6, 2.15, 1.2, 1.6-7]
Jack Daugherty
orchestrator [10], producer [1.1-3, 1.5-6, 1.18, 2.3, 2.10, 2.15], task [6]
Jerry Steinholtz
percussion [7]
Jim Horn
woodwind [6]
Joe Osborn
bass [1.6, 1.14, 1.20, 2.6-7, 2.10], bass guitar [1.2, 1.9, 1.12, 2.15]
John Hendrickson
engineer [12], mix [12]
Julia Waters
background vocals [7]
Karen Carpenter
associate [2.7, 1.14, 1.20], background vocals [2.6-7, 2.15, 1.2], drums (drum set) [1.6, 2.10], lead vocals [2.3, 2.6-7, 2.10, 2.15, 1.1-3, 1.6-7, 1.9, 1.12, 1.14, 1.18, 1.20], producer [2.8, 1.3, 1.7], vocal [5]
Larry McNeely
banjo [14]
Maxine Waters
background vocals [7]
Mike Shapiro
drums (drum set) [6]
Norm Kinney
assistant [1.2, 1.5, 2.15]
Overbudget Philharmonic
performing orchestra [20]
Peter Knight
conductor [20], orchestrator [20]
Peter Limonick
percussion [9]
Ray Gerhardt
engineer [2.7, 2.10, 2.15, 1.2, 1.5-6, 1.14, 1.20]
Ray Parker Jr.
electric guitar [7]
Richard Carpenter
Wurlitzer electric piano [6], arranger [1.2-3, 1.5-7, 1.9, 1.12, 1.14, 1.20, 2.3, 2.6-7, 2.15], background vocals [1.2, 1.9, 2.6-7, 2.15], conductor [2.6, 1.12], electric piano [2.7, 1.20], keyboard [2.6, 2.15, 1.2, 1.5, 1.9, 1.12], lead vocals [6], mix [12], orchestrator [1.2-3, 1.5-7, 1.14, 1.20, 2.3, 2.7, 2.15], piano [1.20, 2.7], producer [1.3, 1.7, 1.14, 1.20, 2.7-8], synthesizer [20], vocal [1.5, 1.14, 1.20, 2.7]
Roger Young
engineer [1.12, 1.14, 1.20, 2.7], remixer [1]
Ron Tutt
drums (drum set) [9, 12, 14, 20]
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
performing orchestra [6]
Sheridon Stokes
flute [12], recorder [12]
The Jimmy Joyce Children’s Chorus
choir vocals [8]
The O.K. Chorale
other vocals [12]
Tim May
acoustic guitar [9], banjo [12], mandolin [12]
Tom Hensley
tack piano [14]
Tom Scott
tenor saxophone [7]
Tommy Morgan
harmonica [2]
Tommy Vig
congas [7]
Tony Peluso
acoustic guitar [14], electric guitar [1.9, 1.14, 1.20, 2.7], spoken vocals [20]