2x CD

Carpenters Gold

Compilation by Carpenters

Released 1998

pop soft rock easy listening

Tracklist

CD 1: 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
4.0 ★
7
Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
3.5 ★
8
Leave Yesterday Behind
9
Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore
3.0 ★
10
Bless the Beasts and the Children
11
It't Going to Take Some Time
12
The Rainbow Connection
2.0 ★
13
Only Yesterday
14
Sweet, Sweet Smile
2.0 ★
15
There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)
16
California Dreamin'
17
Solitaire
18
We've Only Just Begun
19
This Masquerade
20
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem of World Contact Day)
2.0 ★
CD 2: Disc: 2
1
Yesterday Once More
2
Please Mr. Postman
3
Hurting Each Other
4.5 ★
4
I Need to Be in Love
5
Merry Christmas, Darling
6
(They Long to Be) Close to You
3.0 ★
7
All You Get from Love Is a Love Song
3.0 ★
8
Sing
4.0 ★
9
Make Believe It's Your First Time
10
Ticket to Ride
3.5 ★
11
Goodbye to Love
12
I Just Fall in Love Again
13
I Believe You
14
Tryin' to Get to the Feeling Again
15
For All We Know
4.0 ★
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

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Release credits

Bob Messenger
bass [10], woodwind [6]
Bobby Bruce
fiddle [14]
Buddy Childers
flugelhorn [12]
Carlena Williams
background vocals [7]
Chuck Findley
solo [9], trumpet [2.6, 1.9]
Danny Woodhams
bass [6]
Dave Iveland
engineer [2.7, 1.14, 1.20]
Dick Bogert
engineer [1.6, 2.15]
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, 1.6-7]
Jack Daugherty
orchestrator [10], producer [1.6, 1.18, 2.3, 2.10, 2.15], task [6]
Jerry Steinholtz
percussion [7]
Jim Horn
woodwind [6]
Joe Osborn
bass [2.6-7, 2.10, 1.6, 1.14, 1.20], bass guitar [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 [6-7, 15], drums (drum set) [2.10, 1.6], lead vocals [2.3, 2.6-7, 2.10, 2.15, 1.6-7, 1.9, 1.12, 1.14, 1.18, 1.20], producer [1.7, 2.8]
Larry McNeely
banjo [14]
Maxine Waters
background vocals [7]
Mike Shapiro
drums (drum set) [6]
Norm Kinney
assistant [15]
Overbudget Philharmonic
performing orchestra [20]
Peter Knight
conductor [20], orchestrator [20]
Peter Limonick
percussion [9]
Ray Gerhardt
engineer [1.6, 1.14, 1.20, 2.7, 2.10, 2.15]
Ray Parker Jr.
electric guitar [7]
Richard Carpenter
Wurlitzer electric piano [6], arranger [1.6-7, 1.9, 1.12, 1.14, 1.20, 2.3, 2.6-7, 2.15], background vocals [2.6-7, 2.15, 1.9], conductor [1.12, 2.6], electric piano [1.20, 2.7], keyboard [2.6, 2.15, 1.9, 1.12], lead vocals [6], mix [12], orchestrator [1.6-7, 1.14, 1.20, 2.3, 2.7, 2.15], piano [1.20, 2.7], producer [2.7-8, 1.7, 1.14, 1.20], synthesizer [20], vocal [1.14, 1.20, 2.7]
Roger Young
engineer [1.12, 1.14, 1.20, 2.7]
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 Vig
congas [7]
Tony Peluso
acoustic guitar [14], electric guitar [1.9, 1.14, 1.20, 2.7], spoken vocals [20]