From the Top

Tracklist

• CD 1: 1965 → 1970
• 1
  Caravan
  3:38
  5.0 ★
• 2
  The Parting of Our Ways
  2:20
• 3
  Looking for Love
  1:52
• 4
  I’ll Be Yours
  2:28
• 5
  Iced Tea
  2:36
• 6
  You’ll Love Me
  2:27
• 7
  All I Can Do
  1:50
• 8
  Don’t Be Afraid
  2:07
• 9
  Invocation
  1:01
• 10
  Your Wonderful Parade
  2:23
• 11
  Goodnight
  2:34
• 12
  All of My Life
  3:02
• 13
  Eve
  2:52
• 14
  Ticket to Ride
  4:11
  3.5 ★
• 15
  Get Together
  2:40
  2.0 ★
• 16
  Interview
  1:35
• 17
  Maybe It’s You
  3:09
• 18
  (They Long to Be) Close to You
  3:42
• 19
  We’ve Only Just Begun
  3:05
  3.4 ★
• 20
  Merry Christmas, Darling
  3:05
• 21
  For All We Know
  2:32
• CD 2: 1971 → 1973
• 1
  Superstar
  3:45
• 2
  Rainy Days and Mondays
  3:36
  4.4 ★
• 3
  Let Me Be the One
  2:50
• 4
  Bless the Beasts and Children
  3:15
• 5
  Hurting Each Other
  2:46
  4.5 ★
• 6
  Top of the World
  2:59
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Goodbye to Love
  4:00
• 8
  Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
  4:08
  3.0 ★
• 9
  This Masquerade
  4:53
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Canta/Sing (Spanish lyric)
  3:20
• 11
  Yesterday Once More
  3:50
• 12
  Medley: a. Fun, Fun, Fun
  1:40
• 13
  Medley: b. The End of the World
  2:26
• 14
  Medley: c. Da Doo Ron Ron
  1:46
• 15
  Medley: d. Deadman’s Curve
  1:32
• 16
  Medley: e. Johnny Angel
  1:31
• 17
  Medley: f. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
  2:22
• 18
  Medley: g. Our Day Will Come
  2:00
• 19
  Medley: h. One Fine Day
  1:33
• 20
  Yesterday Once More (reprise)
  1:02
• 21
  Radio Contest Outtakes
  1:53
• CD 3: 1974 → 1978
• 1
  Please Mr. Postman
  2:52
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Only Yesterday
  3:59
• 3
  Solitaire
  4:40
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Good Friends Are for Keeps
  1:09
• 5
  Ordinary Fool
  3:43
  3.0 ★
• 6
  I Need to Be in Love
  3:48
• 7
  From This Moment On
  2:13
• 8
  Suntory Pop Jingle # 1
  0:33
• 9
  Suntory Pop Jingle # 2
  0:33
• 10
  All You Get From Love Is a Love Song
  3:46
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
  7:10
• 12
  Christ Is Born
  3:12
• 13
  White Christmas
  2:29
• 14
  Little Altar Boy
  3:44
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Ave Maria
  2:36
• CD 4: 1978 → 1982
• 1
  Where Do I Go From Here?
  4:26
  2.5 ★
• 2
  Little Girl Blue
  3:24
  3.0 ★
• 3
  If I Had You
  3:57
  4.0 ★
• 4
  My Body Keeps Changing My Mind
  3:50
• 5
  Still Crazy After All These Years
  4:19
• 6
  Medley: Sing / Knowing When to Leave / Make It Easy on Yourself / Someday / We’ve Only Just Begun
  9:08
• 7
  Touch Me When We’re Dancing
  3:22
• 8
  When It’s Gone
  5:01
• 9
  Because We Are in Love (The Wedding Song)
  5:02
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Now
  3:49
  3.0 ★

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Release credits

• Bob James
  arranger [3], keyboard [3]
• Bob Messenger
  bass [14-15], saxophone [2], woodwind [19]
• Bradshaw Leigh
  assistant [3]
• Carlena Williams
  background vocals [10]
• Chaz Clifton
  assistant [3]
• Chuck Domanico
  bass guitar [5]
• Cubby O’Brien
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Danny Woodhams
  bass [19]
• Dave Iveland
  assistant [1-3, 9], engineer [10]
• David Brown
  guitar [3]
• David Crowther
  assistant [3]
• Dick Bogert
  engineer [19]
• Douglass Strawn
  clarinet [19], woodwind [19]
• Earle Dumler
  horn [10], oboe [1, 10]
• Ed Green
  drums (drum set) [10]
• Frank Pooler
  conductor [9]
• Gary Sims
  guitar [14-15]
• Gayle Levant
  harp [3.5, 4.2, 4.9-10]
• Gerald Vinci
  concertmaster [9]
• Glenn Berger
  engineer [3]
• Greg Goldman
  assistant [1-3, 3]
• Hal Blaine
  drums (drum set) [1.19, 2.2]
• Jack Daugherty
  orchestrator [14-15], producer [2.2, 2.5-6, 1.14-15, 1.18-20]
• James Guthrie
  engineer [3]
• Jerry Hey
  orchestrator [3]
• Jerry Steinholtz
  percussion [10]
• Jim Boyer
  engineer [3]
• Jim Horn
  woodwind [19]
• Joe Osborn
  bass [1.14-15, 1.19, 3.10], bass guitar [2.2, 4.1-3, 4.9-10]
• John Phillips
  tenor saxophone [3.5, 4.10]
• Julia Waters
  background vocals [10]
• Karen Carpenter
  associate [1-3, 10], background vocals [2.2, 3.10, 1.19], drums (drum set) [14-15, 19], lead vocals [1.14, 1.18-19, 2.2, 2.5-6, 2.9, 3.1-3, 3.5, 3.10, 4.10], producer [6, 9], vocal [15]
• Liberty DeVitto
  drums (drum set) [3]
• Maxine Waters
  background vocals [10]
• Michael Brecker
  tenor saxophone [3]
• Norm Kinney
  assistant [2]
• Peter Knight
  arranger [2], orchestrator [1-2, 9]
• Peter Limonick
  percussion [9]
• Phil Ramone
  producer [3]
• Ralph MacDonald
  percussion [3]
• Ralph Osborn
  assistant [3]
• Randy Pipes
  assistant [3]
• Ray Gerhardt
  engineer [2.2, 1.14-15, 1.19, 3.1, 3.10, 4.1-3]
• Ray Parker Jr.
  electric guitar [10]
• Richard Carpenter
  Wurlitzer electric piano [19], arranger [3.1-3, 3.5, 3.10, 1.18-20, 4.1, 4.9-10, 2.2, 2.5-6, 2.9], background vocals [3.10, 1.19, 2.2], electric piano [10], keyboard [4.1-2, 4.9-10, 3.5, 2.2], lead vocals [15, 19], orchestrator [3.1-3, 3.10, 1.18-19, 2.2, 2.5-6, 2.9], piano [10], producer [3.1-3, 3.10, 4.1-2, 2.6, 2.9], vocal [10]
• Rob Mounsey
  keyboard [3]
• Robert de la Garza
  mix [1-3], remixer [3]
• Rod Temperton
  vocal arranger [3]
• Roger Young
  engineer [3.10, 4.1-3, 4.9]
• Ron Hicklin
  task [9]
• Ron Tutt
  drums (drum set) [4.1, 4.9-10, 3.5]
• Russell Javors
  guitar [3]
• Sheridon Stokes
  flute [3.5, 4.10], solo [10]
• The O.K. Chorale
  background vocals [10], choir vocals [9]
• Tim May
  acoustic guitar [9-10]
• Tom Scott
  tenor saxophone [10]
• Tommy Morgan
  harmonica [2]
• Tommy Vig
  congas [10]
• Tony Peluso
  electric guitar [10], guitar [1]
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Issues

• 

  F
  From the Top

  4x CD (BMG club edition)
  10 August 1991
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  F
  From the Top

  4x CD
  1991