Love Songs

Tracklist

• 1
  I Need to Be in Love
  3:51
• 2
  Solitaire
  4:42
  3.0 ★
• 3
  We've Only Just Begun
  3:06
  3.4 ★
• 4
  This Masquerade
  4:53
  3.0 ★
• 5
  You're the One
  4:15
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Superstar
  3:50
  4.4 ★
• 7
  Rainy Days and Mondays
  3:36
  4.4 ★
• 8
  Top of the World
  3:00
  3.5 ★
• 9
  Make Believe It's Your First Time
  4:10
  2.0 ★
• 10
  I Just Fall in Love Again
  4:04
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Close to You (They long to Be)
  3:42
• 12
  For All We Know
  2:34
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Where Do I Go From Here
  4:25
• 14
  Only Yesterday
  3:59
• 15
  All You Get From Love Is a Love Song
  3:49
  3.0 ★
• 16
  When I Fall in Love
  3:09
  3.5 ★
• 17
  Hurting Each Other
  2:47
  4.5 ★
• 18
  I Won't Last a Day Without You
  3:55
• 19
  A Song for You
  4:39
• 20
  Goodbye to Love
  3:57
  4.5 ★

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Release credits

• Bob Messenger
  saxophone [7], woodwind [3]
• Carlena Williams
  background vocals [15]
• Cubby O’Brien
  drums (drum set) [16]
• Danny Woodhams
  bass [3]
• Dave Iveland
  assistant [5, 16], engineer [10, 15]
• Dick Bogert
  engineer [3, 12]
• Douglass Strawn
  clarinet [3], woodwind [3]
• Earle Dumler
  oboe [6, 9-10, 12]
• Ed Green
  drums (drum set) [15]
• Gayle Levant
  harp [9-10, 16]
• Greg Goldman
  assistant [5, 16]
• Gregg Smith
  chorus master [10]
• Gregg Smith Singers
  choir vocals [10]
• Hal Blaine
  drums (drum set) [3, 6-7, 12]
• Jack Daugherty
  producer [3, 6-8, 11-12, 17, 20]
• Jay Dee Maness
  pedal steel guitar [9]
• Jerry Steinholtz
  percussion [15]
• Jim Horn
  woodwind [3]
• Joe Osborn
  bass [3, 10, 15], bass guitar [5-7, 9, 12, 16]
• Julia Waters
  background vocals [15]
• Karen Carpenter
  associate [2, 10, 14-15], background vocals [3, 5-7, 12, 15], drums (drum set) [3], lead vocals [2-4, 6-12, 12, 14-15, 17], producer [4, 8]
• Maxine Waters
  background vocals [15]
• Norm Kinney
  assistant [6-7, 12]
• Overbudget Philharmonic
  performing orchestra [10]
• Pete Jolly
  keyboard [16]
• Peter Knight
  arranger [16], conductor [10], orchestrator [10, 16]
• Ray Gerhardt
  engineer [3, 5-7, 10, 12, 15-16]
• Ray Parker Jr.
  electric guitar [15]
• Richard Carpenter
  Wurlitzer electric piano [3], arranger [2-12, 14-15, 17], background vocals [3, 5-7, 12, 15], electric piano [15], keyboard [5-7, 9, 12], lead vocals [3], orchestrator [2-8, 10-12, 14-15, 17], piano [10, 15], producer [2, 4-5, 8, 10, 14-16], vocal [10, 15]
• Robert de la Garza
  assistant [16], mix [5, 16]
• Roger Young
  engineer [5, 10, 15-16], mix [16]
• Ron Tutt
  drums (drum set) [5, 9-10]
• Sheridon Stokes
  flute [9], solo [9]
• The O.K. Chorale
  background vocals [9]
• Tim May
  acoustic guitar [5, 9]
• Tom Scott
  tenor saxophone [15]
• Tommy Morgan
  harmonica [7]
• Tommy Vig
  congas [15]
• Tony Peluso
  electric guitar [9-10, 15, 20]
• Show all credits (39)

Issues

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  L
  Love Songs

  CD
  17 December 1997
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  L
  Love Songs

  CD
  1997
• L
  Love Songs

  CD
  1998
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  L
  Love Songs

  CD
  1998
• L
  Love Songs

  CD
  1998
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  L
  Love Songs

  CD
  1999
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  L
  Love Songs

  CD
  25 May 2000
• L
  Love Songs

  Unknown format
  4 April 2007