Magical Memories of the Carpenters

Compilation by Carpenters

Released 1993

ballad pop rock

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Tracklist

CD 1: Close to You
1
(They Long to Be) Close to You
3:41
2
Eve
2:52
3
Reason to Believe
3:03
4.0 ★
4
Touch Me When We’re Dancing
3:19
5
It’s Going to Take Some Time
2:58
6
Help
3:04
7
I Believe You
3:54
8
Superstar
3:49
9
Rainy Days and Mondays
3:35
4.4 ★
10
Because We Are in Love (The Wedding Song)
5:01
3.0 ★
11
When You’ve Got What It Takes
3:40
12
Boat to Sail
3:30
2.0 ★
13
Goodbye to Love
3:57
CD 2: Yesterday Once More
1
Medley: Yesterday Once More / Fun, Fun, Fun / The End of the World / Da Doo Ron Ron / Deadman’s Curve / Johnny Angel / The Night Has a Thousand Eyes / Our Day Will Come / One Fine Day / Yesterday Once More (reprise)
19:45
2
We’ve Only Just Begun
3:05
3.4 ★
3
Those Good Old Dreams
4:12
4
I Can Dream Can’t I?
4:59
5
Flat Baroque
1:46
6
Piano Picker
1:59
7
Sandy
3:40
8
I Won’t Last a Day Without You
3:54
9
When I Fall in Love
3:08
3.5 ★
10
I Need to Be in Love
3:49
11
Mr. Guder
3:20
12
For All We Know
2:31
13
Crystal Lullaby
3:54
4.0 ★
14
Road Ode
3:53
CD 3: I Need to Be in Love (Concluded)
1
There’s a Kind of Hush
3:04
2
A Song for You
4:38
3
Top of the World
2:59
4
This Masquerade
4:52
5
(Want You) Back in My Life Again
3:39
3.0 ★
6
Ticket to Ride
4:10
3.5 ★
7
All You Get From Love Is a Love Song
3:46
3.0 ★
8
Sweet Sweet Smile
3:01
9
Strength of a Woman
3:58
3.0 ★
10
Love Is Surrender
1:58
11
Maybe It’s You
3:02
12
All of My Life
3:01
13
Happy
3:48
3.0 ★
14
Hurting Each Other
2:45
4.5 ★
15
Little Girl Blue
3:24
16
(I’m Caught Between) Goodbye and I Love You
4:06
3.0 ★
CD 4: Sweet Sweet Smile (Concluded)
1
Saturday
1:18
2
One Love
3:22
3
Love Me for What I Am
3:29
4
Your Baby Doesn’t Love You Anymore
3:50
3.0 ★
5
Sing
3:17
4.0 ★
6
Desperado
3:34
3.0 ★
7
Bless the Beasts and Children
3:15
4.0 ★
8
You
3:45
3.0 ★
9
Two Sides
3:26
10
Please Mr. Postman
2:45
4.0 ★
11
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
7:09
2.0 ★
12
Now
3:50
13
I Can’t Make Music
3:15
14
Look to Your Dreams
5:11
CD 5: Look to Your Dreams (Concluded)
1
Only Yesterday
3:59
2
I Just Fall in Love Again
4:03
3
When It’s Gone (It’s Just Gone)
5:00
4
Ave Maria
2:35
5
Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
5:46
6
Man Smart, Woman Smarter
4:21
7
Jambalaya
3:38
3.5 ★
8
At the End of a Song
3:39
3.0 ★
9
Ordinary Fool
3:41
10
Let Me Be the One
2:41
11
Make Believe It’s Your First Time
4:09
12
Medley: Any Day Now / Baby It’s You / Knowing When to Leave / Make It Easy on Yourself / (There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me / I’ll Never Fall in Love Again / Walk on By / Do You Know the Way to San José?
13:09
13
Sometimes
2:50
4.0 ★

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Release credits

Bob Messenger
bass [6], saxophone [9], woodwind [1.3, 2.2]
Carlena Williams
background vocals [7]
Carolyn Dennis
background vocals [9]
Chuck Findley
solo [4], trumpet [4]
Cubby O’Brien
drums (drum set) [9]
Danny Woodhams
bass [2.2, 1.3]
Daryl Dragon
synthesizer [5]
Dave Iveland
assistant [2.9, 3.5, 3.9, 1.10], engineer [4.11, 3.7]
Dick Bogert
engineer [1.3, 5.13, 2.2]
Douglass Strawn
clarinet [2], woodwind [2.2, 1.3]
Earle Dumler
oboe [4.4, 4.8, 4.11, 3.9]
Ed Green
drums (drum set) [7]
Frank Pooler
conductor [10]
Gary Sims
guitar [6]
Gayle Levant
harp [2.9, 4.4, 4.8, 3.9, 1.10, 5.8]
Gerald Vinci
concertmaster [10]
Greg Goldman
assistant [9]
Gregg Smith
chorus master [11]
Gregg Smith Singers
choir vocals [11]
Hal Blaine
drums (drum set) [5.7, 1.3, 1.9, 2.2]
Ian Underwood
synthesizer [5]
Jack Daugherty
orchestrator [6], producer [5.13, 1.3, 1.9, 2.2, 3.6, 3.14]
James Getzoff
concertmaster [5, 9]
Jay Dee Maness
pedal steel guitar [8]
Jerry Steinholtz
percussion [7]
Jim Gordon
drums (drum set) [1.12, 4.8]
Jim Horn
woodwind [2.2, 1.3]
Joe Osborn
bass [1.3, 3.6-7, 2.2, 4.11], bass guitar [2.9, 5.8, 3.5, 3.9, 4.4, 4.8, 1.9-10, 1.12]
Julia Waters
background vocals [7]
Karen Carpenter
associate [3.7, 4.10-11, 5.1], background vocals [3.5, 3.7, 3.9, 1.9, 2.2], drums (drum set) [1.3, 2.2, 3.6], lead vocals [5.1, 5.7-8, 2.2, 4.4, 4.10-11, 3.6-7, 3.14, 1.3, 1.9], producer [4.5, 5.7], vibraphone [12], vocal [13]
Larry Londin
drums (drum set) [9]
Maxine Waters
background vocals [7, 9]
Norm Kinney
assistant [1.9, 5.13]
Overbudget Philharmonic
performing orchestra [11]
Paulinho da Costa
percussion [5, 9]
Pete Jolly
keyboard [9]
Peter Knight
arranger [9], conductor [11], orchestrator [1.10, 2.9, 4.11]
Peter Limonick
percussion [4.4, 1.10]
Ray Gerhardt
engineer [5.13, 2.2, 2.9, 3.6-7, 3.13, 4.10-11, 1.3, 1.9]
Ray Parker Jr.
electric guitar [7]
Richard Carpenter
Wurlitzer electric piano [2.2, 1.3], arranger [5.1, 5.7-8, 5.13, 3.5, 3.7, 3.9, 3.14, 2.2, 4.4, 4.10-11, 1.3, 1.9-10], background vocals [3.5, 3.7, 3.9, 2.2, 1.9, 4.4], electric piano [3.7, 4.11], keyboard [4.4, 4.8, 1.9-10, 1.12, 5.8, 5.13, 3.5, 3.9], lead vocals [1.3, 2.2], orchestrator [2.2, 3.5, 3.7, 3.9, 3.14, 1.3, 1.9, 4.10-11, 5.1, 5.7, 5.13], piano [4.11, 3.7], producer [3.7, 4.5, 4.10-11, 2.9, 5.1, 5.7], synthesizer [11], vibraphone [12], vocal [3.7, 5.13, 4.11]
Robert de la Garza
assistant [9], mix [9]
Roger Young
engineer [1.10, 2.9, 3.5, 3.7, 3.9, 4.11], mix [9]
Ron Hicklin
task [10]
Ron Tutt
drums (drum set) [1.10, 3.5, 3.9, 4.4, 4.11, 5.8]
Sheridon Stokes
recorder [8]
Stephanie Spruill
background vocals [9]
The Jimmy Joyce Children’s Chorus
choir vocals [5]
The O.K. Chorale
background vocals [8], choir vocals [10]
Tim May
acoustic guitar [4.4, 3.5, 1.10, 5.8], electric guitar [5, 9]
Tom Scott
tenor saxophone [5, 7]
Tommy Morgan
harmonica [9]
Tommy Vig
congas [7]
Tony Peluso
electric guitar [4.4, 4.11, 3.5, 3.7, 3.9], guitar [1.12, 4.8], spoken vocals [11]

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Magical Memories of the Carpenters
5x CD
1993