The Carpenters Collection

Compilation by Carpenters

Released 1973

12" Vinyl 1
1
(They Long To Be) Close To You
4:32
4.0 ★
2
Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
3:38
3.5 ★
3
Bless The Beasts & The Children
3:08
4.0 ★
4
Saturday
1:20
5
Help
3:05
4.0 ★
6
For All We Know
2:33
4.0 ★
7
A Song For You
4:37
8
Sing
3:18
4.0 ★
9
Let Me Be The One
2:25
3.0 ★
10
Mr. Guder
3:17
11
I'll Never Fall In Love Again
3:02
12
Goodbye To Love
3:50
4.5 ★
12" Vinyl 2
1
Rainy Days And Mondays
3:35
4.4 ★
2
Love Is Surrender
1:58
3
Heather
2:51
4.0 ★
4
Maybe It's You
3:02
5
Druscilla Penny
2:18
6
This Masquerade
4:50
7
Superstar
3:49
4.4 ★
8
Flat Baroque
1:45
4.0 ★
9
I Won't Last A Day Without You
3:50
10
I Kept On Loving You
2:16
11
Crystal Lullaby
3:55
4.0 ★
12
I Can't Make Music
3:17
12" Vinyl 3
1
Yesterday Once More
3:49
2
Medley: 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 Jose
5:27
4.4 ★
3
Baby It's You
2:52
3.0 ★
4
Hurting Each Other
2:48
4.5 ★
5
Reason To Believe
3:04
4.0 ★
6
Sometimes
2:52
4.0 ★
7
We've Only Just Begun
3:04
3.4 ★
8
Top Of The World
2:56
9
One Love
3:25
3.0 ★
10
It's Going To Take Some Time
2:55
11
Hideaway
3:40
12
Another Song
4:25
3.0 ★

Bob Messenger
saxophone [1], woodwind [1.1, 1.5, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.12]
Danny Woodhams
bass [3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.12, 1.1, 1.5]
Dick Bogert
engineer [1.1, 1.5-6, 1.9, 3.2-3, 3.5-7, 3.9, 3.12]
Douglass Strawn
clarinet [7], woodwind [1.1, 1.5, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.12]
Earle Dumler
oboe [1.6, 2.7]
Hal Blaine
drums (drum set) [2.1, 2.7, 1.1-2, 1.5-6, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.12]
Jack Daugherty
producer [3.2-7, 3.9, 3.12, 2.1, 2.7, 1.1, 1.5-6, 1.9, 1.12]
Jim Horn
woodwind [1.1, 1.5, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.12]
Joe Osborn
bass [1.1, 1.5, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.12], bass guitar [2.1, 2.7, 1.6]
Karen Carpenter
background vocals [3.7, 1.6, 2.1, 2.7], drums (drum set) [3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.12, 1.1, 1.5], lead vocals [3.3-5, 3.7, 3.12, 1.1-2, 1.5-6, 1.6, 2.1, 2.7], producer [2, 8], vocal [1.9, 3.2, 3.6, 3.9]
Norm Kinney
assistant [3.2, 3.6, 3.9, 2.1, 2.7, 1.6, 1.9]
Ray Gerhardt
engineer [1.1, 1.5-6, 1.9, 2.1, 2.7, 3.2-3, 3.5-7, 3.9, 3.12]
Richard Carpenter
Wurlitzer electric piano [1.1, 1.5, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.12], arranger [1.1-2, 1.5-6, 1.9, 2.1, 2.7, 3.2-7, 3.9, 3.12], background vocals [1.6, 3.7, 2.1, 2.7], keyboard [1.6, 1.9, 2.1, 2.7, 3.2, 3.6, 3.9], lead vocals [1.1, 1.5, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.12], orchestrator [1.1-2, 1.5-6, 1.9, 3.2-7, 3.9, 3.12, 2.1, 2.7], producer [2, 8], vocal [3.2, 3.6, 3.9, 1.9]
The Jimmy Joyce Children’s Chorus
choir vocals [8]
Tommy Morgan
harmonica [1]
Tony Peluso
electric guitar [12]