The Complete Singles

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Ticket to Ride
  3:39
• 2
  Your Wonderful Parade
  2:33
• 3
  (They Long to Be) Close to You
  3:38
• 4
  I Kept on Loving You
  2:14
• 5
  We’ve Only Just Begun
  3:05
  3.4 ★
• 6
  All of My Life
  3:02
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Merry Christmas Darling
  3:05
• 8
  Mr. Guder
  2:35
• 9
  For All We Know
  2:35
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Don’t Be Afraid
  2:05
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Rainy Days and Mondays
  3:37
• 12
  Saturday
  1:19
• 13
  Superstar
  3:51
  4.4 ★
• 14
  Bless the Beasts and Children
  3:07
• 15
  Hurting Each Other
  2:47
  4.5 ★
• 16
  Maybe It’s You
  3:04
• 17
  It’s Going to Take Some Time
  2:56
• 18
  Flat Baroque
  1:49
• 19
  Goodbye to Love
  3:57
• 20
  Crystal Lullaby
  3:56
  4.0 ★
• 21
  Sing
  3:17
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Druscilla Penny
  2:16
• 23
  Yesterday Once More
  3:57
  4.6 ★
• 24
  Road Ode
  3:47
• 25
  Top of the World
  2:59
• 26
  Heather
  2:50
• CD 2
• 1
  I Won’t Last a Day Without You
  3:46
• 2
  One Love
  3:24
• 3
  Please Mr. Postman
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 4
  This Masquerade
  4:50
• 5
  Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
  4:02
• 6
  Only Yesterday
  3:46
• 7
  Happy
  3:51
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Solitaire
  4:41
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Love Me for What I Am
  3:30
• 10
  There’s a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)
  2:54
• 11
  (I’m Caught Between) Goodbye and I Love You
  4:05
  3.0 ★
• 12
  I Need to Be in Love
  3:32
• 13
  Sandy
  3:41
• 14
  Goofus
  3:09
• 15
  Boat to Sail
  3:29
  2.0 ★
• 16
  All You Get From Love Is a Love Song
  3:45
  3.0 ★
• 17
  I Have You
  3:26
• 18
  Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
  4:08
• 19
  Can’t Smile Without You
  3:23
• 20
  Sweet, Sweet Smile
  3:01
  2.0 ★
• 21
  The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
  3:42
• CD 3
• 1
  I Believe You
  3:55
• 2
  B'wana She No Home
  5:34
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
  5:44
• 4
  Touch Me When We’re Dancing
  3:19
• 5
  Because We Are in Love (The Wedding Song)
  5:01
  3.0 ★
• 6
  (Want You) Back in My Life Again
  3:40
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Somebody’s Been Lyin’
  4:24
• 8
  Those Good Old Dreams
  4:12
• 9
  When It’s Gone (It’s Just Gone)
  4:59
• 10
  Beechwood 4‒5789
  3:06
• 11
  Two Sides
  3:26
• 12
  Make Believe It’s Your First Time
  4:04
• 13
  Look to Your Dreams
  4:26
• 14
  Your Baby Doesn’t Love You Anymore
  3:49
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Sailing on the Tide
  4:21
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Honolulu City Lights
  3:19
• 17
  I Just Fall in Love Again
  4:03
• 18
  If I Had You
  3:57
• 19
  The Uninvited Guest
  4:25

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Release credits

• Bob Messenger
  bass [6, 10], flute [13], other vocals [14], tenor saxophone [14], woodwind [5]
• Bobby Bruce
  fiddle [20]
• Carlena Williams
  background vocals [16]
• Chuck Findley
  solo [14], trumpet [14]
• Cubby O’Brien
  drums (drum set) [13-14]
• Danny Woodhams
  bass [5]
• Daryl Dragon
  synthesizer [6]
• Dave Iveland
  assistant [5-6], engineer [3.2, 2.16, 2.20]
• David Shostac
  flute [12]
• Dick Bogert
  engineer [5, 9]
• Dorothy Remsen
  harp [13]
• Douglass Strawn
  clarinet [5], woodwind [5]
• Earle Dumler
  horn [3.15, 2.12], oboe [3.14-15, 1.9, 1.13, 2.17]
• Ed Green
  drums (drum set) [16]
• Ed Greene
  drums (drum set) [15]
• Frank Pooler
  conductor [5]
• Gary Sims
  guitar [6, 10]
• Gayle Levant
  harp [3.5, 3.14, 2.12-13, 2.17]
• Gene Puerling
  vocal arranger [2]
• Gerald Vinci
  concertmaster [5]
• Hal Blaine
  drums (drum set) [5, 9, 13]
• Ian Underwood
  synthesizer [6]
• Jack Daugherty
  orchestrator [6, 10], producer [3, 5-6, 9-10, 13, 15]
• James Getzoff
  concertmaster [6]
• Jerry Steinholtz
  congas [2], percussion [16]
• Jim Gordon
  drums (drum set) [12, 15, 17]
• Jim Horn
  woodwind [5]
• Joe Osborn
  bass [3.2, 2.16, 2.20, 1.5-6, 1.10], bass guitar [2.12-15, 2.17, 1.9, 1.13, 3.5-6, 3.14-15]
• Julia Waters
  background vocals [16]
• Karen Carpenter
  associate [2.3, 2.6, 2.8, 2.16, 2.20, 3.2], background vocals [1.5, 1.9, 1.13, 2.16, 3.6, 3.15], drums (drum set) [5-6, 10], electric bass guitar [6], lead vocals [3.2, 3.14-15, 1.3, 1.5-6, 1.9, 1.13, 1.15, 2.3, 2.6, 2.8, 2.16, 2.20], producer [21, 23], vibraphone [15], vocal [12]
• Larry McNeely
  banjo [20]
• Larry Muhoberac
  electric piano [2]
• Maxine Waters
  background vocals [16]
• Norm Kinney
  assistant [9, 13]
• Paulinho da Costa
  percussion [6]
• Pete Jolly
  piano [2]
• Peter Knight
  orchestrator [5]
• Peter Limonick
  percussion [5, 14]
• Ray Gerhardt
  engineer [1.5-6, 1.9-10, 1.13, 2.3, 2.7, 2.16, 2.20, 3.2]
• Ray Parker Jr.
  electric guitar [16]
• Richard Carpenter
  Wurlitzer electric piano [5], arranger [2.3, 2.6, 2.8, 2.16, 2.20, 1.3, 1.5-6, 1.9-10, 1.13, 1.15, 3.2, 3.5-6, 3.14-15], background vocals [2.16, 3.6, 3.14-15, 1.5, 1.9, 1.13], electric piano [16], keyboard [1.9, 1.13, 2.12-15, 2.17, 3.5-6, 3.14-15], lead vocals [5], orchestrator [1.3, 1.5, 1.9, 1.13, 1.15, 3.2, 3.6, 2.3, 2.6, 2.8, 2.16, 2.20], piano [16], producer [2.3, 2.6, 2.8, 2.16, 2.20, 3.2, 1.21, 1.23], vibraphone [15], vocal [3.2, 2.12, 2.16, 2.20]
• Roger Young
  engineer [3.2, 3.5-6, 2.16, 2.20]
• Ron Hicklin
  task [5]
• Ron Tutt
  drums (drum set) [3.2, 3.5-6, 3.14, 2.20]
• Shawn Furlong
  synthesizer [15]
• The Jimmy Joyce Children’s Chorus
  choir vocals [21]
• The M.O.R Chorale
  vocal [12]
• The O.K. Chorale
  choir vocals [5]
• Tim May
  acoustic guitar [5-6, 14-15], electric guitar [6]
• Tom Hensley
  tack piano [20]
• Tom Scott
  alto flute [2], clarinet [13], flute [13], tenor saxophone [2.16, 3.2, 3.6]
• Tommy Vig
  congas [16], percussion [2]
• Tony Peluso
  acoustic guitar [3.15, 2.20], electric guitar [2.16, 2.20, 3.2, 3.6, 3.14-15], guitar [12-15, 17]
• Wally Snow
  percussion [2]
• Wes Jacobs
  tuba [14]
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Issues

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  The Complete Singles

  3x CD
  24 August 2015