The Essential Collection (1965–1997)

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  Caravan (demo version)
  3:38
  5.0 ★
• 2
  The Parting of Our Ways (demo version)
  2:20
• 3
  Looking for Love (single version)
  1:52
• 4
  I’ll Be Yours (single version)
  2:28
• 5
  Iced Tea (demo version)
  2:36
• 6
  You’ll Love Me (demo version)
  2:27
• 7
  All I Can Do (demo version)
  1:50
• 8
  Don’t Be Afraid (demo version)
  2:07
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Invocation (demo version (a cappella))
  1:00
• 10
  Your Wonderful Parade (demo version)
  2:22
• 11
  All of My Life (1987 remix)
  3:02
• 12
  Eve (1987 remix)
  2:53
• 13
  Ticket to Ride (1973 remix)
  4:09
  3.5 ★
• 14
  Get Together (Your Navy Presents version)
  2:40
  2.0 ★
• 15
  Interview (Your Navy Presents)
  1:34
• 16
  Love Is Surrender (1987 remix)
  1:58
• 17
  Maybe It’s You (1990 remix)
  3:03
• 18
  (They Long to Be) Close to You
  4:34
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Mr. Guder (1991 remix)
  3:21
• 20
  We’ve Only Just Begun
  3:05
  3.4 ★
• 21
  Merry Christmas Darling (single version)
  3:05
• 22
  For All We Know (from “Lovers and Other Strangers” Soundtrack)
  2:36
  4.0 ★
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  Rainy Days and Mondays (1991 remix)
  3:36
  4.4 ★
• 2
  Superstar
  3:50
  4.4 ★
• 3
  Let Me Be the One
  2:25
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Bless the Beasts and Children (1991 remix)
  3:14
• 5
  Hurting Each Other
  2:48
  4.5 ★
• 6
  It’s Going to Take Some Time
  2:56
  4.5 ★
• 7
  I Won’t Last a Day Without You (1991 remix)
  3:54
• 8
  A Song for You (1987 remix)
  4:37
• 9
  Top of the World
  2:59
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Goodbye to Love (1985 remix)
  3:56
• 11
  This Masquerade (1990 remix)
  4:53
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Sing (1994 remix)
  3:18
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Jambalaya (on the Bayou)
  3:39
  3.5 ★
• 14
  Yesterday Once More (1985 remix)
  3:49
• 15
  Oldies Medley (1991 remix)
  14:54
• 16
  Yesterday Once More (reprise / 1990 remix)
  1:02
• 17
  Radio Contest (outtakes)
  1:53
• Digital Media 3
• 1
  Morinaga Hi‐Crown Chocolate Commercial
  0:35
• 2
  Please Mr. Postman (1991 remix)
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (1984 remix)
  4:09
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Only Yesterday
  3:46
• 5
  Solitaire
  4:41
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Tryin’ to Get the Feeling Again (1995 “Interpretations” version)
  4:21
• 7
  Good Friends Are for Keeps
  1:08
• 8
  Ordinary Fool
  3:42
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Sandy
  3:41
• 10
  There’s a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)
  2:57
• 11
  I Need to Be in Love (1990 remix)
  3:48
• 12
  From This Moment On (live at London Palladium/1976)
  2:13
• 13
  Suntory Pop Jingle #1
  0:32
• 14
  Suntory Pop Jingle #2
  0:33
• 15
  All You Get From Love Is a Love Song
  3:46
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem of World Contact Day)
  7:09
  2.0 ★
• 17
  Sweet, Sweet Smile
  3:02
  2.0 ★
• 18
  Christ Is Born (1991 remix)
  3:12
• 19
  White Christmas (1991 remix)
  2:29
• 20
  Little Altar Boy
  3:44
  3.0 ★
• 21
  Ave Maria (1991 remix)
  2:36
  3.0 ★
• Digital Media 4
• 1
  Where Do I Go From Here
  4:24
• 2
  Little Girl Blue
  3:24
  3.0 ★
• 3
  I Believe You
  3:54
  3.0 ★
• 4
  If I Had You
  3:57
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Karen/Ella Medley

  Karen Carpenter & Ella Fitzgerald
  5:57
• 6
  1980 Medley (Sing / Knowing When to Leave / Make It Easy on Yourself / Someday / We’ve Only Just Begun)
  9:08
• 7
  Make Believe It’s Your First Time
  4:09
  2.0 ★
• 8
  Touch Me When We’re Dancing
  3:20
  3.0 ★
• 9
  When It’s Gone (It’s Just Gone)
  5:00
• 10
  Because We Are in Love (The Wedding Song)
  5:01
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Those Good Old Dreams
  4:12
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Now
  3:51
• 13
  Karen’s Theme

  Richard Carpenter
  2:41

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The Complete Singles

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Release credits

• Bob James
  arranger [4], keyboard [4]
• Bob Messenger
  bass [8, 13-14], saxophone [1], woodwind [18, 20]
• Bobby Bruce
  fiddle [17]
• Bradshaw Leigh
  assistant [4]
• Carlena Williams
  background vocals [15]
• Carolyn Dennis
  background vocals [8]
• Chaz Clifton
  assistant [4]
• Chuck Domanico
  bass guitar [8]
• Cubby O’Brien
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Danny Woodhams
  bass [18, 20]
• Dave Iveland
  assistant [2-4, 8, 10-11], engineer [15-17]
• David Brown
  guitar [4]
• David Crowther
  assistant [4]
• Dick Bogert
  engineer [2.3, 1.18, 1.20, 1.22]
• Douglass Strawn
  clarinet [20], woodwind [18, 20]
• Earle Dumler
  oboe [4.7-8, 2.2, 3.16, 1.22]
• Ed Green
  drums (drum set) [15]
• Frank Pooler
  conductor [10]
• Gary Sims
  guitar [8, 13-14]
• Gayle Levant
  harp [3.8, 4.2, 4.7-8, 4.10-11]
• Gerald Vinci
  concertmaster [10]
• Glenn Berger
  engineer [4]
• Greg Goldman
  assistant [2, 4]
• Gregg Smith
  chorus master [16]
• Gregg Smith Singers
  choir vocals [16]
• Hal Blaine
  drums (drum set) [1.18, 1.20, 1.22, 2.1-2, 2.13]
• Jack Daugherty
  orchestrator [8, 13-14], producer [2.1-3, 2.5-6, 2.9-10, 1.8, 1.13-14, 1.18, 1.20-22]
• James Getzoff
  concertmaster [3, 8, 11]
• James Guthrie
  engineer [4]
• Jay Dee Maness
  pedal steel guitar [7, 11]
• Jerry Hey
  orchestrator [4]
• Jerry Steinholtz
  congas [3], percussion [15]
• Jim Boyer
  engineer [4]
• Jim Horn
  woodwind [18, 20]
• Joe Osborn
  bass [3.15-17, 1.8, 1.13-14, 1.18, 1.20], bass guitar [1.22, 4.2-4, 4.7-8, 4.10-11, 2.1-2]
• John Phillips
  tenor saxophone [8]
• Julia Waters
  background vocals [15]
• Karen Carpenter
  associate [2, 4-5, 15-17], background vocals [4.3, 4.8, 4.11, 2.1-2, 1.20, 1.22, 3.15], drums (drum set) [8, 13-14, 18, 20], lead vocals [4.7-8, 4.11, 1.13, 1.18, 1.20, 1.22, 3.2, 3.4-5, 3.8, 3.15-17, 2.1-2, 2.5, 2.9-11, 2.13], percussion [11], producer [9, 11-13], vocal [2.3, 1.14]
• Larry Londin
  drums (drum set) [3, 8]
• Larry McNeely
  banjo [17]
• Liberty DeVitto
  drums (drum set) [4]
• Maxine Waters
  background vocals [15]
• Michael Brecker
  tenor saxophone [4]
• Norm Kinney
  assistant [2.1-3, 1.22]
• Overbudget Philharmonic
  performing orchestra [16]
• Paul Riser
  arranger [3]
• Paulinho da Costa
  percussion [8, 11]
• Peter Knight
  arranger [2], conductor [16], orchestrator [4.2, 4.10, 3.16]
• Peter Limonick
  percussion [10]
• Phil Ramone
  producer [4]
• Ralph MacDonald
  percussion [4]
• Ralph Osborn
  assistant [4]
• Randy Pipes
  assistant [4]
• Ray Gerhardt
  engineer [4.2-4, 3.2, 3.15-17, 1.8, 1.13-14, 1.18, 1.20, 1.22, 2.1-3]
• Ray Parker Jr.
  electric guitar [15]
• Richard Carpenter
  Wurlitzer electric piano [18, 20], arranger [4.7-8, 4.10-11, 2.1-3, 2.5, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 1.8, 1.18, 1.20-22, 3.2, 3.4-5, 3.8, 3.15-17], background vocals [4.3, 4.8, 4.11, 1.20, 1.22, 2.1-2, 3.15], electric piano [15-16], keyboard [1.22, 2.1-3, 4.2-3, 4.7-8, 4.10-11, 3.8], lead vocals [14, 18, 20], orchestrator [2.1-3, 2.5, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 3.2, 3.4-5, 3.15-17, 1.18, 1.20, 1.22, 4.3, 4.8, 4.11], piano [15-16], producer [3.2, 3.4-5, 3.15-17, 4.2, 4.8, 4.11, 2.9, 2.11-13], synthesizer [16], vocal [3.15-17, 2.3], vocal arranger [3]
• Rob Mounsey
  keyboard [4]
• Robert de la Garza
  mix [2, 4], remixer [4]
• Rod Temperton
  vocal arranger [4]
• Roger Young
  engineer [3.15-17, 4.2, 4.4, 4.8, 4.10-11]
• Ron Hicklin
  task [10]
• Ron Tutt
  drums (drum set) [3.8, 3.16-17, 4.7, 4.10-11]
• Russell Javors
  guitar [4]
• Sheridon Stokes
  flute [3.8, 4.7], solo [7]
• The Jimmy Joyce Children’s Chorus
  choir vocals [12]
• The O.K. Chorale
  background vocals [7], choir vocals [10]
• Tim May
  acoustic guitar [3, 7-8, 10-11], electric guitar [3, 8, 11]
• Tom Hensley
  tack piano [17]
• Tom Scott
  tenor saxophone [4.8, 3.15]
• Tommy Morgan
  harmonica [1]
• Tommy Vig
  congas [15]
• Tony Peluso
  acoustic guitar [3.17, 4.8], electric guitar [4.7-8, 3.15-17], spoken vocals [16]
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Issues

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  The Essential Collection (1965–1997)

  4x CD
  15 October 2002
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  The Essential Collection (1965–1997)

  4x Digital Media