The Nation's Favourite Carpenters Songs

Tracklist

• 1
  (They Long to Be) Close to You
  4:31
  4.0 ★
• 2
  We've Only Just Begun
  3:06
  3.4 ★
• 3
  For All We Know
  2:32
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Rainy Days and Mondays
  3:37
  4.4 ★
• 5
  Superstar
  3:50
  4.4 ★
• 6
  Hurting Each Other
  2:43
  4.5 ★
• 7
  Goodbye to Love
  4:00
  4.5 ★
• 8
  It's Going to Take Some Time
  2:57
  4.5 ★
• 9
  Sing
  3:17
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Yesterday Once More
  3:55
  4.6 ★
• 11
  Top of the World
  2:59
  3.5 ★
• 12
  I Won't Last a Day Without You
  4:31
• 13
  Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
  3:41
  3.5 ★
• 14
  Please Mr. Postman
  2:45
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Only Yesterday
  3:45
• 16
  Solitaire
  4:40
  3.0 ★
• 17
  There's a Kind of Hush
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 18
  I Need to Be in Love
  3:46
• 19
  Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem of World Contact Day)
  7:03
  2.0 ★
• 20
  Touch Me When We're Dancing
  3:16
  3.0 ★

More by Carpenters

Voice of the Heart

Voice of the Heart 1983

Horizon

Horizon 1975

A Song for You

A Song for You 1972

Carpenters With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Carpenters With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 2018

The Complete Singles

The Complete Singles 2015

Icon

Icon 2014

Release credits

• Bob Messenger
  saxophone [4], tenor saxophone [17], woodwind [1-2]
• Carolyn Dennis
  background vocals [20]
• Danny Woodhams
  bass [1-2]
• Dave Iveland
  assistant [20], engineer [19]
• Dick Bogert
  engineer [1-3]
• Douglass Strawn
  clarinet [2], woodwind [1-2]
• Earle Dumler
  oboe [3, 5, 19-20]
• Gayle Levant
  harp [17, 20]
• Gregg Smith
  chorus master [19]
• Gregg Smith Singers
  choir vocals [19]
• Hal Blaine
  drums (drum set) [1-5, 13]
• Jack Daugherty
  producer [1-8, 11]
• James Getzoff
  concertmaster [20]
• Jim Gordon
  drums (drum set) [17]
• Jim Horn
  woodwind [1-2]
• Joe Osborn
  bass [1-2, 19], bass guitar [3-5, 17, 20]
• Karen Carpenter
  associate [14-16, 19], background vocals [2-3, 3-5, 20], drums (drum set) [1-2], lead vocals [1-3, 3-6, 11, 13-16, 19-20], producer [9-11, 13]
• Larry Londin
  drums (drum set) [20]
• Norm Kinney
  assistant [3-5]
• Overbudget Philharmonic
  performing orchestra [19]
• Paulinho da Costa
  percussion [20]
• Peter Knight
  conductor [19], orchestrator [19]
• Ray Gerhardt
  engineer [1-5, 14, 19]
• Richard Carpenter
  Wurlitzer electric piano [1-2], arranger [1-6, 11, 13-16, 19-20], background vocals [2-5, 20], electric piano [19], keyboard [3-5, 17, 20], lead vocals [1-2], orchestrator [1-6, 11, 13-16, 19-20], piano [19], producer [9-11, 13-16, 19-20], synthesizer [19], vocal [19]
• Roger Young
  engineer [19-20]
• Ron Tutt
  drums (drum set) [19]
• The Jimmy Joyce Children’s Chorus
  choir vocals [9]
• Tim May
  acoustic guitar [20], electric guitar [20]
• Tom Scott
  tenor saxophone [20]
• Tommy Morgan
  harmonica [4]
• Tony Peluso
  acoustic guitar [20], electric guitar [7, 19-20], guitar [17], spoken vocals [19]
• Show all credits (31)

Issues

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  The Nation's Favourite Carpenters Songs

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  26 August 2016