The Ultimate Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Ticket to Ride
  4:10
  3.5 ★
• 2
  (They Long to Be) Close to You
  3:41
• 3
  We’ve Only Just Begun
  3:04
  3.4 ★
• 4
  For All We Know
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Rainy Days and Mondays
  3:36
  4.4 ★
• 6
  Superstar
  3:49
  4.4 ★
• 7
  Bless the Beasts and Children
  3:15
• 8
  Hurting Each Other
  2:47
  4.5 ★
• 9
  It’s Going to Take Some Time
  2:58
  4.5 ★
• 10
  Goodbye to Love
  3:56
  4.5 ★
• 11
  Top of the World
  3:00
  3.5 ★
• 12
  I Won’t Last a Day Without You
  3:54
• 13
  Sing
  3:18
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Yesterday Once More
  3:58
  4.6 ★
• 15
  This Masquerade
  4:53
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
  3:39
  3.5 ★
• 17
  Please Mr. Postman
  2:51
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Desperado
  3:37
  3.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Only Yesterday
  3:46
• 2
  Solitaire
  4:41
  3.0 ★
• 3
  There’s a Kind of Hush
  3:04
  4.0 ★
• 4
  I Need to Be in Love
  3:48
• 5
  Sandy
  3:41
• 6
  All You Get From Love Is a Love Song
  3:47
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
  7:09
• 8
  Sweet Sweet Smile
  3:02
  2.0 ★
• 9
  I Believe You
  3:55
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Touch Me When We’re Dancing
  3:20
  3.0 ★
• 11
  When It’s Gone
  5:00
• 12
  Those Good Old Dreams
  4:13
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Where Do I Go From Here
  4:24
• 14
  You’re the One
  4:14
  3.5 ★
• 15
  Now
  3:51
• 16
  Your Baby Doesn’t Love You Anymore
  3:51
  3.0 ★
• 17
  Tryin’ to Get the Feeling Again
  4:22

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Release credits

• Bob Messenger
  bass [1], saxophone [5], tenor saxophone [3], woodwind [3]
• Bobby Bruce
  fiddle [8]
• Carlena Williams
  background vocals [6]
• Carolyn Dennis
  background vocals [10]
• Chuck Findley
  solo [16], trumpet [16]
• Danny Woodhams
  bass [3]
• Dave Iveland
  assistant [9-10, 12, 14], engineer [6, 8]
• Dick Bogert
  engineer [3-4]
• Douglass Strawn
  clarinet [3], woodwind [3]
• Earle Dumler
  oboe [1.4, 1.6, 2.10, 2.16]
• Ed Green
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Gary Sims
  guitar [1]
• Gayle Levant
  harp [3, 10, 12, 16]
• Greg Goldman
  assistant [14]
• Hal Blaine
  drums (drum set) [3-6, 16]
• Jack Daugherty
  orchestrator [1], producer [1-6, 8-11]
• James Getzoff
  concertmaster [9-10, 12]
• Jay Dee Maness
  pedal steel guitar [12]
• Jerry Steinholtz
  congas [9], percussion [6]
• Jim Gordon
  drums (drum set) [3]
• Jim Horn
  woodwind [3]
• Joe Osborn
  bass [2.6, 2.8, 1.1, 1.3], bass guitar [2.3, 2.9-10, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16, 1.4-6]
• Julia Waters
  background vocals [6]
• Karen Carpenter
  associate [2.1-2, 2.6, 2.8, 1.17], background vocals [1.3-4, 1.4-6, 2.6, 2.9-10, 2.12, 2.14], drums (drum set) [1, 3], lead vocals [2.1-2, 2.6, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12, 2.16, 1.1-4, 1.4-6, 1.8, 1.11, 1.15-17], percussion [12], producer [11, 13-16]
• Larry Londin
  drums (drum set) [9-10]
• Larry McNeely
  banjo [8]
• Maxine Waters
  background vocals [6]
• Norm Kinney
  assistant [4-6]
• Paul Riser
  arranger [9]
• Paulinho da Costa
  percussion [10, 12]
• Peter Limonick
  percussion [16]
• Ray Gerhardt
  engineer [1.1, 1.3-6, 1.17, 2.6, 2.8-9, 2.14]
• Ray Parker Jr.
  electric guitar [6]
• Richard Carpenter
  Wurlitzer electric piano [3], arranger [1.2-6, 1.8, 1.11, 1.15-17, 2.1-2, 2.6, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16], background vocals [1.3-6, 2.6, 2.9-10, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16], electric piano [6], keyboard [1.4-6, 2.3, 2.9-10, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16], lead vocals [3], orchestrator [2.1-2, 2.6, 2.8-10, 2.12, 2.14, 1.2-6, 1.8, 1.11, 1.15-17], piano [6], producer [1.11, 1.13-17, 2.1-2, 2.6, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12, 2.14], vocal [6, 8], vocal arranger [9]
• Robert de la Garza
  mix [14]
• Roger Young
  engineer [6, 8, 10, 12, 14]
• Ron Tutt
  drums (drum set) [8, 12, 14, 16]
• The Jimmy Joyce Children’s Chorus
  choir vocals [13]
• Tim May
  acoustic guitar [9-10, 12, 14, 16], electric guitar [9-10, 12]
• Tom Hensley
  tack piano [8]
• Tom Scott
  tenor saxophone [6, 10]
• Tommy Morgan
  harmonica [5]
• Tommy Vig
  congas [6]
• Tony Peluso
  acoustic guitar [8, 10], electric guitar [2.6, 2.8, 2.10, 2.16, 1.10], guitar [3]
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Issues

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  The Ultimate Collection

  3x CD
  18 April 2006
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  T
  The Ultimate Collection

  2x CD
  28 November 2006
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  The Ultimate Collection

  3x CD
  2006
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  Collected

  3x CD
  17 May 2013