The Ultimate Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Ticket to Ride
  4:09
  3.5 ★
• 2
  (They Long to Be) Close to You
  3:42
• 3
  We've Only Just Begun
  3:05
  3.4 ★
• 4
  For All We Know
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Rainy Days and Mondays
  3:35
  4.4 ★
• 6
  Superstar
  3:49
  4.4 ★
• 7
  Bless the Beasts and Children
  3:15
• 8
  Hurting Each Other
  2:48
  4.5 ★
• 9
  It's Going to Take Some Time
  2:57
  4.5 ★
• 10
  Goodbye to Love
  3:56
  4.5 ★
• 11
  Top of the World
  2:59
  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)
  3:38
  3.5 ★
• 17
  Please Mr. Postman
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Desperado
  3:37
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Only Yesterday
  3:46
• 3
  Solitaire
  4:41
  3.0 ★
• 4
  There's a Kind of Hush
  3:04
  4.0 ★
• 5
  I Need to Be in Love
  3:48
• 6
  Goofus
  3:09
  2.0 ★
• 7
  All You Get From Love Is a Love Song
  3:46
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
  7:09
• 9
  Sweet Sweet Smile
  3:02
  2.0 ★
• 10
  I Believe You
  3:54
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Touch Me When We're Dancing
  3:20
  3.0 ★
• 12
  (Want You) Back in My Life Again
  3:43
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Those Good Old Dreams
  4:12
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Beechwood 4-5789
  3:06
• 15
  Now
  3:51
• 16
  Make Believe It's Your First Time
  4:10
  2.0 ★
• 17
  Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again
  4:22
• CD 3
• 1
  Lovelines

  Karen Carpenter
  5:06
  3.0 ★
• 2
  If I Had You

  Karen Carpenter
  3:58
• 3
  Still Crazy After All These Years

  Karen Carpenter
  4:17
  4.0 ★
• 4
  When Time Was All We Had

  Richard Carpenter
  3:04
• 5
  Calling Your Name Again

  Richard Carpenter
  4:18
• 6
  Sandy

  Richard Carpenter
  3:50
• 7
  Karen's Theme

  Richard Carpenter
  2:41

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Release credits

• Bob James
  orchestrator [1]
• Bob Messenger
  bass [1], other vocals [6], saxophone [5], tenor saxophone [4, 6], woodwind [3]
• Bobby Bruce
  fiddle [9]
• Carlena Williams
  background vocals [7]
• Carolyn Dennis
  background vocals [11]
• Christina Paakkari
  engineer [6]
• Cubby O’Brien
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Danny Woodhams
  bass [3]
• Daryl Dragon
  synthesizer [12]
• Dave Iveland
  assistant [10-13], engineer [7, 9]
• Dick Bogert
  engineer [3-4]
• Douglass Strawn
  clarinet [3], woodwind [3]
• Earle Dumler
  oboe [1.4, 1.6, 2.11, 2.16]
• Ed Green
  drums (drum set) [7]
• Gary Sims
  guitar [1]
• Gayle Levant
  harp [4, 11, 13, 16]
• Hal Blaine
  drums (drum set) [3-6, 16]
• Ian Underwood
  synthesizer [12]
• Jack Daugherty
  orchestrator [1], producer [1-6, 8-11]
• James Getzoff
  concertmaster [10-13]
• Jay Dee Maness
  pedal steel guitar [13, 16]
• Jerry Steinholtz
  congas [10], percussion [7]
• Jim Gordon
  drums (drum set) [2.4, 3.6]
• Jim Horn
  woodwind [3]
• Joe Osborn
  bass [1.1, 1.3, 2.7, 2.9], bass guitar [3.6, 1.4-6, 2.4, 2.6, 2.10-13, 2.16]
• Julia Waters
  background vocals [7]
• Karen Carpenter
  associate [2.2-3, 2.7, 2.9, 1.17], background vocals [1.3-4, 1.4-6, 2.7, 2.10-13], drums (drum set) [1, 3], lead vocals [2.2-3, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 2.16, 1.1-4, 1.4-6, 1.8, 1.11, 1.15-17], percussion [13], producer [11, 13-16], vocal [6]
• Larry Londin
  drums (drum set) [10-11]
• Larry McNeely
  banjo [9]
• Maxine Waters
  background vocals [7]
• Norm Kinney
  assistant [4-6]
• Paul Riser
  arranger [10]
• Paulinho da Costa
  percussion [11-13]
• Phil Ramone
  producer [1, 3]
• Ray Gerhardt
  engineer [1.1, 1.3-6, 1.17, 3.6, 2.7, 2.9-10]
• Ray Parker Jr.
  electric guitar [7]
• Richard Carpenter
  Wurlitzer electric piano [3], arranger [3.6, 1.2-6, 1.8, 1.11, 1.15-17, 2.2-3, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11-13, 2.16], background vocals [1.3-6, 2.7, 2.10-13], electric piano [7], keyboard [3.6, 2.4, 2.6, 2.10-13, 2.16, 1.4-6], lead vocals [3], orchestrator [2.2-3, 2.7, 2.9-13, 1.2-6, 1.8, 1.11, 1.15-17], piano [7], producer [1.11, 1.13-17, 2.2-3, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13], vocal [3.6, 2.7, 2.9], vocal arranger [10]
• Rob Mounsey
  arranger [3], orchestrator [3]
• Rod Temperton
  arranger [1]
• Roger Young
  engineer [7, 9, 11-13]
• Ron Tutt
  drums (drum set) [9, 12-13, 16]
• Sheridon Stokes
  flute [16], solo [16]
• The Jimmy Joyce Children’s Chorus
  choir vocals [13]
• The O.K. Chorale
  background vocals [16], vocal [6]
• Tim May
  acoustic guitar [10-13, 16], electric guitar [10-13]
• Tim May
  guitar [6]
• Tom Hensley
  tack piano [9]
• Tom Scott
  tenor saxophone [7, 11-12]
• Tommy Morgan
  harmonica [5]
• Tommy Vig
  congas [7]
• Tony Peluso
  acoustic guitar [9, 11], electric guitar [1.10, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11-12, 2.16], guitar [2.4, 2.6, 3.6]
• Wes Jacobs
  tuba [6]
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Issues

• T
  (Combined release view)
• 

  T
  The Ultimate Collection

  3x CD
  18 April 2006
• 

  T
  The Ultimate Collection

  2x CD
  28 November 2006
• T
  The Ultimate Collection

  3x CD
  2006
• 

  C
  Collected

  3x CD
  17 May 2013