Their Greatest Hits and Finest Performances

Tracklist

• CD 1: Close to You/Their Greatest Hits
• 1
  We’ve Only Just Begun
  3:06
  3.4 ★
• 2
  Superstar
  3:49
  4.4 ★
• 3
  Rainy Days and Mondays
  3:35
  4.4 ★
• 4
  Goodbye to Love
  3:57
  4.5 ★
• 5
  (They Long to Be) Close to You
  3:42
• 6
  All You Get From Love Is a Love Song
  3:48
  3.0 ★
• 7
  For All We Know
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 8
  I Won’t Last a Day Without You
  3:56
• 9
  Hurting Each Other
  2:47
  4.5 ★
• 10
  Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
  7:09
• 11
  Top of the World
  3:00
  3.6 ★
• 12
  (Want You) Back in My Life Again
  3:39
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Ticket to Ride
  4:11
  3.5 ★
• 14
  Sing
  3:19
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Can’t Smile Without You
  3:23
  2.0 ★
• 16
  Bless the Beasts and Children
  3:15
• 17
  It’s Going to Take Some Time
  2:59
  4.5 ★
• 18
  Sweet, Sweet Smile
  3:01
• 19
  Touch Me When We’re Dancing
  3:22
  3.0 ★
• 20
  I Need to Be in Love
  3:51
• 21
  Solitaire
  4:40
  3.0 ★
• CD 2: Only Yesterday/Dreams and Memories & Yesterday Once More/Looking Back
• 1
  Only Yesterday
  4:00
• 2
  One More Time
  3:31
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Those Good Old Dreams
  4:14
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
  5:47
• 5
  Look to Your Dreams
  5:14
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Yesterday Once More
  3:58
  4.6 ★
• 7
  Fun, Fun, Fun
  1:33
• 8
  The End of the World
  2:29
• 9
  There’s a Kind of Hush
  3:05
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Help
  3:05
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Jambalaya (on the Bayou)
  3:38
  3.5 ★
• 12
  Deadman’s Curve
  1:37
• 13
  Johnny Angel
  1:33
• 14
  The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
  1:50
• 15
  Beechwood 4–5789
  3:07
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Bacharach Medley: Any Day Now / Baby It’s You / Knowing When to Leave / Make It Easy on Yourself / There’s Always Something There to Remind Me / I’ll Never Fall in Love Again / Walk On By / Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
  14:39
• 17
  Please Mr. Postman
  2:51
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Reason to Believe
  3:04
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Our Day Will Come
  1:57
• 20
  One Fine Day
  1:39
• 21
  Yesterday Once More (reprise)
  0:59
  1.0 ★
• CD 3: When I Fall in Love/Romantic Gems & Silent Night/Beloved Christmas Classics
• 1
  When I Fall in Love
  3:10
  3.5 ★
• 2
  I Believe You
  3:56
  3.0 ★
• 3
  When It’s Gone (It’s Just Gone)
  5:01
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Because We Are in Love (The Wedding Song)
  5:02
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Love Is Surrender
  1:53
• 6
  Maybe It’s You
  3:08
• 7
  Make Believe It’s Your First Time
  4:10
  2.0 ★
• 8
  Little Girl Blue
  3:25
  3.0 ★
• 9
  This Masquerade
  4:53
  3.0 ★
• 10
  A Song for You
  4:35
• 11
  Your Baby Doesn’t Love You Anymore
  3:52
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Now
  3:52
  3.0 ★
• 13
  I Just Fall in Love Again
  4:05
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Silent Night
  3:20
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Christ Is Born
  3:13
  3.0 ★
• 16
  White Christmas
  2:30
• 17
  Little Altar Boy
  3:45
  3.0 ★
• 18
  Merry Christmas, Darling
  3:07
  3.0 ★
• 19
  Ave Maria
  2:36
  3.0 ★

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Horizon

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The Complete Singles

The Complete Singles 2015

Icon

Icon 2014

Release credits

• Bob Conti
  percussion [3]
• Bob Messenger
  bass [13], saxophone [3], tenor saxophone [2.9, 3.18], woodwind [2.10, 2.18, 1.1]
• Carlena Williams
  background vocals [6]
• Carolyn Dennis
  background vocals [19]
• Chuck Findley
  solo [11], trumpet [11]
• Cubby O’Brien
  drums (drum set) [1, 8]
• Danny Woodhams
  bass [2.10, 2.18, 1.1]
• Daryl Dragon
  synthesizer [12]
• Dave Iveland
  assistant [2.3, 2.15, 3.1, 3.1-4, 3.8, 1.12, 1.19], engineer [1.6, 3.13]
• Dennis Budimir
  acoustic guitar [3]
• Dick Bogert
  engineer [2.10, 2.18, 1.1, 1.7]
• Douglass Strawn
  clarinet [1], whistle [15], woodwind [2.10, 2.18, 1.1]
• Earle Dumler
  horn [12], oboe [1.2, 1.7, 1.19, 3.3, 3.7, 3.11-13, 2.2]
• Ed Green
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Frank Pooler
  conductor [4]
• Fred Tackett
  acoustic guitar [3]
• Gary Sims
  guitar [13]
• Gayle Levant
  harp [2.3, 2.5, 2.9, 2.15, 1.15, 1.19, 3.1, 3.4, 3.7-8, 3.11-13]
• Gerald Vinci
  concertmaster [4]
• Greg Goldman
  assistant [1, 8]
• Gregg Smith
  chorus master [13]
• Gregg Smith Singers
  choir vocals [13]
• Hal Blaine
  drums (drum set) [3.18, 1.1-3, 1.7, 2.10-11, 2.18]
• Ian Underwood
  synthesizer [12]
• Jack Daugherty
  orchestrator [13], producer [2.10, 2.18, 1.1-5, 1.7, 1.9, 1.11, 1.13, 1.17]
• James Getzoff
  concertmaster [1.12, 1.19, 3.2-3, 2.3, 2.15]
• Jay Dee Maness
  pedal steel guitar [3.3, 3.7, 2.3]
• Jerry Steinholtz
  congas [2], percussion [6]
• Jim Gordon
  drums (drum set) [1.15, 2.2, 2.9]
• Jim Horn
  woodwind [1.1, 2.10, 2.18]
• Joe Osborn
  bass [2.10, 2.18, 1.1, 1.6, 1.13, 3.13], bass guitar [2.2-3, 2.5, 2.9, 2.15, 1.2-3, 1.7, 1.12, 1.15, 1.19, 3.1-4, 3.7-8, 3.11-12, 3.18]
• John Phillips
  tenor saxophone [12]
• Julia Waters
  background vocals [6]
• Karen Carpenter
  associate [2.1, 2.17, 1.6, 1.21, 3.13], background vocals [1.1-3, 1.6-7, 1.7, 1.12, 1.19, 2.3, 2.15, 3.2-3], drums (drum set) [1.1, 1.13, 3.3, 2.10, 2.18], lead vocals [2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.10-11, 2.17-18, 1.1-3, 1.5-7, 1.7, 1.9, 1.11, 1.13, 1.19, 1.21, 3.7, 3.9, 3.11-13, 3.18], percussion [2.3, 3.3], producer [3.9, 1.11, 1.14, 2.6, 2.11]
• Larry Londin
  drums (drum set) [1.19, 3.2-3]
• Maxine Waters
  background vocals [6]
• Norm Kinney
  assistant [2-3, 7]
• Overbudget Philharmonic
  performing orchestra [13]
• Paul Riser
  arranger [2]
• Paulinho da Costa
  percussion [2.3, 1.12, 1.19]
• Pete Jolly
  keyboard [1]
• Peter Knight
  arranger [2.5, 3.1, 3.8], conductor [13], orchestrator [1, 4, 8, 13]
• Peter Limonick
  percussion [4, 11]
• Ray Gerhardt
  engineer [1.1-3, 1.6-7, 1.13, 3.1-2, 3.8, 3.13, 2.10, 2.17-18]
• Ray Parker Jr.
  electric guitar [6]
• Richard Carpenter
  Wurlitzer electric piano [3.18, 1.1, 2.10, 2.18], arranger [2.1, 2.3, 2.10-11, 2.15, 2.17-18, 3.3-4, 3.7, 3.9, 3.11-13, 1.1-3, 1.5-7, 1.9, 1.11-12, 1.19, 1.21], background vocals [3.2-3, 3.11, 3.18, 1.1-3, 1.6-7, 1.12, 1.19, 2.3, 2.15], celesta [18], electric piano [6], keyboard [3.2-4, 3.7-8, 3.11-12, 1.2-3, 1.7, 1.12, 1.15, 1.19, 2.2-3, 2.5, 2.9, 2.15], lead vocals [1.1, 2.10, 2.18], orchestrator [1.1-3, 1.5-7, 1.9, 1.11-12, 1.19, 1.21, 2.1, 2.3, 2.10-11, 2.15, 2.17-18, 3.2-3, 3.9, 3.13, 3.18], piano [3.13, 3.18, 1.6], producer [3.1, 3.8-9, 3.13, 2.1, 2.3, 2.6, 2.11, 2.17, 1.6, 1.11, 1.14, 1.19, 1.21], vocal [1.6, 3.13], vocal arranger [2]
• Robert de la Garza
  assistant [1], mix [1, 8]
• Roger Young
  engineer [3.1, 3.3-4, 3.8, 3.13, 1.6, 1.12, 1.19, 2.3, 2.15], mix [1]
• Ron Hicklin
  task [4]
• Ron Tutt
  drums (drum set) [2.3, 2.5, 2.15, 1.12, 3.4, 3.7, 3.11-13]
• Sheridon Stokes
  flute [7, 12], solo [7, 12]
• The Jimmy Joyce Children’s Chorus
  choir vocals [14]
• The O.K. Chorale
  background vocals [2.5, 3.7, 3.12], choir vocals [4]
• Tim May
  acoustic guitar [2.3, 2.5, 3.2, 3.4, 3.7, 3.11-12, 1.12, 1.19], electric guitar [3.2-3, 2.3, 2.15, 1.12, 1.19]
• Tom Scott
  tenor saxophone [2.15, 1.6, 1.12, 1.19]
• Tommy Morgan
  harmonica [3]
• Tommy Vig
  congas [6]
• Tony Peluso
  acoustic guitar [19], electric guitar [1.4, 1.6, 1.12, 1.19, 3.3, 3.7, 3.11, 3.13], guitar [9]
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  Their Greatest Hits and Finest Performances

  3x CD
  1997