Twenty-Two Hits of the Carpenters

Tracklist

• CD 1: Twenty-Two Hits of the Carpenters
• 1
  I Need to Be in Love
  3:50
• 2
  We've Only Just Begun
  3:05
  3.4 ★
• 3
  Superstar
  3:49
  4.4 ★
• 4
  Rainy Days and Mondays
  3:35
  4.4 ★
• 5
  Top of the World
  3:00
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Sing
  3:17
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Only Yesterday
  3:59
• 8
  Ticket to Ride
  4:10
  3.5 ★
• 9
  Goodbye to Love
  3:55
• 10
  It's Going to Take Some Time
  2:58
  4.5 ★
• 11
  This Masquerade
  4:52
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Sweet Sweet Smile
  3:01
  2.0 ★
• 13
  I Won't Last a Day Without You
  3:55
• 14
  Solitaire
  4:40
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Please Mr. Postman
  2:46
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Hurting Each Other
  2:46
  4.5 ★
• 17
  There's a Kind of Hush
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
  3:39
  3.5 ★
• 19
  For All We Know
  2:32
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Touch Me When We're Dancing
  3:21
  3.0 ★
• 21
  (They Long to Be) Close to You
  3:40
• 22
  Yesterday Once More
  3:57
  4.6 ★
• CD 2: Yesterday Once More - Carpenters Original Master Karaoke
• 1
  Yesterday Once More
  3:58
• 2
  Superstar
  3:50
• 3
  Rainy Days and Mondays
  3:38
• 4
  Top of the World
  3:02
• 5
  Sing
  3:19
• 6
  This Masquerade
  4:55
• 7
  I Won't Last a Day Without You
  3:56
• 8
  For All We Know
  2:35
• 9
  Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
  3:41
• 10
  (They Long to Be) Close to You
  3:44
• 11
  Hurting Each Other
  2:48
• 12
  Please Mr. Postman
  2:50
• 13
  Bless the Beasts and Children
  3:18
• 14
  Goodbye to Love
  3:57
• 15
  I Need to Be in Love
  3:52
• 16
  We've Only Just Begun
  3:06

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Release credits

• Bob Messenger
  bass [8], saxophone [4], tenor saxophone [17], woodwind [2]
• Bobby Bruce
  fiddle [12]
• Carolyn Dennis
  background vocals [20]
• Danny Woodhams
  bass [2]
• Dave Iveland
  assistant [20], engineer [12]
• Dick Bogert
  engineer [2, 19]
• Douglass Strawn
  clarinet [2], woodwind [2]
• Earle Dumler
  oboe [3, 19-20]
• Gary Sims
  guitar [8]
• Gayle Levant
  harp [17, 20]
• Hal Blaine
  drums (drum set) [2-4, 18-19]
• Jack Daugherty
  orchestrator [8], producer [2-5, 8, 10, 16, 19, 21]
• James Getzoff
  concertmaster [20]
• Jim Gordon
  drums (drum set) [17]
• Jim Horn
  woodwind [2]
• Joe Osborn
  bass [2, 8, 12], bass guitar [3-4, 17, 19-20]
• Karen Carpenter
  associate [7, 12, 14-15], background vocals [2-4, 19, 19-20], drums (drum set) [2, 8], lead vocals [2-5, 7-8, 11-12, 14-16, 18-19, 19-21], producer [5-6, 11, 18, 22]
• Larry Londin
  drums (drum set) [20]
• Larry McNeely
  banjo [12]
• Norm Kinney
  assistant [3-4, 19]
• Paulinho da Costa
  percussion [20]
• Ray Gerhardt
  engineer [2-4, 8, 12, 15, 19]
• Richard Carpenter
  Wurlitzer electric piano [2], arranger [2-5, 7, 11-12, 14-16, 18-21], background vocals [2-4, 19-20], keyboard [3-4, 17, 19-20], lead vocals [2], orchestrator [2-5, 7, 11-12, 14-16, 18-21], producer [5-7, 11-12, 14-15, 18, 20, 22], vocal [12]
• Roger Young
  engineer [12, 20]
• Ron Tutt
  drums (drum set) [12]
• The Jimmy Joyce Children’s Chorus
  choir vocals [6]
• Tim May
  acoustic guitar [20], electric guitar [20]
• Tom Hensley
  tack piano [12]
• Tom Scott
  tenor saxophone [20]
• Tommy Morgan
  harmonica [4]
• Tony Peluso
  acoustic guitar [12, 20], electric guitar [12, 20], guitar [17]
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Issues

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  Twenty-Two Hits of the Carpenters

  CD
  10 November 1995
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  Twenty-Two Hits of the Carpenters

  2x CD
  7 December 2005