Carpenters Gold: Greatest Hits

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Greg Stevenson who effortlessly recreates Richard’s sublime piano playing supported by a band oozing Seventies glitz ! The tracks from As Time Goes By were remixed in the late 1990s/early 2000s and had not yet been released in the United States, while "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again", from Interpretations, was originally recorded in 1975, but was left off Horizon due to the fact that it would have been too long. Goodbye To Love' 'Yesterday Once More' 'Close To You' are just some of the highlights of the Carpenters career. The original cover artwork had "Greatest Hits" in place of where "35th Anniversary Edition" is on the US cover. Ticket to Ride", the only song here that is of a 1973 remix, is a fully re-recorded version of the original.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. This excellent-value 20-track collection features just about all the classics you would expect – “Close To You”, “Yesterday Once More”, “Goodbye To Love”, “Top Of The World”, “Only Yesteday”, “Please Mr.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Karen did not appreciate the deep vocals of the original, and felt that she could do a better job for The Singles: 1969–1973. The covers of both releases have the same look as the 1992 Gold: Greatest Hits compilation album by ABBA.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.This compilation's songs have more refined and re-recorded tracks, less noise in the background, and a lot of reverberation in the background. This version is the single version, which Richard Carpenter claimed to have a guitar riff before each of the verses, whereas the version on Horizon had no guitar riff. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. With the wonderful and unique voice of Karen Carpenter along with the beautiful arrangements by her brother Richard make this one of the classiest collections of pure 70' pop perfection. These songs are the original mixes, meaning that they have not been retouched since their recording.

The albums 'A Song For You' and 'Yesterday Once More' along with 'Gold' have been on my system all over the weekend. She undertakes the character of Karen superbly, paying meticulous attention to her mannerisms, 'brother – sister' relationship with Richard and the playful interaction with her band and audience.All of these songs (with the exception of "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again") are from the Japan-exclusive album As Time Goes By. Carpenters Gold supremely captures how they were ‘live in concert’ and is a must for all fans of the fantastic Karen and Richard. That version contained just one disc with 20 tracks, all of which were also featured on this American version.