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This is a comprehensive list of songs written or performed by pop duo the Carpenters, featuring Karen and Richard Carpenter. This list includes official studio albums, live albums, solo albums, and notable compilations that feature rare or unreleased material.
Most of the songs listed here are remixes. This compilation's songs have more refined and re-recorded tracks, less noise in the background, and a lot of reverberation in the background. ^† These songs include a harder bass drum line and considerably more reverberation than the original version. "Top of the World" is mixed with an alternate ...
In December 2011, Billboard began a Holiday Songs chart with 50 positions that monitors the last five weeks of each year to "rank the top holiday hits of all eras using the same methodology as the Hot 100, blending streaming, airplay, and sales data", [46] and in 2013 the number of positions on the chart was doubled, resulting in the Holiday ...
Only Yesterday (subtitled Richard & Karen Carpenter's Greatest Hits) is a greatest hits compilation album by American group the Carpenters. It was released in 1990 by A&M Records and peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart for seven weeks. [2]
The compilation include a re-recorded single version of "Top of the World" and newly re-recorded "Ticket to Ride" specially for the compilation.It also includes a number of musical introductions and segues between the songs "Superstar", "Rainy Days and Mondays" and "Goodbye to Love", the latter two were sped up in pitch, much to the regret of Richard in subsequent years.
Record executive Mike Curb said it was Karen's voice that took the Carpenters above straight pop music into pop rock. [195] She was known as a "one take wonder" and could deliver a strong performance on the first attempt. [196] Karen was an accomplished drummer, which was her original musical role, but she soon began to sing for the group too.
They loved the song and felt that it could be a hit. [2] It appeared as the debut single on the group's 1973 album Now & Then. [1] It reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart, [3] and it became the group's seventh gold single. It also became Carpenters' eighth top-ten single in the Billboard Hot 100.
The Singles: 1969–1981 is a compilation of the Carpenters' music released by Richard Carpenter in 2000. [2]The album contains all of the tracks from The Singles: 1969–1973.