CARPENTERS Box Set 12 cassettes every studio recording

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Please excuse the eccentric numbering below...all I could find to paste...and note that you have EVERY CARPENTERS STUDIO ALBUM here in de luxe presentation and in fantastic condition

Track Listings

1."TICKET TO RIDE" ALBUM TRACKS

2. Invocation 3. Your Wonderful Parade 4. Someday 5. Get Together 6. All Of My Life 7. Turn Away 8. Ticket To Ride 9. Dont Be Afraid 10. Whats The Use 11. All I Can Do 12. Eve 13. Nowadays Clancy Cant Even Sing 14. Benediction

15. "CLOSE TO YOU" ALBUM TRACKS

16. Weve Only Just Begun 17. Love Is Surrender 18. Maybe Its You 19. Reason To Beliewv 20. Help 21. Close To You 22. Baby Its You 23. Ill Never Fall In Love Again 24. Crescent Noon 25. Mr Guder 26. I Kept On Loving You 27. Another Song

28. "CARPENTERS" ALBUM TRACKS

29. Rainy Days And Mondays 30. Saturday 31. Let Me Be The One 32. A Place To Hideaway 33. For All We Know 34. Superstar 35. Druscilla Penny 36. One Love 37. Bacharach - David Medley (a)Knowing When To Leave (b)Make It Easy On Yourself (c)Always Something There To Remind Me (d) Ill Never Fall In Love Again (e)Walk On By (f)Do You Know The Way To San Jose 41. Sometimes

42. "A SONG FOR YOU" ALBUM TRACKS

43. A Song For You 44. Top Of The World 45. Hurting Each Other 46. Its Going To Take Some Time 47. Goodbyb To Love 48. Intermission 49. Bless The Beasts And Children 50. Flat Baroque 51. Piano Picker 52. I Wont Last A Day Without You 53. Crystal Lullaby 54. Road One 55. A Song For You (reprise)

56. "NOW AND THEN" ALBUM TRACKS

57. Sing 58. This Masquerate 59. Heather 60. Jambalaya 61. I Cant Make Music 62. Yesterday Once More 63. Medley (a) Fun Fun Fun (b) The End Of The World (c) Da Doo Ron Ron (d) Deadmans Curve (e) Johnny Angel (f) The Night Has A Thousand Eyes (g) Our Day Will Come (h) One Fine Day 71. Yesterday Once More (reprise)

72. "HORIZON" ALBUM TRACKS

73. Aurora 74. Only Yesterday 75. Desperado 76. Please Mister Postman 77. I Can Dream Cant I 78. Solitaire 79. Happy 80. Im Caught Between Goodbye And I Love You 81. Love Me For What I Am 82. Eventide

83. "A KIND OF HUSH" ALBUM TRACKS

84. Theres A Kind Of Hush 85. You 86. Sandy 87. Goofus 88. Cant Smile Without You 89. I Need To Be In Love 90. One More Time 91. Boat To Sail 92. I Have You 93. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

94. "PASSAGE" ALBUM TRACKS

95. B'wana She No Home 96. All You Get From Love Is A Love Song 97. I Just Fall In Love Again 98. On The Balcony Of The Casa Rosada/Don't Cry For Me Argentina 99. Sweet Sweet Smile 100.Two Sides 101.Man Smart Woman Smarter 102.Call Occupants of Interplanetary Craft

"MADE IN AMERICA" ALBUM TRACKS

1. Those Good Old Dreams 2. Strength of a Woman 3. (Want You) Back in My Life Again 4. When You've Got What It Takes 5. Somebody's Been Lyin' 6. I Believe You 7. Touch Me When We're Dancing 8. When It's Gone (It's Just Gone) 9. Beechwood 4-5789 10. Because We Are in Love (The Wedding Song)

"VOICE OF THE HEART" ALBUM TRACKS

1. Now 2. Sailing on the Tide 3. You're Enough 4. Make Believe It's Your First Time 5. Two Lives 6. At the End of a Song 7. Ordinary Fool 8. Prime Time Love 9. Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore 10. Look to Your Dreams

"LOVELINES" ALBUM TRACKS

1. Lovelines 2. Where do I go from here 3. Uninvited guest 4. If we try 5. When I fall in love 6. Kiss me the way you did last night 7. Remember when lovin' took all night 8. You're the one 9. Honolulu City lights 10. Slow dance 11. If I had you 12. Little girl blue

CHRISTMAS PORTRAIT and OLD FASHIONED CHRISTMAS ALBUMS COMBINED

1. O come o come Emmanuel 2. Overture 3. Christmas waltz 4. Sleigh ride 5. It's Christmas time 6. Sleep well little children 7. Have yourself a merry little Christmas 8. Santa Claus is coming to town 9. Christmas song (Merry Christmas to you) 10. Silent night holy night 11. Jingle bells 12. First snowfall 13. Merry Christmas darling 14. I'll be home for Christmas

and then you get even more of christmas...it is in fact Richard Carpenter's special Christmas compilation after Karen's death...see this article from 1977

I think maybe the younger people on the list could use some explanation of what happened with the Christmas album situation.

Flashback to the mid-1980's: Music stores are filled with cassettes and vinyl LP's (8-track tapes are pretty much gone). In the corner is this small section for these new-fangled shiny things called CD's, and to play them you have to have a big expensive player hooked up to your home stereo system (though on the horizon is the tiny Sony D-5 player which is about the size of a cassette walkman - a miraculous breakthrough!)

Karen has died, and A&M has come out with the second Carpenters Christmas album, An Old-Fashioned Christmas. This contains the left-over material from the original Christmas Portrait recording sessions which wouldn't fit on the first album, plus newly-recorded instrumental filler material. (Mostly nice stuff - but definitely filler. I was so disappointed the first time I listened to it to find Karen on so few tracks.)

The record stores are filled with vinyl LP's and cassettes of both C's Xmas albums, but Richard, always interested in the newest technologies, decides to come out with a CD combining the best of the two albums (mostly coming from the first album), utilizing the full 70-minute-plus capacity of the CD. This is somewhat of a specialty item, as are all CD's at this point.

Fast forward to the mid-1990's: vinyl records are gone from the mass market, cassettes are still around but on a smaller scale, and CD's have completely taken over the mass market. We've now ended up in a situation where the special edition Xmas CD, originally a specialty item, is now left as the mass market item, and the original 2 albums are only available on cassette.

Putting the original albums on separate CD's at this point I'm sure doesn't seem to A&M to be a viable option - why would the average consumer buy the original Christmas Portrait on CD, when for the same price he could by the 70-minute-plus special edition, and get almost all the same music plus more? And if it doesn't make sense to put out the original Christmas Portrait by itself, why should A&M put out Old-F Xmas by itself, which is a weaker album, and only has a few Karen vocals which aren't already in the special edition.

Which leaves us fans in an awkward position - we're painfully aware of the great songs which wouldn't fit on the special edition, and thus are not available on CD.

So A&M has two choices at this point: withdraw the Special Edition from the marketplace, and put out the original albums separately, or put out the two albums as a special 2-CD set. The first option probably wouldn't look good, so they seem to be testing the waters with the Time-Life set and the Canadian set (and I guess 2-CD sets in other parts of the world, too.)

My guess is that the PBS special is going to be just the start of a much higher level of renewed interest over the next year, so I wouldn't be surprised to see a 1998 US release of the 2-CD set.

So anyway, I'd say get a copy of the Special Edition, plus any one copy of the 2-CD set (if you have the Time-Life, don't bother with the Canadian, etc, unless you are simply want a complete collection of EVERY release you can get.)

I now have a copy of the Canadian 2-CD set, courtesy of Rod, and while it is nice to have access to all the "lost" songs on CD (especially What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?), I have to admit it will be the Special Edition that continues to spend the most time in my CD player this year. (In my opinion the special edition CD is THE definitive popular music Christmas album.)

Sorry this got so long - this is about 3 times as long as what I thought I was going to type!