CARPENTERS audiophile LP “Singles 1969-1973” A&M 3601 orig w/ Booklet NICE
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Description
Artist/Group: THE CARPENTERS
Title: “The Singles, 1969-1973” AUDIOPHILE SERIES
Label: A&M. Canadian Audiophile Pressing. Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl. Label is tan with black text. Catalog number is SPJ 3601.
Year: 1981.
Condition:
DISC: Vinyl retains 100% of original gloss, has been played a small number of times and handled with care. Grades nice VG+ with a couple light scuffs. There are a few soft tics, but no serious marks. Fidelity is excellent. Labels are clean. A very fine playing copy.
JACKET: Jacket is EXCELLENT with nice clean panels. Seams, spine, and surfaces are excellent. Bottom right corner has been bumped, resulting in some creasing. Reverse is clean with no writing, stickers, or cutout indications. Overall a very fine jacket.
Insert booklet is included in excellent condition. No writing, stickers or rips, but there is creasing throughout the entire booklet.
Review:
“There's a certain inherent sadness listening to this concise 12-song collection of the Carpenters' early hits, especially as it opens with "We've Only Just Begun," with its hopeful, dreamy lyrics -- for it was never supposed to be definitive, just the first of at least two such collections. But changes in the public's taste and a slackening (though never a disappearance) of hits for the duo, and Karen Carpenter's death in 1983, made this the first and only real mass choice for a Carpenters collection. Ten of the duo's dozen Top Ten hits are present, from "Close to You" to "Top of the World," with their gorgeous and original slow ballad interpretation of "Ticket to Ride" and their cover of Carole King's "It's Going to Take Some Time" thrown in to offer a slightly wider perspective. Listening to this material, it's easy to accuse the Carpenters of being hopelessly retro even in their own time -- bear in mind that "We've Only Just Begun" and "Superstar" being contemporaneous with the Allman Brothers' At Fillmore East and Eat a Peach and you get the idea. But the lush melodies brought out in Richard Carpenter's arrangements and Karen's singing are justification in themselves. …"
(review courtesy of Bruce Eder, allmusic.com.)
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