Carpenters

Genre: music4me > Pop > Pop

Format: CD Album

Catalogue Number: 5500632

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Description:
All tracks have been digitally remastered. The Carpenters' radio-friendly soft rock virtually defined the genre in the early 1970s, and this album--their third full-length--was the group's ace card. Following on the heels of the wildly successful CLOSE TO YOU, CARPENTERS features more breezy melodies marked by rich arrangements and beautiful lead vocals, courtesy of siblings Richard Carpenter and Karen Carpenter, respectively. The record is most notable for two of the duo's strongest and best-loved singles. "Rainy Days and Mondays," written by soft-pop gods Paul Williams and Roger Nichols, is a bittersweet pop masterpiece fleshed out by Richard's string orchestrations and smoothly produced backing vocals, while Leon Russell and Bonnie Bramlett's "Superstar," from its melancholic verse to its dramatic chorus, is equally hard to resist. (Both songs showcase Karen's sultry alto.) The rest of the album includes Richard's bubble-gum pop originals, another Williams-Nichols tune ("Let Me Be the One"), and a medley of Burt Bacharach-Hal David tunes. Even more commercially streamlined than its predecessors, CARPENTERS is a classic of early-'70s pop.

Details:

Distributor: Universal Music
Producer: Jack Daugherty
Sound Engineers: Dick Bogert, Ray Gerhardt
Discs: 1
Release Year: 1998
Running Time: 31 minutes
Weight (g): 94

Track Listing:

1.	Rainy Days and Mondays
2.	Saturday
3.	Let Me Be the One
4.	A Place to Hideaway
5.	For All We Know
6.	Superstar
7.	Durscilla Penny
8.	One Love
9.	Knowing When to Leave
10.	Make It Easy On Yourself
11.	(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me
12.	I'll Never Fall in Love Again
13.	Walk On By
14.	Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
15.	Sometimes