Carpenters Perform Carpenter

The Carpenters - Carpenters Perform Carpenter

Carpenters Perform Carpenter
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Artist: The Carpenters
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-07-29
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
  1. Top of the World [Single Version]
  2. Maybe It's You
  3. Crystal Lullaby
  4. I Need to Be in Love
  5. Sandy
  6. Mr. Guder
  7. All of My Life
  8. Yesterday Once More [Single Version]
  9. One Love
  10. Those Good Old Dreams
  11. Because We Are in Love (The Wedding Song)
  12. Only Yesterday
  13. Eve
  14. At the End of a Song
  15. Goodbye to Love
  16. Look to Your Dreams
  17. Karen's Theme
  18. Merry Christmas Darling [*]

Music reviews of Carpenters Perform Carpenter

Music Review: ...Perform Carpenter....Could We Spend the Day Together???
Rating: 5 Stars

Top of the World?"

How many housewives have
Sha-La-La'd with
"Yesterday Once More?"

How many heartbroken teen
Have found solace singing along to
"Goodbye to Love?"

The answer is...well; you might as well dust off the old chestnut about angles and the head of a pin. Let's put it this way. Every ten seconds or so, somewhere in the world, these songs are being played, sung, whistled, hummed or listened to. And this has been going on every day for the last thirty-odd years. - Bill DeMain

The first page of the liner notes read, as you open the CD to this collection.

Being a HUGE Carpenter fan for quite some time, I have come to love this collection. I was introduced to the Carpenters back in the late 80's with the watching of "The Karen Carpenter Story". I then started collecting all the albums. I had some on record, tape and some on CD. The first Carpenters' record collection I bought is the two record collection of "Yesterday Once More". I could not stop playing it, over and over!!! I have all the domestic released albums on cd, and I love to play them over and over again too.

Back when CDs first came out, the perfection was not there as it is today. Before digital recording came out analog was the way to go. A lot of artist recorded on analog for lack of choice. The Carpenters were of no exception. Thank GOD that all Carpenter songs were in two channels {stereo}. Anyway, the remarkable performances of the CD can revile the slightest pin drop, compared to older recording methods. Hearing the Carpenter songs on CD, one can hear a slight "hiss" in the background. This is the way with other recordings unless it is a brand new recording, recorded in digital. I read Richard wants all Carpenters' songs to sound the very very best they can get. So hearing other Carpenters' songs on other greatest hit albums, one can hear the music crystal clear and Karen's singing with a hiss in the back ground. That led me to believe that the music was possible re-recorded in digital but Karen's singing, well, could not be re-recorded in digital. So hearing those songs, you can hear the music without a hissing but then when Karen started singing the 'hiss' was present. When a "break" in the song would come, Karen stopped singing; the 'hiss' would stop. Then when Karen's queue came to start singing again the 'hiss' was back. That said maybe hard to understand. Try listing to the CD "Ticket to Ride" to the song "All of My Life". It is a good song, good recording etc. Then right after that song is over, pop in this CD version of "All of My Life". There is not a sign of 'hiss' anywhere!!!! This album is like hearing it for the first time in TOTAL digital!!!! Believe me, I have listened over and over, not a single flaw in the recording.....
In a way, it is like Karen recorded fresh music with the very best technology that is available today. As a die-hard Carpenter fan, I don't see this collection as just another Carpenter collection. I love hearing how Richard has put different mixes to the songs. As long he puts his "seal of approval" on all changes. I mean come on Carpenter fans, he is still a Carpenter!!!
This collection of songs are what Carpenter/Betties put together. They are not re-recordings of songs other artist's have recorded.
For the true Carpenter fan this collection holds songs already heard, but have a fresh new approach. If hearing the original versions tickles your tummy, then they are still available on the albums. Don't get me wrong, I am all for the original versions too. To me hearing these new versions helps in keeping the Carpenters alive and fresh all the same. As for new Carpenters' fans, there are some greatest hits, but other songs; sadly did not reach the top charts.
I just love Karen's Theme. It fits like a glove to Karen. I think that she should be dubbed, the "Queen of Love Songs". She had perfect pitch every time. I am sure that she would have been amazed on recording techniques of today.
As stated in the "Karen Carpenter Story" that Karen has a one in a million voice. People have dubbed this brother/sister duo as being plan, and vanilla. However, what a wonderful taste vanilla is??? This collection is wonderful, get it, really!!!!!!

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