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Interpretations: A 25th Anniversary Celebration (CD)

By: The Carpenters (Artist)

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The Carpenters Artist Snapshot:

The brother and sister duo of Karen and Richard Carpenter were purveyors of a exquisitely crafted pop sound that garnered them a enormous string of Top 10 hits in the 1970s. Employing first-call sidemen, compositions from top writers like Bacharach-David and Paul Williams, and innovative, harmony-laden production, Richard Carpenter created an ideal, wonderfully slick bed for Karen's angelic voice. Unfortunately remembered almost as much for Karen's 1982 anorexia-related death as for their music, the Carpenters brought a truly innovative sound to the soft-rock genre.

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DISC 1 for Interpretations: A 25th Anniversary Celebration (CD) Album By The Carpenters (Artist)
1   Without A Song - (a cappella version)
2   Superstar
3   Rainy Days And Mondays
4   Bless The Beasts And Children
5   This Masquerade
6   Solitaire
7   When I Fall In Love
8   From This Moment On
9   Trying To Get The Feeling Again
10   When It's Gone
11   I Believe You
12   Reason To Believe
13   Close To You, (They Long To Be)
14   Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft
15   Little Girl Blue
16   We've Only Just Begun
 

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Title Note

INTERPRETATIONS: A 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION contains three previously unreleased tracks.

The Carpenters: Karen Carpenter (vocals, drums); Richard Carpenter (keyboards, background vocals).

Additional personnel: Tony Peluso, Tim May, Dennis Budimir, Fred Tackett (guitar); Jay Dee Maness (pedal steel guitar); Bob Messenger (flute); Earl Dumler (oboe); Tom Morgan (harmonica); Chuck Findley (trumpet); Pete Jolly (keyboards); Joe Osborn (bass); Hal Blaine, Jim Gordon, Cubby O'Brien, Larrie Londin (drums)

Producers: Richard Carpenter, Jack Daugherty, Karen Carpenter.

Engineers include: Ray Gerhardt, Roger Young, Dave Iveland.

Includes liner notes by Paul Grein & Richard Carpenter.

Digitally remastered by Arnie Acosta.

Recorded between March 1970 & March 1980.

Although the Carpenters were hardly considered fashionable during their '70s commercial heyday (rock critics particularly detested them), by the time this greatest-hits album (fleshed out with a few previously unreleased tracks) was released, the critical consensus was swinging in their favor. Maybe it was a '90s irony thing (lounge revival, anyone?); more likely it was just that with the passage of time, people could finally hear the melancholy that lurked under the surface-happy face of the Carpenters' lush production style. In any case, this is a terrific best-of, with all the hits plus their all-time weirdest cover, Klaatu's "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft." You make the call: Karen and Richard Carpenter--secret space cadets?

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