Carpenters Vinyl Rip

Carpenters
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1971 | Genre: Pop Vocal | Label: A&M | SP-3502 | US pressing

Carpenters is the third studio album by the Carpenters. Released on May 14, 1971, the album was successful, reaching #2 on the Billboard 200 chart and #12 in the UK. With the hit songs "For All We Know", "Rainy Days and Mondays" and "Superstar", Carpenters solidified Karen Carpenter as one of her generation's most endearing pop vocalists.

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Carpenters - Close to You
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1970 | Genre: Pop | Label: A&M | SP-4271 | US pressing
Rated 4 out of 5 star by AllMusic Guide

Hurriedly put together in the wake of the success of the title song, and containing the follow-up hit "We've Only Just Begun," Close to You is a surprisingly strong album, and not just for those hits. Richard Carpenter's originals "Maybe It's You" and "Crescent Noon" are superb showcases for Karen Carpenter's developing talent, the latter a superbly atmospheric, hauntingly beautiful art song of the kind that Judy Collins was doing well at the time, and gorgeously arranged.

( Bruce Eder - AllMusic Guide )

Carpenters - An Old Fashioned Christmas
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1984 | Genre: Pop - gospel | Label: A&M | 843-595 | US pressing
Rated 4.5 out of 5 star by AllMusic Guide

An Old-Fashioned Christmas is a Christmas album from The Carpenters, released in 1984 after the death of singer/drummer Karen Carpenter. The album project had its genesis in several unused tracks from the Carpenters' previous Christmas album, 1978's Christmas Portrait. Richard Carpenter took these tracks and recorded new material around them, and this album was the end result. The album (in its original LP and cassette form) includes the slow version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (a faster version appeared on the Christmas Portrait album).

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The Carpenters - The Singles 1969-1973 (1973) 24-Bit/96-kHz Vinyl Rip
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1973 | Genre: Pop | Label: A&M | SP-3601 | US pressing | Vinyl: NM-

"The Singles 1969-1973" is an album by the brother/sister pop duo The Carpenters. A greatest hits collection, it topped the charts in the U.S. and the United Kingdom and became one of the best-selling albums of the 1970s. It has been certified 8x platinum in the U.S. alone.

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The Carpenters - Now & Then
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1973 | Genre: Pop | Label: A&M | SP-3519 | US pressing

"Now & Then" is the fifth album from The Carpenters, released on May 9, 1973. In Cash Box Year-End Charts of 1973, Now & Then appeared at number 20. The song "Sing" reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number-one on the easy listening chart, and it became the group's seventh gold single. Side "B" of the album featured an oldies medley. The medley starts with the Carpenters' original, "Yesterday Once More". Tony Peluso, the Carpenters' electric guitarist, is heard as a radio DJ throughout the medley, which included such songs as "The End of the World", "Dead Man's Curve", "Johnny Angel" and "One Fine Day".

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