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Carpenters - Now & Then (1973) [Japanese Edition 2012] Music

Posted by gribovar at April 29, 2025

It was with the release of Now & Then that the Carpenters lost any pretense of being even dorky cool. The album jacket was a giveaway, depicting them in a car in front of a suburban home. The problem also laid in the relentlessly cheerful children's chorus on "Sing," which seemed to come out of every public music outlet that spring and summer; the silly version of "Jambalaya" on side one; and the oldies medley on the second side, which at least predated Happy Days going on the air but still botched its job, mixing Karen Carpenter's haunting rendition of "Johnny Angel" and her spirited version of "One Fine Day" (anticipating her white-bread but effective version of "Beechwood 4-5789") with filler like "Fun, Fun, Fun" and "Dead Man's Curve," all interspersed with Tony Peluso doing his best (i.e., worst) imitation of an obnoxious disc jockey…

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The Carpenters - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Carpenters (2002) Music

Posted by delpotro at May 13, 2020

The Carpenters - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Carpenters (2002)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 260 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 98 Mb | 00:42:39
Pop, Pop Rock, Female Vocal | Label: A&M Records

Karen's sweet voice plus Richard's clean arrangements added up to superstar success. Here are their biggest hits and most cherished songs: Top of the World; Please Mr. Postman; Yesterday Once More; Goodbye to Love; Only Yesterday; Bless the Beasts and Children; I Believe You; This Masquerade , and four more chosen by Richard himself.

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Carpenters - Their Greatest Hits (1990) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 11, 2025

Carpenters - Their Greatest Hits (1990)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:16:41 | 436 / 175 Mb
Genre: Pop Rock

igning under the name the Richard Carpenter Trio, the group cut four songs that were never released. Jacobs left the band at the beginning of 1968.Following Jacobs' departure, the siblings formed Spectrum with Richard's college friend John Bettis. Spectrum fell apart by the end of the year, but the Carpenters continued performing as a duo. The pair recorded some demos at the house of Los Angeles session musician Joe Osborn; the tape was directed toward Herb Alpert, the head of A&M Records, who signed the duo to his record label in early 1969.Offering, the Carpenters' first album, was released in November 1969. Neither Offering nor the accompanying single, a cover of the Beatles'

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Bread - The Studio Album Collection (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at June 21, 2024

Bread has long been a benchmark for soft rock and now you can score all of their Studio albums from 1969 all the way to 1977. Contained in this great digital box set: Bread (1969), On The Waters (1970), Manna (1971), Baby I'm-A Want You (1972), Guitar Man (1972), Lost Without Your Love (1977).

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Raymond Lefevre - Albums Collection 1965-1976 (11CD) Japanese Limited Mini LP, SHM-CD Music

Posted by Designol at June 29, 2023

Collection includes 11 albums by French easy listening orchestra leader, arranger and composer Raymond Lefèvre. The instrumental smash "Ame Câline" vaulted conductor and arranger Raymond LeFevre to the front ranks of the easy listening renaissance that followed the commercial vogue for stereophonic sound.

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The Carpenters - Singles 1969-1981 (2004/2013) [Official Digital Download 24 bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Dec. 1, 2022

Carpenters - Singles 1969-1981 (2004/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 77:11 minutes | 1,58 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Sibling duo Karen and Richard Carpenter dominated the pop-charts throughout the 70’s, scoring 12 top ten singles with clean pop arrangements highlighting Karen Carpenters delicate vocals. This collection brings together singles from the golden years of these three-time Grammy award winners, who scored more than 20 singles on the Billboard Hot 100.

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The Carpenters - Gold (35th Anniversary Edition) (2005) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 10, 2025

The Carpenters - Gold (35th Anniversary Edition) (2005)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:24:45 | 955 Mb
Genre: Pop Rock

Richard had played piano with a cocktail jazz trio in a handful of local Connecticut nightclubs. Once the family had moved to California, he began to study piano while he supported Karen in a trio that featured Wes Jacobs (tuba/bass). With Jacobs and Richard forming her backup band, Karen was signed to the local California record label Magic Lamp, which released two unsuccessful singles by the singer. The trio won a Battle of the Bands contest at the Hollywood Bowl in 1966, which led to a record contract with RCA. Signing under the name the Richard Carpenter Trio, the group cut four songs that were never released. Jacobs left the band at the beginning of 1968.Following Jacobs' departure, the siblings formed Spectrum with Richard's college friend John Bettis. Spectrum fell apart by the end of the year, but the Carpenters continued performing as a duo. The pair recorded some demos at the house of Los Angeles session musician Joe Osborn; the tape was directed toward Herb Alpert, the head of A&M Records, who signed the duo to his record label in early 1969.Offering, the Carpenters' first album, was released in November 1969.

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Paul Mauriat - Je Pense A Toi & From Souvenirs To Souvenirs (2015) Music

Posted by popsakov at July 3, 2024

Collects the original 1974 and 1975 albums from the French orchestra leader, together on one CD! Includes covers of The Carpenters' "Yesterday Once More" and Mikis Theodorakis' "Theme From 'Serpico". French composer/conductor Paul Mauriat is a classically trained musician who decided to pursue a career in popular music. His first major success came in 1962, as a co-writer of the European hit "Chariot." In 1963, the song was given English lyrics, renamed "I Will Follow Him," and became a number one American hit for Little Peggy March. Mauriat is best remembered for his 1968 worldwide smash "Love Is Blue."

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Carpenters - The Essential Collection (1965-1997) (2002) [4 CD Box Set, 2006] Music

Posted by Andi_Deris at Aug. 22, 2015

2002’s ESSENTIAL COLLECTION is basically an updated, new and improved version of FROM THE TOP. After a decade in the marketplace, Universal felt it could better the Carpenters box set, so Richard was asked to re-compile it, this time making sure that all of the hits were included – one of the weaknesses of FROM THE TOP. Richard added a couple of rarities to it as well – the Karen/Ella Medley, which hadn’t yet been issued in the States, and a Japanese Morinaga High Crown Chocolate commercial that had been an extra on a DVD release. ESSENTIAL COLLECTION marks the first appearance of a minor change to the album mix of “Solitaire” as a few mouth/saliva sounds are removed to make Karen’s vocal track sound smoother.

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Carpenters - From The Top (4CD. 1991) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at July 11, 2025

Carpenters - From The Top (4CD. 1991)
APE (tracks) | 3:24:41 | 1.06 Gb
Genre: Pop Rock, Folk

The Carpenters' box set retrospective From the Top is a 67-track, four-CD set running under 3 ½ hours (which means it could have fit on three CDs) that traces Richard and Karen Carpenter's musical efforts from the formation of the Richard Carpenter Trio in 1965 to Karen's final recording session in April 1982. This is Richard's compilation; he introduces it and writes a track-by-track commentary, and has also done a lot of refurbishing, remixing 40 tracks and providing "additional recording" on many. The set proceeds chronologically, and most of the 20 previously unreleased tracks date from the '60s, as the group's emerging sound can be traced in demos. The Carpenters' hitmaking period of 1970-75 is extensively covered from the last quarter of the first disc to the start of the third, with most of their big hits included, though Richard excludes a few without comment. Also included are many album tracks that sometimes match the quality of the singles. Richard includes a couple of the Carpenters' singles from the second half of the '70s, and devotes the rest of the third disc and most of the fourth to excerpts from stray projects – Christmas albums, TV specials, Karen's solo album (which Richard carefully notes went unreleased "at Karen's behest"). As such, there is necessarily a fall-off in the set's quality. But by sequencing the songs chronologically, choosing only the ones he wants, and remaking them to his satisfaction, Richard is telling his version of the Carpenters' story, chronicling his band's rise and fall, which occurred in artistic and commercial terms well before his sister's death.

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