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Carpenters Essential Collection Rarebit

The Carpenters' 2002 box set, The Essential Collection (1965-1997) is a revised version of their 1991 box set, From the Top. This time, Richard Carpenter has aimed more at a comprehensive treatment of the Carpenters' career, including all of their Top 40 hits (some with grudging remarks in the liner notes) in an expansion that adds 45 and a half minutes to the running time. There are also some more album cuts and rarities, though the only previously unreleased tracks are a commercial and a medley of standards by Karen Carpenter and Ella Fitzgerald from a television special. In total, he has added 17 tracks, while deleting four: a cover of the Beatles' 'Goodnight'; a Spanish-language version of 'Sing' (replaced by the English-language hit version that had been left off From the Top); and two songs from his sister's solo album (which he no longer describes as having been shelved in 1980 'at Karen's behest,' but now 'for reasons that are well-chronicled elsewhere,' presumably in Ray Coleman's 1994 authorized biography), 'My Body Keeps Changing My Mind' and 'Still Crazy After All These Years.' Since that album finally saw release in 1996, he may have thought it was no longer necessary to represent so much of it. The result of the changes is a big improvement. From the Top didn't really justify its four discs; it could have fit on three. And it was a compromise between an all-out rarities set and a thorough career overview. This version uses its greater length to satisfy the latter goal. It is worth noting, too, that like From the Top, The Essential Collection (1965-1997) is a retouched version of the Carpenters' story. Richard Carpenter has not hesitated to remix, overdub, and otherwise spiff up the band's recordings. Purists may object, but the sound justifies the changes.

Sample	Title/Composer	Performer
1	03:38
2	02:20
3	01:52
4	02:28
5	02:36
6	02:27
7	01:50
8	Richard Carpenter / Tom Scholz	02:07
9	01:00
10	John Bettis / Richard Carpenter	02:22
11	03:02
12	John Bettis / Richard Carpenter	02:53
13	04:09
14	02:40
15	01:34
16	01:58
17	03:03
18	Burt Bacharach / Hal David	04:34
19	03:21
20	Roger Nichols / Paul Williams	03:05
21	03:05
22	James Griffin / Fred Karlin / R. Wilson	02:36

Sample	Title/Composer	Performer
1	03:36
2	Bonnie Bramlett / Leon Russell	03:50
3	Roger Nichols / Roger S. Nichols / Paul H. Williams / Paul Williams	02:25
4	03:14
5	Gary Geld / Peter Udell	02:48
6	02:56
7	Roger Nichols / Paul Williams	03:54
8	04:37
9	John Bettis / Richard Carpenter	02:59
10	03:56
11	04:53
12	03:18
13	03:39
14	03:49
15	Jeff Barry / Jan Berry / Roger Christian / Sylvia Dee / Ellie Greenwich / Arthur Kent / Mike Love / Phil Spector / Brian Wilson	14:54
16	01:02
17	01:53

Sample	Title/Composer	Performer
1	00:35
2	Robert Bateman / Georgia Dobbins / William Garrett / Freddie Gorman / Brian Holland	02:49
3	04:09
4	John Bettis / Richard Carpenter	03:46
5	04:41
6	04:21
7	01:08
8	03:42
9	03:41
10	Leslie Reed / Geoff Stephens	02:57
11	03:48
12	02:13
13	00:32
14	Yoko Narahashi / Hiromasa Suzuki / Tatsushi Umegaki	00:33
15	03:46
16	Terry Draper / John Woloschuk	07:09
17	03:02
18	Domenico Bartolucci / Ray Charles	03:12
19	02:29
20	H. Smith / Howlett Peter Smith	03:44
21	02:36

Sample	Title/Composer	Performer
1	04:24
2	Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers	03:24
3	03:54
4	Steve Dorff / Gary Harju / Larry Herbstritt	03:58
5	Sammy Fain / George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin / Lorenz Hart / Herman Hupfeld / Irving Kahal / Richard Rodgers / Leon Russell	05:58
6	Burt Bacharach / John Bettis / Richard Carpenter / Hal David / Roger Nichols / Joe Raposo / Paul Williams	09:08
7	04:09
8	Ken Bell / Kenny Bell / Terry Skinner / J.L. Wallace	03:20
9	05:00
10	John Bettis / Richard Carpenter	05:01
11	04:12
12	Roger Nichols / Paul Williams	03:51
13	02:41

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Some 30 years on, few female vocalists can deliver ache and intimacy with the seeming ease of Karen Carpenter. Add in her tragic death in 1983, and the music of the Carpenters holds an indelible melan

Some 30 years on, few female vocalists can deliver ache and intimacy with the seeming ease of Karen Carpenter. Add in her tragic death in 1983, and the music of the Carpenters holds an indelible melancholy. So there's plenty of wrenching emotion to be had throughout Carpenters: The Essential Collection (1965-1997), a four-hour, 73-cut boxed set that sweeps from the brother/sister duo's pre-A&M signing through its 21 top 40 hits to songs that were issued following Karen's passing. Fans will get a kick out of the pair's earliest works, beginning in 1965, which showcase a developing act in search of its sound, experimenting with folk and jazz-quite a distance from Richard Carpenter's soon-to-be trademark easy-listening arrangements (an all-too-common source of derision from critics who missed the big picture). It's with the second disc, covering 1971-1973, that we see the Carpenters hit their stride with timeless downers like 'Rainy Days and Mondays,' 'Goodbye to Love,' 'Hurting Each Other,' and, perhaps Karen's greatest chiller, 'Superstar.' The hits continue on disc three, documenting 1974-1978, including the evergreen 'I Need to Be in Love' the and bright 'There's a Kind of Hush,' 'Only Yesterday,' and 'Please Mr. Postman,' along with a number of elegant Christmas songs culled from their two holiday sets, and-perhaps the collection's greatest moment-an intoxicating take on 'Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again,' completed in 1994. Disc four, 1978-1997, is the most uneven of the set, as it shows the duo struggling to adapt its sound as the '80s unfolded and the Carpenters (notably, the top-charting American act of the '70s) became increasingly unfashionable. Rounding things out, entertaining and colorful liner notes from Richard reveal the history behind each song in an informative and candid style-but other than an awkward, canned radio interview, campy overseas beverage jingles, and a live medley with Karen and Ella Fitzgerald, there's not much here that hasn't been heard before.

Carpenters Essential Collection Rarebit

It would have been fun to include outtakes and alternate arrangements instead of packaging the hits yet again, since most followers likely already have one of the numerous collections previously issued (in particular, the 1991 boxed set, From the Top, which is awfully similar to this one). But Essential does compactly tell the story in total of an act whose achievements and place in history become more appreciable with some distance from its day in the sun. Truly a sentimental journey.