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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - Music: CDs | | | Artist: | Carpenters (The) | | Release Date: | Jan 12, 1999 | | | Format: | CD | | Record Label: | A&M Records (USA) | | | Genre: | Pop | | UPC: | 082839318426 | | | Sub-Genre: | -- | | Album Type: | -- | | | | | Condition: | -- | | | |
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This is an original 80's CD edition, not the newer one in ebay's database.
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CD DETAILSLabel: A&M
Catalogue Numbers:
CD3184 (on case spine and rear cover)
07502131842 (barcode on rear cover)
Case Type: Standard.
Other Important Info: N/A.
CD CONDITION
CD is NM-, inserts MINT-.
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MINT: As new.
MINT-: A few light, teeny tiny marks visible at close inspection that prevent disc from being called "MINT".
NM: Near Mint. A few small light marks, but still a super disc, and highly collectable.
EXC: Excellent. Some small marks/wear and possibly a *small* and *light* scuff or two. Still quite nice, and definitely a collectable quality disc.
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| | | | Additional Information about Close to You [Remaster]
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| Track listing | 1. We've Only Just Begun
2. Love Is Surrender
3. Maybe It's You
4. Reason to Believe
5. Help
6. Close to You
7. Baby It's You
8. I'll Never Fall in Love Again
9. Crescent Moon
10. Mr. Guder
11. I Kept on Loving You
12. Another Song
| | Details | | Contributing artists: | Hal Blaine | | Producer: | Jack Daugherty | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | The Carpenters: Karen Carpenter (vocals, drums); Richard Carpenter (keyboards, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Jim Horn, Bob Messenger, Doug Strawn (woodwinds); Joe Osborn, Danny Woodhams (bass); Hal Blaine (drums).
Digitally remastered by Richard Carpenter.
Karen and Richard Carpenter's third album, released in 1970, includes two of their signature songs, Bacharach/David's "(They Long To Be) Close To You" and Paul Williams' "We've Only Just Begun," a tune originally written as a commercial jingle for California's Crocker Banks. The rest of the album continues the siblings' exquisite taste in outside material, returning to Williams for "I Kept On Loving You" and to Bacharach for the Shirelles' "Baby It's You." Also featured here is an appealing version of the classic "I'll Never Fall In Love Again."
Other fine covers include Tim Hardin's "Reason To Believe" and an arrestingly mournful version of Lennon/McCartney's "Help." The album also includes four Richard Carpenter originals, with "Another Song" and the girl-groupish "Maybe It's You" the highlights. CLOSE TO YOU is one of the Carpenters' most commercially and artistically successful albums.
| | Editorial reviews | Ranked #175 in Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
Rolling Stone (12/11/2003)
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