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Artist: Carpenters Title: From The Top Label:   A&M Country: USA Date: 1991 Catalogue: 7 31454 0000-2 Barcode: 731454000024 Format: CD Box Set Genre: Pop Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  6 Own, 1 Wants Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search on eBay This is an affiliate link for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
1965 - 1970
1-01	The Richard Carpenter Trio	Caravan	Irving Mills, Duke Ellington	Rate
1-02	Richard Carpenter, Karen Carpenter, Joe Osborn	The Parting Of Our Ways	Richard Carpenter	Rate
1-03	Karen Carpenter	Looking For Love	Richard Carpenter	Rate
1-04	Karen Carpenter	I'll Be Yours	Richard Carpenter	Rate
1-05	The Richard Carpenter Trio	Iced Tea	Richard Carpenter	Rate
1-06	Summerchimes	You'll Love Me	Richard Carpenter	Rate
1-07	Spectrum [US]	All I Can Do	Richard Carpenter, John Bettis	Rate
1-08	Carpenters	Don't Be Afraid	Richard Carpenter	Rate
1-09	Carpenters	Invocation	Richard Carpenter, John Bettis	Rate
1-10	Carpenters	Your Wonderful Parade	Richard Carpenter, John Bettis	Rate
1-11	Carpenters	Goodnight	John Lennon, Paul McCartney	Rate
1-12	Carpenters	All Of My Life	Richard Carpenter	Rate
1-13	Carpenters	Eve	Richard Carpenter, John Bettis	Rate
1-14	Carpenters	Ticket To Ride	John Lennon, Paul McCartney	Rate
1-15	Carpenters	Get Together	Chet Powers	Rate
1-16	Carpenters	Interview		Rate
1-17	Carpenters	Maybe It's You	Richard Carpenter, John Bettis	Rate
1-18	Carpenters	(They Long To Be) Close To You	Burt Bacharach, Hal David	Rate
1-19	Carpenters	We've Only Just Begun	Paul Williams, Roger Nichols	Rate
1-20	Carpenters	Merry Christmas, Darling	Frank Pooler, Richard Carpenter	Rate
1-21	Carpenters	For All We Know	Fred Karlin, Robb Wilson, Arthur James	Rate
1971 - 1973
2-01	Carpenters	Superstar	Leon Russell, Bonnie Bramlett	Rate
2-02	Carpenters	Rainy Days And Mondays	Paul Williams, Roger Nichols	Rate
2-03	Carpenters	Let Me Be The One	Roger Nichols, Paul Williams	Rate
2-04	Carpenters	Bless The Beasts And The Children	Barry De Vorzon, Perry Botkin Jr.	Rate
2-05	Carpenters	Hurting Each Other	Peter Udell, Gary Geld	Rate
2-06	Carpenters	Top Of The World	Richard Carpenter, John Bettis	Rate
2-07	Carpenters	Goodbye To Love	Richard Carpenter, John Bettis	Rate
2-08	Carpenters	Santa Claus Is Coming To Town	Haven Gillespie, J. Fred Coots	Rate
2-09	Carpenters	This Masquerade	Leon Russell	Rate
2-10	Carpenters	Canta / Sing	Joe Raposo	Rate
2-11	Carpenters	Yesterday Once More	Richard Carpenter, John Bettis	Rate
2-12	Carpenters	Fun, Fun, Fun	Brian Wilson, Mike Love	Rate
2-13	Carpenters	The End Of The World	Sylvia Dee, Arthur Kent	Rate
2-14	Carpenters	Da Doo Ron Ron	Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector	Rate
2-15	Carpenters	Dead Man's Curve	Jan Berry, Roger Christian, Artie Kornfeld, Brian Wilson	Rate
2-16	Carpenters	Johnny Angel	Lee Pockriss, Lyn Duddy	Rate
2-17	Carpenters	The Night Has A Thousand Eyes	Ben Weisman, Dottie Wayne, Marilyn Garrett	Rate
2-18	Carpenters	Our Day Will Come	Mort Garson, Bob Hilliard	Rate
2-19	Carpenters	One Fine Day	Carole King, Gerry Goffin	Rate
2-20	Carpenters	Yesterday Once More (Reprise)	Richard Carpenter, John Bettis	Rate
2-21	Carpenters	Radio Contest Outtakes		Rate
1974 - 1978
3-01	Carpenters	Please Mr. Postman	William Garrett, Brian Holand, Freddie Gorman, Georgia Dobbins, Robert Bateman	Rate
3-02	Carpenters	Only Yesterday	Richard Carpenter, John Bettis	Rate
3-03	Carpenters	Solitaire	Neil Sedaka, Phil Cody	Rate
3-04	Carpenters	Good Friends Are For Keeps	Jon Silberman	Rate
3-05	Carpenters	Ordinary Fool	Paul Williams	Rate
3-06	Carpenters	I Need To Be In Love	Richard Carpenter, John Bettis, Albert Hammond	Rate
3-07	Carpenters	From This Moment On	Cole Porter	Rate
3-08	Carpenters	Suntory Pop Jingle #1		Rate
3-09	Carpenters	Suntory Pop Jingle #2		Rate
3-10	Carpenters	All You Get From Love Is A Love Song	Steve Eaton	Rate
3-11	Carpenters	Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft	Klaatu	Rate
3-12	Carpenters	Christ Is Born	Ray Charles, Domenico Bartolucci	Rate
3-13	Carpenters	White Christmas	Irvin Berlin	Rate
3-14	Carpenters	Little Altar Boy	Howlett Peter Smith	Rate
3-15	Carpenters	Ave Maria	Johann Sebastian Bach	Rate
1978 - 1982
4-01	Carpenters	Where Do I Go From Here?	Parker McGee	Rate
4-02	Carpenters	Little Girl Blue	Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart	Rate
4-03	Karen Carpenter	If I Had You	Steve Dorff, Gary Harju, Larry Herbstritt	Rate
4-04	Karen Carpenter	My Body Keeps Changing My Mind	Leslie Pearl	Rate
4-05	Karen Carpenter	Still Crazy After All These Years	Paul Simon	Rate
4-06	Carpenters	Medley: Sing/Knowing When To Leave/Make It Easy On yourself/Someday/We've Only Just Begun	Joe Raposo, Bacharach, David, Bacharach, David, Carpenter, Bettis, Nichols, Williams	Rate
4-07	Carpenters	Touch Me When We're Dancing	Terry Skinner, J.L. Wallace, Ken Bell	Rate
4-08	Carpenters	When It's Gone	Randy Handley	Rate
4-09	Carpenters	Because We Are In Love (The Wedding Song)	Richard Carpenter, John Bettis	Rate
4-10	Carpenters	Now	Roger Nichols, Dean Pitchford	Rate

Notes

Four CD boxed set packaged in digipak mounts in a long gatefold book, with a 32-page booklet containing liner notes by Richard Carpenter.

A full-career retrospective, this set was rather highly prized among Carpenters fans, since it gives insight into where the duo came from. In addition to the usual compilation fare, this set swerves away from the “greatest hits” territory & provides a meaningful look into some of the early days, before the A&M era.

Presented for the first time here are early singles billed as Karen Carpenter from the Magic Lamp days, as well as some demo recordings with group names known as Summerchimes & Spectrum – even a couple of instrumentals with the “Richard Carpenter Trio” featuring Karen on drums, Richard on keyboards &Wes Jacobs on bass & tuba. Arranged chronologically, the four discs in the set are broken into yearly ranges: 1965-1970, 1970-1973, 1974-1978, & 1978-1982. Early copies of the box set were released in a 12×12 inch box with a large format book, and included the four CDs in their own jewel cases. When record stores complained that these did not fit into their displays, A&M re-released the set in a long-book format.

Much of the familiar material is presented here in remixed form, many getting a remix for this set, with a few originals or special mixes of note: “Merry Christmas Darling” is the original 45RPM mix, “Top Of The World” appears for the first time on CD in its original album mix, & “Canta” is “Sing” in a Spanish/English version. In addition to presenting the standard recorded fare of most Carpenters albums, this set also includes a number of radio recordings, commercial jingles & studio outtakes, along with a superb medley from their 1980 TV show MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC. Also included are two more tracks from Karen’s solo album, slightly tweaked, and making their first appearance here.

Source: The Carpenters Complete Recording Resource (A&M Corner website, 2025), with acknowledgement.

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JPGR&B SUBS 10th Jan 2025		From The Top is the Carpenters’ US entry into box-set territory.
Rustical 8th Jan 2020		Have added some more scans to this entry: the 4 discs and some pages of the booklet (nice photos of the Carpenters).

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