Carpenters Gold: Greatest Hits

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She undertakes the character of Karen superbly, paying meticulous attention to her mannerisms, 'brother – sister' relationship with Richard and the playful interaction with her band and audience.

This compilation's songs have more refined and re-recorded tracks, less noise in the background, and a lot of reverberation in the background. These songs include a harder bass drum line and considerably more reverberation than the original version. The original cover artwork had "Greatest Hits" in place of where "35th Anniversary Edition" is on the US cover.

These songs are the original mixes, meaning that they have not been retouched since their recording. With the wonderful and unique voice of Karen Carpenter along with the beautiful arrangements by her brother Richard make this one of the classiest collections of pure 70' pop perfection.

This excellent-value 20-track collection features just about all the classics you would expect – “Close To You”, “Yesterday Once More”, “Goodbye To Love”, “Top Of The World”, “Only Yesteday”, “Please Mr.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The albums 'A Song For You' and 'Yesterday Once More' along with 'Gold' have been on my system all over the weekend.

Karen did not appreciate the deep vocals of the original, and felt that she could do a better job for The Singles: 1969–1973.not only perfectly emulates Karen’s legendary rich contralto, she even gets behind the drums (pictured).

Carpenters Gold supremely captures how they were ‘live in concert’ and is a must for all fans of the fantastic Karen and Richard. Richard Carpenter, played by musical arranger vocalist Greg Stevenson, is also featured in theshow performing on the piano, alongside his sister enjoying on stage humour, often introducing the array of hits whilst light-heartedly engaging with his musicians. Ticket to Ride", the only song here that is of a 1973 remix, is a fully re-recorded version of the original.But International West End vocalist Vikki Holland-Bowyer has the warm dulcet tones which sound uncannily similar to the superstar. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Greg Stevenson who effortlessly recreates Richard’s sublime piano playing supported by a band oozing Seventies glitz ! That version contained just one disc with 20 tracks, all of which were also featured on this American version.