CARPENTERS “The Singles 1969-1973” QUAD LP A&M orig ‘73 NICE

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Artist/Group:   THE CARPENTERS                                     

Title:   “The Singles 1969-1973”

Label:   A&M.  Quadrophonic “SQ Encoded” pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is blue with black text.  Catalog number is QU 53601.  

Year:  1973. 

Condition:   

DISC:  Vinyl is NM- with full original gloss.  Has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  There are a couple slight hairline paper scuffs but no serious or audible marks or issues.  Plays beautifully with superb fidelity.  Labels are clean.   

JACKET:   Gatefold jacket is nice VG+.  Outer panels are clean; front has initials written at the top and some creasing, and reverse has scrape marks on right side.   Inner panels are clean with no writing or stickers.  Light wear on seams and spine.  Cut-out notch at upper right.     

Glossy lyric booklet with pictures is included in NEAR MINT condition.

Thick paper “Quadraphonic” inner sleeve is included in top condition. 

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• We’ve Only Just Begun
• Top of the World
• Ticket to Ride
• Superstar
• Rainy Days and Mondays
• Goodbye to Love  

Side Two:

• Yesterday Once More
• It’s Going to Take Some Time
• Sing
• For All We Know
• Hurting Each Other
• Close to You 

Review: 

“There's a certain inherent sadness listening to this concise 12-song collection of the Carpenters' early hits, especially as it opens with "We've Only Just Begun," with its hopeful, dreamy lyrics -- for it was never supposed to be definitive, just the first of at least two such collections. But changes in the public's taste and a slackening (though never a disappearance) of hits for the duo, and Karen Carpenter's death in 1983, made this the first and only real mass choice for a Carpenters collection. Ten of the duo's dozen Top Ten hits are present, from "Close to You" to "Top of the World," with their gorgeous and original slow ballad interpretation of "Ticket to Ride" and their cover of Carole King's "It's Going to Take Some Time" thrown in to offer a slightly wider perspective. Listening to this material, it's easy to accuse the Carpenters of being hopelessly retro even in their own time -- bear in mind that "We've Only Just Begun" and "Superstar" being contemporaneous with the Allman Brothers' At Fillmore East and Eat a Peach, and you get the idea. But the lush melodies brought out in Richard Carpenter's arrangements and Karen's singing are justification in themselves. ..” 

(review courtesy of Bruce Eder, allmusic.com)

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