THE CARPENTERS OFFERING RECALLED COVER 1969 HEAR IT
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HELLO AMERICA AND THE WORLD.
HEAR IT HERE
THE CARPENTERS OFFERING RECALLED COVER 1969 HEAR IT
COVER=VG++ VERY CLEAN OVERALL, LABELS=VG+, VINYL=VG TO VG+ SOME SLIGHT SURFACE MARKS I THINK I RECORDED OVER THE WORST I SAW,also It has a Brown A&M with the Adam & eve with the apple logo inner sleeve with other LP's advertised on the back. I believe this is the original..
A LITTLE NOTE ABOUT THIS LP
In 1969 Richard and Karen Carpenter released their first album on the A&M label,Offering. The album features some of the smooth soon-to-be famous Carpenter pop sound, but is marred by some questionable song selections ("Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing," a great song but not the version here), and a somewhat peculiar cover. The album's single, "Ticket to Ride," didn't do much on the charts, and neither did the album.
In 1970 the Carpenter's released their second album on A&M, Close To You, and the title song, with the Carpenter sound now firmly established, rocketed to #1 on the pop charts, and the rest, to use a tiresome but accurate phrase, is history. Perhaps to cash in on the modest success of "Ticket to Ride," or perhaps unhappiness with the cover photo (it makes Karen look like she weighs about 300 pounds), Offering was retitled Ticket to Ride, and new front and back cover photos were used. The new graphic design was similar to the one on Close To You. The new photos show Richard and Karen relaxing blissfully on a sailboat. The liner notes (by Herb Albert), song lineup and catalog number remained the same.
While the Offering cover has been reproduced widely, the original back cover photo is not quite so well known. Richard and Karen have a little bit of a deer-caught-in-the-headlight look about them. Perhaps the old carpenter's axiom would fit here: "measure twice and saw once
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