Carpenters - Gold: Greatest Hits (2002) (DVD5)

You've heard the Carpenters' greatest hits, but have you seen them? This DVD brings you the first-ever collection of Carpenters videos, featuring their #1 songs (They Long to Be) Close to You; Top of the World , and Please Mr. Postman plus their Top 10 hits We've Only Just Begun; Superstar; Rainy Days and Mondays , and nine more. Great remastered sound and video!

It's a measure of the ongoing popularity of Karen and Richard Carpenter that the 2002 release of this video collection in DVD format comes nearly 20 years after Karen's death. The duo's heyday mostly preceded the MTV age, so this 15-song, 55-minute anthology is a bit of a visual hodgepodge, composed of still photos, footage from TV shows and concerts, promo clips, fleeting attempts at conceptual videos, and other weirdness (film of Carpenters albums being pressed on the assembly line? Hey, whatever). You'll see an array of bad haircuts and outfits and a whole lot of lip-syncing, but in the end, it's the music that counts. And the Carpenters' signature sound, with its brilliant arrangements, its lush harmonies, and Karen's exquisite alto voice, was easy-listening pop at its finest. If nothing else, Carpenters: Gold offers another chance to hear that music in all its glory. ~ Sam Graham







Track Listing

01. We've Only Just Begun - From a Bob Hope special from 1973
02. Those Good Old Dreams - Promotional Video
03. Superstar - From a concert from 1971
04. Rainy Days and Mondays - From a Desert Inn performance in Las Vegas from 1971[1]
05. All You Get from Love Is a Love Song - Promotional Video
06. Top of the World - From The Carpenters' Very First TV Special; Air date: December 8, 1976
07. Ticket to Ride - From "Something Else"; Air date: March 2, 1970
08. Only Yesterday - Shot in A&M Studios (Part I) and Huntington Library Gardens (Part II)
09. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft - Most likely from Starparade
10. Beechwood 4-5789 - Promotional Video
11. Touch Me When We're Dancing - Promotional Video
12. Hurting Each Other - Shot at A&M Studios in 1972
13. Please Mr. Postman - Shot at Disneyland in 1975
14. There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World) - From a concert in Osaka in 1976
15. (They Long to Be) Close to You - From "Make Your Own Kind of Music"

Produced by Richard Carpenter






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