The Very Best of the Carpenters

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The Very Best of the Carpenters
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Greatest hits album by The Carpenters
Released 1983
Recorded 1969–1981
Genre Pop, adult contemporary
Label Festival (cat no. RML 52017)
Producer Richard Carpenter
The Carpenters chronology
The Singles: 1974–1978
(1978)The Singles: 1974–19781978		 The Very Best of the Carpenters
(1983)		 Yesterday Once More
(1985)Yesterday Once More1985

The Very Best of the Carpenters is a compilation album by The Carpenters released in 1983 by Festival Records in Australia and New Zealand (cat no. RML 52017).[1] The album spent one week at the top of the Australian albums chart in 1983.

The album was the only Oceania-exclusive compilation of the Carpenters' material released by Festival Records. Although the album is not specifically a "greatest hits" collection, several of the tracks did not reach the charts in either Australia or New Zealand: "Ticket to Ride"; "This Masquerade", as it was not a single; and "Those Good Old Dreams". "Beechwood 4-5789" was only a hit in New Zealand, reaching number 10 on the singles chart there in early 1982.[2]

On the cover of the album, "It's Going to Take Some Time" is titled "It's Going to Take Some Time This Time" and "(They Long to Be) Close to You" is simply rendered "Close to You".[1]

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Top of the World"
  2. "Ticket to Ride"
  3. "Only Yesterday"
  4. "This Masquerade"
  5. "Beechwood 4-5789"
  6. "It's Going to Take Some Time"
  7. "Superstar"
  8. "Rainy Days and Mondays"
  9. "Goodbye to Love"
Side two
  1. "We've Only Just Begun"
  2. "Those Good Old Dreams"
  3. "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft"
  4. "Yesterday Once More"
  5. "Please Mr. Postman"
  6. "Hurting Each Other"
  7. "Sing"
  8. "For All We Know"
  9. "Close to You"

Chart positions

Chart (1983) Position
Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart 1
New Zealand Albums Chart[3] 2

References

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Preceded by Australian Kent Music Report number-one album
February 21–27, 1983		 Succeeded by
Greatest Hits Vol 3 by Olivia Newton-John
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