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A-Side: "The End Of The World"
B-Side: "Sing"
Released: 5 March 1975
Producer: Richard Carpenter
Album: Live In Japan
This single was released in order to promote the Live In Japan album. It seems to be rare and largely unheard of. So does anybody here have it? Or have photos of it?
It must have been a promo. If it had been a regular single release, it likely would have been included in the Japanese singles box set.Was it a promo-only single?
Simon's post lists the release date as 1975, so it had to be a 45 rpm (or possibly a cassette?).Simon can you provide the source of this? Is this a CD or a 45rpm?
It must have been a promo. If it had been a regular single release, it likely would have been included in the Japanese singles box set.
I've never heard of this. I can't see how they'd be able to release The End Of The World as a single because the intro has Tony Peluso talking over it. A bizarre choice of A-side if it was.
Don't forget that the masters would have more than 2 tracks, which the final album was mixed down to. Maybe Tony and Karen's vocals are on their own tracks and they could've just muted Tony's voice for the single and faded the instruments out. We know from the Live Bacharach Medley that they were using multi-track recorders for Live recordings.It could be possible to up-fade the intro right into Karen's vocal at the start, but more problematic would be the ending where Karen's "...good-BYE-------" is sung over the intro to "Runaway" on the LIVE IN JAPAN album.
Far easier would be using the studio version with the DJ removed, like they did on the Readers' Digest set.
Don't forget that the masters would have more than 2 tracks, which the final album was mixed down to. Maybe Tony and Karen's vocals are on their own tracks and they could've just muted Tony's voice for the single and faded the instruments out. We know from the Live Bacharach Medley that they were using multi-track recorders for Live recordings.
In 1975, American pop music duo Carpenters released a cover of "The End of the World" as a promotional single from their live album Live in Japan. It was recorded at the Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan.
That would be a lot of bother to go to for a promo.
This promo, if it does exist, actually raises a lot of questions for me.
I thought the live album was recorded at the Budokan? Or was that just the televised concert? Was the whole album recorded as one concert at the Festival Hall or was it actually a mish mash of tracks recorded at different venues or on different nights on the tour? Wikipedia states it was recorded over three nights from June 7–9, 1974 at the Festival Hall.
Slightly off topic: Harry, I wonder if in the future we would get exact release dates posted under the album cover on the official resource site. For instance when you look at the Live in Japan link here the catalog numbers and formats are listed but no exact release dates. There are times when I have wanted to know when exactly was this or that released and have gone to the resource site but the dates are not there.
I thought I remembered Yuka being enamored of Iceland and maybe moving there.
She sold me my copy of SWEET MEMORY. Nice lady.