Hello,
First, let me introduce myself - I'm a long time lurker (15+ years) and a lifelong Carpenters fan. True story (according to my mom), when my parents drove me home from the hospital shortly after my birth in June 1970, "Close to You" played on the radio at some point in the drive. I was a huge fan in my toddler years, I have faint memories of the day "Now & Then" arrived and of receiving "The Singles" as an early Christmas gift in 1973 from my grandparents. I recall the rainy day in summer 1975 when my I went to the mall with my mom and aunt and saw the "Horizon" display and then listening to it every morning that summer after waking up, reading the lyrics, and doing the same the following summer with "A Kind of Hush".
Although I did move on to other, more socially acceptable music (for the junior high set) in the early 80s, I still kept my records and listened to them when I could. In my later high school years, I discovered used record stores and Goldmine magazine, and, with the little money I had, built a collection of US albums, picture sleeves and 45s. As an adult, eBay came along and I was able to collect still-sealed versions of albums and things like that.
That's a short version of the backstory, which brings me to yesterday morning and the subject of this post. I hadn't thought about it in 30 years or so, but over the past week, I remembered that my picture sleeve of "All You Get From Love..." that I bought back in 1988 had a small bit of writing on it. I figured I may as well take a look and try to remedy that, so I went on to eBay and quickly found a "Buy it now" for a nice, non-written-on PS and bought it.
While I was in the seller's store, I noticed a few promo/mono singles and thought to myself "I should pick these up while I'm here". So I put them in the cart and bought them as well (that would be "For All We Know", "Rainy Days and Mondays" and "I Need to Be in Love").
Shortly after paying, I realized that I didn't really have the means of transferring these digitally to mp3 or other form. That's where you (someone here, i hope) come in - I would like to send these to someone who has the necessary equipment to make a nice digital transfer of these. And you (whoever you are) can keep them for your collection, I just ask that you share the digital transfer with me (and if you have other mono singles in digital format, I would like to hear those as well). I do see there were threads about this way back in the day (like 20 years ago) so I'm assuming these are out there somewhere and hopefully someone who was working on these back then is still interested.
Thanks for reading, please PM or reply if you might be able to help - thanks!
First, let me introduce myself - I'm a long time lurker (15+ years) and a lifelong Carpenters fan. True story (according to my mom), when my parents drove me home from the hospital shortly after my birth in June 1970, "Close to You" played on the radio at some point in the drive. I was a huge fan in my toddler years, I have faint memories of the day "Now & Then" arrived and of receiving "The Singles" as an early Christmas gift in 1973 from my grandparents. I recall the rainy day in summer 1975 when my I went to the mall with my mom and aunt and saw the "Horizon" display and then listening to it every morning that summer after waking up, reading the lyrics, and doing the same the following summer with "A Kind of Hush".
Although I did move on to other, more socially acceptable music (for the junior high set) in the early 80s, I still kept my records and listened to them when I could. In my later high school years, I discovered used record stores and Goldmine magazine, and, with the little money I had, built a collection of US albums, picture sleeves and 45s. As an adult, eBay came along and I was able to collect still-sealed versions of albums and things like that.
That's a short version of the backstory, which brings me to yesterday morning and the subject of this post. I hadn't thought about it in 30 years or so, but over the past week, I remembered that my picture sleeve of "All You Get From Love..." that I bought back in 1988 had a small bit of writing on it. I figured I may as well take a look and try to remedy that, so I went on to eBay and quickly found a "Buy it now" for a nice, non-written-on PS and bought it.
While I was in the seller's store, I noticed a few promo/mono singles and thought to myself "I should pick these up while I'm here". So I put them in the cart and bought them as well (that would be "For All We Know", "Rainy Days and Mondays" and "I Need to Be in Love").
Shortly after paying, I realized that I didn't really have the means of transferring these digitally to mp3 or other form. That's where you (someone here, i hope) come in - I would like to send these to someone who has the necessary equipment to make a nice digital transfer of these. And you (whoever you are) can keep them for your collection, I just ask that you share the digital transfer with me (and if you have other mono singles in digital format, I would like to hear those as well). I do see there were threads about this way back in the day (like 20 years ago) so I'm assuming these are out there somewhere and hopefully someone who was working on these back then is still interested.
Thanks for reading, please PM or reply if you might be able to help - thanks!