CraigGA
Well-Known Member
Only from memory, I have to look at the Resource for clarification, I think the MPL version of A Song For You comes close and with several remixes done again since then, as Road Ode and Crystal Lullaby. Close To You has several remixes on the international releases that come very close to being complete, and with memory I think they all have remixes except I Kept On Loving You? Same with the envelope tan album Carpenters that feature Karen, as the Karen ballads on Ticket. I thought I read once it was for Dolby reasons as they were recorded before Dolby. Sometimes, the 2 channel separation of the original albums (CD, too) from Now & Then back to Close To You is best to me. Now, I am certainly not the expert as Harry and have not opened any of these songs to editing software so am just using ears and memory. Some of the remixes of the earlier songs don’t utilize all the voice overdubs as the originals and I don’t enjoy some of the newer drum tracks but as I have written before, they bring out other features and I am glad we have both versions and some even have more alternate versions like Maybe It’s You. The Readers Digest versions and Treasures and Sweet Memory contain some great remixes, and of course the SACD Singles. And on the 40/40, Superstar and Top of the World finally have fixed issues and are now great remixes (they appear on others, too) that were done in the 2000’s. The Carpenters Resource has all the best information available! I hope this makes everyone curious so we all use the Resource, as I am going to do now for factual verification. When I start looking in the Resource, I end up reading for hours and want to purchase more while the options are still available.