BarryT60
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one of my favorites of both of them... actually, better than the one that was selected for Horizon inner-sleeve imho...That's a nice picture of them. Not cutesie. More like the Horizon cover.
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one of my favorites of both of them... actually, better than the one that was selected for Horizon inner-sleeve imho...That's a nice picture of them. Not cutesie. More like the Horizon cover.
Karen looks as awesome as she sounded on Horizon!WOW, I can't believe I missed this one, it appears A&M placed 2 different ads for Please Mr. Postman in Billboard (one I posted above) and now this one issued in Dec 21, 1974 well ahead of the album Horizon ever being issued. I like this one!!!!
Check out the promo verbiage...."Special Delivery First Class on A&M Records From CARPENTERS
Interesting and helpful notes. So if this was the scenario, it wouldn’t have been the plan, per se, but just how things played out. That scenario makes more sense to me. Many thanks, byline!I don't have any special insight into this situation, but I seem to recall there being lots of delays with the recording and production of Horizon. Richard and Karen both expressed frustration with how things were going in the "A&M Compendium, 1975" article in Randy Schmidt's book, Yesterday Once More: The Carpenters Reader. So I'm wondering if those delays in the album release might had wreaked havoc with the scheduling of single releases?
And yet another interview in Randy's Yesterday Once More reader contradicts that somewhat. It's the 1976 Charlie Tuna interview, in which Karen came to the radio station on her own. Charlie Tuna asked her about "Solitaire," saying he'd heard she wasn't "that enamored" with it. Karen replied: I think I heard that the first time in England. I do stand corrected. I think the versions that I had heard didn't knock me out. I do like the song. It's not my favorite, but it's a beautiful song and Richard produced the hell out of it. He really did. I like doing it, but there are others that I am more fond of. I think my favorite today is "I Need to Be in Love." That really upsets me when I hear it.Some quotes pertaining to Horizon:
Yesterday Once More,Carpenters Reader, 2012:
Page 158,
( Melody Maker Interview 1975)
Richard: "She never liked Solitaire at all."
Still, how does one account for :
"...first studio album in two years." (as quoted from above advertisement).
I didn't realize that The Singles 69-73 did so well in England, #1 for 16 straight weeks and still going....I wonder why it did so well in England? Does anyone from the UK remember The Singles 69-73 doing this well as an album back then? That's terrific.
I didn't realize that The Singles 69-73 did so well in England, #1 for 16 straight weeks and still going....I wonder why it did so well in England? Does anyone from the UK remember The Singles 69-73 doing this well as an album back then? That's terrific.
I'm digging these ads...between these promo ads and their 45 single sleeves, they would make an awesome collectors booklet. Some of these promo ads obviously were about 11 x 14 but they sure would look great too as a poster.
I know David's site has a lot of the single 45 picture sleeves posted but I always thought it would be cool to have a site like our resource for higher quality scans of all the U.S. Carpenters 45 rpm picture sleeves front and back. It doesn't appear we will ever get a U.S. collectors single box set so preserving those 45 picture sleeves would be great idea.
...I agree with everything stated above. I would like to add that...as "Only Yesterday" had hit the Top Ten, A&M could have provided the 4.10 version, including the immaculate resolve which perhaps could have propelled this amazing track to the #1 position.Addenda to above Billboard Charts,
June 14, 1975
Japan: Only Yesterday #13
Perhaps if Horizon had been released a few months
earlier, it would have gone top five in the USA?
And, Only Yesterday, really up to Number One ? Number Four, so close !
Did the Sedaka bad-press have a negative impact chart-wise?
Was the disco scene entrenched by then?
Oh well, I really love this album.