tomswift2002
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Reminiscing (1988)
Reminiscing
Formats released on: LP (8360751), Cassette (8360754), CD (8360752)
It's interesting how Polytel's catalog numbers for this album skip 8360753. I wonder if there was an 8-track version being considering for Columbia House and it was dropped, but not before having a catalog number assigned.
Anyway, this is Canada's exclusive-second Carpenters compilation after The Carpenters Collection (1978) . I have Reminiscing on LP, but I have seen the CD, but I have never seen the cassette version (I got the cassette and CD numbers off of the back of the LP jacket).
There are a few differences. The album only contains Touch Me When We're Dancing & Those Good Old Dreams from the 1980's, otherwise the rest of the album is all 1970's material. (Touch Me When We're Dancing was a #4 AC hit here in Canada, but it didn't hit the RPM Top Singles chart; Those Good Old Dreams hit #9 on the RPM AC chart, while Make Believe It's Your First Time was a #2 AC hit, and their last Canadian hit 45 Your Baby Doesn't Love You Any More #21 AC). Passage was their last studio album to hit the Canadian charts (at #57, it's last week was Feb. 4, 1978 when it was #93; of course, their last album of the 70's was A Kind Of Hush which was at #53 for July 31, 1978: Item - Library and Archives Canada), of course it's surprising that Those Good Old Dreams was included on this LP, when Make Believe It's Your First Time was clearly their "BIG" Canadian hit of the 1980's. Of course, their last charting Top Singles 45, I Believe You (which remained on the RPM Top Singles chart until January 20, 1979 when it was at #90) isn't on this album.
Superstar (#3 TS, #1 AC), Goodbye To Love (#4 TS, #1 AC), It's Going To Take Sometime This Time (#13 TS, #1 AC), Hurting Each Other (#2 TS, #3 AC), & For All We Know (#5 TS, #1 AC) appear on this album, and didn't on the 1978 album.
The record label on both LP's has the white label Polytel with watermark on it and a colored Polytel logo above the Carpenters logo, so it doesn't use the late-80's A&M black label.
Sound wise, it sounds like Polytel got some digital masters from A&M or high-quality analog masters. No idea who mastered or compiled the LP, aside from, in the dead wax area there is a tiny circle with a "S" inside of it. The dead wax also has the catalog number, minus the last digit, although it does have (depending on the side) -1, -2 etc for all 4 sides.
Reminiscing
Formats released on: LP (8360751), Cassette (8360754), CD (8360752)
It's interesting how Polytel's catalog numbers for this album skip 8360753. I wonder if there was an 8-track version being considering for Columbia House and it was dropped, but not before having a catalog number assigned.
Anyway, this is Canada's exclusive-second Carpenters compilation after The Carpenters Collection (1978) . I have Reminiscing on LP, but I have seen the CD, but I have never seen the cassette version (I got the cassette and CD numbers off of the back of the LP jacket).
There are a few differences. The album only contains Touch Me When We're Dancing & Those Good Old Dreams from the 1980's, otherwise the rest of the album is all 1970's material. (Touch Me When We're Dancing was a #4 AC hit here in Canada, but it didn't hit the RPM Top Singles chart; Those Good Old Dreams hit #9 on the RPM AC chart, while Make Believe It's Your First Time was a #2 AC hit, and their last Canadian hit 45 Your Baby Doesn't Love You Any More #21 AC). Passage was their last studio album to hit the Canadian charts (at #57, it's last week was Feb. 4, 1978 when it was #93; of course, their last album of the 70's was A Kind Of Hush which was at #53 for July 31, 1978: Item - Library and Archives Canada), of course it's surprising that Those Good Old Dreams was included on this LP, when Make Believe It's Your First Time was clearly their "BIG" Canadian hit of the 1980's. Of course, their last charting Top Singles 45, I Believe You (which remained on the RPM Top Singles chart until January 20, 1979 when it was at #90) isn't on this album.
Superstar (#3 TS, #1 AC), Goodbye To Love (#4 TS, #1 AC), It's Going To Take Sometime This Time (#13 TS, #1 AC), Hurting Each Other (#2 TS, #3 AC), & For All We Know (#5 TS, #1 AC) appear on this album, and didn't on the 1978 album.
The record label on both LP's has the white label Polytel with watermark on it and a colored Polytel logo above the Carpenters logo, so it doesn't use the late-80's A&M black label.
Sound wise, it sounds like Polytel got some digital masters from A&M or high-quality analog masters. No idea who mastered or compiled the LP, aside from, in the dead wax area there is a tiny circle with a "S" inside of it. The dead wax also has the catalog number, minus the last digit, although it does have (depending on the side) -1, -2 etc for all 4 sides.