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Two exciting new Carpenters releases are now available. The new book Carpenters: The Musical Legacy can be ordered here. A big thanks to the authors and Richard Carpenter for their tremendous effort in compiling this book! Also, the new solo piano album Richard Carpenter's Piano Songbook is available for ordering here.
📣 News Carpenters: The Musical Legacy (Discussion)
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GDBY2LV
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Lucky you. I’ve gone through 3 copies, and they are all full of pops and ticks, or a rumbling noise between tracks. The first was the box set. The 2nd was all the box set replacement vinyl, all pretty bad still. The 3rd was in December when Target had the buy 2, get 1 free promotion. I bought the clear Singles 1969-1973, decent pressing, RPO and Lovelines. The latter two are really bad. The Elton John sets are poor too. Shame on UMe, Useless Made Editions.
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Murray
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UMe: Utter Many Expletives!
Cuyler
Bright colored pinwheels go 'round in my head.
Speaking of the rumbling noise, I have that too. I saw the disturbance on either the waveform or the spectrogram on my needle drop and thought it was like some digital interference to signal to someone (the record-cutters? engineers? I don't know??) that the next track is coming up.
Cuyler
Bright colored pinwheels go 'round in my head.
This is a beautiful picture of the three of you, @Chris May and @Mike Cidoni Lennox!
Carl
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@Chris May and @Mike Cidoni Lennox great photo. You were so lucky to have met and worked with Richard !
ullalume
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Whoever did that central plaque needs a talking to, not just because they cut off the top of their hair, but they used the cover of AOFC instead of Xmas portrait in the chronological album placement.
This particular plaque represents their sales success in the Philippines, which might explain why it's arranged the way it is. Christmas Portrait falls after Lovelines here (unseen in this particular photo).
The plaque reads: Plaque of Recognition / Philippines Most Loved & Best Selling Artist of All Time.
LyndaK
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Hopefully I'll luck out with the Lovelines I purchased. 😬
Mark-T
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So, I played a little...HA! Wait 'til you see it full page
Our publisher is working with us and Universal on that. It all gets rolled out in stages as we get closer. I'll do my best to keep everyone here updated as I have more information. But to answer your question—yes, there are some promotional things in the works, just can't get too specific yet!
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Cuyler
Bright colored pinwheels go 'round in my head.
The photo looks amazing in its full resolution!
John Adam
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Great blog Mark!
As a Carpenters fan, it's a nice addition to the Carpenters on A&M Corner.
Great outtake picture from 1976!
Mark-T
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Thank you, @John Adam!
Joeyesterday
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Now going for $29 on US Amazon.
LyndaK
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I've never heard of this site before. Is it reliable?
Super reliable 
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I shop a lot at there in a year, very often to have good price especially new releases and pre-orders, my favorite Canadian site for media shopping besides AMZ ca.
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LyndaK
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Great! I usually shop on Amazon CA as well for new books such as this one.Super reliable
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LyndaK
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Nice photo! I wonder which one of those awards is Richard's favourite?
Portlander
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My guess would be the award for "The Singles 1969-73" which went 7X Platinum in the US alone and was released during the Carpenters absolute peak even though there would be 9 more Top 40 hits in the years to follow. I'm not counting their three Grammys and the American Music Award they received in 1975. I wonder if Chris has ever posed your question to Richard and maybe it will be answered in the new book.
