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I’m getting a kick out of reading the comments here and am glad I can provide some excitement....
My bet is that "I Can Dream Can't I?" represents Horizon. Maybe we'll get "When I Fall in Love" as well!
If Yom starts the album and has some nice overdubs bleeding in from the overture I'm guessing the title will be "yesterday once more - carpenters with the rpo".
These two songs were originally slated to be on the album, were orchestrated and ready but later rejected:
All You Get From Love Is A Love Song
Desperado (I think Richard thought there were too many ballads)
I’ve had a taste of this before because I was Andy Gibbs’s musical director back in the early 80s and he still has quite a fan base that clamor for any inside info I can give.
Hi. I’m back…lol
The following songs are ones that have been mentioned here but will not be on the album:
Sing
Only Yesterday
It's Going To Take Some Time
Sweet, Sweet Smile
I Won't Last A Day Without You
Solitaire
There's A Kind Of Hush
Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
Calling Occupants
Sweet Sweet Smile
Eve
Road Ode
B’Wana She No Home
Tryin’ To Get That Feeling Again
You
Now
All of my Life
How in the world can "Only Yesterday" not be included !!! That is painful. I'm sure there will be a few throw away songs kept. Even "Sing" would be nice to remake with a new children's choir. Wow, reading the predicted list above I say there are about 6 songs that should not be on it.
I Won't Last A Day Without You omitted? Please say it ain't so! I regard the song as being in the realm of Carpenters pop perfection (up there with Superstar & Rainy Days...). Really shocking it didn't make the cut.
Here's my new guess:.
"Yesterday Once More - Carpenters With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra"
1. Carpenters Overture
2. Yesterday Once More
3. Superstar
4. Rainy Days And Mondays
5. Goodbye To Love
6. I Just Fall In Love Again
7. Touch Me When We're Dancing
8. Please Mr. Postman
9. Let Me Be The One
10. I Need To Be In Love
11. Bless The Beast And Children
12. For All We Know
13. Close To You
14. Top Of The World
15. Hurting Each Other
16. This Masquerade
17. One More Time
18. Merry Christmas Darling
19. We've Only Just Begun
20. A Song For You
A Song For You would be the perfect closer - One of their best and never seemed to get the love it deserved.
Couldn't agree more. If ever there was an album track that deserved the RPO treatment and a bit more recognition among the wider record-buying public for the stunning performance and recording that it is, this is it. A new orchestral arrangement would only make it more beautiful.
The following songs are ones that have been mentioned here but will not be on the album:
Sing
Only Yesterday
It's Going To Take Some Time
Sweet, Sweet Smile
I Won't Last A Day Without You
Solitaire
There's A Kind Of Hush
Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
Calling Occupants
Sweet Sweet Smile
Eve
Road Ode
B’Wana She No Home
Tryin’ To Get That Feeling Again
You
Now
All of my Life
Now your really gonna confuse John E.I'm Just going to come out with this quickly and run away.....
"Somethings Missing (In My Life)"
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So by “orchestrated”, did he mean the track was recorded and was rejected shortly after, or the music was just prepared on paper for “All You Get From Love” & “Desperado” and was put aside before the recording session? I mean is there the possibility that Richard might do a RPO mix of those songs for some compilation down the road?
Also I see that “Santa Claus” is not on the list, so I wonder what “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” with the RPO would sound like, especially in the ballad version.
Now your really gonna confuse John E.
Couldn't agree more. If ever there was an album track that deserved the RPO treatment and a bit more recognition among the wider record-buying public for the stunning performance and recording that it is, this is it. A new orchestral arrangement would only make it more beautiful.
There could be several reasons why certain songs didn't make the cut. Maybe Richard did not want to replace, or interfere with, what he already felt was the best arrangement he could come up with on the original version of certain songs. Maybe the RPO did record new arrangements for certain songs that Richard subsequently felt didn't come out as he had imagined. It could come down to the "mix" of styles on the final tracklist (we already know that one song was cut due to the number of other ballads). It could simply come down to an issue of space and a "toss of the coin" between this track and that.
Maybe @John Eidsvoog could enlighten us as to the decision making process behind what did and did not make the final cut.