RARE / INTERESTING STUFF.

We are familiar with the genesis of "Goodbye to Love," whereby Richard heard the song title in a movie (with no accompanying lyrics or melody) and decided to write a song based on the title alone. Well, Ed, you have your work cut out for you with "Good Eye to Love!"

 

Challenge: accepted!

Ed

 

We've Only Just Begin To Love is the whole title, I believe. lol

 

I don't blame you. Some people would be cool with it as a conversation piece if it doesn't cost too much, something to have a good laugh at, but I can understand wanting to stick with authentic stuff in a collection.

 

...and not feeding the bootleggers. There's no way the seller doesn't know what he/she is trying to pass off.

Ed

 

The buyer ought to be wise too, unless they enjoy listening to the Corpenters in their Horsche 911 and wearing their Dolex watch.

 

I didn’t even think about there being such a thing as a bootleg vinyl.

 

Makes you wonder what the sound is like

 

I remember seeing on DVD an episode of the 70’s Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew series and an episode dealt with record piracy and in the episode the pirate was getting a cart copy from a local DJ and making records from the cart.

 

I would love to get my hands on a copy of this LP,
the Battle of the Bands,1966,
performance of Richard Carpenter Trio:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNQDeBKkpwc

 

I've had my eye out for this for some time, but unfortunately it's even more rare than the Looking For Love single. Nevertheless, it's a piece of Carpenters history that I must possess and hopefully will one day.

 

Yep. Muddy sound, reversed stereo channels, odd track listings that are just a hodgepodge of the compiler's favorite Carpenters tunes, or tunes that they think would sell a lot of copies of the bootleg, etc. There is always something odd about such albums and sound wise, they can only come close to the original pressings but never surpass them.

 

Does anyone own this rare German 3 track CD Single? What an unusual choice for cover art.





Discogs Link
Carpenters - Please Mr. Postman

 

I’ve just noticed for the first time that this rate German CD single includes a Karen solo track

 

^^ Love those combination of songs. Really shows the diversity of what Karen could do. And Richard as arranger and producer (on the first two).

 

Harry where did you obtain this? I must have this for my collection. I've actually never seen this before. If you ever want to sell it well you know LOL

I wonder why the logo on the actual CD is not the official logo but it's on the cover art. What mix of Please Mr Postman?

 

That's a beautiful rarity. They missed a good opportunity to put a Horizon-era picture up, but they could have been restricted on their choices for all we know.

 

As Time Goes By....promotional booklet....A5 (what does that mean in terms of dimensions ?):
www.ebay.com/itm/THE-CARPENTERS-The-Carpenters-Japanese-2001-Universal-A5-promo-booklet/372521774618?hash=item56bc072e1a:g:agIAAOSwTmJawSD-:rk:11f:0

 

Lovely item! Thanks for posting the pictures.