Gordo
Well-Known Member
Hi, folks! I've been lurking on this forum for quite some time -- some of you will remember me from Carpenters boards past. I'm not entirely sure why I hadn't signed up here sooner, but I now have a bit of a puzzle to share.
A few months back, I backed up all of my Carpenters tracks (CDs and assorted goodies amassed over the years) to MP3 format. I carefully entered metadata (file information, such as the name of the album) for each track.
My wife & I recently upgraded to Windows Vista. In doing so, I gained a few handy new metadata fields, but lost some of my original metadata. (For example, in Windows XP, I used the "Year" field to record the year of the album's release and, in parentheses, the year of the song's actual recording. Windows Vista apparently doesn't allow non-numeric characters in the "Year" field, however, so my date-of-recording information was stripped out.)
As Homer Simpson once said, "I can rebuild!"
...But it's taken a good chunk of today! For discussion's sake, I thought I'd post my list of songs whose date of recording differs from their album's date of release. I have cobbled this information together from CD liner notes, unofficial online resources, and Richard's website (and even his personal reply to a few specific queries).
To my knowledge, all of the following songs were recorded in a year other than their album's release date:
I'm open to discussion on any of these dates! Let me know what you think.
Also, I'm trying to track down dates and details for the following items:
I think that about does it for now! (Although I need to make a similar post in the Herb Alpert forum about the Lost Treasures album!)
Cheers,
Gordo
A few months back, I backed up all of my Carpenters tracks (CDs and assorted goodies amassed over the years) to MP3 format. I carefully entered metadata (file information, such as the name of the album) for each track.
My wife & I recently upgraded to Windows Vista. In doing so, I gained a few handy new metadata fields, but lost some of my original metadata. (For example, in Windows XP, I used the "Year" field to record the year of the album's release and, in parentheses, the year of the song's actual recording. Windows Vista apparently doesn't allow non-numeric characters in the "Year" field, however, so my date-of-recording information was stripped out.)
As Homer Simpson once said, "I can rebuild!"
...But it's taken a good chunk of today! For discussion's sake, I thought I'd post my list of songs whose date of recording differs from their album's date of release. I have cobbled this information together from CD liner notes, unofficial online resources, and Richard's website (and even his personal reply to a few specific queries).
To my knowledge, all of the following songs were recorded in a year other than their album's release date:
- 1971 Carpenters: For All We Know (1970)
- 1972 A Song For You: Hurting Each Other (1971), Bless The Beasts And Children (1971)
- 1975 Horizon: Please Mr. Postman (1974)
- 1978 Christmas Portrait: Christ Is Born (1977), Winter Wonderland / Silver Bells / White Christmas (1977)
- 1981 Made In America: I Believe You (1978), Touch Me When We're Dancing (1980), When It's Gone (1980), Because We Are In Love (1980)
- 1983 Voice Of The Heart: Now (1982), Sailing On The Tide (1980), You're Enough (1982), Make Believe It's Your First Time (1980), Two Lives (1980), At The End Of A Song (1980), Ordinary Fool (1976), Prime Time Love (1982), Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore (1980), Look To Your Dreams (1978)
- 1984 An Old-Fashioned Christmas: Home For The Holidays (1978), Little Altar Boy (1978), Do You Hear What I Hear? (1978), He Came Here For Me (1978), Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (1974), What Are You Doing New Year's Eve (1978), I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day (1978)
- 1989 Lovelines: Lovelines (1979), Where Do I Go From Here? (1978), The Uninvited Guest (1980), If We Try (1979), When I Fall In Love (1978), Kiss Me The Way You Did Last Night (1980), Remember When Lovin' Took All Night (1979), You're The One (1977), Honolulu City Lights (1978), Slow Dance (1978), If I Had You (1979), Little Girl Blue (1978)
- 2001 As Time Goes By: Without A Song (1980), Superstar / Rainy Days And Mondays (1976), Nowhere Man (1967), I Got Rhythm (1980), Dancing In The Street (1978), Dizzy Fingers (1980), You're Just In Love (1980), Karen / Ella Medley (1980), Close Encounters / Star Wars (1978), Leave Yesterday Behind (1978), Carpenters / Como Medley (1974), California Dreamin' (1967), The Rainbow Connection (1980), Hits Medley '76 (1976), And When He Smiles (1971)
I'm open to discussion on any of these dates! Let me know what you think.
Also, I'm trying to track down dates and details for the following items:
- Richard's solo "Toyland": Was this part of the 1978 "Christmas Portrait" TV special? Past posts have said so, but the only track listing I've found for the special online (Santa Claus Is Coming To Town; Jingle Bells; Merry Christmas, Darling; Christmas In Killarney; Angel In The Christmas Play; The Christmas Waltz; Ave Maria) doesn't mention it.
- radio interview where KC sings snippets of "Laughter In The Rain" and "This One's For You": A past post attributed this to a 1981 BBC interview. Does that sound right?
I think that about does it for now! (Although I need to make a similar post in the Herb Alpert forum about the Lost Treasures album!)
Cheers,
Gordo