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Desperado.
Oh, forgot about Desperado!
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Desperado.
So here are the 13 tunes I'd put out there. Not necessarily in this order; however, I think it demonstrates that there is enough material to complete a "country" compilation album.
Sweet Sweet Smile
Top Of The World
Jambalaya
Reason To Believe
The Uninvited Guest
Two Lives
Those Good Old Dreams
All Because of You
Desperado
One More Time
When It's Gone
And When He Smiles
We should start a permanent thread that is just for suggested playlists.
Now all we need is to find a pic of Karen and Richard in cowboy hats maybe sitting on a bail of hay...for the cover and we are set.
(Fantasy)
Carpenters Country Sides: (I'm going to compile it in this order and see how it "flows!")
Side One:
Sweet Sweet Smile
Desperado
Still Crazy After All These Years
Top Of The World
One More Time
Those Good Old Dreams
Side Two:
Two Sides
Reason To Believe
And When He Smiles
The Uninvited Guest
Jambalaya
All Because Of You
Of course if it was on CD it could have 3 additional tracks: [At Least]
The End of The World
And I Love You So
Something's Missing (the "new" country version)
I think you mean Two Sides, not Two Lives!
Haven't seen this clip posted, in fact this was the first time I saw this one!
Taken from here: (Except this one has the correct aspect ratio)
Billboard April 1, 1978:
Carpenters Cracking Country Chart Without Nashville Push
Excerpts:
[SNIP]
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"Richard Carpenter admits to being surprised by the country success of "Sweet Sweet Smile,"
claiming he neither gave it its playful fiddle and banjo arrangement nor picked it as the single with the thought of its crossing over. "
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"As a result of this hit, Carpenter is considering making an all- country album as the duo's 10th LP for A &M.
"It should be released this summer; followed by a double -disk Christmas album toward the end of the year."
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