Pianist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor

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1	Prelude Written-By – Richard Carpenter	0:56
2	Yesterday Once More Written-By – John Bettis, Richard Carpenter	3:39
Medley	(12:13)
3a	Sing Written-By – Joe Raposo
3b	Goodbye To Love Written-By – John Bettis, Richard Carpenter
3c	Eve Written-By – John Bettis, Richard Carpenter
3d	Rainy Days And Mondays Written-By – Paul Williams , Roger Nichols
3e	Look To Your Dreams Written-By – John Bettis, Richard Carpenter
3f	Superstar Written-By – Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell
3g	Someday Written-By – John Bettis, Richard Carpenter
4	I Need To Be In Love Written-By – John Bettis, Richard Carpenter	3:07
5	Sandy Written-By – John Bettis, Richard Carpenter	3:56
6	Time Written-By – Richard Carpenter	3:33
7	For All We Know Written-By – Arthur James, Fred Karlin, Robb Wilson	3:35
8	One Love Written-By – John Bettis, Richard Carpenter	4:57
9	Bless The Beasts And Children Written-By – Barry Da Vorzon*, Perry Botkin Jr.	3:27
10	Flat Baroque Written-By – Richard Carpenter	1:48
11	All Those Years Ago Written-By – Pamela Phillips Oland, Richard Carpenter	2:22
12	Top Of The World Written-By – John Bettis, Richard Carpenter	3:23
13	We've Only Just Begun Written-By – Paul Williams , Roger Nichols	2:25
14	Karen's Theme Written-By – Richard Carpenter	2:40

Companies, etc.

• Distributed By – PolyGram

Credits

• Arranged By – Peter Knight (tracks: 3, 7)
• Art Direction, Design – Chuck Beeson
• Backing Vocals – Richard Carpenter (tracks: 6)
• Banjo – Tim May (tracks: 12)
• Bass – Joe Osborn (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12)
• Bassoon – Norm Herzberg* (tracks: 10)
• Clarinet – Jim Kanter (tracks: 1, 2, 13, 14)
• Drums – Harvey Mason (tracks: 2, 3, 8, 12), Jim Gordon (tracks: 5), Karen Carpenter (tracks: 10), Paul Liem* (tracks: 6)
• Engineer – Arim Steiner* (tracks: 1 to 4, 7 to 9, 11 to 14), Charlie Paakkari (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 to 14), Ray Gerhardt (tracks: 5, 10), Roger Young (tracks: 6)
• English Horn – Earle Dumler* (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 14)
• Flute – Sheridon Stokes (tracks: 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14)
• Guitar – Tim May (tracks: 2, 5, 12), Tony Peluso (tracks: 5)
• Harmonica – Tommy Morgan (tracks: 2, 3, 4, 7, 12)
• Keyboards – Richard Carpenter (tracks: 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12)
• Mastered By – Bernie Grundman
• Mixed By – Charlie Paakkari
• Oboe – Earle Dumler* (tracks: 10, 13)
• Photography By – Reisig & Taylor
• Piano – Richard Carpenter (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14)
• Producer, Conductor, Arranged By, Mixed By – Richard Carpenter
• Recorder – Sheridon Stokes (tracks: 3)
• Synthesizer – Jeffery Vanston (C.J.)* (tracks: 9, 10)
• Tenor Saxophone – John Phillips (tracks: 6)
• Vocals – Karen Carpenter (tracks: 5), Richard Carpenter (tracks: 5, 12), The O.K. Chorale (tracks: 2, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12)

Notes

"DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
Agnes Carpenter - 1915-1996"

Second solo album of mainly instrumental versions of Carpenters tracks.
Japan tour dates of that year printed on the reverse of the obi.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Text): 4 988005 193155

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
POCM-1205, 540 703-2	Richard Carpenter	Pianist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor ‎(CD, Album)	Polydor, A&M Records	POCM-1205, 540 703-2	Japan	1997
31454 0703 2	Richard Carpenter	Pianist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor ‎(CD, Album, Club)	A&M Records	31454 0703 2	US	1997
540 703-2	Richard Carpenter	Pianist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor ‎(CD, Album)	A&M Records	540 703-2	Europe	1997
31454 0703 2	Richard Carpenter	Pianist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor ‎(CD, Album)	A&M Records	31454 0703 2	US	1997
31454 0703 2 ADV	Richard Carpenter	Pianist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor ‎(CD, Album, Promo)	A&M Records	31454 0703 2 ADV	US	1997