Carpenters - Horizon (1975) US Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
Carpenters - Horizon
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz & 16bit/44kHz | 900mb & 200mb
Mastered By Bernie Grundman
Label: A&M Records / SP-4530 | Released: 1975 | Genre: Country-Pop
A1 Aurora 1:30
A2 Only Yesterday 4:10
A3 Desperado 3:35
A4 Please Mister Postman 2:48
A5 I Can Dream Can’t I 4:46
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B1 Solitaire 4:40
B2 Happy 3:50
B3 (I’m Caught Between) Goodbye And I Love You 3:58
B4 Love Me For What I Am 3:28
B5 Eventide 1:17
Companies, etc.
Manufactured By – Columbia House
Distributed By – Columbia House
Phonographic Copyright (p) – A&M Records, Inc.
Copyright © – A&M Records, Inc.
Published By – Almo Music Corp.
Published By – Sweet Harmony Music
Published By – Hammer & Nails Music
Published By – Benchmark Music
Published By – Kicking Bear Music
Published By – Jobete Music Co., Inc.
Published By – Stone Agate Music
Published By – Chappell & Co., Inc.
Published By – Don Kirshner Music, Inc.
Published By – Kirshner Songs, Inc.
Published By – Bone Tone Music
Published By – Ars Nova Music
Credits
Art Direction – Roland Young (3)
Baritone Saxophone – Doug Strawn
Bass – Joe Osborn
Drums – Jim Gordon
Engineer – Ray Gerhardt (tracks: A4, B2, B4), Roger Young
Engineer [Assistant] – Dave Iveland*
Guitar – Tony Peluso
Harmonica – Tom Morgan*
Harp – Gayle Levant
Mastered By [Mastering Engineer] – Bernie Grundman
Oboe, English Horn – Earl Dumler
Orchestrated By, Arranged By, Producer, Vocals, Keyboards – Richard Carpenter
Photography By – Ed Caraeff
Producer [Associate], Vocals, Drums – Karen Carpenter
Steel Guitar – Red Rhodes, Thad Maxwell
Tenor Saxophone – Bob Messenger
Written By – John Bettis (tracks: A1, A2, B2, B3, B4, B5), Richard Carpenter (tracks: A1, A2, B3, B5)
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Matrix Label Side A): SP-4797
Matrix / Runout (Matrix Label Side B): SP4798
Matrix / Runout (Etched Runout Side A – lite stamped o): T1 A&M SP 4797-T2
Matrix / Runout (Etched Runout Side B – lite stamped o): T1 A&M SP 4798-T2
Rights Society: ASCAP BMI
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz & 16bit/44kHz | 900mb & 200mb
Mastered By Bernie Grundman
Label: A&M Records / SP-4530 | Released: 1975 | Genre: Country-Pop
A1 Aurora 1:30
A2 Only Yesterday 4:10
A3 Desperado 3:35
A4 Please Mister Postman 2:48
A5 I Can Dream Can’t I 4:46
–
B1 Solitaire 4:40
B2 Happy 3:50
B3 (I’m Caught Between) Goodbye And I Love You 3:58
B4 Love Me For What I Am 3:28
B5 Eventide 1:17
Companies, etc.
Manufactured By – Columbia House
Distributed By – Columbia House
Phonographic Copyright (p) – A&M Records, Inc.
Copyright © – A&M Records, Inc.
Published By – Almo Music Corp.
Published By – Sweet Harmony Music
Published By – Hammer & Nails Music
Published By – Benchmark Music
Published By – Kicking Bear Music
Published By – Jobete Music Co., Inc.
Published By – Stone Agate Music
Published By – Chappell & Co., Inc.
Published By – Don Kirshner Music, Inc.
Published By – Kirshner Songs, Inc.
Published By – Bone Tone Music
Published By – Ars Nova Music
Credits
Art Direction – Roland Young (3)
Baritone Saxophone – Doug Strawn
Bass – Joe Osborn
Drums – Jim Gordon
Engineer – Ray Gerhardt (tracks: A4, B2, B4), Roger Young
Engineer [Assistant] – Dave Iveland*
Guitar – Tony Peluso
Harmonica – Tom Morgan*
Harp – Gayle Levant
Mastered By [Mastering Engineer] – Bernie Grundman
Oboe, English Horn – Earl Dumler
Orchestrated By, Arranged By, Producer, Vocals, Keyboards – Richard Carpenter
Photography By – Ed Caraeff
Producer [Associate], Vocals, Drums – Karen Carpenter
Steel Guitar – Red Rhodes, Thad Maxwell
Tenor Saxophone – Bob Messenger
Written By – John Bettis (tracks: A1, A2, B2, B3, B4, B5), Richard Carpenter (tracks: A1, A2, B3, B5)
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Matrix Label Side A): SP-4797
Matrix / Runout (Matrix Label Side B): SP4798
Matrix / Runout (Etched Runout Side A – lite stamped o): T1 A&M SP 4797-T2
Matrix / Runout (Etched Runout Side B – lite stamped o): T1 A&M SP 4798-T2
Rights Society: ASCAP BMI
Carpenters - Horizon (1975) US Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
Carpenters - Horizon (1975) US Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
Carpenters - Horizon (1975) US Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
This Rip: 2019
Cleaning: RCM Moth MkII Pro Vinyl
Direct Drive Turntable: Technics SL-1200MK2 Quartz
Cartridge: SHURE M97xE With JICO SAS Stylus
Amplifier: Marantz 2252
ADC: E-MU 0404
DeClick with iZotope RX6: Only Manual (Click per click)
Vinyl Condition: NM-
This LP: From my personal collection
LP Rip & Full Scan LP Cover: Fran Solo
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Carpenters Horizon, the Carpenters’ most musically sophisticated album to date, smoothly adapts the spirit of mainstream Fifties pop to contemporary taste. While not an emotionally compelling singer, Karen Caprenter has developed into a fine vocal technician, whose mellow interpretations of the Eagles’ “Desperado” and Neil Sedaka’s “Solitaire” evidence professionalism on a par with such Fifties stars as Jo Stafford and Rosemary Clooney. Richard Carpenter has also grown into a highly skilled producer/arranger of easy-listening music.
Against the carefully structured sound of the Carpenter formula, wherein Karen’s solos burst in and out of diaphonous multiharmonies, Richard has imposed more elaborately orchestrated textures than before and wisely mixed them at a level that doesn’t distract attention from Karen’s intimately mixed singing.
For the Carpenters’ many fans, Horizon offers their recent hits, “Only Yesterday” and “Please Mister Postman” (a diluted pastiche of the Marvelettes’ 1961 hit that’s nonetheless pleasant). I much prefer, however, the short, identical mood pieces, “Aurora” and “Eventide” that serve as the album’s bookends, and most of all the Carpenters’ lovely remake of the Andrews Sisters’ 1949 hit, “I Can Dream Can’t I.” Beautifully orchestrated and coarranged by Billy May, one of the finest studio band leaders and arrangers of the Fifties and Sixties, “Dream” is such a gem of updated schmaltz it makes me wish that veteran masters of the studio like Gordon Jenkins, Ray Ellis, Nelson Riddle and Percy Faith would be encouranged to collaborate with other best-selling MOR acts of the Seventies.Stephen Holden, Rolling Stone, 8/28/75.
Bonus Review!
The grand, eloquent sound of their superb backup arrangements gives this act a special launching pad with which to catapult its vocal sound. Karen’s strong and positive voice melds into her lyrics, be they on a by now well-known work (“Please Mister Postman” and “Only Yesterday”) or an old evergreen like “I Can Dream Can’t I.” Karen’s soft qualities plus her blending with brother Richard into an omni-directional attack provide easy to listen to material. One historic note: That’s Billy May’s arrangement for “I Can Dream Can’t I,” a song he originally worked on. Best cuts: “Solitaire,” “Happy,” “Love Me For What I Am.”Billboard, 1975.
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