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Carpenters Discography

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Check out the Song Index to find out the Carpenters album where a song first appears. Go directly to the Carpenters Albums, Carpenters Singles, Carpenters Singles Chart, Carpenters Jukebox EPs, or Carpenters Superstar Teaching Machine Reading Kit sections.

Carpenters Albums

Dates: First appearance in Top 40 on Billboard charts. US information from the Top 40 of the Billboard Top Pop Albums Chart

Carpenters Singles

Dates: First appearance on Billboard charts. US information from Billboard Top Pop Singles ChartMagic Lamp 705 with Karen Carpenter vocals

Carpenters on the Billboard Top Pop Singles Chart

Bold title - Top 10
Coloured background - #1
song writing credits shown for other chart artists

  Carpenters
Richard & Karen Carpenter
  Song Title & other information First Charted
mm-dd-yyyy		 Weeks on Chart Highest Chart Position
1 Ticket To Ride 02-14-1970 12 54
2 (They Long To Be) Close To You
written by Burt Bacharach & Hal David 		06-20-1970 17 1 [4 weeks]
3 We've Only Just Begun 09-12-1970 17 2
4 For All We Know 02-06-1971 13 3
5 Rainy Days And Mondays 05-15-1971 12 2
6 Superstar
co-written by Leon Russell 		09-04-1971 13 2
7 Bless The Beasts And Children 11-20-1971 8 67
8 Hurting Each Other 01-15-1972 12 2
9 It's Going To Take Some Time
written by Carole King 		04-29-1972 10 12
10 Goodbye To Love 07-15-1972 10 7
11 Sing 02-24-1973 14 3
12 Yesterday Once More 06-02-1973 14 2
13 Top Of The World 10-06-1973 20 1 [2 weeks]
14 I Won't Last A Day Without You 04-13-1974 12 11
15 Please Mr. Postman 11-23-1974 17 1 [1 week]
16 Only Yesterday 03-29-1975 13 4
17 Solitaire
written by Neil Sedaka 		08-02-1975 10 17
18 There's A Kind Of Hush 02-28-1976 13 12
19 I Need To Be In Love
co-written by Albert Hammond 		06-12-1976 11 25
20 Goofus 09-04-1976 5 56
21 All You Get From Love Is A Love Song 05-21-1977 10 35
22 Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft 10-08-1977 13 32
23 Sweet, Sweet Smile
co-written by Juice Newton 		02-04-1978 13 44
24 I Believe You 12-09-1978 5 68
25 Touch Me When We're Dancing 06-20-1981 14 16
26 (Want You) Back In My Life Again 09-12-1981 8 72
27 Those Good Old Dreams 12-19-1981 6 63
28 Beechwood 4-5789 04-24-1982 4 74

Carpenters Jukebox EPs

An EP is a 7-inch (single size) vinyl record known fully as an Extended Play Single. The EP usually contained four tracks, two on each side. Popular in England, Japan and many other countries, they were rarely sold in stores in the US. However, since they were the same size as singles, specialty companies like Little LPs Unlimited produced EPs for jukebox play. These were never available for retail sale, feature A&M labels and were strictly made to promote their associated full length albums.

A&M licensed Little LPs Unlimited to produce four Carpenters jukebox EP records. Each EP was packaged in a picture sleeve with a black and white version of the full length album's artwork.

Superstar Teaching Machine kit

Carpenters A&M Superstar Teaching Machine EP

An interesting packaging for a Carpenters EP. One of the series of educational Superstar Teaching Machine Reading Kit that A & M Records came out with in the mid to late 1970's. The kit contains a Carpenters EP Record, a Fun-To-Do Exercise Book and a Superstar Poster of the Carpenters.

The idea was that the student could listen to the record, then use the booklet to do reading exercises while admiring the Carpenters poster. All of these items are contained in a Superstar Teaching Machine Carrying Case (note the cut-out handle in the picture).

Any idea what songs were on the record?

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