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Pianist • Arranger • Composer • Conductor is the second solo album by American musician Richard Carpenter
Richard Carpenter (musician)
Richard Lynn Carpenter is an American pop musician, best known as one half of the brother/sister duo The Carpenters, along with his sister Karen Carpenter. He was a producer, arranger, pianist and keyboardist, and occasional lyricist, as well as joining with Karen on harmony...

, released in 1998.

Track listing

  1. "Prelude" (Richard Carpenter) (0:57)
  2. "Yesterday Once More
    Yesterday Once More (song)
    "Yesterday Once More", written by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis, is a hit song by The Carpenters from their 1973 album Now & Then. Composed in the key of E, "Yesterday Once More" preceded an "Oldies Medley" on the album, consisting of nine songs from the 1960s. At the end of the song a...

    " (John Bettis
    John Bettis
    John Bettis is an American lyricist who has co-written many famous popular songs over the years. In 2011, John was inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame....

    , Richard Carpenter) (3:41)
  3. Medley (12:12)
    • "Sing" (Joe Raposo
      Joe Raposo
      Joseph Guilherme Raposo, OIH was a Portuguese-American composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist, best known for his work on the children's television series Sesame Street, for which he wrote the theme song, as well as classic songs such as "Bein' Green" and "C is for Cookie"...

      )
    • "Goodbye to Love
      Goodbye to Love
      "Goodbye to Love" is a song composed by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis. It was released by the Carpenters in 1972. On the "Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters" documentary, Tony Peluso stated that this was one of the first, if not the first, love ballads to have a fuzz guitar solo.Upon...

      " (John Bettis, Richard Carpenter)
    • "Eve" (John Bettis, Richard Carpenter)
    • "Rainy Days and Mondays" (Roger Nichols
      Roger Nichols (songwriter)
      Roger Nichols Roger Nichols Roger Nichols (born in Missoula, Montana, is an American composer and songwriter. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays violin, guitar, bass, and piano.-Biography:...

      , Paul Williams
      Paul Williams (songwriter)
      Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr. is an Academy Award-winning American composer, musician, songwriter, and actor. He is perhaps best known for popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s including Three Dog Night's "An Old Fashioned Love Song", Helen Reddy's "You and Me Against the World",...

      )
    • "Look To Your Dreams" (John Bettis, Richard Carpenter)
    • "Superstar" (Bonnie Bramlett
      Bonnie Bramlett
      Bonnie Bramlett is an American singer and sometime actress known for her distinctive vocals in rock and pop music. This began in the mid 1960s as a backing singer, forming the husband-and-wife team of Delaney & Bonnie, and continuing to the present day as a solo artist.-Life and career:Bramlett...

      , Leon Russell
      Leon Russell
      Claude Russell Bridges , known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music....

      )
    • "Someday" (John Bettis, Richard Carpenter)
  4. "I Need To Be in Love" (John Bettis, Richard Carpenter, Albert Hammond) (3:09)
  5. "Sandy" (John Bettis, Richard Carpenter) (3:50)
  6. "Time" (Richard Carpenter) (3:55)
  7. "For All We Know" (Arthur James, Fred Karlin
    Fred Karlin
    Fred Karlin was an American composer of more than one hundred scores for feature films and television movies. He also was an accomplished trumpeter adept at playing jazz, blues, classical, rock, and medieval music....

    , Robb Wilson) (3:37)
  8. "One Love" (John Bettis, Richard Carpenter) (4:58)
  9. "Bless The Beasts and Children" (Perry Botkin, Jr.
    Perry Botkin, Jr.
    Perry Botkin, Jr. is an American composer, producer, arranger, and musician. He had a successful career in music for over forty years. As an arranger, he worked with Bobby Darin, Harry Nilsson, The Lettermen, Ed Ames, and Harpers Bizarre, among others...

    , Barry De Vorzon
    Barry De Vorzon
    Barry De Vorzon is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and composer. His first composing big hit was the rock song "Dreamin'," sung by Johnny Burnette in 1960, although he had a number-one hit previously called "Just Married," which he wrote for Marty Robbins in 1958...

    ) (3:29)
  10. "Flat Baroque" (Richard Carpenter) (1:51)
  11. "All Those Years Ago" (Richard Carpenter, Pamela Phillips Oland) (2:24)
  12. "Top of the World
    Top of the World (The Carpenters song)
    "Top of the World" is the name of a 1972 song by The Carpenters. Originally recorded for and released on the duo's 1972 studio album A Song for You, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in late 1973, becoming the duo's second U.S. number-one single...

    " (John Bettis, Richard Carpenter) (3:21)
  13. "We've Only Just Begun
    We've Only Just Begun
    "We've Only Just Begun" is the signature song of The Carpenters, written by Roger Nichols and Paul Williams , and is often used as a wedding song. The song was ranked at #405 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".The song was recorded by Smokey Roberds, a friend...

    " (Roger Nichols, Paul Williams) (2:26)
  14. "Karen's Theme" (Richard Carpenter) (2:40)
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