Offering

A&M 4205 November 15 1969

1. Invocation 1.00 (Carpenter / Bettis)
2. Your Wonderful Parade 2:57 (Carpenter / Bettis)
3. Someday 5:13 (Carpenter / Bettis)
4. Get Together 2:32 (Chet Powers)
5. All Of My Life 3:00 (Richard Carpenter)
6. Turn Away 3:09 (Carpenter / Bettis)
7. Ticket To Ride 4:10 (Lennon / McCartney)
8. Don't Be Afraid 2:05 (Richard Carpenter)
9. What's The Use 2:43 (Carpenter / Bettis)
10. All I Can Do 1:42 (Carpenter / Bettis)
11. Eve 2:51 (Carpenter / Bettis)
12. Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing 4:15 (Neil Young)
13. Benediction 0:40 (Carpenter / Bettis)
    
    
    
    

Credits:

• Produced: by Jack Daugherty
• Engineer: Ray Gerhardt
• Special Credits:
  • Bass: Joe Osborn and Bob Messinger
  • Guitar: Gary Sims
  • Shaker: Herb Alpert
• Art Director: Tom Wilkes
• Photography: Jim McCrary

Liner notes:

Music is simple magic. A rhythm, a melody, a dash of words... presto. It's medicine for the soul, food for love, the essence of divinity, a reason for being. It can soar through an infinite range of ups and downs, strike a million dissonant chords, and topple the strongest resistance.

But for all its travels, however wide, however deep, it never forgets to make its simple offering.

Enclosed, neatly tucked between the confines of this cardboard jacket, is one of the most beautiful gifts two people can offer.

The vocal sound is a product of Richard and Karen Carpenter.

In addition to the vocals Karen (age 19) plays drums on all the selections and on two of the offerings she plays electric bass...

Her brother, Richard, sings, plays the keyboard instruments, composed ten of the songs, and arranged all of them.

It is with pleasure A&M Presents: CARPENTERS

- Herb Alpert

Other Notes

In the notes to the Carpenters: The Compact Disc Collection, Richard Carpenter, commenting on the Ticket To Ride album, wrote:

Karen and I signed with A&M Records in April 1969 and almost immediately started work on this album, which is definitely a reflection of its time. Originally released with the title Offering (and featuring a picture of the two of us I shudder to think of) it was re-packaged and re-released after the minor success of its only single Ticket To Ride and the major success of Close To You.

Last changed: Sun Jul 8 10:36:34 EDT 2007