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"Top of the World" is a 1972 song written and composed by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis and first recorded by American pop duo Carpenters. It was a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit for the duo for two consecutive weeks in 1973. It also became Carpenters' second number one and tenth top-ten single in the Billboard Hot 100.
This is a comprehensive list of songs written or performed by pop duo the Carpenters, featuring Karen and Richard Carpenter. This list includes official studio albums, live albums, solo albums, and notable compilations that feature rare or unreleased material.
This compilation's songs have more refined and re-recorded tracks, less noise in the background, and a lot of reverberation in the background. ^† These songs include a harder bass drum line and considerably more reverberation than the original version. "Top of the World" is mixed with an alternate ending to segue into "Maybe It's You".
The songs in the box set are attributed to their original recording time or single release despite some of them being re-recordings ("Ticket to Ride") or later album releases ("Ordinary Fool", "If I Had You", "Now"). From the Top was revised with similar box set The Essential Collection: 1965–1997 in 2002.
"Top of the World" (1972; #1. Though the Carpenters originally opted to not release this song as a single, a version recorded by Lynn Anderson reached No. 2 on the Billboard Country chart; following the success of Anderson's version, the Carpenters decided to release their version as a single, and it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.)
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The compilation include a re-recorded single version of "Top of the World" and newly re-recorded "Ticket to Ride" specially for the compilation.It also includes a number of musical introductions and segues between the songs "Superstar", "Rainy Days and Mondays" and "Goodbye to Love", the latter two were sped up in pitch, much to the regret of Richard in subsequent years.
The album comprises songs written or co-written by Richard Carpenter. [3] and serves as a counterpart the 1994 compilation Interpretations.Carpenters Perform Carpenter features several of the duo's biggest hits such as "Top of the World" and "Yesterday Once More" combined with many lesser-known album cuts.