Live In Japan 1972

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The Carpenters never released a concert album in America, so this pricey double disc from Osaka, Japan, has been a choice import among serious fans for many years. The show opens with a fair medley comprising "Superstar" and "Rainy Days and Mondays." Other numbers include "Goodbye to Love," "Top of the World," and "Help" (which comes off better and more sincere here than it did in the duo's studio version, at least until the synthesizer and electric guitar take over the song). Karen Carpenter's performance is sincere, and her singing is very good -- she makes "Top of the World" sound like it's the first time she's singing it -- but the backing vocals (by Richard Carpenter, Danny Woodhams, Doug Strawn, and Pete Henderson) and support instruments are a bit on the anemic side, except for Tony Peluso's inappropriately overamplified guitar on "Goodbye to Love." A major part of disc two is given over to a 1954-1964 oldies medley, with Pete Henderson singing some lead and Tony Peluso as the "deejay/narrator"; that includes "Little Honda," "Da Doo Ron Ron," "Leader of the Pack," "Johnny Angel," and "Johnny B. Goode," as well as full performances of "We've Only Just Begun" and "For All We Know" and "Sing" (backed up by the Kyoto Children's Choir.) ~ Bruce Eder

【BUDOKAN HALL, TOKYO, JAPAN JUNE 2ND 1972 NHK RADIO】
1. Intro > Opening Medley > Love Is Surrender
2. Ticket to Ride
3. For All We Know
4. Any Day Now
5. Baby It's You
6. Knowing When To Leave
7. Medley: I'll Never Fall In Love Again / Walk On By / Do You Know The Way To San Jose
8. Cinderella Rockefella
9. We've Only Just Begun
10. (They Long to Be) Close to You
11. Reason To Believe
12. Mr. Guder
13. Hurting Each Other
14. Sometimes
15. Chatter
16. Superstar

[BONUS TRACKS]
【TRIBUTE TO BURT BACHARACH, CARNEGIE HALL,NEW YORK MAY 14TH 1971, BROADCAST BY TV CHANNEL BS2】
17. Medley: Any Day Now / Baby It's You / Bacharach - David / Breaking Up Is Hard To Do / There's Always Something There To Remind Me / I'll Never Fall In Love Again / Walk On By / Do You Know The Way To San Jose
18. Superstar
19. Rainy Days and Mondays
20. Goodbye To Love
21. We've Only Just Begun