Now & Then

Infobox Album
Name = Now & Then
Type = Album
Longtype =
Artist = The Carpenters


Released = May 9, 1973
Recorded = 1973
Genre = Pop
Length = 37:51
Label = A&M Records
Producer = Richard and Karen Carpenter
Reviews = *"Rolling Stone" (Not Rated) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thecarpenters/albums/album/121807/review/5941226/now_and_then link]
Last album = "A Song for You"
(1972)
This album = "Now & Then"
(1973)
Next album = "Horizon"
(1975)

"Now & Then" is the fifth album from The Carpenters, released on May 9, 1973. In "Cash Box" Year-End Charts of 1973, "Now & Then" appeared at number 20. The title for the album was suggested by Richard and Karen's mother, Agnes Carpenter. As an outgrowth of the Garden Party incident, an oldies revival occurred in pop music around 1973, so Side "B" of the album featured an oldies medley. The medley starts with the Carpenters' original, "Yesterday Once More". Tony Peluso, the Carpenters' electric guitarist, is heard as a radio DJ throughout the medley, which included such songs as "The End of the World", "Dead Man's Curve", "Johnny Angel" and "One Fine Day". The only other time he was heard as a DJ was on the Carpenters' "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" in 1977.

The "Now & Then" album also featured Mark Rudolph, a cousin of the Carpenters, on the "Guess the Golden Goodies Group Contest" as the player who called in. He guesses the mystery group is The Four Seasons, but is incorrect.

The LP album featured a three-panel cover that folded out, showing a panoramic view of Karen and Richard Carpenter driving past the Carpenters' family home on Newville Avenue in Downey, California. The car pictured on the cover was a 1973 Ferrari GTB4 ("Daytona") owned by Richard.

In February 2008, fans created a world-wide awareness campaign of the impending demolition of the "Now & Then" Carpenter house -- which had been made famous by the album cover -- by the home's current owners.

Track listing

#"Sing" - 3:20 (Joe Raposo)
#"This Masquerade" - 4:50 (Leon Russell)
#"Heather" - 2:47 (J. Pearson)
#"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" - (Hank Williams) 3:40
#"I Can't Make Music" - 3:17 (Randy Edelman)
#"Yesterday Once More" - 3:50 (John Bettis, Richard Carpenter)
#"Medley"
##"Fun, Fun, Fun" - 1:32 (Brian Wilson, Mike Love)
##"The End of the World" - 2:25 (A. Kent, S. Dee)
##"Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)" - 1:43 (Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Phil Spector)
##"Dead Man's Curve" - 1:40 (A. Kornfield, B. Wilson, et al.)
##"Johnny Angel" - 1:30 (L. Pockriss, L. Duddy)
##"The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" - 1:45 (B. Weisman, D. Wayne, et al.)
##"Our Day Will Come" - 2:00 (B. Hilliard, M. Garson)
##"One Fine Day" - 1:40 (Carole King, Toni Stern)
#"Yesterday Once More" (reprise) - 0:58

ingles

*Sing US 7" single (1973) A&M 1413 1.Sing 2.Druscilla Penny

JP 7" single (1973) AM-175 1.Sing 2.I Won't Last A Day Without You

*Yesterday Once More US 7" single (1973) A&M 1446 1.Yesterday Once More 2.Road Ode

UK 7" promo (1973) AM1446 1.Yesterday Once More 2.Road Ode

JP 7" single (1973) AM-200 1.Yesterday Once More 2.Road Ode

JP 7" single (1973) AMP-780 1.Yesterday Once More 2.Sing

JP 7" single (1973) OH-134 1.Yesterday Once More 2.Superstar 3.Top Of The World 4.Jambalaya (On The Bayou)

MX 7" single (1973) SP-125 1.Yesterday Once More 2.Road Ode

JP 12" single (1978) CML3 1.Yesterday Once More 2.Please Mr. Postman

JP CD single (1988) S12Y3014 1.Yesterday Once More 2.Superstar 3.We've Only Just Begun

JP CD single (1992) PODM-1025 1.Yesterday Once More 2.Yesterday Once More (Remix Version) 3.Yesterday Once More (Original Master Karaoke Version)

JP CD single (1996) POCM-1187 1.Yesterday Once More 2.Yesterday Once More (Karaoke Version) 3.Goodbye To Love 4.Only Yesterday

*Jambalaya (On The Bayou) UK 7" single (1973) AMS7098 1.Jambalaya (On The Bayou) 3.40 2.Mr. Guder 3.17

JP 7" single (1973) AM-201 1.Jambalaya (On The Bayou) 2.Heather

*This Masquerade MX 7" single (1973) SP-133 1.This Masquerade 2.Top Of The World

EPs

*Now & Then:US 7" promo (1973) A&M LLP 222::1.Oldies Medley "(part one)"::2.Oldies Medley "(part two)"

Trivia

*Richard sold the original red Ferrari featured on the album cover, but bought another car of the same type in 1995.

Credits

*Produced by: Richard and Karen Carpenter
*Arranged and orchestrated by: Richard Carpenter
*All vocals: Richard and Karen Carpenter
*Keyboards: Richard Carpenter
*Bass: Joe Osborn
*Drums: Karen Carpenter
*Flute and tenor sax: Bob Messenger
*Baritone saxophone: Doug Strawn
*Recorder: Tom Scott
*Lead guitar: Tony Peluso
*Guitar: Tony Peluso and Gary Sims
*Steel guitar: Buddy Emmons and Jay Dee Maness
*Oboe and bass Oboe - English horn: Earl Dumler
*Voice of D.J.: Tony Peluso
*Engineered by: Ray Gerhardt, Assistant: Roger Young
*Mastering engineer: Bernie Grundman
*Art direction: Roland Young
*Photography - front cover: Jim McCrary
*Illustrations - front cover: Design Maru; inside cover: Len Freas
*Others:
*The Jimmy Joyce Children's Chorus on "Sing"
*Ron Gorow
*Hal Blaine: Drums on "Jambalaya"