Cartographical Information: Singles
appearances in Billboard Top 100 (U.S. charts)

[ Summary | Year by Year | All Years ]

Discographical & Programmatical Information
including group and solo albums/singles

Release/air date Recording Primary album Compilation/live album Solo album Single Television/radio program   1966       Looking for Love / I'll Be Yours   1969 Oct       Ticket To Ride / Your Wonderful Parade   1969 Nov 15 Offering [see notes]         1970 May 15       (They Long To Be) Close To You / I Kept On Loving You   1970 Aug       We've Only Just Begun / All Of My Life [see notes]   1970 Aug 28 Close To You         1970 Sep 18         Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1970 Oct 18         Ed Sullivan Show 1970 Nov 8         Ed Sullivan Show 1970 Nov 13         Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1970 Nov 20       Merry Christmas, Darling / Mr. Guder   1970 Dec 5         American Bandstand 1971 Jan       For All We Know / Don't Be Afraid   1971 Feb 13         Andy Williams Show 1971 Mar 16         The Grammy Awards 1971 Apr       Rainy Days And Mondays / Saturday   1971 May 13 Carpenters         1971 Jun 30         Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1971 Jul 20         Make Your Own Kind of Music 1971 Aug 10         Al Hirt Show 1971 Aug 12       Superstar / Bless The Beasts And Children   1971 Aug 18         Fifth Dimension Traveling Sunshine Show 1971 Aug 19         Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1972 Sep 22         Carol Burnett Show 1971 Mon 0   Bless the Beasts and Children [Soundtrack]       1971 Nov 5         Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1971 Nov 6         Carpenters BBC TV Special 1971 Dec 17       Hurting Each Other / Maybe It's You   1972 Jan         American Guild of Variety Artists awards show 1972 Jan 19         Carol Burnett Show 1972 Mar       It's Going To Take Some Time / Flat Baroque   1972 May 7         Tom Jones' London Bridge Special 1972 Jun 13 A Song For You         1972 Jun       Goodbye To Love / Crystal Lullaby   1972 Oct 5         Bob Hope Special 1973 Jan       Sing / Druscilla Penny   1973 May 6         Robert Young with the Young 1973 May 9 Now & Then         1973 May       Yesterday Once More / Road Ode   1973 Sep       Top Of The World / Heather   1973 Nov 1   The Singles 1969-1973       1973 Nov 6         Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1973 Nov 13         Bob Hope Special 1974 Mar 2         The Grammy Awards 1974 Mar       I Won't Last A Day Without You / One Love   1974 Aug 4         Evening at Pops 1974 Oct       Please Mr. Postman / This Masquerade   1974 Nov       Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town / Merry Christmas, Darling   1974 Dec 17         Perry Como's Christmas Show 1975 Feb       Only Yesterday / Happy   1975 Mar 6   Live In Japan       1975 Jun 6 Horizon         1975 Jul 18       Solitaire / Love Me For What I Am   1976 Feb 12       There's A Kind Of Hush (All Over The World) / (I'm Caught Between) Goodbye And I Love You   1976 May 21       I Need To Be In Love / Sandy   1976 Jun 11 A Kind Of Hush         1976 Aug       Goofus / Boat To Sail   1976 Mon 00       Merry Christmas Darling /   1976 Nov 25         BBC TV Special 1976 Dec 8         Carpenters Very First Television Special 1976 Dec 9   Live At The Palladium       1977 Jan 27         Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1977 Mar 2         Dorothy Hamill Special 1977 May 2       All You Get From Love Is A Love Song / I Have You   1977 Sep 9       Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft / Can't Smile Without You   1977 Sep 23 Passage         1977 Mon 00       Christmas Song / Merry Christmas, Darling   1977 Dec 9         The Carpenters at Christmas 1978 Jan       Sweet, Sweet Smile / I Have You   1978 Feb 5         ABC's 25th Anniversary Special [see notes] 1978 May 17         Carpenters Space Encounters Special 1978 Jun 27         Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1978 Oct 13 Christmas Portrait         1978 Oct 20       I Believe You / B'wana, She No Home   1978 Mon 0   The Singles 1974-1978       1978 Nov 19         Mickey's 50 1978 Dec 19         Carpenters, A Christmas Portrait Special 1978 Dec 24         Bruce Forsyth Show 1978 Dec 24         /KIQQ Christmas Portrait with Karen Carpenter 1980 Apr 4         Olivia Newton-John's Hollywood Nights 1980 May 16         Carpenters Music, Music, Music 1981 May       Touch Me When We're Dancing / Beacuse We Are In Love (The Wedding Song)   1981 Jun 9 Made In America         1981 Aug 29         Casey Kasem's America's Top 10 1981 Sep 1       (Want You) Back In My Life Again / Somebody's Been Lyin'   1981 Oct 14         Palmares (live, France) 1981 Oct?         Merv Griffin Show 1981 Oct?         Good Morning America 1981 Nov       Those Good Old Dreams / When It's Gone (It's Just Gone)   1981 Dec         Julio Iglesias Numero Un (France) 1982 Mar 2       Beechwood 4-5789 / Two Sides   1982 Mon 0         /KNOB These Are The Carpenters 1983 Mon 00       Make Believe It's Your First Time / Look to Your Dreams   1983 Oct 17 Voice Of The Heart         1984 Jan 31       Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore / Sailing On The Tide   1984 Oct 26 An Old Fashioned Christmas         1984 Dec         Solid Gold Christmas Special 1985 May 1   Yesterday Once More       1986 Mon 00       Honolulu City Lights / I Just Fall In Love Again   1987 Jan 1   Classics Vol. 2       1987 Aug 31     Time     1987 Mon 0       Something In Your Eyes / Time   1987 Sep   Treasures       1988 Nov 26         /Then, Now & Always 1989 Sum         Veronique Beliveau Special 1989 Mon 0   Anthology       1989 Oct 31 Lovelines         1990 Mon 00       (They Long To Be) Close To You / Only Yesterday   1991 Oct 8   From The Top       1992 Mon 0   Best Of Best + Original Master Karaoke       1993 Feb 4         /BBC Special with Richard Carpenter 1995 Feb 7   Interpretations       1995 Jun 20       We've Only Just Begun / For All We Know   1996 Oct 2     Karen Carpenter     1998 Jan 27     Pianist Arranger Composer Conductor     1998 Mar 24   Love Songs       1998 Sep 22   Christmas Collection [see notes]       1999 Jan 12   Yesterday Once More [Remastered]       2000 May 23   Singles 1969-1981       2001 Aug 8 As Time Goes By

sources: Carpenters, From The Top (A&M Records, 1991), CD 31454 0000 2, liner notes; Carpenters FAQ; Carpenters Fan Club Newsletters; Carpenters: The Recordings; Really Rudy's Carpenterland; Internet Movie Database; Epinions.com; Yahoo! Shopping; TV MegaSite.

Notes: 1969-Nov-15 Offering re-released in 1970 under the title Ticket To Ride. 1970-Aug "We've Only Just Begun" / "All Of My Life" side B on some picture sleeves misprinted "Maybe It's You". 1978-Feb-5 ABC's 25th Anniversary Special apparently aired Sunday evening, Feb. 5, rather than the previous evening. 1998-Sep-22 Christmas Collection disc 1 is Christmas Portrait (1978), disc 2 An Old Fashioned Christmas (1984).

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