Carpenters’ "Rainy Days and Mondays"

I want to double check this database entry: Is "Love Songs" the only domestic Carpenters CD that contains the 45 version of "Rainy Days and Mondays"? There's no extra reverb there, like all the other versions?

i don't have that cd but i do have the 45.....do you want a copy of the 45 for your own review??

edtop40 wrote: i don't have that cd but i do have the 45.....do you want a copy of the 45 for your own review??

I just A-B'd the copy of the 45 that edtop40 was kind enough to send against the Remastered Classics Carpenters CD (8238935022). The 45 matches this version exactly. I have also compared the Remastered Classics CD against the original Carpenters CD and those versions match as well.

My conclusion is that the 45 and LP versions of Rainy Days and Mondays are the same, and that the Remastered Classics CD (8238935022) contains this version. I believe the database is incorrect where it indicates additional reverb and instrumentation for this CD.

As a general note, the Carpenters Remastered Classics series has been touted as the only complete source of all original LP versions (i.e. void of any of Richard's subsequent remixing & instrumentation). I have yet to find a case where a Remastered Classics CD differs from the original LP. Therefore, for cases where a Carpenters original 45 and LP versions were the same, the applicable Remastered Classics CD will give you the 45 version.

Edited by Roscoe

My commercial 45, which is stereo, has a listed time of (3:40), but an actual time of (3:35).