The Best Of The Carpenters (1980 UK mail-order only 54-track Four LP box set, with each part housed in its own picture sleeve, all housed in a superb gold embossed 12" box with guarantee slip.

Sibling duo Karen and Richard Carpenter dominated the pop-charts throughout the 70’s, scoring 12 top ten singles with clean pop arrangements highlighting Karen Carpenters delicate vocals. This collection brings together singles from the golden years of these three-time Grammy award winners, who scored more than 20 singles on the Billboard Hot 100.

The Singles: 1969–1973 is an album by the brother/sister pop duo the Carpenters. A greatest hits collection, it topped the charts in the United States and the United Kingdom and became one of the best-selling albums of the 1970s. Features of this compilation include a newly recorded version of "Top of the World", "Ticket to Ride" and 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.