this is a treasure

When you hear track 17 "I Can Dream can't I", you are reminded about the paucity of singing, and lack of musicianship in today's popular music. Indeed, it would be hard to imagine someone being able to put together something of this quality today...Gin and Tonic 40's Americana classic.

I found the digital mastering to be good here.

I preferred the original of " I can't make music", because I prefer the additional orchestration and find the echo chamber effect on Karen's voice a tad overdone. However, it's still good to have this version too.

The "B" side

All of the songs were on the "B" side of the 45 hits on the record. Good CD to sdd to your collection. You'll have both CD Singles 1969-1981.

Excellent Re-issue

Treasures is an excellent collection of Carpenters non-hits and includes the then unreleased track "Slow Dance." Buyer beware however, this is just a re-issue of the 1987 release in its original master, this cd set is NOT remastered. Be that as it may, the original mastering is clean and the liner notes suggest this set may have been done before the entire Carpenters catalog was "transferred" to their original cd re-issue. The remixes are brilliant and makes this set worth having. You may have to turn up the volume and the fullness isn't what it could be had they remastered this set before re-releasing it.