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Song of the day for November 15 2023

Today’s song is The Carpenters cover of Ticket to Ride. This song is a cover of the Beatles song,

Ticket to Ride is the debut studio album by the American music duo Carpenters. At the time of its initial release on November 15, 1969, it was issued under the title Offering, with a completely different cover photo. It was a commercial failure and produced only one minor hit single, a ballad version of the Lennon-McCartney song “Ticket to Ride”.

After the Carpenters’ subsequent breakthrough, however, the album was reissued internationally under the name Ticket to Ride and sold moderately. The CD in the “Remastered Classics” series went out of print in March 2007. However, in Japan, the “Pack Series” released the Ticket to Ride and Close to You CDs together.

The album is far more self-contained than other Carpenters albums; excluding the orchestrations, bass by Joe Osborn and occasional guitar from Gary Sims, most of the instruments were played by Karen and Richard Carpenter themselves—drums and keyboards respectively—and 10 of the 13 songs were written by Richard and his lyricist John Bettis. It also stands out from subsequent Carpenters albums in that the lead vocals are evenly split between the two band members; on later albums, Karen would perform most of the lead vocals and this is one of two albums where Karen provided virtually all of the drumming, the other being Now & Then, released in 1973.

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