Singles Box Set due in March 2006

[Rick Henry]

I was just reading on the internet that there will be a Carpenters Singles Box Set released in Japan in march 2006. This set will include thrity three discs.

I'm going to check into this more and get more information for everybody. If anyone else knows anything about this please share.

Here's a picture listed on a music retailer site for the new box set. It looks like each individual Japanese single picture sleeve will be included. This will certainly be a great collectible for the dedicated Carpenters fan.

[JIM]

33!! Man! There just has to be some rarties for sure!
Very exciting! I am afraid to see the price tag.

Jim

[JIM]

>:(A&M"s Sakura says 309$ yikes!

[BethMosior]

:oWOOOOOOOOOW :othanx for the information Rick that sounds soooooo cooooooool

[Ming]

This sounds great !!!!!!!

[Rick Henry]

I have some text from the HMV Japan site on the new Singles Box Set.

I used my handy Babelfish online translator to translate the description of the box set. In it's translation to English some of the wording is a bit odd. If anyone is good at translating thoughts or ideas, please do so, so this text will make a little more sense to the English reading public.

Below is the text from HMV Japan:

Carpenters
CD Single Collection Box

Internet price including tax: XXYEN 30,000

You insert in the wish list

Dispatch possible time: Reservation commodity - 2006 March 02nd sale schedule

Details of commodity User simultaneous purchase commodity

User appraisal
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Genre: Lock
Format: CD
Uniting quantity: 33
Sale day: 2006 March 02nd
Catalog No: UIDY9001
Label: Õ Æ Ê Þ ° » Ù ² Ý À ° Å ¼ ® Å Ù
Sale country: Japan
In addition: Limited board, box collection

Number and sample

Disk 1
1Riding in a car ticket of tear
2All eye & can ƒhƒD

Disk 2
1The shadow which becomes far
2It is dear, continuing

This disk it is the number list of 1 and disk 2.
Number of all disks saw to be, whenthis

Supplementary information

Carton box attaching

Lyric bilingual text attaching

The Japanese individual plan

The first limitation production

HMV review

It was decided that the splendid token reaches in birthday of the mosquito connected carpenter who 2006 March 2nd, time becomes 56th. 33 singles of ƒJ[ƒyƒ“ƒ^[ƒY which is sold at one time in Japan at 8 centimeters CD perfection reissue! The color jacket of the bosom oak as much as possible it is fan drivelling and the plan of dream which it reappears! Because it becomes the first limitation production, as for the purchase ahead of time.

[Moe]

I hope this collection will have the single version of "Calling Occupants." I like the song, but after 7 minutes, it get a little long. I also am not a fan of the DJ intro each time I want to listen.


my 2 cents....

[JIM]

These are the days I wish my hair would turn grey or just fall out entirely. I know there is no scientific basis in the dumb blonde claims as they have woven there way in and out of cultural folk lore but the correlation in my case seems to fall in the favor of Einstein's spooky action at a distance theories to close for comfort.LOL! Hey I am a really nice guy if your a really fast runner.

Hey it's always exciting news discover we have a new Carpenters product to look forward to and a testement to there legacy as two of the most phenomanally talented musicians in rock and roll history. Cleveland!! Lake Erie was at one time considered biolologically dead and that is a documented fact. The RRHOF is right on the lake.

I have a feeling that Richard is planning on some big, well kept surprises for us and so far it looks this project looks wayyyyyyyyyyy coool!!!! My friend Tim says there's nothing better than a mystery!

Don't touch that dial either cause if I know Rick the day is coming when he announces a basement party with Sir Richard Carpenter himself!!!

Thanks for all of your hard work this year Rick!! Your dedication is deeply appreciated.

Jim

[YesterdayOnceMore]

I sure hope you're right Jimbo, and that Richard is keeping some secrets for us up his sleeve, perhaps with the release of this new box set. Ah yes, mysteries - aren't they great? We'll see what he has in store for us. It may be a time before I can get it purchased, but I do intend to have this as a part of my Carpenters collection.

Thanks for the info, Rick. The translation is quite interesting - sorry I couldn't BEGIN to help out with this one.

Tim

[Rick Henry]

I just did another search for more information on the upcoming Japanese Singles box set. But couldn't come up with anything new.

I am so excited about this release. Eventhough I most likely won't buy it. I'm sure for those of us in the U.S. this will cost near $400 to $500 - that is a bit steep. But if the opportunity comes and I can find it for around $200 I just might go for it.

[Rick Henry]

Hard to believe this set was originally scheduled for release in early 2006.

I finally purchased my copy of it. I paid a total of $275.00 include tax and other costs.

I will come back with more on my thoughts of this box set.

[YesterdayOnceMore]

admin said:

Hard to believe this set was originally scheduled for release in early 2006.

I finally purchased my copy of it. I paid a total of $275.00 include tax and other costs.

I will come back with more on my thoughts of this box set.

Wow - and for as much as I'd love to have this, and WILL, at some point, that price tag is just a bit too much. I suppose for the collectible item it is, the price isn't bad - there are just too many things I need to spend that chunk of cash on first - before I can purchase this.

I am excited, Rick, to find out what you think about this set, then. I'm interested to know about the packaging - and are there as many discs as originally thought to the set? Any info is going to be fun knowing.

Thanks for updating us on this one.
Tim

[abbafanusa]

Congratulations Rick! You will love it. It's so cool! (I'm not even a Carpenters collector and I HAD to have this set!). I just got some 3" CD adapters so I could insert them in my computer disc drive and upload the songs in my iTunes. Can't wait to hear what you think about it.

[Rick Henry]

I'm fifty-fifty on my viewpoints of this collection.

There are, yes, 33 mini discs. They're three inch discs which do play in any normal CD player with or without an adapter.

The sound quality of the discs is better than good - which is a saving factor with this set.

The original soundtrack recording of "Bless The Beasts And Children" is included. It's great to hear this recording of the song - I do prefer the "A Song For You" rerecording - but this original soundtrack version definitely stands on it's own merit.

The original 1970 recording of "Merry Christmas Darling" is fantastic - and now think I may prefer this early recording to the later rerecording - which I believe was done in 1974.

It's great finally owning the rerecording of "Can't Smile Without You", on disc, which showed up in 1977 as the b-side of "Calling Occupants...".

And finally I have been wanting the edited four minute version of "Calling Occupants..." on CD for over ten years. This is the way I listened to the song back in 1977 for several weeks before the album was released (or before I bought the album). it brought back great memory of a 17 year old kid with his turntable listening to 45's.

Alas, there are a few disappointments. All are with the packaging. At first it looks great. The outside cover of the box is textured - with a leather-type look - it's white with the Carpenters logo in shiny gold.

Inside you find a 55 page booklet of liner notes and lyrics for each song. Though they print the lyrics in both Japanese and English, the liner notes are only in Japanese. Knowing that a good portion of people buying this set are English speaking they should have included all liner notes and credits in both languages. And then this booklet does not contain one picture in it. This has to be one of the most boring and disappointing box set booklets I have ever seen. Hardly worth the price I paid for the set - and I got a very good deal.

Next the picture sleeves on each individual disc. Yes, each of the 33 discs includes it's original picture sleeve and is sealed in a plastic sleeve for protection. Though, the quality of the pictures is only good. Some of the pictures look great with excellent color balance and clarity. Though some have a slightly off balance coloring. For the most part I feel they did a decent job on the picture sleeves - but for some reason (and I can't quite pinpoint it yet) I feel they could have done a much much better job in producing the sleeves. Possibly a better grade of paper. Front and back pictures for all the picture sleeves would have been nice, as many of the sleeves only have the front picture.

All in all I would say this box set is overpriced by about $100.00 - but, hey, the record company must get their royalties on the project.

That said, I am very happy to own this little collector's item and will cherish it tremendously. I am happy enough with it - that I will buy the next Carpenters box-set release.

My set is numbered at No. 000569

[abbafanusa]

My favorite thing about the set too is the single edit of "Calling Occupants". I still cannot get a definitive answer from anyone on how many of these sets were produced. I've heard beween 900-1000. That's a pretty big difference! My set number is 000079. The lowest I've seen so far Another friend of mine got one in the 700's.

[Rick Henry]

PEPE... No. 000079 that is great... you must have purchased your set early on.

Despite the few slight disappointments, such as the very plain looking booklet. I am very happy to own this set. It sounds great and I do like the individual discs.

[abbafanusa]

NO, I got mine less than 3 weeks ago! I guess I just got lucky--"Happy is the way I'm feeling"

[Ming]

It will be great if the singles box set are released worldwide. It will be very popular. Because it is only released in Japan, for many people, the price is too high.
Ming