Track List: 5-8
5. Carpenters - Sweet, Sweet Smile (0:00)
6. Carpenters - Two Sides (3:01)
7. Carpenters - Man Smart, Woman Smarter (6:30)
8. Carpenters - Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (10:51)
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Passage is the eighth studio album by the American music duo Carpenters. Released in 1977, it produced the hit singles "All You Get from Love Is a Love Song", "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" and "Sweet, Sweet Smile". The Carpenters' "Sweet, Sweet Smile" (written by Robert Otha Young and Juice Newton) was picked up by Country radio and put the duo in the top ten of Billboard's Country chart in the spring of 1978.
This album was a considerable departure for the siblings and contained experimental material such as the Klaatu cover "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" single—which reached no. 32 in the US but was a top ten hit in much of the world (and prompted numerous letters to the Carpenters asking when World Contact Day was scheduled). Coincidentally, the album's release predated Steven Spielberg's similarly themed film Close Encounters of the Third Kind by two months. Nonetheless, the album was the group's first to fall short of gold certification in the US.
This is the only Carpenters album (aside from their Christmas albums) not to contain a Richard Carpenter or John Bettis song and also the second album to not have Karen playing drums at all. It was the first studio album since Close to You not to use the familiar Carpenters logo on the front cover, although a small version of the logo appears on the back cover.
Personnel:
Karen Carpenter: Lead vocals, backing vocals (2)
Richard Carpenter: Electric & acoustic piano (2, 3, 6, 8), tack piano (7), synthesizer (8), backing vocals (2)
Pete Jolly: Piano (1)
Larry Muhoberac: Electric piano (1)
Tony Peluso: Electric guitar (1-3, 5-8), acoustic guitar (5), DJ (8)
Ray Parker Jr.: Electric guitar (2)
Lee Ritenour: Acoustic guitar (6)
Jay Graydon: Acoustic guitar (6)
Jay Dee Maness: Pedal steel guitar (6)
Joe Osborn: Bass (1-3, 5-8)
Ron Tutt: Drums (1, 3, 5, 8)
Ed Green: Drums (2, 6, 7)
Wally Snow: Percussion (1)
Tommy Vig: Percussion (1, 7), conga (2)
Jerry Steinholtz: Conga (1), percussion (2)
King Errisson: Conga (7)
Tom Scott: Tenor sax (1 & 2), alto flute (1)
Jackie Kelso: Tenor sax (7)
David Luell & Kurt McGettrick: Baritone saxophone (7)
Gene Puerling: Vocal arrangements (1)
Julia Tillman, Carlena Williams, Maxine Willard: Backing vocals (2)
Bobby Bruce: Fiddle (5)
Larry McNealy: Banjo (5)
Tom Hensley: Tack piano (5, 7)
Earl Dumler: Oboe (3, 8)
Gale Levant: Harp (3)
Peter Knight, Gregg Smith: Conductor (3, 4, 8)
Overbudget Philharmonic: Orchestra (3, 4, 8)
Gregg Smith Singers: Vocals (3, 4, 8)
William Feuerstein: Voice of Peron (4)
Jonathan Marks: Voice of Che (4)
Bernie Grundman, Richard Carpenter – remastering at Bernie Grundman Mastering
