Top Of The World by The Carpenters

Genre: Pop
Year: 1973

"Top of the World" is the name of a 1972 song by The Carpenters. Originally recorded for and released on the duos 1972 studio album A Song for You, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in late 1973, becoming the duos second U.S. number-one single. Originally intended to be only an album cut for the Carpenters, country singer Lynn Anderson covered the song and released it as a single first. Andersons version reached #2 on the U.S. country singles charts in mid-1973. The success of Andersons version prompted the Carpenters to release a new version as a single, where it topped the U.S. pop singles chart for two weeks in December 1973. Karen Carpenter re-recorded the song for the bands first compilation as she was not quite satisfied with the original. Brother Richard Read full article at wikipedia.org

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