Vinyl plays with occasional crackles (play-graded). Generic replacement cover. Inner-sleeve is generic white. Original picture sleeve NOT included. (Not a cut-out.)
Passage, by American popular music duo Carpenters, produced the hit singles All You Get from Love Is a Love Song, Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft and Sweet, Sweet Smile. The Carpenters' version of Sweet, Sweet Smile (written by 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 #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). Ironically, the album's release predated Steven Spielberg's similarly themed film Close Encounters of the Third Kind by one month. Nonetheless, the album was the group's first to fall short of gold standard in the US but was certified gold in the U.K. This is the only Carpenters album (aside from their Christmas albums) not to contain a Richard Carpenter or John Bettis song.still