 The album also included the Carpenters' version of the Academy Award-nominated title song from the 1971 film "Bless the Beasts and Children", which had already charted at number 67 on the Hot 100 as the flip side of the duo's version of "Superstar".The album's biggest hit single, the number one song "Top of the World", was not issued until over a year after the album's release.According to Richard Carpenter, who co-wrote the song with John Bettis, the reason for the song's late release in the US was that he had misjudged the song's commercial appeal, but was proven wrong when the Carpenters' "Top of the World" became a hit in Japan in 1972 and Lynn Anderson's cover reached number 2 on the US country charts in 1973.