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I've tried listening to other things besides their greatest hits. So few of them appeal to me.
She died just about the time Linda Ronstadt made her big hit with Nelson Riddle. KC would have been so perfect for that niche.
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Count me in as a Carpenters fan. I still play their hits a lot.
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I've tried listening to other things besides their greatest hits. So few of them appeal to me.
Not a Carpenters fan??? You must of been one of those rebel Captain and Tennille fans. I imagine Muskrat Love was your wedding song.
I'm a fan, just not of much outside the 2 cd's of hits.
No wait. I do have her solo thing-ie, which was great. And the final one that had that Hawaiian song thing-ie. ("Lovelines" and "Karen Carpenter").
I did have the C&T greatest hits, but no more.
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One day recently I played my Carpenters "Mega Playlist" while house cleaning. Really made an unbearable chore, bearable.
I can vouch for that. These songs lift your mood. My first contact with the Carpenters was in my mid-teens. I found The Singles: 1969–1973 at our church rummage sale for 50 cents. Used vinyl. What a revelation. It was part of my life from then on. I had heard some of these songs on A.M. radio (mono, not morning), but you don't begin to hear how great they are until you listen to them properly.
Since the CD era, my primary source of Carpenters has been a 2-disc set, Classics Volume 2, previously released as Yesterday Once More. The jewel case has a cover photo that Richard once commented on. He said it was a favorite, because you can just see "a shadow" of illness coming over Karen's face, while he looks worried.
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Geez, that story turned grim.
Welcome to the Carpenters. But we'll always have those great songs.
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I've long wondered why my fantastic 2-CD set, Carpenters: Classics Volume 2, was called that when there was no Volume 1. It made no sense. Well, mystery solved, because today in a (pitiful) used CD rack, I saw the answer.
It came in the form of a one-disc release in the same "purple cover" format, called Styx: Classics Volume 15. I hardly believe Styx had 15 CDs worth of greatest hits. I realized it was a series of albums by A&M Records that all came out in the same purple-cover format, for different bands.
It only took me 25 years to find that out.
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