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  • All life is precious and I loved her music. Willie Wogan, Lawrence Dudley, Dewey Strubing killed in Vietnam 1969 drafted all loved life too that was taken from them.

  • Happy Birthday Karen

  • People who find Richard "cold hearted"...should watch him play once more on the piano supporting this Japanese lady Keiko Touge... watch the video; "Keiko Touge imitating Karen with Richard's blessing" And she's singing Karen's fave song. And you'll think different I'm sure of it !!

  • everyone commenting how weird richard is during this interview!! I don't think so! It has been 30 years since karen died now! He has lived his life once over again since her passing! It was a long time ago! he had to carry on,he might seem not so sad but im sure he will never forget her,but he has to live his life right here in 2012!

  • mi dispiace molto, molto,molto!!!

  • @jeffshaught Richard lost his sister to horrible disease so give him a break even if his behavior/personality is a little odd. Put your self in his shoes, having to talk about his life with Karen.

  • And the same middle name haha

  • She and I have the same birthday

  • Richard Carpenter is super creepy during this interview.

  • Richard today looks like some kind of supreme court justice

  • For me me she had a god gift talent!!a angel voice..cant describe

  • all she really wanted was LOVE!!!

  • And for you people that use this site for your childish comments and sophmoric behavior, please take it outside. It is very hurtful and highly inappropriate. You are mearly showing your ignorance and your comments are moronic. This is a sacred site for many and you are making a mockery out of it. Please find another site to display your rediculous behavior.

  • The world lost an angel when Karen left us. Those two were incredibly talented, versitale, and their complex jazz vocals that incorporated 6th 9th and 13th additions and hook line melodies will never be duplicated. Take a walk on the internet and watch these two. Karen was a very decent drummer for the time and for a woman. She blazed A trail for female artists. I miss them very much. I dont think the world will ever see another duo like The Carpenters. Go easy Karen...

  • This makes me cry.

    So young and so talented.

  • death sucks, it takes away all u got and all you'll ever have.karen carpenter was a good soft rock/ballad singer-maybe the best.

  • thank you for posting this video,.... still can´t understand...loosing her...**

  • @berni23 Richard prefered her in her" Skinny-jeans"... hence the obsession with being thin! .... Looking good for her man!

  • KAREN CARPENTERS WAS A LEGEND AND STILL ARE.THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLD MUSICS AND TIMES.I JUST LOVE THE CLASSICS SONGS.

  • krauts cannot express love or affection as they as so cold and dead as wood inside

  • 1) richard carpenter is hot

    2) karen carpenter rocks

    3) the part when linda perry says "no one can does karen carpenter's emotion" is awesome

  • She was awesome back in the days...I wish she was still around singing.

  • Okay seriously.. What's up with all the nasty comments on here? Karen Carpenter had a serious problem with her weight, and for you to sit here and call her fat is wrong. But if you have to be little somebody that lost their life because of a horrible disease, then you do that. But don't you dare do it in front of me and on videos that I watch. K thanks.

  • @swimtoshore89 I'm with you....It's trollers like Lindawatcher and others that lead very empty lives and the only way they can get attention is to post something on YouTube so that they can get a reaction....Otherwise, to them, their life has no meaning.

  • @swimtoshore89 I agree, I don't get it but like Karenfan09 said it just pathetic, hurting people that are just Trolls..insensitive jerks. There comments show where their at and it's pathetic and sad; Ignore them or flag their crap!

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  • @Karenfan09 ...... Next to you?........

  • @Lindawatcher HA HA !!! That sooo funnny !!!! NOT !!!

  • @Karenfan09 Well thank you!.....

  • What on the earth made her thin?

    Why does God take talented person away from us?

    Was it too beautiful?

    Was it too beautiful to last?

  • I feel so sad for her brother to this day...

  • @Linnas79 So Happy you made it God Bless

  • I wish I could have saved her some how, oh how I wish I could have saved her :(

  • I miss you Karen!! Just watched the Karen Carpenter Story! I miss that beautiful voice!

  • Karen Carpenter had the same birthday as Jon Bon Jovi... there is truth in the saying, "you learn something new every day"

  • Tell it to Vogue and the rest of the fashion magazines .

  • Such a tragic loss. Wonderful voice, wonderful person.

  • The report said she was down to 5.5 stones = 77 Pounds..Oh my Lord...That is so tragic :(

  • @LAWoman323213 It should be noted that when Karen learned of the relationship she was completely mortified and shared her feelings with her brother on a number of occasions, leading to a final argument where Richard told his sister "We have had the tests done there will be no problem if we have children in the future. So let it drop!". Richard and Mary have five children: Kristi Lynn, Traci Tatum, Mindi Karen (named after his late sister), Colin Paul and Taylor Mary.

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  • There is no stigma in liking the Carpenters. I liked them right off. I will never forget hearing "Close to you" the first time, in a high school gym. I thought "carpenters" was a group name, like "Beatles". I was hooked right off! I cherished every note, from every song! Even my straight-arrow parents adored the carpenters.

  • Such a beautiful person; such a beautiful voice. It is so sad that she couldn't see that in herself. I was in high school in the '70's and the Carpenters were big then. I love their songs to this day!! Pure, good, no hatred. BK

  • Too bad. I liked her singing and she was pretty too.

  • I remember in the movie her mother said"I don't have to tell her I love her." She still should have been told but I guess her mom had that old fashioned thing about not showing love.

  • @lucasboden Thank you.^-^

  • Teenagers like me should really listen to the Carpenters. They're underrated these days.

    Karen will ALWAYS, ALWAYS be my favorite vocalist by miles. No wait... by lightyears! :)

  • karen is in  heaven shes singing to all the angels up there our lord rejoyices

  • 32 young,so very sad.

  • In 1983 I was 15 yrs. old & I used to listen to the Carpenters all the time. R.I.P. Karen <3

  • Greatest female voice of all time!

  • i don't know for sure if there is a heaven or not. but if there is, i really hope karen is there. how amazing it must have been to hear her live.

  • I grew up in the era of Richard and Karen's success. I took music in university, and played in a band for over 17 years. To this day, she is still my favorite female vocalist. It was a traumatic day when she passed away in 1983. The world lost a great duo when she left us. Richard and Karen's music will never die in my mind. I still listen to it today. I always will. They were my favorite musical group of all time. They should top the list in Music history. Ron B.

  • Wow shes so pretty at (3:43) ......What a big loss...We missed you Karen...We loved you soooooo much!!

  • god bless karen to bad what happend to her she had the best female sining voice i have ever heard.her story is similar to the rudine howard story.i am just glad richard is still doing well even without karen.

  • I will never forget you, Karen.

  • @Jzeaser

    why ask questions you can easily find out for yourself?

  • @cubicleboy it was more of a statement than a question.... but you seem to lack that insight... guess thats what happens when you spend your life in a cubicle.

  • she looked so much older than 32.

  • It is all in the mind. And it's locked in

  • I'm 6 stone

  • Karen is the greatest singer in history

  • watching this, you just can't believe that she is gone!!! its just so hard to believe. I agree with what Dionne Warwick says about Karen's legacy being around for a long time, OF COURSE IT WILL! We all know that Lady Ga Ga's music isn't going to last the test of time!! Karen is the best female singer who ever lived, that is why she is my favorite, she put so much of her heart and soul into everything she sang, that is what makes her timeless, people will always relate to that

  • This story is so Incredibly sad that it makes your eye's water.

  • "Wasn't treated properly" such a lost,foolish notion...

  • She'll always be remembered. Her voice carries through time.

  • at 7:46 Karen is wearing a mid-riff

  • danke,thank you,!

    in unseren herzen lebst du weiter!

  • Karen was the "Marilyn Monroe" of the music world.....so many problems....and such genius....One wishes there had been more treatment then. And Dionne was right--Karen's legacy is going to be around for a LONG time. Greatest singer of all time--that's so right. So why aren't they in the R and R hall of fame??

  • so sorry for the Carpenter family....still

    Rest in Peace sweet Karen, your angel voice lives on & on**

    xo xo xo

  • Thank you so much Karen, to give us your beautiful warm voice.

  • More than a beautiful voice. She had something in her songs that got inside you and actually made you feel good. Our wedding song in 1971 was "We've Only Just Begun". I still get chills when I hear it.....so much of life ahead for us. Thank you Karen.

  • you could tell in her face =( poor baby..... she is a and always will be a legend

  • i cry so much everytime i hear her sing!! she had a voice that dug right down to your very soul and touched you in the most loving and intimate way. I LOVE YOU KAREN!! your in a much better place now and i will hear you sing with god's angels again someday when my time has come to go and see you and my pappy and mammy and jesus!!! PEACE KAREN!! you made this world alittle easier to stand when you was here !!

  • she changed the world in life and death. Phenominal. Thank you Karen and Richard

  • karen was the most beautiful person.... and the best talent artist :)

  • Karen Carpenter has the most beautiful voice I have ever heard no one will ever compare.

  • who is at 5:20?

  • I am in the middle of Little Girl Blue--who are these people that are being interviewed? Where did this program come from, i would like to see it all.

  • I have a collection of Carpenters songs on my iPod! There!!!

  • Karen was so good.  RIP

  • Loved Karen Carpenter,  the greatest singer ever.

  • you are right she was always finding love

  • SHE WILL ALWAYS BE THE EPITOME OF ELEGANCE, CLASS & SENTIMENTAL SONGS. I LOVE KAREN VERY VERY MUCH. INDEED, SHE WAS THE GREATEST FEMALE VOCALIST OF ALL TIME.

  • that one mythical fall/winter night in upper east tennessee round about 1970 at a small college campus has never to this day been discussed-- should it be ---maybe not---just another show on the "rode ode'--and the CRYSTAL LULLIBYE---I did not make to the show----and folks around here stll think i am crazy----for they don't believe it ever happened---

  • Karen Carpenter had this ethereal, classic beauty and an ethereal, , inexplicable voice that perhaps, no other singer, can ever come close to. she sings from a sacred place that is known to us all regardless of time and genre. we will miss you forever, Karen

  • no doubt she was a special talent, and that awesome voice stays in your head forever... I've yet to get used to her being gone...oh,well...

  • "EYE" MEAN GOD; SHE COULD NOT SEE THAT IF SHE DIED, WE CRY, AND WE CRY, AND WE CRY, AND WE DIE, AND WE DIE, AND WE DIE! AND SHE JUST COULD NOT SEE THIS! WHAT IS BLOCKING THE COMMUTATION FROM HER HEART TO OUR HEART? SOMETHING IS BLOCKING THE INFORMATION THAT SHE DOES NOT SEE THAT IF SHE DIE, WE DIE! IT IS SO PAINFUL, GOD IS IT PAINFUL TO LOVE SOMEONE SO MUCH, AND THEY DO NOT SEE IT. "EYE" 5

  • @alphakid42 eating disorders are not addictions, but mental illnesses.

  • one of the greates female voices ever

  • How lucky we were to have her for 30+ yrs. But Lord knows that choir in Heaven was missing it's lead.

  • the song at the end of the vid is 'A song for you' which karen sings perfectly.....sadly missed. im a devoted fan...xx

  • I still miss for a new album!! I want more songs with her voice.

  • the world missed her..everyone does...

  • Maybe her soul was in tune with the millions upon millions of starving people in this world that we have created maybe that's the frequency she was working on i don't know I only know she touched me every time she opened her instrument and instead of stuffing her face she chose to just give from it.., maybe she is on top of the world looking down on creation

  • I miss her. Absolutely Beautiful was she, and the younger years of my Life had her voice in it. 

  • We share the same birthday - I didn't know that until now. Karen had THE most beautiful voice ever. I loved to hear her sing and my brother told me years after she had died that he had a major crush on her. RIP Karen, you are part of wonderful memories of my younger years.

  • Her voice was truly magnificent...I wasn't quite 5 years old when she died, but I discovered the Carpenters years later and still am a fan to this day....She is truly one of the finest female singers that ever lived....Such a tragic end....I love you Karen...RIP

  • man this is why we should never mock.The ones that do help them.

  • Gosh...I thought richard was gay

  • As the fella on the video said, she was the greatest voice of all time. Such a cruel, wasting disease. Hopefully more will be known about Anorexia in the next few years. Rest in Peace, Karen

  • love u karen. thank u for giving me a great challenge singing your songs with my original voice...that's mean a very deep voice i had and i made it...thank you very much. love tyler 86.

  • always i love this lady so beatifull ,,great voice the better from this word

  • She is singing in my heart

  • When I was young I'd listened to the radio waiting for my favourite songs. And Karen Carpenter sang them. Have a look at Tony Peluso. Does anyone think he may have had a crush on Her. Two Beautiful People gone too soon. R.I.P Karen and Tony.

  • Hehe, now there's a woman who could've used some cheeseburgers!

  • I was only 6 months old when Karen Carpenter died! So sad she had to. I'd love to see how her life and the world would have been if she was still here :)

  • So much talent..... So much sadness.....

  • ONE OF THE BESTS!! WE MISS YOU KAREN !!

  • So sad. She was such a beautiful woman too. She was stunning in the picture at 3.41

  • Her music will live forever! No one comes close to her beautiful voice.

  • Richard Carpenter was pretty hot when he was young, and still handsome as he got older. Karen died 2 months before I was born. God bless her and her parents in heaven and her brother and his wonderful wife and kids here on earth.

  • thank you very much for posting this.

  • music with meaning

  • we still love her

  • very sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!r.i.p.­ karen

  • Wow this is really sad :((( Long live Karen Carpenter

  • Wow, I never knew that was her singing some of those songs I remember as a little kid.

  • 5.5 stone= 82.5lbs??

    What is with the English and using Stone as a way of describing weight. Are they obsessed with Stone Henge?

  • whats the title of the tune (song) at 3:49. Its sound familiar

  • Richard is a true DICK

  • @loppcool1 , Why is richard a true dick? I think he cared very much for his sister, and only wanted the best for her. He loved her very much.

  • @loppcool1 why?

  • Very poignant to hear guitarist Tony Peluso's comments as he too has now passed away.

  • @torquesport

    she died before fans could connect with artists through the internet and give the artists support. they were held hostage to what the media wrote back then.

  • @The096757 Exactly! That was an awesome way to put it because that was sooo true.

    R.I.P. Karen Carpenter

  • may i know what is the title of the song played near the end of the vid pls?

  • @jpmw "Yesterday Once More", written by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis, is a hit song by The Carpenters from their 1973 album Now & Then.

  • @jpmw yesterday once more

  • We all miss you Karen! You left us too soon.

  • l will say that she was a great singer/person and was yes the best l love her music

  • Pity they couldnt put her in treatment

  • My sister almost died of the same issues 10 months later. Thankfully, doctors had learned more about how to treat people with this disorder by then and my sister survived-- barely. There are still some residual issue 30 years later, but my sister is testimony to the fact that Karen's death was not in vain. Wish she were still here.

  • My sister almost died of the same issues 10 months later. Thankfully, doctors had learned more about how to treat people with this disorder by then and my sister survived-- barely. There are still some residual issue 30 years later, but my sister is testimony to the fact that Karen's death was not in vain. Wish she were still here.

  • I love u Karen forever!!!

  • 28 years ago today, the world lost the best female singer ever too soon. =(

    The world misses you Karen!!! Much love <3!!!

  • @DaileyVincentFan100

    YESTERDAY ONCE MORE

    

  • Most people when they have a certain psychological disorder be it substance abuse, alcoholism or anorexia or the like, denial is very common. Richard knew her problem only for Karen to deny it.

  • Poor, sad, tragic Richard Carpenter: pawn to the psychopathology in the family that denied existence to an as talented,as gifted, more popularly received sister. It "wasn't supposed to be her"...she wasn't "allowed" to have a life, much less as Grammy awarded voice. How did Julia Roberts escape the same fate?

  • @Karloffrules What an idiotic comparison. If anything the Roberts family has disowned Eric in favor of Julia. You obviously have a chip on your shoulder against brothers/MEN in general.

  • she's the best female singer ever...

  • There was no treatment for anorexia back then. People still die from the effects of anorexia today. Karen was fabulous.

  • I was born in march 2

  • An absolute tragic loss. I loved her and her singing so much. To me she was even bigger than Olivia newton-John. She was the absolute greatest. I will always miss her. Long live her memory. RIP karen. We will never forget u.

  • @MrBionicman her touching n harmonious n

    magic voice

  • Her voice is unlike any other. a true talent. R.I.P Karen.

  • @Jamy729 i still hope that some day some singer will turnout to have a voice like Karens.

    Would Richard then write songs for her?

    i had al the records of the Carpenters : it is really music for a SUNDAY MORNING

    A village in the fog and the sun shining through it and someone playing a piano and a bird singing

    I REALLY LOVE THEIR MUSIC

  • i could easily say she is one if not the best singer ever to live.

  • I don't know who is the greatest singer ever to live or if he/she is even out there yet. But Karen was a really good singer.

  • Rest in peace, Karen.

  • so very sad

  • Great video - which program is this from??

  • this was not a good death. what a shame.

  • awe man...so she passes away 8 months before I was born. I miss the 80's and Mrs. Carpernter is one that stood out to me as a star. :(

  • I can't stop crying now. I love her so. Miss her so much

  • shame she'd ONLY be 60yrs old

  • man you can see how skinny she was in that one interview 32 years old good lord she was too young lived to fast I was really shocked to hear of her death, she had such a beautiful voice and an awesome drummer definitely a Legend in my book

  • thanks

  • She was SOO young!

  • rip karen, i will always love you and richard

  • The Carpenters' version of "Touch Me When We're Dancing" was released on their "Made in America" album in the summer of 1981 The video for "Touch Me When Were Dancing" can be found on The Carpenters video collection of Gold.

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