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Carpenters - SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN - 1974 (1984 Remix)

The Carpenters All Of My Life

We've Only Just Begun - Carpenters

About A Star On Earth A Star In Heaven

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I've been so many places in my life and time.
I've sung a lot of songs I've made some bad rhyme. I've acted out my love in stages with ten thousand people watching. But we're alone now and I'm singing this song for you.
I know your image of me is what I hope to be.
I've treated you unkindly but darlin' can't you see. There's no one more important to me.
Darlin' can't you please see through me. Cause we're alone now and I'm singing this song for you. (*) you tought me precious secrets of the truth withholding nothing.
You came out in front and I was hiding. But now I'm so much better and if my words don't come together. Listen to the melody cause my love is in there hiding. (**) I love you in a place where there's no space or time. I love you for in my life you are a friend of mine. And when my life is over remember when we were together. We were alone and I was singing this song for you.

» CHECK OUT TANIA AS KAREN
In 2006 Tania embarked on her Tribute to Karen Carpenter.

Karen Carpenter's voice is considered by many to be the finest and most expressive in popular music. She is praised for her control, sense of pitch, and the subtle nuances of personal expression she introduced to a melody.

Tania has always been a big fan of Karen's melodic voice and she feels it a great honour to pay tribute to her memory. When you hear Tania sing those classic songs by The Carpenters you can really tell that she is loving every note that shows her voice of to perfection.

» Songs Include
•Yesterday Once More
•We've Only Just Begun
•Top Of The World
•Ticket To Ride
•This Masquerade
•Theres A Kind Of Hush
•Superstar
•Solitaire
•Rainy Days & Mondays
•Please Mr Postman
•Only Yesterday
•Jambalaya
•Its Going To Take Some Time
•I Wont Last A Day Without Yopu
•I Need To Be In Love
•Goodbye To Love
•For All We Know
•Close To You

I JUST LOVE KC AND RC!!!!!!!! THE GREATEST EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

--Go Carpenters!--

VOTE FOR THE CARPENTERS TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grammy Awards:
☆ღ☆ღ☆Best New Artist 1970
Best Contemporary Vocal Group, Close to You 1970☆ღ☆ღ☆
☆ღ☆ღ☆Best Vocal Pop Group for Carpenters Album 1971

Grammy Nominations:
☆ღ☆ღ☆1970 - Record of the Year, Close To You - Album of the Year Close To You - Best Arrangement Accompanying vocalist Close To You
☆ღ☆ღ☆1971 - Best Arrangement Accompanying vocalist, Superstar
Best vocal performance by a duo, group or chorus, Carpenters Album
Best Album of the Year, Carpenters
☆ღ☆ღ☆1972 - Best Instrumental Arrangement - Flat Baroque

Gold Records:
Singles - Close To You, Rainy Days and Mondays, We've Only Just Begun, For All We Know, Superstar, Hurting Each Other and Sing
Albums - Close To You, Carpenters and A Song For You

In 1987, movie director Todd Haynes used songs by Richard and Karen in his movie Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story. In the movie, Haynes portrayed the Carpenters with Barbie dolls, rather than live actors. The movie was later pulled from distribution after Richard Carpenter won a court case involving song royalties; Haynes had not obtained legal permission to use The Carpenters' recordings.

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Karen Carpenter had one of the most beautiful natural singing voices ever and her brother Richard could certainly craft some beautiful songs.

The Carpenters deserve their place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for their contribution to music! They were HUGE in the 1970's and would have continued to be if Karen Carpenter had survived. Noone has matched Karen's voice or Richard's arrangements and noone ever will. So visit http://www.gocarpenters.com and sign the petition!

The Carpenters' covers of songs like "This Masquerade" "Song for you" and "Superstar" are seminal performances. Plus, the group virtually invented the "rock ballad" with the brilliant recording "Goodbye to Love" (Sideman Tony Peluso deserves recognition in is own right for his master-stroke).
Richard Carpenter's production, arranging and composing alone merit induction; Karen Carpenter's irreplacable voice AND influence on future singers AND female drummers are the type of things the R&RHOF SHOULD be celebrating and recognizing. Failure to do so is tragic.

What is so hilarious about this is people who sneer: "THAT'S not really rock and roll".

Rock and roll boasts of its roots in anti-establishment and here comes some elite snob telling the rest of us what does and doesn't qualify as rock and roll.

The new establishment = just as corrupt and oppressive as the old establishment.

Why - for example - is James Taylor in and the Carpenters not? Is it sales? Carpenters sold far more records in the 1970's than Taylor (including several #1 and top 10 records). Both wrote their own songs, both were known for their easy-listening sound. I just don't get it.

Like it or not, the songs of the Carpenters are part of our youth. You know, back in the old days when songs told stories and you could actually understand the words and listen while your parents were in the room!
Beautiful lyrics like "I Need to Be in Love" and a true Christmas original "Merry Christmas, Darling" should be recognized and honor the "easy" listening sound.

The Carpenters deserve more than an apology from a music "establishment" that has been slow to admit the obvious -- excellence isn't limited to any one genre or form and is, in fact, its best when it breaks new ground -- as they did with sparkle, sweetness and directness. The Carpenters should have been inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame years ago and it is a discredit to the integrity of the award and the spirit of rock & roll that it's taken so long. Jann Wenner and his ilk are meglomaniacal cowards who got rich as bystanders to something they neither embodied or enabled. This is the most outrageously indefensible black-balling and disgrace

The song "Now", recorded in April 1982, was the last song Karen Carpenter recorded. She recorded it after a two-week intermission in her therapy with psychotherapist Steven Levenkron in New York City for her anorexia. The sight of Karen upon her return to California in April shook Richard and his parents, since she had lost a considerable amount of weight since beginning her therapy with Steven Levenkron.

The autopsy stated that Karen's death was the result of emetine cardiotoxicity due to anorexia nervosa. Under the anatomical summary, the first item was heart failure, with anorexia as second. The third finding was cachexia, which is extremely low weight and weakness and general body decline associated with chronic disease. Emetine cardiotoxicity implies that Karen abused ipecac syrup, an easily obtained emetic medicine that is only meant to be taken by persons who have accidentally swallowed poison. Agnes and Richard disputed this finding. Both have stated that they never found empty vials of ipecac in her apartment, and both have denied that there was any concrete evidence that Karen had been vomiting. Richard believes that Karen was not willing to do this because it could damage her vocal cords, relying on laxatives alone to maintain her low body weight.

Her funeral service took place on February 8, 1983, at the Downey United Methodist Church where the Rev. Charles Neal, an old family friend and their pastor in New Haven, officiated. Carpenter, dressed in a rose colored suit, lay in an open white casket. Over a thousand mourners passed through to say goodbye, among them her friends Dorothy Hamill, Olivia Newton-John, Petula Clark, and Dionne Warwick. Carpenter's estranged husband Tom attended her funeral, where he took off his wedding ring and threw it into the casket.

She was buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Cypress, California. In 2003, she was re-interred, next to her parents, in a mausoleum at the Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, California.

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