Carpenters - Tonight Show 1973 part 2

The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
air date?: Monday, November 5, 1973
very special guests: Carpenters
Part 1 - Medley "Superstar" "Rainy Days And Mondays" "Goodbye To Love"
Part 2 - Talk about touring, TV series, record sales
Part 3 - "Mr. Guder"

all parts:
youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9A899091631BC79E

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Carpenters
• Tonight
• Show
• Richard
• Karen
• Johnny
• Carson
• NBC
• 1973

[DXWXMX44]

Boy, the Carpenters are great especially Karen, but I am struck with how much class (in contrast if you know what I mean) Johnny Carson had. He knew when to SHUT UP - and wasn't afraid to go 10 sec without a TEE HEE or running off at the mouth. You got a comfortable interview when he was there. He let Karen's personality come through.

[MikeHudson65]

It's so great to see Karen in these interviews. She looks well here.

[fiddledeedee42able]

Richard Carpenter talks over Karen on every question...and what he has to say is...boring. Karen spends the interview looking over her shoulder at her brother interrupting her. It's frustrating when you want to hear what Karen has to say and all you can hear is Richard. It's a shame that she was never able to get out on her own and make her music independently. She was also a very good drummer. It would have been fun to hear her singing in a duet with another female vocalist while drumming.

[jamesings]

@greenwich1754. Example of change: child is so nice and innocent but as they get older, they get corrupted by other misbehaving humans, TV, internet, etc. Then we die as the sun will swallow earth in 2 billion years. Americans only want things that are bigger, faster and more convenient. So less need for human skills as computer will do them. And there is no time to talk to our children and parents face to face. So the changes in the modern era are mostly counter-productive.

[greenwich1754]

@jamesings You are a person after my own heart. We, as a society, are supposed to embrace "change" (which is what is in my pocket!). But Jesus says I am the same yesterday, today, and forever. I think most people would prefer their lives to not change (much). Change = unpredictability, which = instability. Looking forward to an unchangeable eternity!

[TeamJRob]

What an incredible voice she had and a great sound they had together.

[jamesings]

People forget that changes and new things are not always better. There will be never another Michelengelo, Mozart, Beethoven, van Gogh, John Lennon, Karen Carpenter, and Johnny Carson just to name a few. Carson was very intellingent man and asks right questions..unlike today's mediocre and overpaid talk show hosts.

[dmsjca]

Thank you so much for posting this video.

[JoLeana76]

She looks good her. She still had meat on her bones. But 2-3 years later, you could tell something was going on. By then she was skin and bones by 1976. So sad...RIP, Karen.

[hoibsh]

Lindsay Lohan will play Karen Carpenter in an upcoming biopic.