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The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait is a Christmas television special featuring The Carpenters that aired on ABC on December 19, 1978. It was the second Christmas TV special that the pop duo made and was taped in October 1978.
The standard CD version of Christmas Portrait, first issued in 1984, is a "Special Edition" compendium of selected tracks from the Carpenters' two Christmas albums into one 70-minute program, with tracks from each interspersed in the running order; "Ave Maria" was remixed at this time in order to include a choral track that vanished in 1978 and was later found.
This is a comprehensive list of songs written or performed by pop duo the Carpenters, featuring Karen and Richard Carpenter. This list includes official studio albums, live albums, solo albums, and notable compilations that feature rare or unreleased material.
Some "near misses" at recording music as simply "Carpenters" finally brought the singers success after they appeared early in 1970 with Burt Bacharach in Los Angeles. "He liked them and they went ...
An Old-Fashioned Christmas is the second Christmas album and twelfth studio album by the American music duo Carpenters, released on October 26, 1984. It is also second posthumous release after the death of singer and drummer Karen Carpenter in 1983.
The Carpenters produced their final television special in 1980, called Music, Music, Music!, with guest stars Ella Fitzgerald and John Davidson. [140] Karen's outfit for the show was designed by Bill Belew , who was nominated for an Emmy Award for best costume design.
A Chappell Roan-Carpenter duet: The two Island Records stars and friends have had a breakthrough year in music. They gave their often mutual fans a gift with their rendition of “Last Christmas ...
The lyrics were written in 1946 by 20-year-old Frank Pooler, which, according to him, were about a love interest he had at the time. Twenty years later in 1966, when he was choral director at California State University, Long Beach, two of his aspiring music students, Karen and Richard Carpenter, who were beginning to have success as a local band, asked him if he had any ideas for holiday songs.