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Karen Carpenter solo All I Can Do: Offering/Ticket to Ride: 1969: 1969: Bettis, Carpenter: All of My Life: Offering/Ticket to Ride: 1969: 1969: Carpenter: All Those Years Ago: Pianist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor: 1998: 1998: Carpenter, Oland: Richard Carpenter solo All You Get from Love Is a Love Song: Passage: 1977: 1977: Eaton: An Old ...
The Carpenters garnered worldwide commercial success, scoring big hits mainly in the first half of the 1970s. RIAA-certified sales of their records (albums, singles and videos) have been estimated at around 34.6 million units. [ 1 ]
Richard dated Maria Luisa Galeazzi (Cooper), Karen’s hair and makeup artist, for several years in the 70s. In 1984, Carpenter married his cousin, Mary Rudolph. [31] Her brother, Mark Rudolph, was the Carpenters' road manager as well as the radio call-in "contestant" in the [Oldies] "Medley" on the album Now & Then (1973). The couple had been ...
The 20 track compilation covers the period from 1969 to 1981. Some editions contained "Hurting Each Other" as a bonus track. The compilation was repackaged as a 2001 dutch Yesterday Once More: De Nederlandse Singles Collectie by replacing "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" with "Sweet, Sweet Smile" and placing it as track 6.
40/40 (originally subtitled The Best Selection) is a two-disc compilation by American pop group The Carpenters.The album features 40 songs that span their entire career (10 of them were determined by Japanese fan voting), and first issued by Universal Japan on April 22, 2009 (forty years after they signed to A&M Records). [2]
Passage is the eighth studio album by the American music duo the Carpenters.Released in 1977, it produced the hit singles "All You Get from Love Is a Love Song", "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" and "Sweet, Sweet Smile".
In their review, Billboard noted that "brother and sister Richard and Karen Carpenter have come up with fresh and original concepts of music and singing in this debut LP on A&M. Richard's songs and arrangements, especially the overdubbing of his and Karen's voices, combine the best elements of pop, folk-rock, and jazz, and their version of the now classic "Get Together" makes it sound very new.
Karen and Richard Carpenter recorded the most successful version of the song. In 1970, "(They Long to Be) Close to You" was released by the Carpenters on their album Close to You (1970) and became their breakthrough hit. Believing the original title to be too long, Richard Carpenter added parentheses around "They Long to Be". [9]