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I'm surprised no one has posted this yet. A beautiful note-for-note cover of the Carpenters classic, "Superstar" by the Russian group, Leonid & Friends.

#KarenCarpenter Karen Carpenter’s birthday today. The most beautiful singing voice of all time. Born 2 March 1950 died 4 February 1983 age 32. Got her music to remember how great she was as a singer. R.I.P. Karen Carpenter.

This (day) marks the 40th anniversary of the untimely passing of Karen Carpenter. The singer, whose worldwide popularity has not waned for 53 years, was a month shy of her 33rd birthday when her heart stopped beating the morning of Feb. 4, 1983. Her death was attributed to the effects of anorexia nervosa, from which she had suffered for several years.

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...this weekend we mark the year of tyranny known as DC 19 (The Dictatorship of COVID-19). Day 362 Of The Dictatorship Of COVID-19, Day 362 Of America And The World Held Hostage "Just in the last 12 months in the United States of America we were under the threat of the force of law for losing our liberties if we decided to go outside our homes, if we decided to travel, if we decided that we were going to open our businesses and trade with each other, if we decided that we wanted to go to church and worship. These...

"Superstar" is a 1969 song written by Bonnie Bramlett and Leon Russell. It became most popular after its treatment by the Carpenters in 1971. Produced by Richard Carpenter with Jack Daugherty, it was recorded with members of "The Wrecking Crew," a famed collection of Los Angeles area session musicians. As the song's storyline was originally more risqué than what was typical for the Carpenters, Richard changed a lyric in the second verse from "And I can hardly wait/To sleep with you again" to the somewhat less suggestive "And I can hardly wait/To be with you again."The track was finished in...

Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun 1970

I'm a little late to the game, but late than never. I'm just realizing the beauty and talent of the Carpenters: Link

WASHINGTON—Billy Raye, a 51-year-old unemployed bike courier, is looking for work. Fortunately for him, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters is seeking paid demonstrators to march and chant in its current picket line outside the McPherson Building, an office complex here where the council says work is being done with nonunion labor. "For a lot of our members, it's really difficult to have them come out, either because of parking or something else," explains Vincente Garcia, a union representative who is supervising the picketing. So instead, the union hires unemployed people at the minimum wage—$8.25 an hour—to walk picket lines....

Thursday, August 20, 2009 Local investors bid to own Philly newspapers A group of local investors led by real estate executive Bruce Toll is offering a plan valued at $92 million to purchase the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and philly.com, and lead the organization out of bankruptcy. According to a release, the new ownership group would include the Carpenters’ Union Pension Fund and Penn Matrix Investments. “Today, Philadelphians once again stepped up in a big way. The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com filed a reorganization plan that will allow the company to emerge successfully from bankruptcy while...

The carpenters union has hired dozens of homeless people to stand in for union members to wage a "shame" campaign against a nonunion contractor, a Tulsa World investigation shows. The Local 943 Carpenters Union has organized a 2-year effort to coerce Green Country Interiors Inc. to pay union wages and benefits to its construction workers, said David Hannagan, president and part owner of Green Country. Beginning in April 2007, the carpenters union began placing personnel and large banners at businesses that had hired Green Country for construction work. At the first site, Crowne Plaza Hotel, 100 E. Second St., the...

Striding onto a Seattle-area work site with a white hard hat, Jimmy Matta converses in Spanish with Latino laborers who carry paintbrushes, power drills or spackling tools. How much are you getting paid? How many hours are you working? Matta gives them his business card, promises his help and drives off to the next site. A decade of organizing Latino construction workers is paying off for Matta, 32, who recently became the first Latino organizing director of the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters. Born in Idaho to illegal migrant farmworkers, Matta spent much of his early childhood in the...

I can't believe it's been a quarter of a century. Twenty-five years ago today, February 4, 1983, we were jolted by very sad news: Karen Carpenter, one of the great voices of a generation, had died at 32. She had anorexia, perhaps stemming in part from a review of a performance of The Carpenters, the band she and her brother Richard led, at the Hollywood Bowl in which she was described as "the chubby little sister." Karen Carpenter touched many lives with her haunting vocals. Her voice has been compared to some of the great singers. Those who have never...

Times Herald-Record August 23, 2007 Montgomery — Orange County Choppers is building its new world headquarters "off the backs of the little people," or so claims Sam Fratto, a union business agent. He is with Local 363 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Earlier this month, he posted a video about the labor dispute on YouTube, an online video forum. "They got scabs building this place," he tells the camera, broadcasting in front of the OCC construction site off Route 17K in the Town of Newburgh. "This is hurting Orange County businesses and families, people who really work for...

On reading that the Carpenters Union hired others to picket for them in Washington, D.C., Ed Morrissey thinks the pickets who are paid less than WalMart workers should unite: "....The ironies here are so thick that one could cut them with a labor-produced knife. Does the union offer these workers a chance to organize? Perhaps they should form Picket Line Walkers Local #1 and demand a better wage than $8 per hour. The working conditions sound rather grim as well. Do these workers get paid breaks, health-care coverage, and a safe working environment? Er ... no. And let's take a...

WASHINGTON - The main national carpenter's union is joining a coalition of some of the nation's largest unions challenging the AFL-CIO's approach to leading the labor movement. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America broke away from the labor federation in 2001, saying it was shifting more of its resources to organizing and was impatient for the AFL-CIO to do the same. "The Carpenters' Union is proud to join with the most dynamic unions in the country," President Doug McCarron said in a release obtained by The Associated Press. A formal announcement was planned for Monday. The carpenters...

Bush adresses Labor Day picnic on Neville Island Monday, September 02, 2002Post-Gazette President George W. Bush, in Pittsburgh to celebrate Labor Day, called on Congress to enact a bill to create Homeland Security department and to pass his administration's version of bill to enact federal safeguards for terrorism insurance. President Bush helps to assemble a wall during a tour of the Carpenters' Joint Apprenticeship and Training Center on Neville Island. (Doug Mills, Associated Press) Bush's appearance, closed to the public, was at the Carpenters Joint Apprentice and Training Center on Neville Island. After a quck tour of the facility Bush...

<p>LOS ANGELES -- Gov. Gray Davis stood up more than 1,000 women Friday, while his Republican foe, Bill Simon Jr., tried to alleviate any fears they might have about his antiabortion views.</p> <p>Davis infuriated many in the crowd by refusing to cross a carpenters union picket line outside the Westin Bonaventure hotel downtown, where the Women's TownHall, a group of more than 130 women's organizations, held a gubernatorial candidates' forum.</p>