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Karen Carpenter Would Have Turned 73 Today - What is Your Favorite Carpenters Song?
Twitter ^ | March 2nd, 2023 | ASKdes

Posted on 03/02/2023 6:19:42 AM PST by shadowlands1960

#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.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: carpenter; carpenters; karen; karencarpenter
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To: shadowlands1960

Love her voice. Love so many.

I might choose “Yesterday Once More”, because it brings back so much nostalgia and really fits, even for my time (except the “shalala” and “whoooaooa”!)


61 posted on 03/02/2023 7:18:10 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: SamAdams76
She polled ahead of John Bonham on Drums in a 1975 Playboy poll, she might have been good but yeah, ok


62 posted on 03/02/2023 7:18:10 AM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Bon of Babble

Good point.

Richard was great at the music writing, and arrangements. But it was good he didn’t sing too much. Very honky and nerdy sounding!


63 posted on 03/02/2023 7:20:19 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: shadowlands1960

I don’t know if I have one favorite- Top of the World comes to mind.
I loved all her songs. I’m getting a little teary thinking about that beautiful voice silenced forever.
She was the greatest.

Close To You
We’ve Only Just Begun

There was no one to compare.


64 posted on 03/02/2023 7:21:58 AM PST by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars.)
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To: shadowlands1960

65 posted on 03/02/2023 7:23:50 AM PST by headless_thompson_gunner ( )
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To: shadowlands1960

Karen’s voice always made me think of warm honey

My thought exactly!

RIP KC…


66 posted on 03/02/2023 7:25:14 AM PST by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars.)
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To: dfwgator

I love this song! And yes, it’s strange.


67 posted on 03/02/2023 7:28:31 AM PST by philippa
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To: shadowlands1960

A Big Mac could have saved her.


68 posted on 03/02/2023 7:31:04 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: shadowlands1960

One didn’t really have a favorite Carpenters song but as the old saying goes, one would have given her a ham sandwich, or a pizza.


69 posted on 03/02/2023 7:33:23 AM PST by OKSooner (War is a racket. COVID-19 is a racket.)
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To: shadowlands1960

Only Yesterday


70 posted on 03/02/2023 7:33:44 AM PST by MrHead
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To: shadowlands1960

Rainbow Connection . . .


71 posted on 03/02/2023 7:34:51 AM PST by MCSETots
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To: headless_thompson_gunner

“Eres tú” ?


72 posted on 03/02/2023 7:37:36 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: shadowlands1960

It was all so long ago and far away


73 posted on 03/02/2023 7:52:37 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jiim)
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To: Vaquero

Sorry I got so upset.

It was just such a nice post, asking people to remember such a sweet time and the way you posted about her death just seemed disrespectful.


74 posted on 03/02/2023 7:56:38 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: dfwgator

“I remember they did a Carpenters tribute album back in the 90s, with modern groups doing their covers, when they asked the bands which song they wanted to cover they all said, “Superstar”. Sonic Youth ended up doing it.”

I bought that CD when it came out. Mathew Sweet doing “Let me be the one” was the only track I still listen to.


75 posted on 03/02/2023 8:04:24 AM PST by ropin71 (God Bless our Troops!)
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To: MCSETots

Any Karen Carpenter thread is almost by default also a Paul Williams thread. ‘Babs’ did a great job with ‘Evergreen’ I bet Karen would have killed it.


76 posted on 03/02/2023 8:18:46 AM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

Good stuff. As good as she was, though, Karen comes in a deep second to Ann Wilson of Heart, greatest female rock singer ever.


77 posted on 03/02/2023 8:35:44 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: LS
Karen comes in a deep second to Ann Wilson of Heart, greatest female rock singer ever.

I preferred Annie Lennox to Wilson, but that's just me.

78 posted on 03/02/2023 8:38:43 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: shadowlands1960

Yesterday Once More


79 posted on 03/02/2023 8:54:17 AM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: shadowlands1960

“We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Close to You”.

I Miss them both!


80 posted on 03/02/2023 8:58:32 AM PST by egfowler3 (Kung Flu, today's Hypochondriacal psychosis (aka: Delusional parasitosis))
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