Thanks for the Blue Notes heads up.
I’m a punker, but I’ve always loved the Carpenters. My first album was a Carpenters album, with the 2 of them posing on tidal pools in California, it looks like.
I am teaching my 4 year old to sing “Close To You” in a non-ironic manner, which is difficult.
That’s the one song of theirs I really don’t like.
It was popular when my little brother was a baby and my mom would always sing it to him like a lullaby.
It just never did it for me.
“My first album was a Carpenters album,...”
My very first album (freshman college) was also a Carpenters album.
Her voice plus his music are inimitable.