The Carpenters (unknown at the time) won a “Battle of the Bands” at the Hollywood Bowl. Those were big in LA at the time.
The music executives wanted HER because of her voice - completely untrained and they’d never heard anything like it - not her brother.
She said they came as a duo or not at all. Glad she stood up for her brother, and the rest is history.
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!
See postv104.