Legendary Carpenters composer dies aged 84 as tributes pour in for the We've Only Just Begun hitmaker

Daily Mail ^ | 23 May 2025 | By JESSICA JANES

[Ezekiel]

We've Only Just Begun

"We've Only Just Begun" is a single by the Carpenters, written by Roger Nichols (music) and Paul Williams (lyrics). It was ranked at No. 414 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."[3] It also became Carpenters' second consecutive top-five single in the Billboard Hot 100.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27ve_Only_Just_Begun

Sharing horizons that are new to us
Watching the signs along the way
Talkin' it over, just the two of us
Workin' together day to day, together

[vespa300]

We’ve only just begun. Big wedding song in the 70s and even a bank commercial. When things were better too:

Crocker Bank. My dad had an account at Crocker Bank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97X9huy7pHQ

[Diana in Wisconsin]

A very pretty song about how married life is supposed to be. :)

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Big wedding song in the 70s and even a bank commercial. When things were better too:

The commercial came first with Williams on vocals.

Interestingly, Crocker considered the song and marketing campaign behind it to be a failure because it attracted the wrong kind of customers: young adult customers with no collateral for loans.

[No name given]

Rest In Peace, Roger.

[TTFlyer]

He also wrote “Rainy Days and Mondays” which is a much better tune. Karen Carpenter made Rainy Dsys unforgettable.

[hoagy62]

With the voice that woman had, she could make a phone book sound unforgettable.

[TTFlyer]

True.

[Sirius Lee]

Maj 7ths sound gay.

[dfwgator]

So Little Enos is still with us.

[dfwgator]

With the voice that woman had, she could make a phone book sound unforgettable.

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And not a slouch on the drums.

[quilterdebbie]

Truth!

[MayflowerMadam]

“Karen Carpenter made Rainy Dsys unforgettable.”

Best voice ever. I cried when she died. What a waste.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

That was a very sad day.

[MayflowerMadam]

“That was a very sad day.”

THAT was the day that music died.

[JZelle]

No one sang it better than Chubbs Peterson.

[exPBRrat]

That was a great song.

[JohnnyP]

Yep, our wedding song, 1974. We lived it, lost her four years ago.

[JohnnyP]

Starship’s “Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now” has a similar theme:

… Let them say we’re crazy, I don’t care about that
Put your hand in my hand, baby, don’t ever look back
Let the world around us just fall apart
Baby, we can make it if we’re heart to heart