[MHT]

"Feelings" was absolutely awful--it made anyone who was sad feel worse. Who knows how many suicides "Feelings" was responsible for.

Another gaud-awful "hit" was "We've Only Just Begun". I absolutely love Karen Carpenter's voice. I think it was an acquired taste (like learning to love Elvis late in life). Now that she's gone, when you listen to her golden voice you realize what a national treasure it was. However, there was alot of schlock that came out of those lips and "We've Only Just Begun" was a wedding standard of the 70's. Because of high divorce rates, half of those weddings meant that song was the beginning of the end!

[drjimmy]

Another gaud-awful "hit" was "We've Only Just Begun".

That song was originally in a television commercial for a California bank, in a scene involving a newlywed couple. Richard Carpenter saw/heard the commercial, liked the song, recorded it with Karen, and the rest is history.

FYI, this also provided the big break for the song's co-writer, Paul Williams. The little troll is responsible for some of the drek mentioned elsewhere on this thread, including Streisand's "Evergreen," the "Love Boat" theme, and Helen Reddy's "You and Me Against the World."