Written by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis, the track takes listeners on a reflective journey back to the music of a generation past, combining Karen Carpenter’s hauntingly emotive vocals with a melody that conveys both warmth and melancholy. Recorded at A&M Studios in Los Angeles, the ...
playing around his hometown of New Haven in a jazz trio and studying the instrument further at Yale while still only 15. The Carpenter family soon moved to Downey, CA, however, and Richard joined the local high school marching band. Although his sister Karen had no formal training, she also...
"Merry Christmas Darling" was written for The Carpenters and is usually considered to be their signature holiday tune. Karen Carpenter's voice fits the melancholy nature of the lyrics perfectly. 35 of 100 'Angels We Have Heard on High': Sixpence None the Richer (2008) Sixpence None the Riche...
And Carpenter applied some not-so-subtle pressure on Karen by telling her how eager he was to begin work on the next Carpenters album. “I was much better by then and was kicking myself for what I had done to my life,” he said. “So I mentioned that whenever she was ready, I wa...
Dean Martin’s billowing vocals gently overlapping with Marilyn Maxwell’s delicate tone make for a cozy-by-the-fire feel, as described in the 77-year-old song written by Frank Loesser. Schmaltz Factor: 4. Considering there’s no actual mention of Christmas or any holiday, combined with the...
“Lie In the Sound,” by sadly defunct Southern California band Trespassers William, is the sort of song written by someone who knows that feeling only too well. And has there ever been a description of love that’s as simultaneously utilitarian and sad as, “What is love, but whatever ...
“A Song for You,” written and performed by Leon Russell in 1970, went on to be covered by dozens of singers, some of the most important in popular music: Aretha Franklin, Willie Nelson, Whitney Houston, Karen Carpenter, Amy Winehouse, Christina Aguilera, even Bizzy Bone (with help from...
written by Freya Ridings Nothin’ to do but frown/ Rainy days and Mondays always get me down. Mental health is no joke. Watch this performance of The Carpenters playing Rainy Days and Mondays and see what a beautiful, strong, fun, talented woman Karen Carpenter is. In less than ten years...
Unlike the rest of Tidal’s piano-forward tracks, “Sleep to Dream” builds from the beat up, a rumble anchoring Apple as she spits bars, her words so sharp and precise they could have been written with a scalpel. “I’ve got my own hell to raise,” is her proclamation in the ...
DIDJAKNOW? 2:WhenJUST DROPPED INwas written (by country songwriter MICKEY NEWBURY), it was first offered to JERRY LEE LEWIS, who turned the song down flat! DIDJAKNOW?-3:A Boston radio station began playing RUBY, DON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN as an album track while BUT YOU KNOW I LOV...