The Carpenters

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 73. Chapters: The Carpenters albums, The Carpenters songs, The Carpenters discography, Karen Carpenter, Help!, Superstar, Don't Cry for Me Argentina, When I Fall in Love, A Song for You, Ticket to Ride, (They Long to Be) Close to You, Richard Carpenter, Please Mr. Postman, Thank You for the Music, Christmas Portrait, There's a Kind of Hush, I'll Be Home for Christmas, We've Only Just Begun, Jambalaya, Sing, California Dreamin', Horizon, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, I Just Fall in Love Again, Top of the World, As Time Goes By, Baby It's You, Beechwood 4-5789, Rainbow Connection, Now & Then, Passage, Reason to Believe, Yesterday Once More, Nowhere Man, Our Day Will Come, Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, Touch Me When We're Dancing, Goodbye to Love, Solitaire, Johnny Angel, An Old-Fashioned Christmas, The Carpenters...Space Encounters, Hurting Each Other, I Need to Be in Love, Bless the Beasts and Children, For All We Know, Can't Smile Without You, I Won't Last a Day Without You, You're Just in Love, Sweet, Sweet Smile, Lovelines, Live at the Palladium, Rainy Days and Mondays, If I Were a Carpenter, I Can Dream, Can't I?, This Masquerade, Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again, Jack Daugherty, Merry Christmas Darling, Without a Song, Voice of the Heart, Make Your Own Kind of Music, Made in America, It's Going to Take Some Time, Goofus, Only Yesterday, Flat Baroque, Honolulu City Lights, A Christmas Portrait TV Special, All You Get from Love Is a Love Song, The Carpenters' Very First TV Special, Caravan, Make Believe It's Your First Time, Let Me Be the One, I Believe You, Very Best of the Carpenters, Those Good Old Dreams, Little Altar Boy, All of My Life, Little Girl Blue, If I Had You, Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story, (Want You) Back in My Life Again, Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore, Something in Your Eyes, Carpenters: Live at the BBC, The Carpenters: Music, Music, Music. Excerpt: The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of American sister Karen and brother Richard Carpenter. The Carpenters were the #1 selling American music act of the 1970s. Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply Carpenters, without the definite article. During a period in the 1970s when louder and wilder rock was in great demand, Richard and Karen produced a distinctively soft musical style that made them among the best-selling music artists of all time. Carpenters' melodic pop produced a record-breaking run of hit recordings on the American Top 40 and Adult Contemporary charts, and they became leading sellers in the soft rock, easy listening and adult contemporary genres. Carpenters had three #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and fifteen #1 hits on the Adult Contemporary Chart (see The Carpenters discography). In addition, they had twelve top 10 singles (including their #1 hits). To date, Carpenters' album and single sales total more than 100 million units. During their 14-year career, the Carpenters recorded 11 albums, five of which contained top 10 singles (Close to You, Carpenters, A Song for You, Now & Then and Horizon), thirty-one singles, five television specials, and one short-lived television series. They toured in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium. Their recording career ended with Karen's death in 1983 from cardiac arrest due t...