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References </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle References subsection </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.1 Notes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Citations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.2 Citations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.3 Sources </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" 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Available in 46 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-46" aria-hidden="true" > 46 languages </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target">Afrikaans</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1" title="كارين كاربنتر – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="كارين كاربنتر" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aragonés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ay mw-list-item"><a href="https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Aymara" lang="ay" hreflang="ay" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Aymar aru" data-language-local-name="Aymara" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aymar aru</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%BE%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1" title="کارن کارپنتر – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="کارن کارپنتر" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80" title="Карэн Карпентэр – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Карэн Карпентэр" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BF%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80" title="Карэн Карпэнтэр – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Карэн Карпэнтэр" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de badge-Q70894304 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%BE%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1" title="کارن کارپنتر – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کارن کارپنتر" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BA%90%EB%9F%B0_%EC%B9%B4%ED%8E%9C%ED%84%B0" title="캐런 카펜터 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="캐런 카펜터" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BF%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%B6_%D4%BF%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%BA%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%BF%D5%A5%D6%80" title="Կարեն Կարպենտեր – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Կարեն Կարպենտեր" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingua</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%9F_%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%A8" title="קארן קרפנטר – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="קארן קרפנטר" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C_%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98" title="კარენ კარპენტერი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="კარენ კარპენტერი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81rena_K%C4%81rpentere" title="Kārena Kārpentere – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Kārena Kārpentere" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1" title="كارين كاربنتر – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="كارين كاربنتر" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9A%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC" title="カレン・カーペンター – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="カレン・カーペンター" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80,_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD" title="Карпентер, Карен – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Карпентер, Карен" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenterov%C3%A1" title="Karen Carpenterová – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Karen Carpenterová" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Carpenter" title="Karen Carpenter – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Karen Carpenter" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a 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Connecticut</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Origin</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Downey,_California" title="Downey, California">Downey, California</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">February 4, 1983(1983-02-04) (aged 32)<a href="#cite_note-rollingstone-1">[1]</a> Downey, California, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Carpenters" title="The Carpenters">Carpenters</a></li><li>The Richard Carpenter Trio</li><li>Spectrum</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Thomas Burris</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1980; <abbr title="separated">sep.</abbr> 1981)</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://richardandkarencarpenter.com">richardandkarencarpenter.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, 1950 – February 4, 1983) was an American singer and drummer who formed half of the highly successful duo <a href="/wiki/The_Carpenters" title="The Carpenters">Carpenters</a> with her older brother <a href="/wiki/Richard_Carpenter_(musician)" title="Richard Carpenter (musician)">Richard</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:Schmidt-Guardian-2">[2]</a> With a distinctive three-<a href="/wiki/Octave" title="Octave">octave</a> <a href="/wiki/Contralto" title="Contralto">contralto</a> range, she was praised by her peers for her vocal skills.<a href="#cite_note-rollingstone2-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-revisionist-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-md2-6">[6]</a> Carpenter's work continues to attract praise, including appearing on <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a>'s 2010 list of the 100 greatest singers of all time. Carpenter was born in <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven, Connecticut</a>, and moved to <a href="/wiki/Downey,_California" title="Downey, California">Downey, California</a>, in 1963 with her family. She began to study the drums in high school and joined the <a href="/wiki/California_State_University,_Long_Beach" title="California State University, Long Beach">Long Beach State</a> choir after graduating. After several years of touring and recording, the Carpenters were signed to <a href="/wiki/A%26M_Records" title="A&M Records">A&M Records</a> in 1969, achieving enormous commercial and critical success throughout the 1970s. Initially, Carpenter was the band's full-time drummer, but she gradually took the role of frontwoman as her drumming was reduced to a handful of live showcases or tracks on albums. In 1975, Carpenter started exhibiting symptoms of <a href="/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa" title="Anorexia nervosa">anorexia nervosa</a> due to the severe pressures of fame and her complicated family dynamics.<a href="#cite_note-:Schmidt-Guardian-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-second-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> She was never able to recover and died at the age of 32 in 1983 from complications of the disease, which was little-known outside celebrity circles at the time; Carpenter's death launched widespread attention and research into <a href="/wiki/Eating_disorder" title="Eating disorder">eating disorders</a> and <a href="/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder" title="Body dysmorphic disorder">body dysmorphia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-second-7">[7]</a> Interest in her life and death has spawned numerous documentaries and films.<a href="#cite_note-:Schmidt-Guardian-2">[2]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life">edit</a>]</div> Karen Anne Carpenter was born on March 2, 1950, at <a href="/wiki/Yale_New_Haven_Hospital" title="Yale New Haven Hospital">Grace New Haven Hospital</a> (now called Yale New Haven Hospital) in <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven</a>, Connecticut, the daughter of Agnes Reuwer (March 5, 1915 – November 10, 1996) and Harold Bertram Carpenter (November 8, 1908 – October 15, 1988).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEColeman199429–33-9">[9]</a> Harold was born in <a href="/wiki/Wuzhou" title="Wuzhou">Wuzhou</a>, <a href="/wiki/Qing_dynasty" title="Qing dynasty">China</a>, where his parents were <a href="/wiki/Missionaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Missionaries">missionaries</a>. Before finding work in the printing business, he was educated at boarding schools in the United Kingdom.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201011,_26-10">[10]</a> Carpenter's elder brother, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Carpenter_(musician)" title="Richard Carpenter (musician)">Richard</a>, developed an interest in music at an early age, becoming a piano <a href="/wiki/Child_prodigy" title="Child prodigy">prodigy</a>. Karen's first words were "bye-bye" and "stop it", the latter spoken in response to Richard. She enjoyed dancing and by age four was enrolled in <a href="/wiki/Tap_dance" title="Tap dance">tap dancing</a> and ballet classes; later on, she liked to play <a href="/wiki/Softball" title="Softball">softball</a> in the street.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201015–17-11">[11]</a> The family moved in June 1963 to the Los Angeles suburb of <a href="/wiki/Downey,_California" title="Downey, California">Downey</a>, after Harold was offered a job there by a former business associate.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt20121900-12">[12]</a> Carpenter entered <a href="/wiki/Downey_High_School" title="Downey High School">Downey High School</a> in 1964 at age 14 and was a year younger than her classmates.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201024-13">[13]</a> She joined the school marching band, initially to avoid exercising for gym classes. Bruce Gifford, the conductor (who had previously taught her brother), gave her the <a href="/wiki/Glockenspiel" title="Glockenspiel">glockenspiel</a>, an instrument she disliked, and after admiring the performance of her friend and classmate, drummer Frankie Chavez (who had been playing from an early age and idolized jazz drummer <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Rich" title="Buddy Rich">Buddy Rich</a>), she asked if she could play those instead.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201221-14">[14]</a> Carpenter wanted a <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Drums" title="Ludwig Drums">Ludwig</a> drum set because it was used by her favorite drummers, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Morello" title="Joe Morello">Joe Morello</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ringo_Starr" title="Ringo Starr">Ringo Starr</a>. Chavez persuaded her family to buy her a $300 (the equivalent of $2,900 in 2023) Ludwig kit, and he began to show her how to play.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201042-15">[15]</a> Her enthusiasm for drumming led to teaching herself how to play complicated lines and studying stick control, drum styles, playing technique, and grips like <a href="/wiki/Traditional_grip" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditional grip">traditional</a> and <a href="/wiki/Matched_grip" class="mw-redirect" title="Matched grip">matched grip</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201041-16">[16]</a> She was talented, rehearsed every day and within a year, she could play in complex time signatures, such as the <a href="/wiki/Quintuple_meter" title="Quintuple meter">5 4</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dave_Brubeck" title="Dave Brubeck">Dave Brubeck</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Take_Five" title="Take Five">Take Five</a>". Carpenter began to study drum technique with <a href="/wiki/Bill_Douglass" title="Bill Douglass">Bill Douglass</a>, a well-respected jazz drummer with Benny Goodman and Art Tatum, and soon after she acquired a professional drum kit.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt20121944-17">[17]</a> Carpenter was initially nervous about performing in public, but said she "was too involved in the music to worry about it".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt20121901-18">[18]</a> She graduated from Downey High School in the spring of 1967, receiving the <a href="/wiki/John_Philip_Sousa" title="John Philip Sousa">John Philip Sousa</a> Band Award, and enrolled as a music major at <a href="/wiki/California_State_University,_Long_Beach" title="California State University, Long Beach">Long Beach State</a>, where she performed in the college choir with Richard. Karen subsequently became more confident in singing and began to take lessons with <a href="/wiki/Frank_Pooler" title="Frank Pooler">Frank Pooler</a>, the choir's director. She worked with him on developing the upper register so she would have a full three-octave range and he taught her a mixture of classical and pop singing. Pooler later said "Karen was a born pop singer".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201222-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201030,_37,_47-20">[20]</a> By age 17, her voice "was a remarkable instrument".<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_years">Early years</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early years">edit</a>]</div> The first public performance of Karen and Richard was in a local production of <a href="/wiki/Frank_Loesser" title="Frank Loesser">Frank Loesser</a>'s musical Guys and Dolls. Carpenter's first band was Two Plus Two, an all-girl trio formed with friends from Downey High. They split up after one of the mothers refused to give her daughter permission to attend their first gig.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201043–44-22">[22]</a> In 1965, Karen, Richard, and his college friend Wes Jacobs, a bassist and tuba player, formed the Dick Carpenter Trio.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201045-23">[23]</a> The band rehearsed daily and played jazz in nightclubs. Richard later said he was impressed with his sister's musical talent, adding that she would "speedily maneuver the sticks as if she had been born in a drum factory".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt20121902-24">[24]</a> She did not sing at this point; instead, singer Margaret Shanor guested on some numbers.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201045-23">[23]</a> The trio signed a contract with <a href="/wiki/RCA_Records" title="RCA Records">RCA Records</a> and recorded two instrumentals, but they were not released.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt20121902-24">[24]</a> In April 1966, the Carpenters were invited to audition at a session with bassist <a href="/wiki/Joe_Osborn" title="Joe Osborn">Joe Osborn</a>, well known for being part of the studio-musician collective <a href="/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(music)" title="The Wrecking Crew (music)">the Wrecking Crew</a>. Though she was initially expected to just be the drummer, Karen tried singing and impressed everyone there with her distinctive voice.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201049-25">[25]</a> Osborn signed a recording contract with her for his label, Magic Lamp Records; he was not particularly interested in Richard's involvement.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201050-26">[26]</a> In 1967, Jacobs left the trio to study at the <a href="/wiki/Juilliard_School" title="Juilliard School">Juilliard School</a>, and the Carpenter siblings were keen to try out other musical styles.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201042-15">[15]</a> Along with other musicians, including Gary Sims and <a href="/wiki/John_Bettis" title="John Bettis">John Bettis</a>, the siblings formed the group Spectrum, which focused on a harmonious vocal sound and recorded many demo tapes in Osborn's garage studio, working out how to <a href="/wiki/Overdubbing" title="Overdubbing">overdub</a> voices onto multitrack tape. Many of those tapes were rejected by record companies.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt20121902–1903-27">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201062-28">[28]</a> The group had difficulty attracting a live following, as their sound was too dissimilar from the <a href="/wiki/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock">hard rock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Psychedelic_rock" title="Psychedelic rock">psychedelic rock</a> then popular in clubs.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201047-29">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-31">[a]</a> In 1968, the Dick Carpenter Trio also appeared on the TV talent show Your All American College Show, performing "<a href="/wiki/Dancing_in_the_Street" title="Dancing in the Street">Dancing in the Street</a>" with Carpenter playing the drums and singing.<a href="#cite_note-32">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-33">[32]</a> The Trio won the finals that year.<a href="#cite_note-34">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-35">[34]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Carpenters">Carpenters</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Carpenters">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Carpenters" title="The Carpenters">Carpenters</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Karen_Carpenter_on_drumkit.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Karen_Carpenter_on_drumkit.jpg/300px-Karen_Carpenter_on_drumkit.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Karen_Carpenter_on_drumkit.jpg/450px-Karen_Carpenter_on_drumkit.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Karen_Carpenter_on_drumkit.jpg/600px-Karen_Carpenter_on_drumkit.jpg 2x" data-file-width="682" data-file-height="314" /></a><figcaption>Carpenter drumming on stage, early 1970s</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/A%26M_Records" title="A&M Records">A&M Records</a> signed the Carpenters to a recording contract in 1969.<a href="#cite_note-A&M-36">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt20121903-37">[36]</a> Karen started out as both the group's drummer and co-lead singer, and she originally sang all of her vocals from behind the drum set.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010111-38">[37]</a> She sang most of the songs on the band's first album, Offering (later retitled <a href="/wiki/Ticket_to_Ride_(album)" title="Ticket to Ride (album)">Ticket to Ride</a>); her brother wrote ten of the album's thirteen songs and sang on five of them. The opening and concluding tracks were sung by both siblings in unison. As well as drumming, Karen played bass guitar on two songs, "All of My Life" and "Eve", under Osborn's guidance.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201075–76-39">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-41">[b]</a> On "All I Can Do", she played in 5/4 time, while "Your Wonderful Parade" featured multiple <a href="/wiki/Snare_drum" title="Snare drum">snare</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bass_drum" title="Bass drum">bass drum</a> overdubs to emulate the sound of a <a href="/wiki/Marching_band" title="Marching band">marching band</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt20121944-17">[17]</a> The track "Ticket to Ride", a <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">Beatles</a> song that later became the album's title track, was released as the Carpenters' first single; it reached No. 54 on the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100">Billboard Hot 100</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201078-42">[40]</a> Their next album, 1970's <a href="/wiki/Close_to_You_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="Close to You (The Carpenters album)">Close to You</a>, featured two hit singles: "<a href="/wiki/(They_Long_to_Be)_Close_to_You" title="(They Long to Be) Close to You">(They Long to Be) Close to You</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/We%27ve_Only_Just_Begun" title="We've Only Just Begun">We've Only Just Begun</a>". They peaked at No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, on the Hot 100.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201089–90-43">[41]</a> Because she was just 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m) tall, it was difficult for people in the audience to see Karen behind her kit.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010111-38">[37]</a> After reviews complained that the group had no focal point in live shows, Richard and manager Sherwin Bash persuaded her to stand at the microphone to sing the band's hits while another musician played the drums (former Disney <a href="/wiki/The_Mickey_Mouse_Club" title="The Mickey Mouse Club">Mouseketeer</a> <a href="/wiki/Cubby_O%27Brien" title="Cubby O'Brien">Cubby O'Brien</a> served as the band's other drummer for many years).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010111-38">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-md-44">[42]</a> She initially struggled in live performances singing solo, as she felt more secure behind the drum kit.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201085-45">[43]</a> After the release of Now & Then in 1973, the albums tended to have Carpenter singing more and drumming less, and she did become the focal point of all records and live performances; Bash said "she was the one that people watched".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201087-46">[44]</a> Starting with the Carpenters' 1976 concert tour and continuing thereafter, she would perform a showcase in which she moved around the stage playing various configurations of drums.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt20121945-47">[45]</a> Her studio performances benefited from <a href="/wiki/Close_miking" class="mw-redirect" title="Close miking">close miking</a> that captured the nuances of her voice well. Though she had a three-octave range, many of the duo's hits prominently feature her lower <a href="/wiki/Contralto" title="Contralto">contralto</a> singing, leading her to quip, "The money's in the basement."<a href="#cite_note-md-44">[42]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt20121945-47">[45]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Karen_Carpenter_1973.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Karen_Carpenter_1973.png/170px-Karen_Carpenter_1973.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="296" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Karen_Carpenter_1973.png/255px-Karen_Carpenter_1973.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Karen_Carpenter_1973.png/340px-Karen_Carpenter_1973.png 2x" data-file-width="629" data-file-height="1094" /></a><figcaption>Promotional photograph of Carpenter from 1973</figcaption></figure> Carpenter always considered herself a "drummer who sang".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt20121946-48">[46]</a> She preferred <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Drums" title="Ludwig Drums">Ludwig Drums</a>, including the Ludwig SuperSensitive snare, which she favored greatly.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201043-49">[47]</a> However, she did not drum on every Carpenters recording. She was the only featured drummer on Ticket to Ride and on <a href="/wiki/Now_%26_Then_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="Now & Then (The Carpenters album)">Now & Then</a>, except for "<a href="/wiki/Jambalaya_(On_the_Bayou)" title="Jambalaya (On the Bayou)">Jambalaya</a>".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt20121944-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt20121946-48">[46]</a> According to <a href="/wiki/Hal_Blaine" title="Hal Blaine">Hal Blaine</a>, Karen played on many of the album cuts<a href="#cite_note-md-44">[42]</a> and he played on most of the Carpenters' studio sessions when she did not play drums herself, but Karen was informed about Blaine's involvement and she approved on the basis that she and Richard wanted hit singles.<a href="#cite_note-50">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-51">[49]</a> The duo was happy for Blaine to take the role in the studio, as he was a respected session musician and it was easier to record Carpenter's <a href="/wiki/Scratch_vocal" title="Scratch vocal">guide vocal</a> without it <a href="/wiki/Spill_(audio)" title="Spill (audio)">spilling</a> onto the drum mics.<a href="#cite_note-md-44">[42]</a> Blaine complemented Karen's drumming skills, but believed her greatest strength was as a vocalist and thought himself more adept at working in a recording studio, which required a different approach from that of an onstage performance.<a href="#cite_note-52">[50]</a> On <a href="/wiki/Made_in_America_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="Made in America (The Carpenters album)">Made in America</a>, Karen provided percussion on "<a href="/wiki/Those_Good_Old_Dreams" title="Those Good Old Dreams">Those Good Old Dreams</a>" in tandem with <a href="/wiki/Paulinho_da_Costa" title="Paulinho da Costa">Paulinho da Costa</a>, and played drums on the song "When It's Gone (It's Just Gone)" in unison with <a href="/wiki/Larrie_Londin" title="Larrie Londin">Larrie Londin</a>.<a href="#cite_note-A&M-36">[35]</a> In the mid-1970s, Richard Carpenter developed an addiction to <a href="/wiki/Methaqualone" title="Methaqualone">Quaaludes</a>. The Carpenters frequently canceled tour dates, and stopped touring altogether after their September 4, 1978 concert at the <a href="/wiki/Bally%27s_Las_Vegas" class="mw-redirect" title="Bally's Las Vegas">MGM Grand</a> in <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas" title="Las Vegas">Las Vegas</a>. In 1980, Karen performed a medley of standards in a duet with <a href="/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald" title="Ella Fitzgerald">Ella Fitzgerald</a> on the Carpenters' television program Music, Music, Music.<a href="#cite_note-53">[51]</a> In 1981, after release of the Made in America album (which turned out to be their last), the Carpenters returned to the stage and went on some promotional tours, including an appearance for the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> program <a href="/wiki/Nationwide_(TV_programme)" title="Nationwide (TV programme)">Nationwide</a>.<a href="#cite_note-54">[52]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010241-55">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-56">[54]</a> "Now" was the last song Carpenter recorded, in April 1982. Though Richard was concerned about her health, he still thought her voice sounded as good as ever.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010254-57">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-brother-58">[56]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Solo">Solo</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Solo">edit</a>]</div> Carpenter released her first solo record, "Looking for Love" / "I'll Be Yours", in 1967 on Osborn's Magic Lamp label. Only 500 copies were pressed, and the label folded shortly afterwards.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201051-59">[57]</a> In 1979, while Richard took a year off to treat his addiction, Karen started recording in New York for a solo album with producer <a href="/wiki/Phil_Ramone" title="Phil Ramone">Phil Ramone</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEColeman1994242-60">[58]</a> The sessions produced music that was different from the usual Carpenters material, tending more toward disco and <a href="/wiki/Up-tempo" class="mw-redirect" title="Up-tempo">up-tempo</a> numbers, with more mature lyrics and taking full advantage of Karen's upper vocal register. The album met with a tepid response from Richard and A&M executives in early 1980 and was shelved by A&M Records co-owner <a href="/wiki/Herb_Alpert" title="Herb Alpert">Herb Alpert</a>, in spite of attempts by world-renowned producer <a href="/wiki/Quincy_Jones" title="Quincy Jones">Quincy Jones</a> to convince him to release the solo record after a remix.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEColeman1994330-61">[59]</a> A&M subsequently charged Carpenter $400,000 to cover the cost of recording her unreleased album, to be paid out of the duo's future royalties.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEColeman1994274-62">[60]</a> A portion of the solo album was commercially released in 1989, when some of its tracks as Richard's remixes were included on the album <a href="/wiki/Lovelines" title="Lovelines">Lovelines</a>, the final album of previously unreleased material from the Carpenters. Not until 1996 was the complete solo album, titled <a href="/wiki/Karen_Carpenter_(album)" title="Karen Carpenter (album)">Karen Carpenter</a>, finally released as originally intended. <a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010289-63">[61]</a><a href="#cite_note-64">[62]</a> Rob Hoerburger wrote in <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> that it may not have been the album to define Carpenter's career, "but it holds up with anything that like-minded singers – Streisand, Newton-John – were recording at the time".<a href="#cite_note-second-7">[7]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Personal life">edit</a>]</div> Carpenter had a complicated relationship with her parents, especially with her mother Agnes. The family moved to Los Angeles from Connecticut in order for Richard to enter the music business but were not aware of Karen's musical talent.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201050-26">[26]</a> She continued to live with them until 1974.<a href="#cite_note-nolan-65">[63]</a> In 1976, Carpenter bought two <a href="/wiki/Century_City" title="Century City">Century City</a> apartments that she combined into one, and the doorbell chimed the opening notes of "We've Only Just Begun."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010228-66">[64]</a> She collected <a href="/wiki/Disneyana" title="Disneyana">Disney memorabilia</a> and liked to play softball and baseball.<a href="#cite_note-baseball-67">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-second-7">[7]</a> As a child, she had played baseball with other children on the street and was selected before her brother for games.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt20121899-68">[66]</a> She studied baseball statistics carefully and became a fan of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201017-69">[67]</a> In the early 1970s, she became the pitcher on a celebrity all-star softball team.<a href="#cite_note-baseball-67">[65]</a> Carpenter's celebrity friends included <a href="/wiki/Petula_Clark" title="Petula Clark">Petula Clark</a>, <a href="/wiki/Olivia_Newton-John" title="Olivia Newton-John">Olivia Newton-John</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dionne_Warwick" title="Dionne Warwick">Dionne Warwick</a>.<a href="#cite_note-second-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-70">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[69]</a> While she was enjoying success as a female drummer in what was primarily an all-male occupation, Carpenter's ideas were not in line with the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_liberation_movement" title="Women's liberation movement">women's liberation movement</a>, saying that she felt that a wife should cook for her husband because men were unskilled at cooking and that she planned to do so when she married.<a href="#cite_note-72">[70]</a> In early interviews, Carpenter showed no interest in marriage or dating, believing that a relationship would not survive constant touring, adding "as long as we're on the road most of the time, I will never marry."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt20121905-73">[71]</a> In 1976, she said that the music business created difficulty in meeting people and that she refused to wed simply for the sake of being married.<a href="#cite_note-act-74">[72]</a> Carpenter admitted to Newton-John that she longed for a happy marriage and family.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStanton200335-75">[73]</a> She later dated several notable men including <a href="/wiki/Mike_Curb" title="Mike Curb">Mike Curb</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Danza" title="Tony Danza">Tony Danza</a>, <a href="/wiki/Terry_Ellis_(record_producer)" title="Terry Ellis (record producer)">Terry Ellis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Bahler" title="Tom Bahler">Tom Bahler</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Harmon" title="Mark Harmon">Mark Harmon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Martin" title="Steve Martin">Steve Martin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alan_Osmond" title="Alan Osmond">Alan Osmond</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bill_Hudson_(singer)" title="Bill Hudson (singer)">Bill Hudson</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEColeman1994330-61">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-76">[74]</a> After a whirlwind romance, she married real-estate developer Thomas James Burris on August 31, 1980, in the Crystal Room of <a href="/wiki/The_Beverly_Hills_Hotel" title="The Beverly Hills Hotel">The Beverly Hills Hotel</a>. Burris, divorced with an 18-year-old son, was nine years her senior. A few days prior to the ceremony, Carpenter was taped singing a new song, "Because We Are in Love", and the tape was played for guests during the wedding ceremony. The song, written by her brother and John Bettis, was released in 1981. The couple settled in <a href="/wiki/Newport_Beach,_California" title="Newport Beach, California">Newport Beach</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010217,_227,_234-77">[75]</a> Carpenter wanted children, but Burris had undergone a <a href="/wiki/Vasectomy" title="Vasectomy">vasectomy</a>, which he refused to reverse. The marriage did not survive this disagreement and ended after 14 months.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010239-78">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-npr-79">[77]</a> Burris was living beyond his means, borrowing as much as $50,000 (equivalent to $167,570 in 2023) at a time from Carpenter until she was left with only stocks and bonds. Carpenter's friends also indicated that Burris was impatient.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010239-78">[76]</a> According to Carpenter's friend <a href="/wiki/Karen_Kamon" title="Karen Kamon">Karen Kamon</a>, the marriage was "the straw that broke the camel's back. It was absolutely the worst thing that could have ever happened to her."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010240-80">[78]</a> In September 1981, Carpenter revised her <a href="/wiki/Will_(law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Will (law)">will</a> and left her marital home and its contents to Burris, but left everything else to her brother and parents, including her fortune estimated at between $5 million and $10 million ($14 million and $28 million in 2023).<a href="#cite_note-inflation-USGDP-81">[79]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010240-80">[78]</a> Two months later, following an argument after a family dinner in a restaurant, Carpenter and Burris parted ways.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010242-82">[80]</a> Carpenter filed for divorce on October 28, 1982, while she was a patient at <a href="/wiki/Lenox_Hill_Hospital" title="Lenox Hill Hospital">Lenox Hill Hospital</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010266-83">[81]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Health_and_death">Health and death</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Health and death">edit</a>]</div> Carpenter began <a href="/wiki/Dieting" title="Dieting">dieting</a> while in high school. Under a doctor's guidance, she began the <a href="/wiki/Stillman_diet" title="Stillman diet">Stillman diet</a>, eating lean foods, drinking eight glasses of water a day and avoiding fatty foods. She reduced her weight to 120 pounds (54 kg) and stayed approximately at that weight until around 1973 when the Carpenters' career reached its peak.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt201063–64-84">[82]</a> That year, she saw a concert photo of herself and felt that her clothing made her appear heavy. She hired a personal trainer, who advised her to change her diet. The new diet built muscle, which made her feel heavier instead of slimmer. Carpenter fired the trainer and began her own weight-loss program using exercise equipment and counting calories. She lost about 20 pounds (9 kg) and intended to lose another 5 pounds (2.3 kg). Her eating habits also changed around this time; she would try to remove food from her plate by offering tastes to others with whom she was dining.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010128–129-85">[83]</a><a href="#cite_note-86">[84]</a> By September 1975, Carpenter weighed 91 pounds (41 kg).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010127-87">[85]</a> At live performances, fans reacted with gasps to her gaunt appearance, and many wrote to the pair to ask what was wrong.<a href="#cite_note-brother-58">[56]</a> She refused to declare publicly that she was suffering from an eating disorder; in a 1981 <a href="/wiki/Nationwide_(TV_programme)" title="Nationwide (TV programme)">Nationwide</a> TV-interview, when asked point blank about anorexia, she simply said she was "pooped".<a href="#cite_note-88">[86]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010255-89">[87]</a> However, she and those around her knew that something was wrong. <a href="/wiki/Dionne_Warwick" title="Dionne Warwick">Dionne Warwick</a> wrote that when meeting Carpenter for lunch in New York in 1981, "It was shocking to see how very thin she was."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010Foreword-90">[88]</a> In an interview after Karen's death, Richard said that he was aware that Karen was unhealthily dieting starting around 1975<a href="#cite_note-91">[89]</a> but that neither he nor their parents knew how to help her.<a href="#cite_note-92">[90]</a> In 1981, she told Richard that there was a problem and that she needed help with it.<a href="#cite_note-brother-58">[56]</a> Carpenter spoke with <a href="/wiki/Cherry_Boone" title="Cherry Boone">Cherry Boone</a>, who had recovered from anorexia, and contacted Boone's doctor for help. She was hoping to find a quick solution to her problem, as she had performing and recording obligations, but the doctor told her that treatment could last from one to three years.<a href="#cite_note-starved-93">[91]</a> She then chose to be treated in New York City by psychotherapist <a href="/wiki/Steven_Levenkron" title="Steven Levenkron">Steven Levenkron</a>.<a href="#cite_note-brother-58">[56]</a><a href="#cite_note-second-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010252-94">[92]</a> By late 1981, Carpenter was taking <a href="/wiki/Levothyroxine" title="Levothyroxine">thyroid-replacement</a> medication, which she obtained using the name of Karen Burris, to increase her <a href="/wiki/Metabolism" title="Metabolism">metabolism</a>. She used the medication in conjunction with increased consumption (as many as 90 tablets per night) of the laxatives upon which she had long relied, which caused food to pass quickly through her <a href="/wiki/Digestive_tract" class="mw-redirect" title="Digestive tract">digestive tract</a>. Despite Levenkron's treatment, including confiscation of medications that Carpenter had misused, her condition continued to deteriorate, and she lost more weight eventually reaching an all time low of 77 pounds. She told Levenkron that she felt dizzy and that her heart was beating irregularly. In September 1982, she was admitted to <a href="/wiki/Lenox_Hill_Hospital" title="Lenox Hill Hospital">Lenox Hill Hospital</a> in New York, where she was placed on <a href="/wiki/Intravenous_therapy" title="Intravenous therapy">intravenous</a> <a href="/wiki/Parenteral_nutrition" title="Parenteral nutrition">parenteral nutrition</a>. The procedure was successful, and she gained 30 pounds in a relatively short time, but this put a strain on her heart, which was already weak from years of anorexia.<a href="#cite_note-Guardian-95">[93]</a> She maintained a relatively stable weight for the rest of her life.<a href="#cite_note-96">[94]</a><a href="#cite_note-97">[95]</a> Carpenter returned to California in November 1982, determined to reinvigorate her career, finalize her divorce and begin a new album with Richard.<a href="#cite_note-Guardian-95">[93]</a> On December 17, 1982, she performed for the last time as she sang <a href="/wiki/Christmas_carol" title="Christmas carol">Christmas carols</a> for her godchildren, their classmates and other friends at the <a href="/wiki/Buckley_School_(California)" title="Buckley School (California)">Buckley School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sherman_Oaks" class="mw-redirect" title="Sherman Oaks">Sherman Oaks</a>, California.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010270-98">[96]</a> Carpenter's last public appearance occurred on January 11, 1983, at a gathering of past Grammy Award winners who were commemorating the awards show's 25th anniversary.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010271-99">[97]</a><a href="#cite_note-cashbox83-100">[98]</a> She seemed somewhat frail and fatigued, but according to Warwick, Carpenter was vibrant and outgoing, exclaiming, "Look at me! I've got an ass!"<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010271-99">[97]</a> She also began to write songs for the first time after returning to California and told Warwick that she had "a lot of living left to do”.<a href="#cite_note-starved-93">[91]</a> On February 1, 1983, Carpenter saw her brother for the last time and discussed new plans for the group and for resumed touring.<a href="#cite_note-101">[c]</a> On February 4, Carpenter was scheduled to sign papers to finalize her divorce. Shortly after waking up that morning, she collapsed on the floor of a walk-in closet at her parents' home in Downey. Paramedics found her unconscious and in <a href="/wiki/Cardiac_arrest" title="Cardiac arrest">cardiac arrest</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Seiler-1983-102">[99]</a> with her heart beating once every 10 seconds (6 bpm).<a href="#cite_note-YahooStopThePresses-103">[100]</a> She was rushed by ambulance to <a href="/wiki/PIH_Health_Hospital_%E2%80%93_Downey" title="PIH Health Hospital – Downey">Downey Community Hospital</a>, where she was pronounced dead at 9:51 a.m., at the age of 32.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010278-104">[101]</a><a href="#cite_note-Seiler-1983-102">[99]</a> Carpenter's funeral was held on February 8, 1983, at Downey <a href="/wiki/United_Methodist_Church" title="United Methodist Church">United Methodist Church</a>. Approximately 1,000 mourners attended, including her friends Dionne Warwick,<a href="#cite_note-funeral-105">[102]</a><a href="#cite_note-rites-106">[103]</a> <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Hamill" title="Dorothy Hamill">Dorothy Hamill</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2012245-107">[104]</a> <a href="/wiki/Olivia_Newton-John" title="Olivia Newton-John">Olivia Newton-John</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Petula_Clark" title="Petula Clark">Petula Clark</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPetrucelli200972-108">[105]</a> Her estranged husband, Thomas Burris, placed his wedding ring into her casket.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEColeman1994330-61">[59]</a> Carpenter was buried at <a href="/wiki/Forest_Lawn_Memorial-Parks_%26_Mortuaries" title="Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries">Forest Lawn Memorial Park</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cypress,_California" title="Cypress, California">Cypress, California</a>.<a href="#cite_note-funeral-105">[102]</a> In 2003, her body was moved, along with those of her parents, to a private mausoleum at the Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in <a href="/wiki/Westlake_Village,_California" title="Westlake Village, California">Westlake Village, California</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010425-109">[106]</a> An autopsy released on March 11, 1983, discounted <a href="/wiki/Drug_overdose" title="Drug overdose">drug overdose</a>,<a href="#cite_note-March11PressConference-110">[107]</a> attributing Carpenter's death to "<a href="/wiki/Emetine" title="Emetine">emetine</a> <a href="/wiki/Cardiotoxicity" title="Cardiotoxicity">cardiotoxicity</a> due to or as a consequence of <a href="/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa" title="Anorexia nervosa">anorexia nervosa</a>."<a href="#cite_note-Guardian-95">[93]</a> Her <a href="/wiki/Blood_sugar_level" title="Blood sugar level">blood sugar level</a> at the time of death was 1,110 milligrams per deciliter (61.6 mmol/L), more than 10 times the average.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010279-111">[108]</a> Two years later, the coroner told colleagues that Carpenter's heart failure was caused by repeated use of <a href="/wiki/Ipecac_syrup" class="mw-redirect" title="Ipecac syrup">ipecac syrup</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Over-the-counter_drug" title="Over-the-counter drug">over-the-counter drug</a> (<a href="/wiki/Emetic" class="mw-redirect" title="Emetic">emetic</a>) often used to induce vomiting in cases of overdosing or poisoning.<a href="#cite_note-Guardian-95">[93]</a><a href="#cite_note-113">[d]</a> This claim was disputed by Levenkron, who said that he had never known her to use ipecac and that he had not seen evidence that she had been vomiting.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010283–284-114">[110]</a> Carpenter's friends were convinced that she had abused laxatives and thyroid medication to maintain her low body weight and felt that the problem had begun after her marriage began to fail.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010252-94">[92]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy_and_cultural_impact">Legacy and cultural impact</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Legacy and cultural impact">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:35%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> "This is a sad day, but at the same time a very special and beautiful day to my family and me. My only regret is that Karen is not physically here to share it with us, but I know that she is very much alive in our minds, and in our hearts". </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="left-aligned" style=""><a href="/wiki/Richard_Carpenter_(musician)" title="Richard Carpenter (musician)">Richard Carpenter</a> speaking at the <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame" title="Hollywood Walk of Fame">Hollywood Walk of Fame</a>, 1983<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010292-115">[111]</a></cite></div> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Carpenters_-_Walk_of_Fame.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Carpenters_-_Walk_of_Fame.jpg/220px-Carpenters_-_Walk_of_Fame.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Carpenters_-_Walk_of_Fame.jpg/330px-Carpenters_-_Walk_of_Fame.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Carpenters_-_Walk_of_Fame.jpg/440px-Carpenters_-_Walk_of_Fame.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2580" data-file-height="1932" /></a><figcaption>The Carpenters' star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame</figcaption></figure> Reacting to Carpenter's death, songwriter <a href="/wiki/Burt_Bacharach" title="Burt Bacharach">Burt Bacharach</a> said that she "had a sound in her voice that was very unique, that I haven't heard before."<a href="#cite_note-Seiler-1983-102">[99]</a> Carpenter's singing has attracted critical praise and influenced several significant musicians and singers, including <a href="/wiki/Madonna" title="Madonna">Madonna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sheryl_Crow" title="Sheryl Crow">Sheryl Crow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pat_Metheny" title="Pat Metheny">Pat Metheny</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sonic_Youth" title="Sonic Youth">Sonic Youth</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Kim_Gordon" title="Kim Gordon">Kim Gordon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shania_Twain" title="Shania Twain">Shania Twain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Natalie_Imbruglia" title="Natalie Imbruglia">Natalie Imbruglia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/K.d._lang" title="K.d. lang">k.d. lang</a>.<a href="#cite_note-md-44">[42]</a><a href="#cite_note-116">[112]</a> <a href="/wiki/Paul_McCartney" title="Paul McCartney">Paul McCartney</a> has said that she had "the best female voice in the world: melodic, tuneful and distinctive".<a href="#cite_note-npr-79">[77]</a> She has been called "one of the greatest voices of our lifetime" by <a href="/wiki/Elton_John" title="Elton John">Elton John</a>.<a href="#cite_note-rollingstone-1">[1]</a> In the BBC documentary <a href="/wiki/Only_Yesterday:_The_Carpenters_Story" title="Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story">Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story</a>, her friend Nicky Chinn said that <a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a> walked up to her at a Los Angeles restaurant and told her "I want to tell you, love, that you've got a fabulous voice." Her drumming has been praised by fellow musicians <a href="/wiki/Hal_Blaine" title="Hal Blaine">Hal Blaine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cubby_O%27Brien" title="Cubby O'Brien">Cubby O'Brien</a> and <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Rich" title="Buddy Rich">Buddy Rich</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt20121945–1946-117">[113]</a> and by <a href="/wiki/Modern_Drummer" title="Modern Drummer">Modern Drummer</a> magazine.<a href="#cite_note-md-44">[42]</a> She appeared in the drummer rankings of every <a href="/wiki/Playboy" title="Playboy">Playboy</a> annual music poll from 1974<a href="#cite_note-118">[114]</a> to 1980;<a href="#cite_note-119">[115]</a> Playboy's readers voted her as high as tenth best drummer in 1975<a href="#cite_note-120">[116]</a> and tenth best pop/rock drummer 1976.<a href="#cite_note-121">[117]</a> On October 12, 1983, eight months after her death, the Carpenters received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010292-115">[111]</a><a href="#cite_note-122">[118]</a> In 1999, <a href="/wiki/VH1" title="VH1">VH1</a> ranked Carpenter at No. 29 on its list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll.<a href="#cite_note-123">[119]</a> In 2010, <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a> ranked Carpenter No. 94 on its list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, calling her voice "impossibly lush and almost shockingly intimate", adding "even the sappiest songs sound like she was staring directly into your eyes".<a href="#cite_note-rollingstone-1">[1]</a> Carpenter's death brought media attention to conditions such as anorexia nervosa;<a href="#cite_note-124">[120]</a> the condition had not been widely known beforehand.<a href="#cite_note-125">[121]</a> Her family started the Karen A. Carpenter Memorial Foundation, which raised money for research on anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders.<a href="#cite_note-126">[122]</a> Carpenter became known to some fans as "Lead Sister." This originated from a mispronunciation of "lead singer" by a Japanese journalist in 1974, and she later wore a T-shirt with the nickname during live shows.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010158-127">[123]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biographies">Biographies</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Biographies">edit</a>]</div> A 43-minute film titled <a href="/wiki/Superstar:_The_Karen_Carpenter_Story" title="Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story">Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story</a>, directed by <a href="/wiki/Todd_Haynes" title="Todd Haynes">Todd Haynes</a>, was released in 1987, and featured <a href="/wiki/Barbie_doll" class="mw-redirect" title="Barbie doll">Barbie dolls</a> as the characters. It was withdrawn from circulation in 1990 after Haynes lost a <a href="/wiki/Copyright_infringement" title="Copyright infringement">copyright infringement</a> lawsuit filed by Richard Carpenter.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010292–293-128">[124]</a><a href="#cite_note-129">[125]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHilderbrand200467-130">[126]</a> The film's title is derived from the Carpenters' 1971 hit song "<a href="/wiki/Superstar_(Delaney_and_Bonnie_song)#Carpenters_version" title="Superstar (Delaney and Bonnie song)">Superstar</a>". Over the years, it has developed into a <a href="/wiki/Cult_film" title="Cult film">cult film</a> and was included in <a href="/wiki/Entertainment_Weekly" title="Entertainment Weekly">Entertainment Weekly</a>'s 2003 list of the top 50 cult movies.<a href="#cite_note-131">[127]</a> On January 1, 1989, the similarly titled made-for-TV movie <a href="/wiki/The_Karen_Carpenter_Story" title="The Karen Carpenter Story">The Karen Carpenter Story</a> aired on <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> with <a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Gibb" title="Cynthia Gibb">Cynthia Gibb</a> in the title role. Gibb lip-synched the songs to Carpenter's recorded voice, with the exception of "The End of the World". Both films use the song "<a href="/wiki/This_Masquerade" title="This Masquerade">This Masquerade</a>" in the background while showing Carpenter's marriage to Burris.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010293-132">[128]</a><a href="#cite_note-133">[129]</a> The movie helped revive the Carpenters' critical standing and increased their music's popularity.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010295-134">[130]</a><a href="#cite_note-revisionist-4">[4]</a> Richard Carpenter helped in the production of the documentaries <a href="/wiki/Close_to_You:_Remembering_The_Carpenters" title="Close to You: Remembering The Carpenters">Close to You: Remembering The Carpenters</a> (1997)<a href="#cite_note-135">[131]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Only_Yesterday:_The_Carpenters_Story" title="Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story">Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story</a> (2007).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010329-136">[132]</a> Randy Schmidt wrote a biography about Carpenter entitled Little Girl Blue, published in 2010, which included a foreword by Warwick.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010xi-137">[133]</a> It provides a different perspective than those of the other officially endorsed biographies, and it was based on interviews with other friends and associates. <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> said that the book was "one of the saddest tales in pop."<a href="#cite_note-138">[134]</a> In 2021, long-time Carpenters historian Chris May and <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> entertainment journalist Mike Cidoni Lennox published Carpenters: The Musical Legacy, based on interviews with Richard Carpenter.<a href="#cite_note-139">[135]</a> It features rare photographs and newly revealed stories behind the making of the albums. <a href="/wiki/Goldmine_(magazine)" title="Goldmine (magazine)">Goldmine</a> said the book "provided a candid and detailed look at much of what went into the Carpenters' sound as well as Richard's personal thoughts on the music business today."<a href="#cite_note-140">[136]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Discography">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Studio_albums">Studio albums</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Studio albums">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th width="33">Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td align="center">1996 </td> <td align="left"><a href="/wiki/Karen_Carpenter_(album)" title="Karen Carpenter (album)">Karen Carpenter</a> </td> <td> <ul><li>Released: October 8, 1996</li> <li>Label: A&M</li> <li>Formats: Cassette, CD, digital download</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Singles">Singles</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Singles">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Year </th> <th rowspan="2" style="width:20em;">Single </th> <th colspan="1">Chart position </th> <th rowspan="2" style="width:13em;">Album </th></tr> <tr> <th style="width:3em;font-size:90%"><a href="/wiki/Adult_Contemporary_(chart)" title="Adult Contemporary (chart)">US AC</a> <a href="#cite_note-Karen_Carpenter_US_Chart_History-141">[137]</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td>1966 </td> <td>"<a href="/wiki/Looking_for_Love_(Karen_Carpenter_song)" title="Looking for Love (Karen Carpenter song)">Looking for Love</a>" </td> <td align="center">— </td> <td>Non-album single </td></tr> <tr> <td>1989 </td> <td>"<a href="/wiki/If_I_Had_You_(Karen_Carpenter_song)" title="If I Had You (Karen Carpenter song)">If I Had You</a>" </td> <td align="center">18 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lovelines" title="Lovelines">Lovelines</a> (Carpenters) </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996 </td> <td>"<a href="/wiki/Make_Believe_It%27s_Your_First_Time" title="Make Believe It's Your First Time">Make Believe It's Your First Time</a>" </td> <td align="center">— </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Karen_Carpenter_(album)" title="Karen Carpenter (album)">Karen Carpenter</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="With_Carpenters">With Carpenters</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: With Carpenters">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Carpenters_discography" class="mw-redirect" title="Carpenters discography">Carpenters discography</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Studio_albums_2">Studio albums</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Studio albums">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ticket_to_Ride_(album)" title="Ticket to Ride (album)">Offering</a> (later reissued as Ticket to Ride) (1969)<a href="#cite_note-US-142">[138]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Close_to_You_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="Close to You (The Carpenters album)">Close to You</a> (1970)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010289-63">[61]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carpenters_(album)" title="Carpenters (album)">Carpenters</a> (1971)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010289-63">[61]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Song_for_You_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="A Song for You (The Carpenters album)">A Song for You</a> (1972)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010289-63">[61]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Now_%26_Then_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="Now & Then (The Carpenters album)">Now & Then</a> (1973)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010289-63">[61]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horizon_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="Horizon (The Carpenters album)">Horizon</a> (1975)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010289-63">[61]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Kind_of_Hush_(album)" title="A Kind of Hush (album)">A Kind of Hush</a> (1976)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010289-63">[61]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passage_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="Passage (The Carpenters album)">Passage</a> (1977)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010289-63">[61]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christmas_Portrait" title="Christmas Portrait">Christmas Portrait</a> (1978)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010289-63">[61]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Made_in_America_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="Made in America (The Carpenters album)">Made in America</a> (1981)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010289-63">[61]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voice_of_the_Heart" title="Voice of the Heart">Voice of the Heart</a> (1983)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010289-63">[61]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/An_Old-Fashioned_Christmas" title="An Old-Fashioned Christmas">An Old-Fashioned Christmas</a> (1984)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010289-63">[61]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lovelines" title="Lovelines">Lovelines</a> (1989)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010289-63">[61]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/As_Time_Goes_By_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="As Time Goes By (The Carpenters album)">As Time Goes By</a> (2001–2004)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchmidt2010289-63">[61]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Movies_and_documentaries">Movies and documentaries</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Movies and documentaries">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Karen_Carpenter_Story" title="The Karen Carpenter Story">The Karen Carpenter Story</a> (1989 TV movie), Joseph Sargent</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <div 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New York: HarperCollins. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-018345-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-018345-4"><bdi>0-06-018345-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Carpenters%3A+The+Untold+Story.+An+Authorized+Biography&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=HarperCollins&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=0-06-018345-4&rft.aulast=Coleman&rft.aufirst=Ray&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcarpentersuntold00cole&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKaren+Carpenter" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHilderbrand2004" class="citation journal cs1">Hilderbrand, Lucas (2004). "Grainy Days and Mondays:Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics". Camera Obscura. 19 (3): 57–91. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1215%2F02705346-19-3_57-57">10.1215/02705346-19-3_57-57</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0270-5346">0270-5346</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:191522435">191522435</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Camera+Obscura&rft.atitle=Grainy+Days+and+Mondays%3ASuperstar+and+Bootleg+Aesthetics&rft.volume=19&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=57-91&rft.date=2004&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A191522435%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.issn=0270-5346&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1215%2F02705346-19-3_57-57&rft.aulast=Hilderbrand&rft.aufirst=Lucas&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKaren+Carpenter" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPetrucelli2009" class="citation book cs1">Petrucelli, Alan W. (2009). Morbid Curiosity: The Disturbing Demises of the Famous and Infamous. Penguin. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-1011-4049-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-1011-4049-9"><bdi>978-1-1011-4049-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Morbid+Curiosity%3A+The+Disturbing+Demises+of+the+Famous+and+Infamous&rft.pub=Penguin&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-1-1011-4049-9&rft.aulast=Petrucelli&rft.aufirst=Alan+W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKaren+Carpenter" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchmidt2010" class="citation book cs1">Schmidt, Randy (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/littlegirlblueli00schm">Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter</a>. Chicago Review Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-556-52976-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-556-52976-4"><bdi>978-1-556-52976-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Little+Girl+Blue%3A+The+Life+of+Karen+Carpenter&rft.pub=Chicago+Review+Press&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-1-556-52976-4&rft.aulast=Schmidt&rft.aufirst=Randy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Flittlegirlblueli00schm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKaren+Carpenter" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchmidt2012" class="citation book cs1">Schmidt, Randy (2012). Yesterday Once More: The Carpenters Reader. <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Review_Press" title="Chicago Review Press">Chicago Review Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-613-74417-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-613-74417-8"><bdi>978-1-613-74417-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Yesterday+Once+More%3A+The+Carpenters+Reader&rft.pub=Chicago+Review+Press&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-1-613-74417-8&rft.aulast=Schmidt&rft.aufirst=Randy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKaren+Carpenter" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStanton2003" class="citation book cs1">Stanton, Scott (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/tombstonetourist00stan_0">The Tombstone Tourist: Musicians</a>. Simon and Schuster. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-743-46330-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-743-46330-0"><bdi>978-0-743-46330-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Tombstone+Tourist%3A+Musicians&rft.pub=Simon+and+Schuster&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-743-46330-0&rft.aulast=Stanton&rft.aufirst=Scott&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ftombstonetourist00stan_0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKaren+Carpenter" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcKay2018" class="citation journal cs1">McKay, George (2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/35398461">"Skinny blues: Karen Carpenter, anorexia nervosa and popular music"</a>. Popular Music. 37 (1): 1–21. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS026114301700054X">10.1017/S026114301700054X</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Popular+Music&rft.atitle=Skinny+blues%3A+Karen+Carpenter%2C+anorexia+nervosa+and+popular+music&rft.volume=37&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=1-21&rft.date=2018&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FS026114301700054X&rft.aulast=McKay&rft.aufirst=George&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F35398461&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKaren+Carpenter" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Carpenter&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output 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(The Carpenters album)">Passage</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christmas_Portrait" title="Christmas Portrait">Christmas Portrait</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Made_in_America_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="Made in America (The Carpenters album)">Made in America</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voice_of_the_Heart" title="Voice of the Heart">Voice of the Heart</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/An_Old-Fashioned_Christmas" title="An Old-Fashioned Christmas">An Old-Fashioned Christmas</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lovelines" title="Lovelines">Lovelines</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/As_Time_Goes_By_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="As Time Goes By (The Carpenters album)">As Time Goes By</a> (2001)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Live albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Live_in_Japan_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="Live in Japan (The Carpenters album)">Live in Japan</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Live_at_the_Palladium_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="Live at the Palladium (The Carpenters album)">Live at the Palladium</a> (1976)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Compilation albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Singles:_1969%E2%80%931973" title="The Singles: 1969–1973">The Singles: 1969–1973</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Singles:_1974%E2%80%931978" title="The Singles: 1974–1978">The Singles: 1974–1978</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Very_Best_of_the_Carpenters" title="The Very Best of the Carpenters">The Very Best of the Carpenters</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yesterday_Once_More_(album)" title="Yesterday Once More (album)">Yesterday Once More</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Only_Yesterday_(album)" title="Only Yesterday (album)">Only Yesterday</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/From_the_Top_(album)" title="From the Top (album)">From the Top</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interpretations:_A_25th_Anniversary_Celebration" title="Interpretations: A 25th Anniversary Celebration">Interpretations: A 25th Anniversary Celebration</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Love_Songs_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="Love Songs (The Carpenters album)">Love Songs</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reflections_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="Reflections (The Carpenters album)">Reflections</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Singles:_1969%E2%80%931981" title="The Singles: 1969–1981">The Singles: 1969–1981</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Essential_Collection:_1965%E2%80%931997" title="The Essential Collection: 1965–1997">The Essential Collection: 1965–1997</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carpenters_Perform_Carpenter" title="Carpenters Perform Carpenter">Carpenters Perform Carpenter</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gold:_35th_Anniversary_Edition" class="mw-redirect" title="Gold: 35th Anniversary Edition">Gold: 35th Anniversary Edition</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Ultimate_Collection_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="The Ultimate Collection (The Carpenters album)">The Ultimate Collection</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/40/40_(The_Carpenters_album)" title="40/40 (The Carpenters album)">40/40</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carpenters_with_the_Royal_Philharmonic_Orchestra" title="Carpenters with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra">Carpenters with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra</a> (2018)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Solo albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Time_(Richard_Carpenter_album)" title="Time (Richard Carpenter album)">Time</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karen_Carpenter_(album)" title="Karen Carpenter (album)">Karen Carpenter</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pianist,_Arranger,_Composer,_Conductor" title="Pianist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor">Pianist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor</a> (1998)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Singles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Looking_for_Love_(Karen_Carpenter_song)" title="Looking for Love (Karen Carpenter song)">Looking for Love</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ticket_to_Ride_(song)" title="Ticket to Ride (song)">Ticket to Ride</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/(They_Long_to_Be)_Close_to_You" title="(They Long to Be) Close to You">(They Long to Be) Close to You</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/We%27ve_Only_Just_Begun" title="We've Only Just Begun">We've Only Just Begun</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Merry_Christmas_Darling" title="Merry Christmas Darling">Merry Christmas, Darling</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/For_All_We_Know_(1970_song)" title="For All We Know (1970 song)">For All We Know</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Rainy_Days_and_Mondays" title="Rainy Days and Mondays">Rainy Days and Mondays</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Superstar_(Delaney_and_Bonnie_song)" title="Superstar (Delaney and Bonnie song)">Superstar</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bless_the_Beasts_and_Children_(song)" title="Bless the Beasts and Children (song)">Bless the Beasts and Children</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hurting_Each_Other" title="Hurting Each Other">Hurting Each Other</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/It%27s_Going_to_Take_Some_Time" title="It's Going to Take Some Time">It's Going to Take Some Time</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Goodbye_to_Love" title="Goodbye to Love">Goodbye to Love</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sing_(Sesame_Street_song)" title="Sing (Sesame Street song)">Sing</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Yesterday_Once_More_(song)" title="Yesterday Once More (song)">Yesterday Once More</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Top_of_the_World_(The_Carpenters_song)" title="Top of the World (The Carpenters song)">Top of the World</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Jambalaya_(On_the_Bayou)" title="Jambalaya (On the Bayou)">Jambalaya (On the Bayou)</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Won%27t_Last_a_Day_Without_You" title="I Won't Last a Day Without You">I Won't Last a Day Without You</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Please_Mr._Postman" title="Please Mr. Postman">Please Mr. Postman</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Santa_Claus_Is_Comin%27_to_Town" title="Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town">Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Only_Yesterday_(song)" title="Only Yesterday (song)">Only Yesterday</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Solitaire_(Neil_Sedaka_song)" title="Solitaire (Neil Sedaka song)">Solitaire</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/There%27s_a_Kind_of_Hush" title="There's a Kind of Hush">There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Need_to_Be_in_Love" title="I Need to Be in Love">I Need to Be in Love</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Goofus_(song)" title="Goofus (song)">Goofus</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/All_You_Get_from_Love_Is_a_Love_Song" title="All You Get from Love Is a Love Song">All You Get from Love Is a Love Song</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Calling_Occupants_of_Interplanetary_Craft" title="Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft">Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Christmas_Song" title="The Christmas Song">The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sweet,_Sweet_Smile" title="Sweet, Sweet Smile">Sweet, Sweet Smile</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Believe_You" title="I Believe You">I Believe You</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Touch_Me_When_We%27re_Dancing" title="Touch Me When We're Dancing">Touch Me When We're Dancing</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/(Want_You)_Back_in_My_Life_Again" title="(Want You) Back in My Life Again">(Want You) Back in My Life Again</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Those_Good_Old_Dreams" title="Those Good Old Dreams">Those Good Old Dreams</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Beechwood_4-5789" title="Beechwood 4-5789">Beechwood 4-5789</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Make_Believe_It%27s_Your_First_Time" title="Make Believe It's Your First Time">Make Believe It's Your First Time</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Your_Baby_Doesn%27t_Love_You_Anymore" title="Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore">Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Little_Altar_Boy" title="Little Altar Boy">Little Altar Boy</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Honolulu_City_Lights" title="Honolulu City Lights">Honolulu City Lights</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Something_in_Your_Eyes_(Richard_Carpenter_song)" title="Something in Your Eyes (Richard Carpenter song)">Something in Your Eyes</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/If_I_Had_You_(Karen_Carpenter_song)" title="If I Had You (Karen Carpenter song)">If I Had You</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ave_Maria_(Bach/Gounod)" title="Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)">Ave Maria</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Rainbow_Connection" title="Rainbow Connection">The Rainbow Connection</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other songs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Let_Me_Be_the_One_(Carpenters_song)" title="Let Me Be the One (Carpenters song)">Let Me Be the One</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Song_for_You" title="A Song for You">A Song for You</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/This_Masquerade" title="This Masquerade">This Masquerade</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Breaking_Up_Is_Hard_to_Do" title="Breaking Up Is Hard to Do">Breaking Up Is Hard to Do</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Can%27t_Smile_Without_You" title="Can't Smile Without You">Can't Smile Without You</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Just_Fall_in_Love_Again" title="I Just Fall in Love Again">I Just Fall in Love Again</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tryin%27_to_Get_the_Feeling_Again#Carpenters'_version" title="Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again">Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Where_Do_I_Go_from_Here_(England_Dan_%26_John_Ford_Coley_song)" title="Where Do I Go from Here (England Dan & John Ford Coley song)">Where Do I Go from Here</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Television series and specials</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Make_Your_Own_Kind_of_Music_(TV_series)" title="Make Your Own Kind of Music (TV series)">Make Your Own Kind of Music</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carpenters:_Live_at_the_BBC" class="mw-redirect" title="Carpenters: Live at the BBC">Live at the BBC</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Carpenters%27_Very_First_TV_Special" class="mw-redirect" title="The Carpenters' Very First TV Special">Very First TV Special</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Carpenters...Space_Encounters" title="The Carpenters...Space Encounters">Space Encounters</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Carpenters:_A_Christmas_Portrait" title="The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait">A Christmas Portrait</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Carpenters:_Music,_Music,_Music" title="The Carpenters: Music, Music, Music">Music, Music, Music</a> (1980)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Music video releases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gold:_Greatest_Hits_(video)" title="Gold: Greatest Hits (video)">Gold: Greatest Hits</a> (1991 VHS / 2002 DVD)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interpretations_(video)" title="Interpretations (video)">Interpretations</a> (1995 VHS / 2003 DVD)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Documentaries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Close_to_You:_Remembering_The_Carpenters" title="Close to You: Remembering The Carpenters">Close to You: Remembering The Carpenters</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Only_Yesterday:_The_Carpenters_Story" title="Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story">Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story</a> (2007)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Carpenters_discography" title="The Carpenters discography">Discography</a></li> <li><a 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