Karen Carpeneter died 42 years ago.

She had a beautiful voice.  

she had sad eyes.

Indeed she did.

I vaguely remember watching a documentary about the group, and I kind of remember getting the impression that her relationship with her brother could have been healthier.  But who knows.

because I tried to add a comma to a different comment that I made, and then learned about the thirty minute limitation on editing.  I tried to edit my mistake but it can't be done after thirty minutes. I know this

@unclewilbur  , this site will not let you make an edit to the title of your thread even if you do catch it before the 30 minutes is up.

With all this talk about the Royal Philharmonic, I guess I'll have to give it another listen.  I bought an import of it a few years ago, and I only played it once.  I cannot say it did a lot for me, but sometimes I put stuff on on the wrong night.

The only other Carpenters CD I own is the MFSL A Song For You which I bought back in the '90s and which truly has a great sound.  I cannot help but love Top Of The World.  I remember when I was in Junior High or there abouts hearing the Now And Then cassette one of my friends owned, and thinking it had some neat songs on it.   I used to see it on ebay, I think it may have been a Pony Canyon import or maybe a JVC XRCD, and nostalgia has had me close to pulling the trigger, but I have so far felt that they always wanted ridiculously too much $ for it. 

+1, @larsman .

chrisoshea - you're the one who is on a thread called "Karen Carpenter died 42 years ago". Odd place to be if you want to whine about having a fixation on Karen Carpenter. Do you normally spend time on forum threads in which you have no interest? 

The best I’ve got to tell about is meeting a Lucinda Williams on four occasions, and the first time I was unfortunately coming off like Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now when he was going off on how great Marlon Brando was. And to my dismay, the last time or maybe the second to the last time that  I met her, like it was at least a couple of years if not more later, she remembered me from the first time.

I was thinking, "Of all the things I’d rather were not remembered about me."

 At least I made bad first impressions on zero celebrities 

Well, @grislybutter , if nothing else, I guess I was able to accomplish that during the days of which  I was trying to party like a rock star.  

@grislybutter , I cannot even come close to topping that. As far as the Lynyrd Skynyrd experience that the OP shared, that’s another one I have nothing to compare to.

I watched a couple of documentaries about that band, and the one I liked the best, that I found most interesting, was (I think) the one titled If I Leave Here Tomorrow. Anyway, back after the crash in the late ’70s and early ’80s when I was in the Air Force I found their music to be great to drink massive quantities of alcohol and do other stuff and to party to, but as fascinating as I now find their story, most of the music that band recorded now does very little for me (although if I got loaded up on Jack Daniels it might come back to me why I used to like it), but I will say that I really like the beginning of Sweet Home Alabama (". . . big wheels keep on turning, carry me home to see my kin, singing songs about the southland . . .")

And after watching that documentary, even though it didn’t rejuvenate my enthusiasm for their music, it made me think I would have liked to have been partying with them when they were in their heyday. They were impressive.

@immatthewj @wyoboy Fine! I guess I take it back, seeing the Queen doesn't make it as fun a story to tell than getting busted for it  

Bragging rights are yours, @grislybutter .

No, @grislybutter , meeting Lucinda and doing an imitation  of a coked up Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now is not in the same league.  This one is yours, my friend--you have earned it.  

Have you picked up the 2018 release: "Carpenters with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra?"

I had gone through one of my CD buying binges two or three years ago, and this was one of them. Up until this thread started I had only gave it one spin because I didn’t think much of it at the time.

But I do not know why.

I have listened to it several times this past week, and every time I spin it I hear something I like about it that I didn’t catch the last time. I am happy I own this CD.

@immatthewj   Thanks for mentioning the Carpenters Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. I just listened to it, and would not have had the pleasure if you hadn't mentioned it. For me, there's a lot to love about this recording!!! First of all, Karen's voice is always orgasmic for my ears! And Richard's arrangement of an entire orchestra is ingenious! 

If you hadn't started this thread, @unclewilbur , I may not have ever given that CD a second spin.  My thanks to you as I am falling in love with it.