The 70s have rolled around for you once more. Congratulations!

te envidio tio , saludos

Lucky guy

I was a little US navy brat in Kamiseya then

WOW !!!! lucky you Sir !!.. I could only dream and do being 61 now and never seen the greatest female voice of all time ! ... please share more

I was a teen like you. I cried as well. Loved her so!

I think of my mom when i hear Carpenters songs my mom was a extremely good singer and she sang all the time in the house when I was a young kid she died when I was 12

Same for me.

I was 20 years old. old when Karen passed. I read when she was anorexic, the damage that it caused to her heart was irreparable. It was all so very sad.

So, I'm a 65 year old with no religion, but if you want to convince me in the existence of a gift from God,I'm all in!

Perfectly said. She transcends time.

That voice is just perfect, isn’t it?

Lol, I'm a metal head from Boston, MA. I love 70's soft rock. That and Wu Tang clan. we all have our guilty pleasures! It brings us together.

​@@TheLochs nothing guilty here! 😊

same

60s, 70s, rock, hard rock, metal, biker dude, white boy from Anaheim….music is the language that brings us all together - it cannot be denied and neither can brotherhood

I started all their songs on 8 Track for my daughter to go to sleep . She is now 45 and I still listen to their albums and I love it then … still love it now! ❤️❤️❤️Millie in England now reside in Long Beach.

Exactly.

Correct 💗

I was 10...1974ish..my dad with the best of the carpenter's 8 track in his olds 88...i grew up metal...but never forgot her voice...im approaching 60....and just love it

Exactly again. 💯

Perfect voice

Homesick for Cape Town right now.

Yes. Love her so much

I listen always, forever....

Me too! This is a classic always was and will be. Back in the 70’s we all listened to the same music!

Yeah... me too! Forgive any typos... my screen seems to have gone misty again! 🥴

65 here. Still listening too

I'm 72, still crazy in love with this beautiful song ❤️

Yes. Good music never gets old.

l have CD's and still play it today in 2024. I love Karen Carpenter

Real music

This came from a time when there still seemed to be a little magic in the air...

It's the poetry behind it. The love.. There is love in older music that is rare in this generation.

Huge news back then. Sad story.

I lived in Downey California then. I sat across the street from the church when they had her funeral.

Like JFK, MLK and Bobby, I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news of her passing. Sad

I just wish she could have gotten the help she needed. Now? We will never know what really happened. All we can do now is just appreciate the music she left to us, and she left much too soon.

Mrsandmom5 no way, I bet a million people showed

Tears just filled my eyes reading that. My dads died Mum much older and don’t speak to one of my sisters anymore who I loved more than anything

same here i feel your pain. Those were the days way back then

TheManorBeast Thank you.

im 20, but reading your story makes me teary, i can even imagine and feel the time when you were young. Ohh it makes me so sad, i hope you are still happy now, you must be old grandpa. we love you

Bella Sintia Thank you...I'm actually 56, but I feel young. All through life, people tell you how fast time flies, but I honestly didn't start feeling it until I turned 50. Now it seems like the years are just flying by!! Enjoy life with every fiber of your being!!

The voice and drumming also.. SIK

April 2024 Me Too

A lot of people get teary eyed listening to Carpenters. I see it in the comments often. Me too. Karen completely melts my heart!!!

Lovely Who's playing the saxophone 🎷 Anyone know

@johnbennett948 Jim Horn plays saxophone on "Rainy Days and Mondays." ... And the infamous "Wrecking Crew" (of which Jim Horn was a part) also plays.

Amen 🙏

True statement maybe she didn't think so and the end was sad 😢

Thank God, we still have the music.

There is no mistaking that you know it's Karen Carpenter on the first few words she sings. Amazing voice

She's resting in peace in heaven at the Great Gulf it states in Luke 16:26 nobody's dead yet Lazarus is on the right side of the gulf in the rich man is on the left side of the white great white Throne judgement. We Can't Judge Karen Only God can judge which side she went to but we certainly know that she was one dear soul that touched many many people in such a positive way ❤️ 💙 ♥️ ✨️ 💕 💖 ❤️ 💙 ♥️

Her voice is vocal velvet.

Born to sing..I gather she played good drums as well. I still can't believe how she carried a note further than anyone - and started the next so soon after. Easily the greatest singer I could ever hear. RIP Karen ❤

Absolutely

I think it's a gift, it can't be learned.

I just love listening 🎶 to her,💖❤

Van Hendriks you are so right She is amazing

Some people like you don't understand how amazing are people who write and compose, not those who sing it.

I wish we could all go back and tell her!

The best❤

🙋💗

Fantastic singer and wonderful voice😊😊

I just searched this song today, 6th May 2024

ABSOLUTELY!

right

Only comparable to the Gibb Brothers death

In my humble opinion the best female vocalist of all time! her enunciation, her clarity, just outstanding!

@@martcichocki5571 Absolutely, I totally agree, but Whitney Houston had magnificent vocals as well. I didn't care for the music but her voice was powerful. RIP Karen and Whitney.

Yes, that tone. Vibrato and exaggeration in the right places. The weeping, sliding up on the notes quality

She truly is an angel always will be remembered❤

@@stargazer1313 é isso! Um anjo desceu à Terra e resolveu cantar... e o seu nome era Karen....

Em termos musicais, acho que é a experiência mais absolutamente incrível que vc pode chegar....

I Agree 💯 RIP Beautiful Lady 🕊️❤️🕊️

Very well put!

Amen!✌️

True dat

But Karen was looking for love from her very own Mother Agnes Carpenter and never got it, it hurt Karen deeply into her very soul.

I love you karen. You are so talented and beautiful.

Very true 🙏🏼

Wow. Reading your comment brought a tear to my eyes. Such an accurate and beautiful statement.

So true,gone too soon

Leah, you have a heart of gold.

🙏🙏☯️

A beautiful lady and talent.

She became an angel far too early...

Am thinking she still is . . .

@@Moebiusjbb Angels don't become angels James, but she sang as close to an angel as we could imagine.

I listen to her every day. She's my therapy.

this bitch had a smooth voice

same

Absolutely!

Me too ❤

Give Tori Holub a listen. You'll be shocked.

Well said!!

Truer words were never spoken. Love is immortal, and Karen truly was an emissary from the divine!

Love the reference to the Expose song in your comment...I believe I read Jeanette Jurado (lead on the record) said the Carpenters were one of her two favorites, which makes it and them even cooler.

Very sensitive person in society that failed to protect her🙁

Definately xx

They certainly don't sing like this, or play music like this anymore. WHY? Doesn't anyone in the recording industry realize the Emperor has no threads?

Marry Ann Syers, I was just thinking the same thing in my late forties. These songs, (in particular Karen's voice) magically transports me back to such a wonderful time in my childhood. Memories of lazy afternoons spent in company of family, that I probably took for granted back then. That warm soothing sound of Karen's voice is like a golden ray of sunshine chasing all the clouds away.

Amen

You have PERFECTLY put into words how I feel. Karen was my first crush as a child and I didn't even realise it for forty years

I too am a product of the 70s, I liked the carpenters, but it wasn't cool amongst my friends to admit.

Oh ya

You take mine I am taking yours you will see

You have posted the exact sentiment I was about to say!! We love you Karen Carpenter❤️... still 😇🥰

She brought me joy!!

She was talented on the drums as well. She also seemed like a genuinely nice woman. She never deserved what happened to her.

feeling incredibly blessed to have grown up to this music....

@@53orion81 Indeed!

Yes it is! I still love listening to her!

always was and always will be , even my dog loves it

I know that he does love her voice because whenever she is on , he will come lay down by my feet

If you notice, she didn't smile much. Sad.

She was a beautiful woman

Karen is awesome

Karen, her voice is unique

If course she does - that voice has beauty and depth !

It's not just the clarity and trueness of her voice. Her voice often catches in her throat, when you hear it, you feel like it tears at your very soul. You really can hear her suffering when she sings.

John Lennon was also a fan of her voice.

The Bee Gees were impressed by the Carpenters' harmonies too...@@denisej4813

She had a lovely voice, only singer ever know to have had a "Pitch Perfect" voice. Gone to soon, like so many others.

here was right!!!!

I wish Paul sang a duet with her...Back when...

Her songs are immortal, she lives in our hearts

Ich bin 40 und ja❤ich liebe diese Band für mein Leben 😊

same

Hi Sandra 💐💐💐

Me too

@@lindadees3887 And me, I've got a couple of years on you but I can only take a few minutes of listening to this beautiful lady, before there's a full scale fold up. RIP Karen your voice just echoes through eternity.

Sandra, igual yo. A mis 66 años la sigo. Desde el cielo ella nos canta

Yes Sandra she such a beautiful voice listening to her always brings back good memories.

"the world was never meant for one as beautiful as her" :(

use your own quotes.. instead of stealing them from don mclean ass wipe .

BETTER !! but my 9 year old could of come up with that one, or even a 3 year old !! i guess there's no substitute for intelligence. and again STOP using quotes from others just because your mama says it to you . keep trying!! i apploud your tenacity... LA HOO ZER HER ....... L.O..S.E.R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Use your own insults instead of stealing them from Jim Carrey... ass wipe.

FYI, the whole point of quotes...are to QUOTE them. Pretty simple concept. Jesus....

Me too. This song and Merry Christmas Darling. Get misty knowing how unhappy she was and not accepted for who she was by her Mom. So sad.

I cry every time I hear this one. Reminds me of the past and plus she has such an angelic voice it just chokes me up.

So does, she was so beautiful inside and out. We love her songs.

She passed in my sophomore year of high school, who would have thought she would have such an huge impact. At the same time I had a younger cousin dealing with the same disease that no one talked about, she battled it for years. She's been well 20 years and we have all healed from the experience, it's so emotional and that is how her music makes you feel!

Me. I started liking her songs when I was in 2nd grade. Now I'm 42 and she's still my first favorite female artist 💖

Indeed!!!

try weyes blood. eerily the same voice.

I'm 59 she was so talented.that beautiful voice!!!

My sentiment exactly, and age!

Me too. Our generations music was the best sixties and seventies

her voice get's me hard

Good Morning on a rainy day on a Monday morning. I've been a Carpenter listener since 1972? Ish. On Top of the World, was a favorite song of mine.

Me too ❤

No. I've been paging thru utube carpenter songs, and I could do without the feelings her voice, and their songs, pull up. Yeah, it feels good to feel....not, and I ain't being sarcastic or trolling. Her voice and emoting has hurt for too long.

Michael Appelberg Your still a youngster!

Sad that her mother was a monster and her father never defended her.

@@renaniidepinheiroepereira4104 Yes, that was what i was thinking. I believe, one can say that her mother killed her.

@@risumotus , she ever refused to say that she loved her, as her therapist asked in a session.

She did have voice lessons from a choir director who helped her develop her three octave range but no formal training other than that

Female Phil Collins.

Same here ❤

​@@sylvialawrence4431❤

Sad she didn’t see that herself.

👍

I Never Go To Bed Until I Hear Karen Sing, It's Like She's Helping To Go To Sleep

Still listening

Tragic the way she died her brother should be ashamed of himself

Hey> Teach your kids well. Eat! ! ok super sorry for that!

When the Angels Sing Karen Carpenter is leading the choir.

That was beautiful, if you are a mom Happy Mothers Day to you❤🙏🏾

Hearing top of the world when I was 4 years old in 1970 gave me a feeling inside that I'll never forget, I remember looking at mum and dad and wondering why they seemed to be unaffected. Karen's voice still gives me goosebumps and brings a tear to my eye in 2022.

I was born in 1970 so Carpenters was always on in the background when I was very young-even though my parents weren’t musical, and I was too young to know who was singing. My parents didn’t even own a record player and didn’t buy records, although they bought a kids’ record player and lots of Disney records and soundtracks for us kids. So I never had a Carpenters record. But Sing a Song reminds me of nursery school and I have no idea why. All you get from love is a love song reminds me of summer car trips. It was just there and I’m sorry to say that I didn’t know who they were when she died. I first became aware of Close to You and For All We Know in High School in the mid 80s and then I understood who the Carpenters were. I taped those two songs off the radio for my mix tapes!

Same age here. Growing up in Texas in the early 70's her voice was so different than anything I'd ever heard before.

Me too Richard

Yep

Yea this song always puts a lump in my throat

It’s like an allergic reaction for me...I hear Karen’s voice and I automatically have severely watery eyes. IDK why 🤷‍♀️

Richard Fulmer i am no 52 and had hrr lps in the 70s as a kid - what a talent, how lucky/blessed are we to have heard her!

me!

Imagine this song being added to mafia 4

Bought their album in 71, and fell in love with her beautiful voice, I can't believe 50 years has gone by, but here I am 2021 and still welling up when she sings.

Meeeeeee

Me😊❤❤❤

Best years in the history of the planet

I feel really nostalgic listening to her of days gone by. I was saddened when she passed. 😕🌈

Us 60's kids as well. 😁

Exactly! I have listened to the Carpenters since the early 70's and have never stopped. The Carpenters are who taught me how to sing every harmony part, and I learned Piano because of Richard, and write my own songs. Karen's voice was SO pure, simple, beautiful. And that's what made her so amazing. There will never be another Karen Carpenter. The singers, of today, all sound the same; nasal, scat a song to death, obnoxious, diva behavior, with voices that need a lot of Digital pitch correction and vibrato. Like I said.....Karen was the last of perfection. I miss her.

Us 50’s kids too!

And those were the days before computer assisted dubbing. Absolutely stunning voice.

Sou português, nasci em 1960, entendo pouco da língua inglesa... Mas sempre que ouço a karen, o meu coração fica maravilhado... Fascínios da alma.

No more voice like this😢

Her, Bonnie Raitt, and Linda Ronstadt. ❤❤❤

Karen was without doubt one of the greatest however I have to put Linda Ronstadt on top as the dreamiest female voice 🙂

The sweet pain of happy memories... I feel ya, Sis

When you are doing the simple things in life, like hanging out at home with your siblings, or parents, eating dinner, listening to a song in the background, people rarely appreciate these moments until they are gone. This is what they mean by living in the moment, and appreciating life, because one day you look up and 40 or 50 years have passed. The sad thing is you can never go back and relive those times with those same people in the same way.

Loved her voice

What a blessed memory you have of your father. I lost my dad before I really got to know him.

Emocionante Ouvi na minha juventude aqui no Brasil

❤️😇 1/20/20

Unfortunately, the record label and her brother Richard forced her to come out from behind the drums in later years because they felt that she needed to be seen as the female lead singer of the group. She was so uncomfortable at the front of the stage and it contributed to her self doubt and poor self image (combined with a plethora of other things like the pressure to maintain a certain unhealthy weight, rumours of an incestuous relationship between her and her brother, not to mention constant putdowns from her mother, and her brother being the golden child, etc.). Poor Karen dealt with a lot of demons throughout her life and it's so tragic what happened to her. Like many artists, the world just chewed her up and spit her back out.

Even though she is seen playing the drums here, almost all of their recordings, including this one, are actually Hal Blaine playing. She was a good drummer, but Blaine was the go-to drummer for studio recordings at that time.

@Dbo83 Grand Funks lead singer plays the drums Also.

Richard did not force her out front. He was fine with her behind the drums and preferred here there. It was the record label. The lifetime movie was not 100% accurate.

No show-offiness; no gimmicks; great communicator

A haunting voice that was almost disarming when injected into such a schmaltzy, over produced pop formula. Her brother didn't do her any favors and I think she would have been better off on her own.

No maybe about it . . she was the best!

I still miss her

Such a sad lose. Totally agree with you.

I’m 72 also my friend and I can only listen to the Carpenters occasionally because Karen makes me very emotional.

Igual yo a los 70 años recuerdos vienen a mi mente que me ponen muy nostálgico.

Well done, Mike. You're a member of a mighty army. Be well.

Best music out mate

I’m so honored to look like her.

Losing a lot of the great ones. Some way too early.

An Angel on Earth....

ME TOO!...RIP KAREN!...GOD BLESS!

Bill Baldwin. agree

Talcum I stand by my statement.

@@BBaldwin There are certain people in history that will always have a special place in my heart and Karen is one of them. She had a one in a million voice.

Judy Garland?

She was the GREATEST singer ever I'll never forget the day she died I took that day off work unbelievable and still the GREATEST ever God bless to Karen forever xxxxxxx

nah, just for white people maybe

I would say Olivia Newton John had a more beautiful voice.

I highly doubt that.

Yes, her mother was the root of her problems AND the straw that broke the camel's back.

@@Coupydog i can relate to this so much. Wow how old was she when she passed.

@@unanimousanonymity1836 , 32 yrs. old.

@@Coupydog Thanks for mentioning this. I always wondered what it was that drove her into that kind of decline. Narcissistic parents are downright the worst.

@@shiningdawn8578 Agnes Carpenter reminds me of Harriett Olson while Harold reminds me of Nels. (If you've ever watched "Little House On The Prairie", you know what I'm talking about.)

Me too I listen 🌹💜

Yep it’s May 2022 and I’m cherishing the memories of The Carpenters and their talent! If only Karen believed in herself and her amazing voice ❤️‍🩹

if the world still exists in 3033 I like to think they would be still listening

Timeless...The date today is June 7, 2022 and who's listening with me?

Now it's June 7, 2022 - we are still listening - until the end of time!

She is the best!

To demonstrate Chase's versatility (and the group's,) here is her lead on Elton John's classic: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l9x5q5h0z56RaIk.html

Well said!!!!

I grew up with my mom preaching this. Couldn’t agree more!

Yes, divine. Although Diana Krall comes close today.

i totally agree!!!

And nobody ever Will imo

Agreed. No one has rivalled the crystal - clear purity and heavenly melody in Karen's voice.

Nope, has to be a clear skied Tuesday or Thursday for me to listen

Raining here in Central Texas right now. This song instantly came to mind. 😊

everything about her is angel

I concur what an angel both living and now

I can't help but cry when I listen to her beautiful voice and her beautiful songs. So many memories.

TRUTH INDEED AMEN SIP Karen Carpenter

My mom use to listen to this and light and classic rock she was about 26 when I notice so I love it

I've said that for decades, Xavier. In my mind, the finest female singing voice of all time.

no need for autotune when you have an actual beautiful voice.

I think you're right. There is really no other female voice which seriously compares.

@@scottalbers2518 No there is not...my friend...she was VERY special..

@@FieldofDreamsIowa agreed. karen was the ULTIMATE female "crooner" who sang TO YOU NOT AT YOU, this is a huge monumental difference separating her from the rest during her heyday and since up to today's singers.. she also was the ultimate storyteller of every song. today's singers? they sing every song the same way no matter what the song is about and of course they sing loud and then louder and that is considered talent and the measure of a great singer/voice??! i don't think so!... karen's voice was the purest, most intimate, moving, touching, haunting voice i have ever heard, also she had the most perfect diction and enunciation of any voice male or female i have ever heard.. ultimate female singer of romance and love songs, looking for love, finding love and losing love...

she is my first angel

Natalie prass is a worthy successor ;)

@@Spiderboyish I am very sorry Remy, but she does not even come close. Mamma Cass, Streisand, and many others not as good as Karen Carpenter are way out of this girls league. I listen to Natalie Prass and she sounded ok but no sorry, not for me.

@@refinedhayseedappalachian9777 I think if you ever got to hear an angel sing, even Karen would sound inferior.

@@bobradford2637 im not saying that she is good as them but there are plenty of amazing singers, I mean you're on the Internet where you can literally find anything that you are looking for

Amen

What we might think as simple is far from. Richard's arrangements and the overdubbing or stacked harmonies and Karen' amazing voice make this so the complete and wholesome experience. It is both Richard and Karen making this come together. I miss her everyday I think of great music and times where there were no vulgar words and no one was trying to hurt the other. Yes the 70s and The Carpenters where that time made no sense, and thank God their music so much did. We needed The Carpenters.

You are so right .. God-bless you, happy Thanksgiving, God-bless Karen. I listen to her all the time.💖🤘❤💚💗🧡

at my job at a super market they play allot of Carpenter's songs. It feels good at work to hear them.

+Carey Coleman You're a sweet guy.

Just a voice from heaven

Just a voice from heaven

+Carey Coleman your not the only one Carey we have to somehow. . .

No, but your mom lives in you. I know the pain. 😢

So sorry for the loss of your mom…. I lost my mom years back on December 22….. I miss her terribly. My mom loved the Carpenters, too!

My Mom's gone too ...One day back in 1970-71 around there I was 8-9 in the ladies department at JCPENNEY in Stonewood Shopping center all of a sudden Mom got this huge smile on her face...look Eric there's Karen Carpenter! I'll never forget that, my Mom's smile! I remember Richard and Karen driving by my house in their Carpenters Van .... Richard always drove and Karen would always have her feet up on the dash and wave at us on our bicycles! She had really big hands for such a small person. They obviously knew someone in my neighborhood...but I don't know who! In Downey... Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school California USA ♥️🇺🇲​@@likescountry114

My mom too :( that's why I'm here, planning her funeral and making sure I'm adding all their songs

So very sorry…..

Totally

thank you for saying that . ❤️

Me too. 😢

Me too. What a beautiful voice!

You're not alone on that one Stratman...

Me too

Yes she was the Best

Am still listening, one of my fav in my playlist

February 26 2024..its raining here in cali & its Monday 😢

Feb 27... and no need to talk it out

지금도~^^

Mar 2, 2024. Today is her heavenly birthday 🎈🎂

would love to see that bb4 tribute on youtube.... any possibility ??

No one ever sang Christmas songs as beautifully she... "Do You Hear What I Hear"?....

Patrick martin, you couldn't have said it better

KLR Communications Still one of my favorite Christmas Albums. Play it every year during the holidays.

She was the best! She is truly missed, we are fortunate to have sites like youtube to enjoy music by those no longer with us. Rest In Peace to the girl with the golden voice.

They are rare but they exist out there.

Probably!

Maybe not, but crikey, it will be another 100 years before it is done half as well. There will never be another Karen Carpenter. And again it has to be said, I truly hate the way the name Karen is now an internet perjorative.

@@oldwombat3630 yes singers today all got the same typical voice.. it's nothing different and unique.. maybe Adele she has a unique amazing voice past an currently..

Never thought about but that’s true

Love❤

😢😊

ここにいます😂

Me, I do....most beautiful voice on Earth!

Me. Always will til I die.

mega sunny im here. And listening cause the song fits me in this stage of my life...

Loved Karen snd I still do. I felt like I lost a friend when she passed. Such a beautiful, sweet voice.

Me

Amazing timeless voice

mega sunny Lord. What a beautiful voice. She always makes me cry

oh yes! I agree!

So true, we would change the channel if it came on around our friends. but if we were alone we’d cherish every second.

I agree the best grilled cheese sandwich ever

Naw love my Metallica and Sabbath. But Karen is timeless

@@tommorales5518 I love hard rock that is my foundation and fortunately at the age of 60 I have come to appreciate such a beautiful perfect voice of Karen Carpenter.