Christmas Portrait is the first Christmas album and ninth studio album by the American popular music duo The Carpenters, released on October 13, 1978. The album includes a revised version of the duo’s signature Christmas song, “Merry Christmas Darling”, featuring re-recorded vocals by Karen Carpenter (done at her request). It also includes one of two […]
Made In America is the tenth studio album by the American popular music duo Carpenters, released in June 1981. The final album by the duo to be released during Karen Carpenter’s lifetime, it reached number 52 in the US and number 12 in the UK. In 1985, Richard said “that was Karen’s favorite album and […]
“(Want You) Back in My Life Again” is a song by the popular group the Carpenters, the second single off their album Made in America, released in 1981. The song reached #72 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Its B-side was “Somebody’s Been Lyin’”, another song from the album. This song also has the “synthesizer […]
“Those Good Old Dreams” is a song by The Carpenters. Its B-side is “When It’s Gone (It’s Just Gone)”, a song released on the Made in America album in 1981. The song talks of reliving dreams and feelings of romantic love held long ago (“It’s a new day for those good old dreams / One […]
“Touch Me When We’re Dancing” is a song written by Terry Skinner, J. L. Wallace and Ken Bell. Skinner and Wallace headed the Muscle Shoals, Alabama session group Bama, who first recorded this song and released it as a single in 1979 reaching number 42 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart and number 86 on […]
A Song for You is the fourth studio album by American music duo the Carpenters, released on June 22, 1972. According to Richard Carpenter, “A Song for You was intended to be a concept album (of sorts) with the title tune opening and closing the set and the bookended selections comprising the ‘song’. A Song […]
Close to You is the second studio album by American duo The Carpenters, released on August 19, 1970. In 2003, the album was ranked number 175 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album contains the hit singles “(They Long to Be) Close to You” and “We’ve Only […]
Lovelines is an album by Carpenters, released in 1989. That same year, Richard Carpenter decided to release an album of unreleased Carpenters tracks along with selected solo tracks by his sister, Karen (from her then-unreleased solo album). The Carpenters’ songs were mainly from their television specials. “When I Fall in Love” was originally recorded in […]