The song’s lyrics were written for a crush in 1946 and the music followed 20 years later. After “Merry Christmas Darling” was released by the Carpenters in November 1970, the love song topped ...

On Nov. 1, A&M/UMe is set to release the Carpenters’ Christmas Once More, a new collection featuring 16 Carpenters holiday classics, personally curated by Richard Carpenter. This newly remixed and ...

Karen Carpenter died more than three decades ago, but the indelible pop music she made with her brother Richard in the Carpenters has never gone away. With its orchestral beauty and emotional ...

“Merry Christmas Darling” by the Carpenters is one of my favorite Christmas songs. Karen Carpenter had that knack of being able to make you feel like the song she was singing was being sung just for ...

(CBS 11) - During the summer of 1970, a brother and sister pop music duo came on to the scene and right out of the box with a #1 hit. Carpenters (brother and sister Richard and Karen) enjoyed a ...

The silky smooth, unmistakable voice of Karen Carpenter became in the 1970s synonymous with soft rock, and the songs of the Carpenters are well-known to this day. Those songs will be performed, and ...

In Set List, we talk to veteran musicians about some of their most famous songs, learning about their lives and careers, and maybe hearing a good backstage anecdote or two in the process. The artist: ...

In an age of slick production and Auto-tune, is it possible to know what anyone really sounds like? Some big voices fall flat during live performances — think Taylor Swift’s noticeably reedy delivery.