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R&P TRIBUTE: What's your favorite song by Karen Carpenter?

Today is the birth anniversary of the one and only Karen Carpenter. She was a drummer of exceptional skill, but she is best remembered for her haunting and melancholy voice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWkOryYF6CI Carpenters - Superstar 1971 She suffered from anorexia nervosa, a little known eating disorder at the time, and died at the age of 32 from heart failure, later attributed to complications related to her illness. Her passing did much to bring attention to those suffering from that condition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylh6mNdadG4&feature=related Karen Carpenter - End of the world The song "Now," recorded in April 1982, was the last song Karen Carpenter recorded. She recorded it after a two-week intermission in her therapy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXvjVhETNU4 "Now" 1975 - In Playboy magazine's annual opinion poll, its readers voted Karen Carpenter the Best Rock Drummer of the year. 1999 - VH1 ranked Karen Carpenter at #29 on their list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll.[21] 2008 - Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Karen Carpenter number 94 on their list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time Karen's legacy continues to live on in the musicians she inspired and her music continues to touch new generations of young fans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y21VecIIdBI Sonic Youth - Superstar What's your favorite song by Karen Carpenter? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PMgmgDq2Fo The Carpenters- A Song For You

Public Comments

1. Close to You
2. I always liked "(They Long To Be) Close To You". She had the voice of an angel. I'm sure I'm not the only one who misses her beautiful voice.
3. Reason to believe-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xikz3nVuN8c
4. "Yesterday Once More"
5. the carpenters also invented the power ballad... goodbye to love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdG-ITxL8ok
6. My favorite by Karen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crWGGy2oBT0 It was such a happy little tune back in the 1970s. It's always good to hear sweet little songs like this.
7. Hey Punch :) Karen had a beautiful gentle voice, so easy to listen to. Top of the world http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91PpfWU-rmA Goodbye to love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJwRafRP9g0&playnext=1&list=PL57E81317C089AF06
8. Love her so much My all time favorite song, is "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft"....I really like Psychological things and this song is a masterpiece http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BrSVOOK610
9. love her, what a beutiful heart we lost Merry Christmas Darling!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR1ujXx2p-I Sing (cute video of her singing in Japanese) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Doz-9ME2uY&feature=related Jambalaya http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJfwTIAgBaU&feature=related (I'm a Louisiana girl) Plus the ones everyone above said!
10. "A Song For You" is now my favorite song by them. They're a "small dose" kind of band for me, not a band I'd want full albums from, but a few great songs.
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12. Close to You who ever wrote it was in love.
13. For All We Know Sing Bless The Beasts and The Children Close To You Top Of the World
14. Close to You
15. "Superstar" has always been my favorite!
16. Rainy Days and Mondays For all we Know Close to You