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I was filled with much emotions when she passed away - as a young pup, I had a crush on her, loved her voice and what I knew of her personality. Was sad, mad, etc that she died in that manner... such a loss. But thankful that she was able to share her voice, and leave traces of herself behind for others to enjoy.
There is an excellent item online here. Battling Anorexia-The Story of Karen Carpenter.
When I lived in the Denver area area, one of my neighbors suffered from this. Just her self conscious feelings about herself just ate her up inside. She had always been way underweight as long as I knew her. She wouldn't talk to anyone about it. I myself knew very little about this disease until the Karen Carpenter situation, as it seems to be a disease that noone wants to talk about . In Eileen's case, she was basically a shut in and had few friends. Very sad.
extremely emaciated on the insert of the '69-'73 greatest hits album they released a decade before she passed. it must have been an ongoing issue for her
When I think of Karen Carpenter, I think of my late father. He worked as a jazz musician for quite awhile when he was young--during the Swing Era. At one time, one of his bandmates was singer Peggy Lee. My Dad was no lover of rock 'n' roll or a lot of the "pop" of the late '60's and early '70's. One day we were going someplace in the car--and the radio station played two of then very popular first hits of the Carpenters--"We've Only Just Begun" and "Close To You." My Dad turned up the radio and listened. At the end, he said (in the musician's vernacular), "That lady has got the pipes--she's going places!" How right he was.
Karen's passing was a real tragedy. For music lovers, it was a great loss, because I think that her greatest work would have been ahead of her. Few people know that her true musical love was jazz. With the revival of jazz singing in the late 1980's through today, I'm sure that she would have been comfortable enough musically (and economically) to have cut some jazz sides--which I'm sure would have been wonderful.
All I need to do is hear any of her songs, and I'm immediately transported back to '73, and dating the girl who would become my wife (for 33 years now) .... sitting together, with candles lit, and Blue Nun to sip, and a Carpenters record on the turntable.
Yesterday Once More, indeed.
It was songs of love that
I would sing to then
And I'd memorize each word
Those old melodies
Still sound so good to me
As they melt the years away
I wasn't even 3 when she died. I heard about her in the 90's and listened to her music. It wasn't until recently that I thought of her and put up on YouTube, I was very saddened to hear such a beautiful voice that is no longer with us. I remember the movie with Cynthia Gibb and thought it was good. Rest in Peace Karen.
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