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Karen Carpenter solo Happy: Horizon: 1975: 1975: Bettis, Peluso, Rubin: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas: Christmas Portrait: 1978: 1978: Blane, Martin: Christmas Portrait 1978 TV Special He Came Here for Me: An Old-Fashioned Christmas: 1984: 1978: Nelson: Christmas Portrait 1978 TV Special Heather: Now & Then: 1973: 1973: Pearson ...
An Old-Fashioned Christmas is the second Christmas album and twelfth studio album by the American music duo Carpenters, released on October 26, 1984. It is also second posthumous release after the death of singer and drummer Karen Carpenter in 1983.
The discography of the American pop group the Carpenters consists of 14 studio albums, two Christmas albums, two live albums, 49 singles, and numerous compilation albums. . The duo was made up of siblings Karen (lead vocals and drums) and Richard Carpenter (keyboards and vocal
The lyrics were written in 1946 by 20-year-old Frank Pooler, which, according to him, were about a love interest he had at the time. Twenty years later in 1966, when he was choral director at California State University, Long Beach, two of his aspiring music students, Karen and Richard Carpenter, who were beginning to have success as a local band, asked him if he had any ideas for holiday songs.
The standard CD version of Christmas Portrait, first issued in 1984, is a "Special Edition" compendium of selected tracks from the Carpenters' two Christmas albums into one 70-minute program, with tracks from each interspersed in the running order; "Ave Maria" was remixed at this time in order to include a choral track that vanished in 1978 and was later found.
Record executive Mike Curb said it was Karen's voice that took the Carpenters above straight pop music into pop rock. [195] She was known as a "one take wonder" and could deliver a strong performance on the first attempt. [196] Karen was an accomplished drummer, which was her original musical role, but she soon began to sing for the group too.
Highlighting her 2023 “Fruitcake” EP, the 49-minute show was chock-full of celebrity appearances, sketch comedy and a blend of her festive tunes and Christmas classics with Carpenter’s ...
The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait is a Christmas television special featuring The Carpenters that aired on ABC on December 19, 1978. It was the second Christmas TV special that the pop duo made and was taped in October 1978.