Playlist
Carpenters Essentials
Apple Music Pop
Tracks: 2484:39
Karen Carpenter's voice invested even hopeful songs with melancholy.
Updated Nov 20, 2023
Tracks 24
- 1Singles 1969-19813:04
- 2Retro Mania 42:59
- 3The Essential Collection (1965-1997)3:50
- 4流行唱片音乐铺3:55
- 5Música Para Desconectar 34:31
- 6Flower Power Classics3:36
- 7Retro Mania 92:31
- 8Singles 1969-19814:29
- 9A Kind of Hush (Remastered)2:57
- 10Music From my Dad2:45
- 11Morning Pops3:16
- 12Gold: Greatest Hits3:50
- 13The Essential Collection (1965-1997)2:48
- 14Maquina Del Tiempo 70's3:56
- 15Retro Songs To Chill3:21
- 16The Essential Collection (1965-1997)2:56
- 17Maquina Del Tiempo 70's4:42
- 18The Essential Collection (1965-1997)4:41
- 19Singles 1969-19813:46
- 20Singles 1969-19814:09
- 211978 Best of by uDiscover3:01
- 22A Song For You3:09
- 23Karen Carpenter3:11
- 24Carpenters Gold (35th Anniversary Edition)3:05
About this playlist
Southern California siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter were the picture-perfect radio-friendly '70s pop duo. And by and large, their recordings were marvels of lush soft rock, ribboned with muted horns and harps. But beneath the luminous surface, Karen's lilting alto invested even hopeful songs with melancholy, adding aching loneliness to “(They Long to Be) Close to You”, that paean to infatuation. Though the pair were hampered by personal demons, their music maintains an easygoing sweetness that made tunes like “Sing” and “Rainy Days and Mondays” sing-along favourites.