I remember when I was just 20 yrs old, spending a beautiful Sunday afternoon sitting in the grass on a hill at the Garden state arts center in NJ. Was with my best friend we saw the Carpenters for the first time. That was when I knew Karen Carpenter was an excellent singer and my favorite. Today, I am 73 yrs old, still have my best friend, and we both love the Carpenters.
When I heard over the radio that Karen Carpenter collapsed in her closet while getting dressed. My Mom and me were making cookies and heard mins later that she passed away on the way to the hospital. She had a beautiful voice that will always be remembered for her perfect pitch voice.
I'm watching this after some time. Although the story is sad , Karen Carpenter vocals bring tears of joy, her voice will never be forgotten forever, any KC fans should listen to Tori Holub; the re birth of KC's vocal magic.
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It's sad she lost her battle with anorexia, I always wonder what would have happened if they had simply let her stay at the drums, as she had wished to. Thank you for sharing this movie. It does show how words can have an effect on people. God Bless You & stay safe.
As a kid my siblings and I would go over to the Carpenters house, we lived pretty close. When you walked in the front door to the right, down a couple of stairs was where they made their music my siblings would go down there with Richard and Harold BUT to the left was the kitchen, that’s where I usually went with Agnes and Karen. They always made me the best peanut butter and jelly sandwich. They always made time for people. They were pretty awesome.
Did you know that Karen had that voice? I’m assuming you and Karen were pretty young. She touched soooo many people with that voice. Also was Agnes portrayed correctly in this movie? I always felt bad for her.
@@matthewdarnell3535 Hi, yes both Karen and Richard would sing sometimes at the house, not an entire song, just a few words then they would just smile. Their mother Agnes was a bit more dominant than her husband Harold (but in the 70’s most women took control of the household) I can’t recall a time that any of them were rude to us or each other. But I can say this, after Agnes made my peanut butter and jelly sandwich, Karen would bring it over to me as I was sitting at the table. Karen would sit next to me and gently slide my sandwich over with a big smile. There was something about Karen that made me feel welcomed. She had this charisma about her that just (I’m trying to find the words) she was just a really down to earth lady, who showed interest in our conversations no matter how small or big.
Agnes came from a different generation with antiquated ideas about parenting. My parents never said “I love you”. They believed that nurturing = spoiling. I don’t think they had any clue how damaging that is. Fom what I have read, Agnes was solicitous toward Richard while treating Karen as second best. (Or perhaps that’s how Karen perceived it?) The same was true with my parents. My brother could do no wrong. We all carry scars from childhood; how I wish Karen had realized she was loved by so many people. But eating disorders are about control, which Karen must have felt was missing in her life.
Absolutely heartbreaking! Such a wonderful talent gone way too soon!!! Her singing always sends chills up my spine. My husband and I loved the Carpenters from the very beginning. There will never be another group like them! May this movie help others to avoid Karen's sad fate.
Karen Carpenters' voice is smooth like velvet and easy to listen to. I actually went into a stage of sadness when I heard over the radio that she passed away 💔 📻 😢
He was very talented. She was a better singer and he played and wrote music. They were both talented. He had the confidant that she didn't have for herself. Don't blame him for that. Their mom being more for him really isn't his fault either. He was a bit much at time and a real butt, but he was talented.
Male worship is so prevalent in many families. I know us girls in our family were always treated as second class…especially by the women in the family which is all the more puzzling to me..
@applepie1923 They really were a great team. Richard and John Bettis wrote songs together. The funniest song was when John had not seen them for awhile as they were gaining success. John went with them on a Leer jet. John was shocked and said, Good God you are on the top of the world now. Richard said,"That is a great title and wrote the huge hit!!!
Another "fun fact" was John Bettis and Richard worked at Disneyland playing old music. They got fired for sneaking in some popular songs in instead of what they were paid to play!!!
Yes, Hollywood is Hollywood. Yet still some valid truths with non truths. Thank you for a truthful documentary on this endearing movie as a tribute to the Carpenters and their parents. 😊❤.
I bawl my eyes out every time I watch this movie. Karen Carpenter had the voice of an angel and I think her mother never really loved her. Agnes was so obsessed with Richard's career, she forgot about Karen. Her father could have stepped up more but his wife was such a bully. Such a tragedy. God rest Karen's soul.
Well her mom did seem VERY concerned about her , when she confronted her w/ box of laxatives , and raised her top to see her back in skin and bones. so NO , she did care more than most think.
A voice like an angel. I still can sing along to these songs at the top of my voice. Listening to the way her mother allegedly treated her, they just added to the pressure of her 'self-image'. She was taken too soon but her music lives on.
I remember seeing this when it aired on CBS. Wonderfully talented. Richard was a genius and Karen's voice displayed a maturity beyond her years. How sad that she suffered from a warped self perception. Their sound is gold! A bank commercial! Lol! I remember seeing that same commercial!! And Richard made a hit out of it!!😅
The Carpenters produced great clear music. Both was equally talented, but Karen had such a true, clear voice that touch your soul. Rip Karen. You are missed
Absolutely A Voice that no one has ever matched I've loved the Carpenters as a young Child, Her voice fascinated me until this day it still does ,what a Beautiful Angel 😇 and her singing was so Magical 💗 💖 ♥️ ❤️ 💜 💕 xxx With Love and blessings 🙌
Watching the carpenters makes me think of my beautiful mum. She absolutely loved them. We had many records of the carpenters. My mum loved her music. I miss her every day.😍😍
As one who looks fir valudation from my own mother and never get it i relate to her story so much. I too have a brother who was glorified by her while anything i did was past over. Karen only wanted to be loved and validated by her own mother so so desparately. She even looked for richards approval she was so proud of him. Fame was a constant pressure cooker in her life. At the height of the carpenters career they were barely home at all being on the road and excausted. Richard developed an addiction to qualudes and karen became so obsessed with her weight as thats the only thing she could control. Her life was sp tragic and it makes me cry to see how such a woman with brilliant talents ended up dead on her floor a little over 30. There will never be another singer like karen, she had a natural gift to sing with such emotional fortitude without being over the top. And fir me no other singer matches that ability except maybe phyllis hyman whose low tone notes were just as captivating as karens. I swear karens lows just floor me. I miss her. At times listening to the carpenters leaves me in tears ❤❤❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢😢😢 Rip karen... voice of an angel for a generation.
@@tj921able Let's not forget that so called husband of hers, this isn't all the mother's fault. Her Mother was real worried about her eating disorder, the part she could understand about it.
@@tj921able Yes I think so too. I wish she had met somebody that loved her for her for no other reason. Maybe her life would have turned out differently.
I TOO RELATE I WASN'T WANTED NOR EXPECTED TO BE BORN AS A GIRL 😢 BUT BOY HOWEVER WHEN MY SISTER WAS BORN 😊 EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME ALWAYS AND FOREVER WAS ABOUT HER UNTIL MY PARENTS BOTH DIED 😢 AFTER THAT SHE TOOK OVER EVERYTHING TOO SERIOUSLY SPEAKING 🔊 💔 FAVORITE SPOILED BRAT I NEVER PICKED FAVORITES WITH MY BOYS AT ALL AND EVERYTHING WAS EQUAL INCLUDING MY LOVE 💓 ❤️ ❤FOR THEM WAS GENUINE TOO 💯 TRUTH
The best of the Carpenters is playing right this second on my stereo. No kidding. I had a major crush on Richard!!! I love their sweet music and Karens angelic voice. RIP KAREN
Richard nothing can ever do justice for your precious beautiful sister, but you did honor to her through letting this movie be made. We are both old now and soon we will join your beloved sister and all our loved ones in Heaven. Be at peace Richard. Karen is safe and happy with her Savior. You are 77 and im a 66 year old lady. Time has passed so quickly hasnt it? Karen had the voice of an angel and now sings with Heavenly Angels. Im so sorry for your huge loss. Your music lives on forever . Its so strange that i listen to your beautiful music every day and it was playing when this movie popped into my line-up
I'll be 6-0 next month. I was told once by a precious and dear friend that I sounded like Karen Carpenter. I was about 13 at the time. Anything resembling center stage, I was terrified of. But my passion was singing. My sweet friend, who played the piano, has been gone a very long time. But listening to the Carpenters brings back so much more than memories. I've kept from watching this movie. And watching it now, has just been precious. Karen left this world way too young. I will always love the music that she and Richard made for me (O, and the whole world of course 😊).
Keep in mind the carpenters would never be possible without Richard. He arranged the music put the key for her to sing and came in fir the harmonies 🎉❤ She was the face and carried the voice but he was the mastermind behind their sound and success❤
Amen! He was the musical genius in arranging and composing their wonderful songs. The two of them made beautiful music that will be enjoyed forever. Karen's voice was one of a kind and her drumming was spectacular!
@@lapacesiaconvoi He took lessons when he was quite young, stopped for a bit and then studied with a staff member at Yale University's school of music. when he was around 15.
Karen Carpenter was very talented. She didn't have to die the way she did. The mother didn't have to make a difference between Karen and Richard. Just my opinion.
My cousin and his friend were extras in the wedding seen of the movie , he also met Richard Carpenter and gave my cousin a tour of their house and showed him his car collection, Richard didn't know my cousin was an extra, he thought he was one of the actual actors in the movie, my cousin just fit in that way 😊
"The pen is mightier than the sword", if that Journalist had have had the sense to pick their words better, and focused on the music as opposed to Karen's weight, I wonder how much different her life would have been. Shame on that writer. RIP Karen.
Yes but is that journalist REALLY at fault for Karen developing an eating disorder? I totally understand what you’re saying about words being powerful, but you make your own choices in life. At any point, she could have chosen to seek help to deal with her eating disorder, but for whatever reason just couldn’t quite get it together. It suck’s of course, but stuff happens as they say. That’s me done with for now at least.
One comment never sets off anorexia. Karen already had issues. Anorexia is a symptom of emotional issues, about control.....not about weight, not after a while.
There will never ever be another Karen Carpenter 😢 I absolutely blame that selfish Mother that had no compassion showed no Love to Karen. A girl needs the love of her Mother. I read where she favored Richard. She made her get married even tho at the last minute Karen changed her mind and didn’t want to marry. She was cruel. All Karen wanted was to be Loved. I could write more but it was the Mothers fault that Karen did this to herself. I know from experience.
She has this voice that makes you feel good, like actual joy beams, no matter how bad you feel. I am sort of embarrassed to admit this, but sometimes her voice makes me weep. I feel this tremendous sadness and longing. Probably a buried childhood memory trying to get loose! 😮
I grew up with this music as a child, and I'm in my 50s and it still moves my heart. I always thought that Karen sounds like an angel, and many decades later, she still does. Richard was a great arranger, and that also takes a special kind of talent. Watching on 28 September 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa ❤😢
Karen was a amazing person she touched buy her amazing singer and gorgeous woman she is a amazing lady to always watch her film it was very good I love her music she bought love to so many people very one love her
Both Karen&Richard were so gifted.Especially close to have each other to try&help each other.I know Richard you did your best,but I think without you she might have gone sooner.Celeberties lives are horrible I think.i just shared "Bless the beasts&the children with my great grandchildren. ❤❤
I'm saddened that Richard didn't want to give the green light to this film. I loved this movie, thought Cynthia was wonderful, and I fell in love with the Carpenters because of this movie
Well,mental illness ran in the Carpenter family ,Karen was mistreated as much by Richard as their parents-after all he was the golden child.Both Carpenter kids suffered depression and anxiety,unfortunately in Karen's case it ran much deeper..RIP 😢
Richard has claimed the film overplays their family's issues for dramatic effect, hence he dislikes it so much besides being an invasion of privacy, but by all other accounts it was *very* much toned *down* not up. What we see here is even the _fifth_ draft of the script, finished by a second writer. The first writer quit after being asked to re-re-re-re-edit it! That's how much it was toned down, with the family breathing down the writers' necks. When that original writer was first hired, he was invited to the Carpenters' family home to start his research, and he'd barely got out of the car thqt first visit when Agnes (the mother) came tearing across the driveway screaming at him "I did _not_ kill my daughter!" Perfectly normal behavior for an innocent person with nothing on their conscience, of course.
Karen Carpenter could have gotten support from her family and friends she was an excellent drummer and singer and nobody understood and nobody wanted to know that she had problems with her weight and a major eating disorder and she died of cadiac arrest and she was so young when she died. The Carpenters were huge back in the 70's and early 80s I like the song On Top Of The World and Close To You Karen Carpenter had a beautiful voice and she wasn't ugly she made herself ugly by wasting food and not eating.. so sad what happened to her everyone knew that she had an eating disorder she needed help. She trusted the wrong kinds of people. I hope she is at peace now.
Eating disorders were not even acknowledged back then almost no one including her family knew anything about what she was doing which was going on for yrs.This was not because of her family she said it herself they don't just say things about the music they say it about everything.She could only control her weight and she could not stop.Her family could not make an adult woman do anything.
We've only just begun was my wedding song many years ago I love the carpenters even today was sad when Karen died her mother certainly had a lot to answer for I hope karen has always rested in peace the voice of an angel and has sung with angels since her passing
According to the book Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter by Randy L. Schmidt, Agnes Carpenter felt she had to be in control. It was sad to know Agnes didn't believe in mental health at all. She just makes me ill.
@@Woodman-Spare-that-tree back in those days it was considered taboo. Agnes Carpenter it seems she didn't believe in mental health treatments. If you think about it, people who suffer from anorexia believe they are not the perfect weight. I was always reassured I was told I was loved. It's sad. Everyone needs to be appreciated as much as be told you are loved.
I grew up hearing the Carpenters on the radio and knew all their songs word for word.. there will never be another Karen Carpenter.. I love their music and it will always bring me back to the best years of my life.
Karen has a beautiful, one of a kind voice. I wish I could enjoy her music again. My Mom used to play it on the way to lessons and horse shows. Some bad things happened and damage was done- when I hear this voice and the beautiful arrangements , I just feel creeped out. I’m so sorry.
2 artists that deserved the ultimate top grade biopic movie of them and their life Karen Carpenter and Freddie Mercury, and both have been truly shown instead the ultimate let down of the end result.
I remember it during late 90 Monday night movies special about Karen Carpenter her. Music. Never forget her . My favorite music and her song song live forever even her older brother kept her legacy memory forever
Anyone can become reasonably proficient on a musical instrument , of course Richard was indeed inspired and talented. But a voice is a gift from God. Millions of people sing but Karen Carpenter had a very special voice. Personally I find her voice incredibly soothing and warm . Perhaps because she was also a drummer this added a certain rhythmic precision to her phrasing and vibrato. ❤I’ve only known a very few people who had a true gift for anything and of those few it didn’t always bring them happiness.
It is so tragic that Karen passed on from emotional issues that became the vile insidious affliction of anorexia. It can start being about weight, but it has nothing to do with this....not after a while. The affliction literally 'changes' your brain. You are unable to see how starved you look, how you are destroying your body, you even cease to become hungry. I know....because I suffered from it. I had never been heavy, but my friends all were obsessed with weight so I dieted too. As I got more slender, everyone complimented me....something I seldom to never got from them. I had always been shy & socially-awkward from bullying.....so I could not see these people were not likely true friends. Suddenly my parents' fighting escalated into a pending divorce, I was crushed. College began & I had no idea how to handle it....having come from a small, ill-run high school. Weight began to become the only thing I could control. No one noticed how thin I was becoming, not even me. I stopped being hungry, I often lived on a bagel & black coffee most days. I was exhausted constantly, my hair began to thin. Yet I couldn't see it. Anorexia CHANGES YOUR BRAIN.....you literally cannot see how emaciated you are becoming. I believe God let me 'see myself' one day, getting out of the shower.....I saw what I could not see before...my ribs sticking out, my breasts gone, my hair thinned. I literally said out loud, almost in tears: "What are you doing to yourself?!!" I vowed to get healthy....it took WEEKS to even feel hungry again, to eat without feeling nauseous. I fought the battle alone, I told no one. I became healthy, at last. It took time. But I tell anyone who will listen: If you're suffering with anorexia or bulimia, please know it can be all right. Your brain CAN heal. God bless.
It's my fave. Had a professional musician boyfriend/live in for 5 years who committed suicide on valentines day at 35. It reminds me of him. I used to be able to sing it really well. I regret my past since becoming a Christian. But i did love him . That was the 90s.
I played Please Mr. Postman over and over on my plastic 45 record player..My brother would come into my room and take it!! Haha..Top of the World too..Loved the Carpenters..❤
True, it is sad that she died young. But her talent was not wasted entirely, with the records she and Richard made, together. "Close to You" was always my favorite album.
@@TheSoleProprietor Exactly! To say Karen's life was wasted is not very kind nor accurate. The fact that we still enjoy her music & mourn her passing shows that her life DID have meaning. Its sad indeed that she died, particularly from the vile insidious affliction of anorexia.....but often people can create a legend in the time they are here on Earth. Karen did this.
I remember when I was just 20 yrs old, spending a beautiful Sunday afternoon sitting in the grass on a hill at the Garden state arts center in NJ. Was with my best friend we saw the Carpenters for the first time. That was when I knew Karen Carpenter was an excellent singer and my favorite. Today, I am 73 yrs old, still have my best friend, and we both love the Carpenters.
God Bless you Kiddo !
she has the most distinctly beautiful voice.
The best lady pop singer ever
Child of God you are
How fortunate and blessed you both were to see this angel 👼 with her angelic voice!! I love you!!
When I heard over the radio that Karen Carpenter collapsed in her closet while getting dressed. My Mom and me were making cookies and heard mins later that she passed away on the way to the hospital. She had a beautiful voice that will always be remembered for her perfect pitch voice.
I'm watching this after some time. Although the story is sad , Karen Carpenter vocals bring tears of joy, her voice will never be forgotten forever, any KC fans should listen to Tori Holub; the re birth of KC's vocal magic.
I just listened to Tori video and she puts tears in my eyes of the reincarnation of Karen Carpenter in Tori’s beautiful voice
I’m 66 and hearing her voice still gives me goosebumps just like it did when I was 16.
ditto
my oldest brother who would be 68 got me hooked on her as a kid. she has the greatest voice and I am 58, still love her today
That's lovely
Exactly!
Her voice was spectacular and Richard was equally talented
Riichard produced and arranged all the records.
He knew Karen was very sick. Yet emotionally used her.
She sang like an angel……….now she sings with them.
She sure deserves heaven. God have mercy on her. R.i.p. amen
I love this comment 🩷
She's a HUGE PART of "Rock & Roll Heaven" Her, Bobby, and all the rest are in a hell of a band!!
My Mom and I LOVED the Carpenters! There's no music like that anymore.
My sister and I loved her music now my sister is in heaven too.
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This was music. Today's music couldn't hold a candle Stick to this. The music today is no quality garbage.
@@DrummerforChrist550 There is NO music today, just CRap.
It's sad she lost her battle with anorexia, I always wonder what would have happened if they had simply let her stay at the drums, as she had wished to. Thank you for sharing this movie. It does show how words can have an effect on people. God Bless You & stay safe.
Ive always thought if i could imagine what the angels in Heaven sounded like it would be the voice of Karen Carpenter. ❤
I've said that very same thing more than once.😢❤
Me too...
As a kid my siblings and I would go over to the Carpenters house, we lived pretty close. When you walked in the front door to the right, down a couple of stairs was where they made their music my siblings would go down there with Richard and Harold BUT to the left was the kitchen, that’s where I usually went with Agnes and Karen. They always made me the best peanut butter and jelly sandwich. They always made time for people. They were pretty awesome.
Did you know that Karen had that voice? I’m assuming you and Karen were pretty young. She touched soooo many people with that voice. Also was Agnes portrayed correctly in this movie? I always felt bad for her.
@@matthewdarnell3535 Hi, yes both Karen and Richard would sing sometimes at the house, not an entire song, just a few words then they would just smile. Their mother Agnes was a bit more dominant than her husband Harold (but in the 70’s most women took control of the household) I can’t recall a time that any of them were rude to us or each other. But I can say this, after Agnes made my peanut butter and jelly sandwich, Karen would bring it over to me as I was sitting at the table. Karen would sit next to me and gently slide my sandwich over with a big smile. There was something about Karen that made me feel welcomed. She had this charisma about her that just (I’m trying to find the words) she was just a really down to earth lady, who showed interest in our conversations no matter how small or big.
That so cool that you new her
Agnes came from a different generation with antiquated ideas about parenting. My parents never said “I love you”. They believed that nurturing = spoiling. I don’t think they had any clue how damaging that is. Fom what I have read, Agnes was solicitous toward Richard while treating Karen as second best. (Or perhaps that’s how Karen perceived it?)
The same was true with my parents. My brother could do no wrong. We all carry scars from childhood; how I wish Karen had realized she was loved by so many people. But eating disorders are about control, which Karen must have felt was missing in her life.
@@pamcrampton8050you were truly blessed to know her...i love her so much❤
Absolutely heartbreaking! Such a wonderful talent gone way too soon!!! Her singing always sends chills up my spine. My husband and I loved the Carpenters from the very beginning. There will never be another group like them! May this movie help others to avoid Karen's sad fate.
Karen Carpenters' voice is smooth like velvet and easy to listen to. I actually went into a stage of sadness when I heard over the radio that she passed away 💔 📻 😢
Yes ,she had a beautiful voice, talent that could not be replicated by any one else ,not even Barbara Steistand submitted by ,Rob Pittman
The Carpenters brought much happiness during sad and hard times.
🎼🎶🎶🎶♥️♥️♥️
The mom made all about Richard but Karen was what all the many fans came to hear.
Joke's On The 2 Of Em, Cause We Know Who The Real Star Was.
He was very talented. She was a better singer and he played and wrote music. They were both talented. He had the confidant that she didn't have for herself. Don't blame him for that. Their mom being more for him really isn't his fault either. He was a bit much at time and a real butt, but he was talented.
Male worship is so prevalent in many families. I know us girls in our family were always treated as second class…especially by the women in the family which is all the more puzzling to me..
@applepie1923 They really were a great team. Richard and John Bettis wrote songs together. The funniest song was when John had not seen them for awhile as they were gaining success. John went with them on a Leer jet. John was shocked and said, Good God you are on the top of the world now. Richard said,"That is a great title and wrote the huge hit!!!
Another "fun fact" was John Bettis and Richard worked at Disneyland playing old music. They got fired for sneaking in some popular songs in instead of what they were paid to play!!!
Karen Carpenter was beautiful inside and out and so talented ❤
When the “real” Karen started singing “all of my life” in Joe Osborne‘s studio I started to cry. Silly me.
❤ Karen Carpenter forever❤
That song makes me think about my big sis who passed away nine months ago don’t know if I will be able to listen to it.
That's not silly at all. I think it's sweet. You be you which I'm sure is wonderful!!!!!!!
I think we all started crying, I also found a tear rolling
Yes, Hollywood is Hollywood. Yet still some valid truths with non truths. Thank you for a truthful documentary on this endearing movie as a tribute to the Carpenters and their parents. 😊❤.
Karen had a deep Mother wound that caused her anorexia. All she wanted was to be acknowledged & loved. Bless her beautiful Soul ❤
Exactly.
Yep. Says it all that precious Richard hasn't done anything since!
nice analysis, but it was really a reviewers innocent comment about her weight that sparked her disease off
This had nothing to do with her mother.Her mother never criticized her weight she might have criticized everything else but never her appearance.
No, asshole reporters that called her "his chubby sister" caused this.
I bawl my eyes out every time I watch this movie. Karen Carpenter had the voice of an angel and I think her mother never really loved her. Agnes was so obsessed with Richard's career, she forgot about Karen. Her father could have stepped up more but his wife was such a bully. Such a tragedy. God rest Karen's soul.
Well her mom did seem VERY concerned about her , when she confronted her w/ box of laxatives , and raised her top to see her back in skin and bones. so NO , she did care more than most think.
A voice like an angel. I still can sing along to these songs at the top of my voice. Listening to the way her mother allegedly treated her, they just added to the pressure of her 'self-image'. She was taken too soon but her music lives on.
This was A great TV Movie movie from 1989 !!!
I remember seeing this when it aired on CBS. Wonderfully talented. Richard was a genius and Karen's voice displayed a maturity beyond her years. How sad that she suffered from a warped self perception. Their sound is gold!
A bank commercial! Lol! I remember seeing that same commercial!! And Richard made a hit out of it!!😅
That showed his talent as a musician, finding music in the most simple of things.
Richard worked very hard for the talent he developed.
But Karen had a gift from God.
And God's gifts must never be exploited.
I couldn't agree more
The Carpenters produced great clear music. Both was equally talented, but Karen had such a true, clear voice that touch your soul. Rip Karen. You are missed
Thanks for sharing 🎶💜🙏🏽🌹
Absolutely A Voice that no one has ever matched I've loved the Carpenters as a young Child, Her voice fascinated me until this day it still does ,what a Beautiful Angel 😇 and her singing was so Magical 💗 💖 ♥️ ❤️ 💜 💕 xxx With Love and blessings 🙌
Watching the carpenters makes me think of my beautiful mum. She absolutely loved them. We had many records of the carpenters. My mum loved her music. I miss her every day.😍😍
I like this movie. I enjoy hearing their music. Two very talented young people. I always wondered why Richard just disappeared after Karen died. 🎉🎉
He lost his partner. Getting another wouldn't seem right im sure.
R.I.P. Karen Carpenter
(March 2nd,1950-
February 4th,1983)
One of the saddest stories
in the music industry.
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That “Close to You” chorus literally sends shivers up my spine.
Don't you mean down or are you upside-down
Karen’s story has haunted me most of my life. What a waste of pure talent ❤❤❤❤
I agree 💯 She was so talented!!!
Me too, Karen's story, always Haunted me... RIH
Every note was Never a waste
As one who looks fir valudation from my own mother and never get it i relate to her story so much. I too have a brother who was glorified by her while anything i did was past over.
Karen only wanted to be loved and validated by her own mother so so desparately.
She even looked for richards approval she was so proud of him.
Fame was a constant pressure cooker in her life. At the height of the carpenters career they were barely home at all being on the road and excausted. Richard developed an addiction to qualudes and karen became so obsessed with her weight as thats the only thing she could control.
Her life was sp tragic and it makes me cry to see how such a woman with brilliant talents ended up dead on her floor a little over 30.
There will never be another singer like karen, she had a natural gift to sing with such emotional fortitude without being over the top.
And fir me no other singer matches that ability except maybe phyllis hyman whose low tone notes were just as captivating as karens.
I swear karens lows just floor me.
I miss her. At times listening to the carpenters leaves me in tears ❤❤❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢😢😢
Rip karen... voice of an angel for a generation.
You put this beautifully. She was always looking for validation, as we all are. TY for sharing these thoughts. God Bless You & take care.
@@tj921able Let's not forget that so called husband of hers, this isn't all the mother's fault. Her Mother was real worried about her eating disorder, the part she could understand about it.
@@applepie1923 I agree. Her husband seemed jealous of her fame.
@@tj921able Yes I think so too. I wish she had met somebody that loved her for her for no other reason. Maybe her life would have turned out differently.
I TOO RELATE I WASN'T WANTED NOR EXPECTED TO BE BORN AS A GIRL 😢 BUT BOY HOWEVER WHEN MY SISTER WAS BORN 😊 EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME ALWAYS AND FOREVER WAS ABOUT HER UNTIL MY PARENTS BOTH DIED 😢 AFTER THAT SHE TOOK OVER EVERYTHING TOO SERIOUSLY SPEAKING 🔊 💔 FAVORITE SPOILED BRAT
I NEVER PICKED FAVORITES WITH MY BOYS AT ALL AND EVERYTHING WAS EQUAL INCLUDING MY LOVE 💓 ❤️ ❤FOR THEM WAS GENUINE TOO 💯 TRUTH
This is such a sad story!! It should reach out to people with this disease!! There are people who suffer from this!! Thank you!!@
My high school Downey High we had a stage built in her memory. What a beautiful soul.
The scene was like her soul leaving her body .
@@Tiffany.1970The opening scene.
Her Life Flashing Before Her Eyes.
The best of the Carpenters is playing right this second on my stereo. No kidding. I had a major crush on Richard!!! I love their sweet music and Karens angelic voice. RIP KAREN
Always loved there music. She had a beautiful voice a gift from god. May she rest in peace.
Richard nothing can ever do justice for your precious beautiful sister, but you did honor to her through letting this movie be made. We are both old now and soon we will join your beloved sister and all our loved ones in Heaven. Be at peace Richard. Karen is safe and happy with her Savior. You are 77 and im a 66 year old lady. Time has passed so quickly hasnt it? Karen had the voice of an angel and now sings with Heavenly Angels. Im so sorry for your huge loss. Your music lives on forever . Its so strange that i listen to your beautiful music every day and it was playing when this movie popped into my line-up
You are still young!!!😊🇬🇧
66 is not old.
I'll be 6-0 next month. I was told once by a precious and dear friend that I sounded like Karen Carpenter. I was about 13 at the time. Anything resembling center stage, I was terrified of. But my passion was singing. My sweet friend, who played the piano, has been gone a very long time. But listening to the Carpenters brings back so much more than memories. I've kept from watching this movie. And watching it now, has just been precious. Karen left this world way too young. I will always love the music that she and Richard made for me (O, and the whole world of course 😊).
All these years later I still grieve over Karen. I so wish she could have found her way out.
Keep in mind the carpenters would never be possible without Richard.
He arranged the music put the key for her to sing and came in fir the harmonies 🎉❤
She was the face and carried the voice but he was the mastermind behind their sound and success❤
Amen! He was the musical genius in arranging and composing their wonderful songs. The two of them made beautiful music that will be enjoyed forever. Karen's voice was one of a kind and her drumming was spectacular!
i didn't know he took piano lessons though.
@@lapacesiaconvoi He took lessons when he was quite young, stopped for a bit and then studied with a staff member at Yale University's school of music. when he was around 15.
Karen Carpenter was very talented. She didn't have to die the way she did. The mother didn't have to make a difference between Karen and Richard. Just my opinion.
@@GeorgiaRandolph I agree. It's never a good idea to show favoritism with your children. Causes all sorts of disfunction and insecurity!
My cousin and his friend were extras in the wedding seen of the movie , he also met Richard Carpenter and gave my cousin a tour of their house and showed him his car collection, Richard didn't know my cousin was an extra, he thought he was one of the actual actors in the movie, my cousin just fit in that way 😊
One of the most beautiful voices this side of Paradise!
"The pen is mightier than the sword", if that Journalist had have had the sense to pick their words better, and focused on the music as opposed to Karen's weight, I wonder how much different her life would have been. Shame on that writer. RIP Karen.
Yes but is that journalist REALLY at fault for Karen developing an eating disorder? I totally understand what you’re saying about words being powerful, but you make your own choices in life.
At any point, she could have chosen to seek help to deal with her eating disorder, but for whatever reason just couldn’t quite get it together.
It suck’s of course, but stuff happens as they say.
That’s me done with for now at least.
One comment never sets off anorexia. Karen already had issues. Anorexia is a symptom of emotional issues, about control.....not about weight, not after a while.
It's so hard to pick a favorite, I just love her voice. I'm proud to say my son was born in 97' and he love The Carpenters too.
There will never ever be another Karen Carpenter 😢 I absolutely blame that selfish Mother that had no compassion showed no Love to Karen. A girl needs the love of her Mother. I read where she favored Richard. She made her get married even tho at the last minute Karen changed her mind and didn’t want to marry. She was cruel. All Karen wanted was to be Loved. I could write more but it was the Mothers fault that Karen did this to herself. I know from experience.
Mother a narcissist and Richard was her golden child. Look it up it's quite common scenario.
Karen was the Best singer Ever..I loved her on the Drums. She will always be #1
RIP Karen your music will always be remembered.
She has this voice that makes you feel good, like actual joy beams, no matter how bad you feel. I am sort of embarrassed to admit this, but sometimes her voice makes me weep. I feel this tremendous sadness and longing. Probably a buried childhood memory trying to get loose! 😮
I grew up with this music as a child, and I'm in my 50s and it still moves my heart.
I always thought that Karen sounds like an angel, and many decades later, she still does.
Richard was a great arranger, and that also takes a special kind of talent.
Watching on 28 September 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa ❤😢
The Most beautiful voice ever. Smooth as velvet.
❤Gone with the Wind❤x17 IYKYK
Karen had the voice of an angel…may she rest in peace🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
ONJ & Karen are the two most perfect singers to have ever graced us here on earth. Now blessings the angels in heaven with their beautiful music.
Karen was a amazing person she touched buy her amazing singer and gorgeous woman she is a amazing lady to always watch her film it was very good I love her music she bought love to so many people very one love her
My grand daughter asked me why the 70s had all the good music. Carpenters, Bay City Rollers, Osmonds. She was right.
Bay City Rollers, Osmonds??????????????????? LMAO!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Never heard of them either.....@steve 🤔🤔🤔
I didn't like BCR. Got made fun of for liking the Carpenters and Barry Manilow. I didn't care.
@@steveduncan007Marie Ismond was good. Look up Meet Me In Montana. She was amazing singing that.
Both Karen&Richard were so gifted.Especially close to have each other to try&help each other.I know Richard you did your best,but I think without you she might have gone sooner.Celeberties lives are horrible I think.i just shared "Bless the beasts&the children with my great grandchildren. ❤❤
I lived by her family home. When I was in HS we would drive for a glimpse of her ❤
Such a beautiful lady xx she is sadly missed but never forgotten xx 🙏✨
I'm saddened that Richard didn't want to give the green light to this film. I loved this movie, thought Cynthia was wonderful, and I fell in love with the Carpenters because of this movie
Well,mental illness ran in the Carpenter family ,Karen was mistreated as much by Richard as their parents-after all he was the golden child.Both Carpenter kids suffered depression and anxiety,unfortunately in Karen's case it ran much deeper..RIP 😢
Families need some deference.,respect and privacy. When did civility end? It's over 2024..4 now.
Richard has claimed the film overplays their family's issues for dramatic effect, hence he dislikes it so much besides being an invasion of privacy, but by all other accounts it was *very* much toned *down* not up. What we see here is even the _fifth_ draft of the script, finished by a second writer. The first writer quit after being asked to re-re-re-re-edit it! That's how much it was toned down, with the family breathing down the writers' necks.
When that original writer was first hired, he was invited to the Carpenters' family home to start his research, and he'd barely got out of the car thqt first visit when Agnes (the mother) came tearing across the driveway screaming at him "I did _not_ kill my daughter!" Perfectly normal behavior for an innocent person with nothing on their conscience, of course.
Karens voice is so unique. Just beautiful.
Female crooners are very rare.
Best voice I have ever heard ♥️
Karen Carpenter could have gotten support from her family and friends she was an excellent drummer and singer and nobody understood and nobody wanted to know that she had problems with her weight and a major eating disorder and she died of cadiac arrest and she was so young when she died. The Carpenters were huge back in the 70's and early 80s I like the song On Top Of The World and Close To You Karen Carpenter had a beautiful voice and she wasn't ugly she made herself ugly by wasting food and not eating.. so sad what happened to her everyone knew that she had an eating disorder she needed help.
She trusted the wrong kinds of people. I hope she is at peace now.
Eating disorders were not even acknowledged back then almost no one including her family knew anything about what she was doing which was going on for yrs.This was not because of her family she said it herself they don't just say things about the music they say it about everything.She could only control her weight and she could not stop.Her family could not make an adult woman do anything.
@@chetyoubetya8565that’s true it’s like addiction the persons family have no control over it.
My 1st Carpenter album was on an 8-track that I bought with my babysitting money!
She deserved to be loved and treated affectionately
❤🎉😂😊
Absolutely
We've only just begun was my wedding song many years ago I love the carpenters even today was sad when Karen died her mother certainly had a lot to answer for I hope karen has always rested in peace the voice of an angel and has sung with angels since her passing
According to the book Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter by Randy L. Schmidt, Agnes Carpenter felt she had to be in control. It was sad to know Agnes didn't believe in mental health at all. She just makes me ill.
The mother was horrible
It was as if she needed to be in control of everything.
You mean, she didn’t believe in mental illness.
It’s a good thing to have mental health.
@@Woodman-Spare-that-tree back in those days it was considered taboo. Agnes Carpenter it seems she didn't believe in mental health treatments. If you think about it, people who suffer from anorexia believe they are not the perfect weight. I was always reassured I was told I was loved. It's sad. Everyone needs to be appreciated as much as be told you are loved.
Karen's mum would have needed some help herself. She seems Narsistic.
Sad story ! She had a magical soft smooth sweet singing voice !!!
I'm heartbroken 😢
I love you, Karen…♥️
I saw this when it aired, still hits hard now.
Her voice is the embodiment of pure joy!
Fame is not always what it’s cracked up to be
I grew up hearing the Carpenters on the radio and knew all their songs word for word.. there will never be another Karen Carpenter.. I love their music and it will always bring me back to the best years of my life.
Beautiful voice
😂❤ a beautiful Soul gone to soon bless her family and friends and all who love her and Richard beautiful music
I saw them in Atlanta and heard her Awesome Voice,their Amazing sound💘
I sang all the songs with this movie😊
They were such a Heart💝Gift
Wow! This music is just amazing & time less. It’s also tastefully done!
she had an amazing voice!!
Karen has a beautiful, one of a kind voice. I wish I could enjoy her music again. My Mom used to play it on the way to lessons and horse shows. Some bad things happened and damage was done- when I hear this voice and the beautiful arrangements , I just feel creeped out. I’m so sorry.
Karen had an amazing voice!
Hi there greetings from Australia 🇦🇺 thanks for the music that you have made for me John Vanharen
I love The Carpenters. It's a very haunting scene when they're wheeling Karen in on the stretcher & the younger Karen skates away from the room. 😢
Beautiful. Voice. Very. Sad. Ending. Rest. In. Peace. Karen. ❤
I had such a HUGE CRUSH on Karen.
To this day I still shed a tear at her loss!!
Very good movie, although it had a very sad ending. Thanks for sharing. Take care and God Bless.
Thanks, you too!
The price of that Kimono in Japan-,,,
For that Mom to throw it down on the table like it was nothing.
So disrespectful...
Karen is still my favorite singer!!🎉🎉
2 artists that deserved the ultimate top grade biopic movie of them and their life Karen Carpenter and Freddie Mercury, and both have been truly shown instead the ultimate let down of the end result.
I was 8 years old when she died when the movie about her I was 14 years old
I was 19 when she died
I was 6. I still enjoy the Carpenter's. Their music reminds me of being with my mom. 😢❤
I was almost 11 my birthday is in December and I still remember the Carpenters 😢
I just turned 13 when she died. Her music/voice is priceless.
@@AmandaRules4ever I was just listening to the Carpenters when your comment popped up.😊
A Song For You is so special. Leon Russell also did it. " i love you in a place where there's no space or time" . What a line....
What parent cant tell their kid they love them
Mine. Stopped when I was 5. Said it once when I was leaving for Hollywood at 27. Made me embarrassed to say it to her.
I remember it during late 90 Monday night movies special about Karen Carpenter her. Music. Never forget her . My favorite music and her song song live forever even her older brother kept her legacy memory forever
Amazing voice! Beautiful lady! Tragic end! 😢
Anyone can become reasonably proficient on a musical instrument ,
of course Richard was indeed inspired and talented. But a voice is a gift from God. Millions of people sing but Karen Carpenter had a very special voice. Personally I find her voice incredibly soothing and warm . Perhaps because she was also a drummer this added a certain rhythmic precision to her phrasing and vibrato. ❤I’ve only known a very few people who had a true gift for anything and of those few it didn’t always bring them happiness.
Thay are the. Best I loved them her voice was lovely
It is so tragic that Karen passed on from emotional issues that became the vile insidious affliction of anorexia.
It can start being about weight, but it has nothing to do with this....not after a while. The affliction literally 'changes' your brain. You are unable to see how starved you look, how you are destroying your body, you even cease to become hungry. I know....because I suffered from it. I had never been heavy, but my friends all were obsessed with weight so I dieted too. As I got more slender, everyone complimented me....something I seldom to never got from them. I had always been shy & socially-awkward from bullying.....so I could not see these people were not likely true friends. Suddenly my parents' fighting escalated into a pending divorce, I was crushed. College began & I had no idea how to handle it....having come from a small, ill-run high school.
Weight began to become the only thing I could control. No one noticed how thin I was becoming, not even me. I stopped being hungry, I often lived on a bagel & black coffee most days. I was exhausted constantly, my hair began to thin. Yet I couldn't see it. Anorexia CHANGES YOUR BRAIN.....you literally cannot see how emaciated you are becoming.
I believe God let me 'see myself' one day, getting out of the shower.....I saw what I could not see before...my ribs sticking out, my breasts gone, my hair thinned.
I literally said out loud, almost in tears: "What are you doing to yourself?!!"
I vowed to get healthy....it took WEEKS to even feel hungry again, to eat without feeling nauseous. I fought the battle alone, I told no one. I became healthy, at last. It took time.
But I tell anyone who will listen: If you're suffering with anorexia or bulimia, please know it can be all right. Your brain CAN heal. God bless.
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my daddy used to sing Superstar to me as a young girl and I cried everytime. I had it played at his funeral
It's my fave. Had a professional musician boyfriend/live in for 5 years who committed suicide on valentines day at 35. It reminds me of him. I used to be able to sing it really well. I regret my past since becoming a Christian. But i did love him . That was the 90s.
I'm sorry for your loss.
I played Please Mr. Postman over and over on my plastic 45 record player..My brother would come into my room and take it!! Haha..Top of the World too..Loved the Carpenters..❤
Cynthia did a good job. But Karen was much more animated and interactive with the audience when they preformed.
Today is my 67 th April I st birthday and i am blessed
On my birthday to hear she is my heart she is part of my lifes tapestry
I grew up signing when i was little always singing karen carpenter songs hher voice resonated eith my soul my heart ❤️💞
This made my birthday today sori made my 67 th April I st birthday a blessing from God
She is part of me
She had a voice of an angel 😢. Such talent wasted at an early age. RIP now angel 😂😂❤❤
True, it is sad that she died young. But her talent was not wasted entirely, with the records she and Richard made, together. "Close to You" was always my favorite album.
@@TheSoleProprietor Exactly! To say Karen's life was wasted is not very kind nor accurate. The fact that we still enjoy her music & mourn her passing shows that her life DID have meaning. Its sad indeed that she died, particularly from the vile insidious affliction of anorexia.....but often people can create a legend in the time they are here on Earth. Karen did this.