Carpenters interview with Fred Napoli #2

Shortly after the release of their first album, the brother and sister team of The Carpenters arrived in Toronto for a performance at the O'Keefe Centre. They were interviewed by CKFM's Fred Napoli. This is the 2nd part of that broadcast.

[@6821hominy]

I was 26 yrs old & just starting my new life when I left my home state for Texas. I remember the day she passed & I was very sad. I loved the Carpenters then & still listen to them. I miss you Karen. You had your whole life ahead of you. I wish the experts & Doctors knew more back then to help you.

[@losova7543]

Karen just sounds so much like "us" non superstars, so down to earth, so real and I swear listening to her talk makes me smile just like when she's singing. Her voice just does that to you.

[@davidwhitlock9443]

Simply the best female female pop singer of all time.......

[@vickiebohy7609]

Absolutely right!

[@MegaLWordFan]

I like how they explained how they made live performance sound as much the same as the recorded version.

[@gregman1715]

IT'S GREAT HEREING KAREN TALKING AND BEEING FUNNY SHE IS SURELY MISSED I LOVE YA KAREN

[@dreamyblue44]

Love this interview, they're so into the music, you can feel the spirit of creativity :-)

[@fool4singing]

You can hear how passionate they were about music,..especially what they could do with overdubbing their vocals. They don't get the credit that their due, (outside of their fans).

[@icebluejimmy]

Uncle Fred makes the interview very casual and non intrusive.......yet brings out much...... well done!!!!!

[@thomasdonohue1833]

Karen was so sweet and kind I can't stand listening to her interviews 💔

[@robertgalbreath6239]

OMG I love them saying, they are "thinking about doing a Christmas tune....it in the works"....wow.

[@mstrunn]

You can surmise the hectic concert schedule they had even from the beginning!

[@dougbreau3856]

It is clear these fine folks made music their number one priority. Thus we all were given a dozen or so truly classic pop moments that will never leave us. A sidenote: I find it interesting that so many TH-cam clips related to them have comment sections that have been disabled. I wonder if this is because there were too many comments? Someone once suggested it was because of the endless comments from people of the various fan clubs or original message boards going back and forth about who knows more.

[@facedownchuck]

I’ve wondered about that too.

[@JewandGreek]

There's also a lot of nonsense about how horrible Karen's family was and they were responsible for her depression, sickness, death ... etc etc

[@adriandowningiii8395]

@@facedownchuck I know it has been a while on this post but most of the ones that disabled comments on the video posts disabled the comments usually because of bickering back and forth between people and the stuff that was being bickered about wasn't even related to the video content. You can still see that kind of stuff here and there under some videos and some of that stuff would get really nasty too.

[@vickiebohy7609]

​@@JewandGreek Not entirely,but it certainly played a big part of it

[@cimarronhopper4605]

Omg i love making people laugh i love a girl who can make me laugh even more thank you karen i love you so much i dont care how long youlve been gone

[@CarolAnn-qh7xx]

Karen's speaking voice is even beautiful.

[@bryanwinings1026]

Great voice and so cute and funny i also i have. My 6 year old granddaughter listening to them and she loved there music

[@robertmayer2071]

karen`s lexicon is period correct wish i was lucky enuff to know her back then she seems like she would be fun to be around

[@ralphschon1100]

Richard doesn't get to say much :-)

[@rebecalyngstad]

Karen

[@MedullarisConus]

They worked her to the bone. They abused here since birth. She deserved a better life😢