Richard Carpenter

There is no doubt about that.

You know, the theater up at Innovation Square has different shows come through, and something popped up on Facebook, I think it was, or maybe an email here a bit ago, about a show called Carpenter's Legacy.

And I'm a big fan of Karen Carpenter from back in the day.

We old people are that way, you know.

At any rate, I thought, I wonder what that's like.

Hi, Bob.

Thanks for having us.

I have Ned Mills here, too, who plays Richard Carpenter in our show.

And where the carpenters are from, too.

So if you like Karen and Richard Carpenter.

You have actually a piece of this story in you as well.

Enjoy.

This is Ozarks at Large.

A soundtrack to the 1970s wouldn't be complete without at least some of the songs of Karen and Richard Carpenter.

Between 1971 and 1975, the sibling duo recorded 10 albums, scored 13 top 10 songs, and performed more than 800 concerts.

Next week, for one night, the Carpenters will be celebrated at Walton Arts Center with the show The Carpenter Songbook, a live celebration.

And obviously those first lines, you know, why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near? It's just, it's so evocative.

So that's really my early memory of being very, very young and hearing it.

What is it about Karen and Richard Carpenter that compelled you to stage a production?

You know what? I had huge success with another show, which you may be aware of, called The Simon and Garfunkel Story, which has been running now for, gosh, 15 years worldwide.

In 1983, the Carpenters released Voice of the Heart.

This was assembled by Richard Carpenter from Archival Outtakes.

This was the duo's first posthumous album following Karen Carpenter's unfortunate early passing that year.

Climb to number six on the UK albums chart, number 46 in America.

[singing] And the only explanation I can find-

Who would've thunk it? Richard Carpenter turned 80 on the same day as Bob Hudson.

That's just a bit of useless, useless stuff if you're playing trivia games anywhere over the weekend.

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Chris DeBurgh, the singer-songwriter known for Lady in Red, turns 78.

Richard Carpenter, the pianist and arranger and one half of The Carpenters, turns 80 today.

And Barry McGuire, the rock singer, folk rock singer, uh, of the 1965 hit Eve of Destruction, turns 91.

In this day in music history, Little Richard in 1956 recorded Good Golly, Miss Molly.