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  • Re: RIP

    From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 23 14:59:36 2025
    On 2025-05-23 2:46 p.m., % wrote:
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    Roger Nichols, the composer behind some of Carpenters’ greatest hits,
    has died at the age of 84. The songwriter was a composer and songwriter
    who was behind Carpenters’ biggest hits We’ve Only Just Begun and Rainy Days and Mondays, and was a frequent collaborator. It was announced that
    he died on May 17, but the news was only just made public. Paul
    Williams, his songwriting partner of many years, confirmed the news in a
    post (Picture: AnythingGoes)

    A composer of some of the prettiest and most memorable songs of the 20th century. He will be missed.

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    God be with you,

    CrudeSausage
    John 14:6

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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 23 15:37:48 2025
    On 2025-05-23 3:17 p.m., % wrote:
    CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2025-05-23 2:46 p.m., % wrote:
    .

    Roger Nichols, the composer behind some of Carpenters’ greatest hits,
    has died at the age of 84. The songwriter was a composer and
    songwriter who was behind Carpenters’ biggest hits We’ve Only Just
    Begun and Rainy Days and Mondays, and was a frequent collaborator. It
    was announced that he died on May 17, but the news was only just made
    public. Paul Williams, his songwriting partner of many years,
    confirmed the news in a post (Picture: AnythingGoes)

    A composer of some of the prettiest and most memorable songs of the
    20th century. He will be missed.

    the carpenters were not a band i listened to much ,
    but they did what they did fairly well

    I only discovered their existence after watching a documentary on Karen Carpenter. I didn't grow up in the 70s, and the music industry had
    largely moved on from that style in the 80s when I was a kid. Still,
    there is no denying that she had a fantastic voice and that the songs themselves were beautiful.

    --
    God be with you,

    CrudeSausage
    John 14:6

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to RonB on Sun May 25 04:10:23 2025
    On Sat, 24 May 2025 23:51:30 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

    4 Platinum, 3 Double Platinum, 1 Triple Platinum, 1 Quadruple
    Platinum, and one 7x Platinum (that was their compilation album, "The
    Singles: 1969 - 1973"). They had an additional 10 Gold Albums. (Many
    of them compilation albums.) The Carpenters were still marketed
    heavily after Karen Carpenter's death in 1983.

    It was anachronistic but a tasteless joke was if Cass Eliot and Karen
    Carpenter had shared the ham sandwich they both would be alive.

    Eliot died in '74 and Carpenter in '83. They both were 32. Choking on a sandwich was dreamed up by Eliot's manager to defuse the idea she had
    OD's.

    They were a little too pop for my taste but didn't cause me to start
    punching buttons on teh car radio like The Association.

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