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Originally Posted by DriveYourCarDownToTheSea
If you weren't joking, she's dead. Been that way a while.
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^ Yes, and died quite young of annorexia, so Loathsome Pete would be wrong on both counts.
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Originally Posted by Mord
The Japs love The Carpenters. I'd never even heard of them until I moved here. Every Jap listens to them in junior-high school English class.
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^ That's interesting! Karen Carpenter ennunciates lyrics very clearly, so I imagine Carpenter songs are pretty popular with English-language teachers everywhere. For that purpose, the songs are also slow enough to sing along to, and the words relate to the universally popular theme of love; a good choice for the language classroom.
I'm not much of a fan, but I was impressed when I read once that they are credited with inventing the "power ballad," which perhaps refers to this song,
" a Carpenter/Bettis original with a gritty guitar solo by Tony Peluso, released on June 13, 1972" :-
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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
P.S.
I don't want to come off sounding like the grammar police, but they are known simply as "Carpenters" the "The" really isn't necessary.
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^ HaHa! I never noticed that detail. Thanks Neapolitan.