Portlander
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Well said Michael. A side note, Lynn Anderson releasing "Top Of The World" was probably the best thing that happened to Karen and Richard during their career and a win win for both artists. Lynn made money due to it's success on the country charts (#2) and the Carpenters made a bunch due to royalties from Lynn seeing that Richard and John wrote it and more financial rewards for it reaching number one on the Top 40 charts!As I said in that thread 11 years ago---"Superstar", "Goodbye to Love", "This Masquerade"---these songs caught the attention and got the respect of people who weren't Carpenters fans. Finding a way to extend that line rather than doing "Sing" and "Goofus" would have paid off for K&R in the long run. Richard was right to worry.
Plus it has been featured in numerous commercials and movies during the past 50 years which brings in even more royalties. Cannot think of another Carpenter hit that would have been as profitable with maybe "Yesterday Once More" coming in at a distant second due to it being written by Richard and having a huge impact in Japan?