BarryT60
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I wasn't aware she had even started Auld Lang Syne.... Would love to hear even a line or two - if she had done a snippet... so many unheard snippets... :*(American Idol no doubt. A lot of 70s-80s singers have shown up there. I wonder if they ever approached Richard to be a guest judge or mentor. There's no one who knows more about arranging music around a specific voice and the Carpenters catalog (with something like 20 top 20 hits) seems built for a show like AI.
As for Christmas, I don't disagree. Except for classic stations almost the only place you can hear the Carpenters now is during Christmas time and then I've heard stations play various songs constantly. But going by Richard's stated opinion that they would have continued doing more Christmas albums (and even An Old-Fashioned Christmas doesn't ring my bell due to lack of Karen vocals), there are SO MANY more Christmas songs (or New Year's - Karen never finished "Auld Lang Syne" which orchestration if I remember correctly) that could have been recorded.