tomswift2002
Well-Known Member
Don't forget that with Christmas Portrait, a lot of the tracks come from the Carpenters TV appearances. Carol of The Bells seems to come from the Perry Como Christmas Show, minus the chorus. And The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire, which is most heavily associated with the Christmas Portrait album was originally issued as a single to promote the Carpenters first Christmas special (it wasn't even released as a single in 78, it was released in 77!)My oversight, but that being the case, he was still the album’s producer, as he had been to that point on all the other albums. It begs the question just how much time he actually did spend in the studio on this album or whether he bowed out for most of its production. It also begs the question, if he wasn’t around as much, why he didn’t give Karen an Associate Producer designation as he had done before.