I must say I'm surprised at how much attention has been focused on Chuck Findley's comments about Jack Daugherty.
I could be wrong, but my impression has always been that Daugherty's credit as "Producer" was more like an honorarium for having brought the Carpenters demo tape to the attention of Herb Alpert. Below is a link to "This Is Your Life". You may want to advance to approx. 15:40 and you'll hear Herb Alpert confirm that "Jack brought me the [demo] tapes."
While Jack Daugherty may have been a fine musician, it appears to me that he became "attached" to the Carpenters because he was in the right place at the right time. That's sounds awfully harsh, but from a distance that's the way it looks to me.
I could be wrong, but my impression has always been that Daugherty's credit as "Producer" was more like an honorarium for having brought the Carpenters demo tape to the attention of Herb Alpert. Below is a link to "This Is Your Life". You may want to advance to approx. 15:40 and you'll hear Herb Alpert confirm that "Jack brought me the [demo] tapes."
While Jack Daugherty may have been a fine musician, it appears to me that he became "attached" to the Carpenters because he was in the right place at the right time. That's sounds awfully harsh, but from a distance that's the way it looks to me.