You’re The One I Love – Carpenters

Date of Birth 2 March 1950, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Date of Death 4 February 1983, Downey, California, USA (heart failure caused by chronic anorexia) Birth Name Karen Anne Carpenter Nickname KC Height 5′ 4″ (1.63 m) Mini Biography Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Karen Carpenter moved with her family to Downey, California, in 1963. Karen’s older brother, Richard Carpenter, decided to put together an instrumental trio with him on the piano, Karen on the drums and their friend Wes Jacobs on the bass and tuba. In a battle of the bands at the Hollywood Bowl in 1966, the group won first place and landed a contract with RCA Records. After cutting two albums that were never released the trio broke up, but Karen and Richard formed another band with four other students from California State University that played several gigs before disbanding. In 1970 Karen and Richard made several demo music tapes and shopped them around to different record companies; they were eventually offered a contract with A&M Records. Their first hit was a reworking of The Beatles hit “Ticket to Ride”, followed by a rerecorded version of Burt Bacharach’s “Close to You”, which sold a million copies. Soon Richard and Karen became one of the most successful groups of the early 1970s, with Karen on the drums and lead vocals and Richard on the piano with backup vocals. They won three Grammy Awards, embarked on a world tour, and landed their own TV variety series in 1971, titled “Make Your Own Kind of Music …
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