Our PBS station is asking for money and their thank you gift this hour and a half of requesting

[a kennedy]

to become members are the Carpenters CD’s and coffee cup. I loved Karen Carpenter’s voice, so pure , so angelic, so innocent. I have all the CD’s of the Carpenters......won’t be buying this membership.....I am crying at how much I miss them, her especially.

[orangecrush]

1. I used to turn out the lights

Light some candles, open a bottle of wine, and listen to the Carpenters in my 1957 VOM tube hi fi stereo.

It sounded so lifelike, it was like she was in the room.

Beautiful.

[LisaM]

2. She did have a beautiful, true voice. I love her Christmas music.

It's just such a waste that she died so young. I would have loved to have heard her break away from Richard's rather lush, overblown arrangements and try some other material (nothing really wrong with his arrangements, but I'd like to hear her without them).

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. British singer Rumer sounds quite a bit like Karen

[getagrip_already]

4. They lost their young audience when..

Tey conducted the great purge and started carrying the gop's water. They outright fired reporters who wouldn't follow the new corporate messaging. They went from center liberal to right/conservative in a year.

And they have continued to move right ever since.

So all they have left are rich white seniors with memories of the 60's and 70's.

Beyond sad......

[a kennedy]

5. Really??.........damn, oh wait, you mean PBS right?? I almost thought you meant the

Carpenters........whew, got ya. Have not given to PBS for a long, long, time.....although our local Wisconsin public shows are really good. But, I still haven’t been a member for years.

[getagrip_already]

6. yes, the cpb, pbs, and npr.....

All part of the right wing now. Sure, some of the shows are entertaining, but the news is very slanted. Beyond sad.

The carpenters are still very good. They haven't really changed afaik.

[House of Roberts]

7. My local PBS always asks for my money

by pre-empting the shows I like with crap like memory improvement seminars.