According to Billboard, Karen and Richard Carpenter secured the number two spot on the charts with five different songs from ...

The Beatles and the Carpenters are very different artists; however, the Carpenters covered The Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride” and released their cover as a single. Richard Carpenter revealed what he did to ...

Brother and sister duo the Carpenters — featuring Karen on drums and vocals and Richard on vocals and keyboards — were one of the biggest-selling pop groups of the late 1960s and early ’70s. Close to ...

A stop-motion film set to the song “Close to You” by The Carpenters. It was made by a Chicago high school student David Strutzel as a hobby in 1971; it went onto win an award from the “Young Chicago ...