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The Carpenters were brother and sister duo, Richard and Karen. She would turn down any kind of drumstick other than the kind used to play music. He was a piano teacher interested in jazz and classical music; interested in arranging and composition.
It took me a while to understand the appeal of The Carpenters – a shiny, smiley Christian ethos seemed perv…
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