The November 2005 Web Site Update

[Rick Henry]

Hello Carpenters fans and friends,

We have a totally exciting Carpenters Online update this month.

First I just want to thank everybody who has been a part of thiw web site and everybody who has visited The Carpenters Online over the past three years. I am happy to say that November 16, 2005 was our third anniversary and we're still going strong on the internet with an average of 7,000 visitors per month. Long live the Carpenters.

With this month's update we see two new entries on the exciting new Carpenters Online "Hall Of Fame" page. check it out. The two new entries were both loved musch by Karen.

The Song of the Month is "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" from the 1970 album "Close To You".

Our off-topic artist is Harry Connick, Jr.

This month's big news is the publishing of my interview with Palma Pascale. Palma wrote the classic tune "Love Me for What I am" which is featured on the Carpenters' 1975 album "Horizon". This is Part One of a three possibly four part interview. It's excellent reading which gives us a glimpse into the heart and soul of Palma and the Carpenters.

I hope everybody enjoys this months update and I look forward to talking with you again in December.

Best wishes to you always.
Sincerely,
Rick Henry
The Carpenters Online Web Site

[Rick Henry]

Included on this update I want to thank roland for providing us with the pictures of Karen at her drums wearing the famous Lead Sister Tee-Shirt.

I also want to thank Tim (YesterdayOnceMore) for taking the time to write the short commentaries for the new "Hall Of Fame" inductees.

Great job guys! Thank you!

[Ming]

Thank you for all the work. I enjoy the updates very much.
Ming

[YesterdayOnceMore]

Rick, the updates look wonderful, as usual.

Your interview with Palma is excellent. So....she DID actually write some of the lyrics?! How cool. I'm sure she was quite stunned that Bettis penned different lyrics, as she says, but knew she had a good thing going with her "in" with Carpenters music. So....I'm anxious to read the other parts of her interview. Please let her know that I, at least, am enjoying the "long" in-depth version of her story. It's quite kind of her to take the time to write all of that out for us fans. I'm very appreciative. If you provide us with her email address, we can send her our own thanks, or perhaps you can start a thread that we can send our thanks to you, and you can pass them along to her? ?

I'm also really glad now that I took that extra shot of Karen's Lead Sister Tee. Who knew it would end up on the Carpenters Online Hall of Fame page? How cool is that?

You always do a wonderful update. I've also wanted to comment on this particular background photo of Karen at the drums, standing, and undoubtedly playing the Gershwin Medley. One of my favorite memories of her, as I know she was having more fun than we can imagine. I especially love to watch that portion of the Very First Television Special.

Thanks for this wonderful website. We all truly appreciate you and all that you do for us.

Best,
Tim

[Rick Henry]

Thank you Tim and Ming for the nice comments.

As for Palma please hold on to your thoughts as we are planning a guest appearance on the forum with Palma sometime in December at that point everybody will have more of an opportunity to converse with her. This will happen after the second part of the interview is posted on the web site.