The Gift of Carpenters

[Boat2Sail]

Gifts of Carpenters music you've given / or gifts you've received.

When As Time Goes By was released in the U.S. I bought a copy for my friend Julie who is handicapped and can not work. she says she loves Karen's voice, but can't afford to buy many CD's. Before I gave her ATGB, she had only one other Carpenters CD, Horizon. She phoned the next day and said she just loves ATGB, and that Rainbow Connection brought tears to her eyes.

[Sammy]

About 5 years ago I gave my mom a copy of the Carpenters Love Songs for Christmas, and that same Christmas she gave me the same disc. We had our picture taken with our identical Carpenters CD's.

[JIM]

I love giving Carpenters music as gifts. Freinds and relatives who sometimes don't understand my great love for them, will always call me and say how they had forgotten how beautiful her voice was and say now I can see why you talk about them so much. Also most people only remember them for there big hits and fall in love with one of the many hidden gems that were not big hits.

[BethMosior]

when I was about 11 or 12 years old Santa gave me the Carpenters album Horizon for Christmas, since we spent Christmas at my Grandma and Grandpa's house with all my relatives I really don't know who gave it to me I will always have a special place in my heart for that album, it made me feel like I was not alone in this world and that somebody cared Thanx Richard and Karen for everything

[beaner]

For receiving it was the very first Carpenters album that my friend & future sister in law gave me which was their tan album.

For giving it was three albums I gave over time to my neighbor who was like my second Mom. I was too young to work so I saved my allowance money and would buy her a Carpenters album each time they put one out.

[Rick Henry]

In 1974/75 I received Carpenters as gifts a few times. Christmas '74 my mom and dad gave me "Now & Then", and for my birthday that year (December 29th) I received "Singles 69-73" on 8-track tape. In the summer of 1975 my aunt bought me a copy of the new release "Horizon" (which is now my all-time favorite Carpenters album).

I've given several Carpenters gifts throughout time, but the most recent was about three years ago, I gave a friend of mine a copy of Karen's solo album. He said he loved Karen's voice - so I thought this was the perfect opportunity to introduce him to something totally different by her.

[smoothie2]

???good topic...I haven't given anyone Carps. music as gifts, because mostly I guess I know few who like them as well as I do, but also I never thought about it...it's a great idea...and I'm going to keep it in mind.
My very first record of Carps. and maybe the very first one of any kind at all I was given as a Christmas gift along with my first record player about '70 or '72 and it was the Close to You album.

[Moe]

I usually give the latest CD I buy to my Mom. She doesn't buy music for herself, so when I find something I know she'll like, I'll buy another one for her. She has always loved the Carpenters. Most recently, I bought ATGB, the import!, for her. She loved "Rainbow Connection" and the Ella Fitzgerald duet the best. Years ago, I taped from vinyl, "Live at the Palladium." Mom flipped for "From this Moment On." When I found it on CD, I made sure to pick her up a copy.

[Rick Henry]

Another Carpenters gift I gave was in 2000. My friend Lynn had lost her copy of the "Love Songs" CD, she was so sad about it, so I went out and bought her a new copy. She played it so much that about a week later her boyfriend took it and threw it away. Of course she fished it out of the trash can., and then only played it in her car.

[ThomB]

When all the Carpenters catalog was remastered and rereleased on CD (I think it was 1998) my significant other gave me the entire catalog for Christmas. I was completely surprised. The best surprise was finally getting Made In America and Passage on CD.