Author: Wise Publications Publisher: Wise Publications ISBN: 1783236248 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 49
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It's Easy to Play Carpenters is a fabulous collection of simplified, easy-to-read arrangements of 20 popular Carpenters songs for Piano - Perfect for the beginner pianist looking to bolster their repertoire and improve their playing. Song List: - (They Long To Be) Close To You - An Old Fashioned Love Song - For All We Know - Goodbye To Love - Hurting Each Other - Let Me Be The One - Only Yesterday - Please Mr Postman - Rainy Days And Mondays - Sing - Solitaire - Top Of The World - We've Only Just Begun - Yesterday Once More
Author: Randy Schmidt Publisher: Omnibus Press ISBN: 0857127691 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 493
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Karen Carpenter was the instantly recognisable lead singer of the Carpenters. The top-selling American musical act of the 1970s, they delivered the love songs that defined a generation. Karen's velvety voice on a string of 16 consecutive Top 20 hits from 1970 to 1976 – including Close to You, We've Only Just Begun, Rainy Days and Mondays, Superstar, and Hurting Each Other – propelled the duo to worldwide stardom and record sales of over 100 million. Karen's musical career was short – only 13 years. During that time, the Carpenters released 10 studio albums, toured more than 200 days a year, taped five television specials, and won three Grammys and an American Music Award. But that's only part of Karen's story. As the world received news of her death at 32 years of age in 1983, she became the proverbial poster child for anorexia nervosa. Little Girl Blue is an intimate profile of Karen Carpenter, a girl from a modest Connecticut upbringing who became a Superstar. Based on exclusive interviews with nearly 100 friends and associates, including record producers, studio musicians, songwriters, television directors, photographers, radio personalities, classmates, childhood friends, neighbours, personal assistants, romantic interests, hairdressers, and housekeepers.'...thorough and affectionate biography of a singer who's been constantly undervalued by the music industry.' MOJO 'Schmidt cannot be faulted... carefully factual, sensitively pitched book.' The Word 'The first truly convincing account of her nightmarish story.' The Guardian
Author: Mike Cidoni Lennox Publisher: Chronicle Books ISBN: 164896091X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 344
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Introduction by Richard Carpenter The definitive biography of one of the most enduring and endeared recording artists in history—the Carpenters—is told for the first time from the perspective of Richard Carpenter, through more than 100 hours of exclusive interviews and some 200 photographs from Richard's personal archive, many never published. After becoming multimillion-selling, Grammy-winning superstars with their 1970 breakthrough hit "(They Long to Be) Close to You," Richard and Karen Carpenter would win over millions of fans worldwide with a record-breaking string of hits including "We've Only Just Begun," "Top of the World," and "Yesterday Once More." By 1975, success was taking its toll. Years of jam-packed work schedules, including hundreds of concert engagements, proved to be just too much for the Carpenters to keep the hits coming—and, ultimately, to keep the music playing at all. However, Richard and Karen never took their adoring public, or each other, for granted. In Carpenters: The Musical Legacy, Richard Carpenter tells his story for the first time. With candor, heart, and humor, he sheds new light on the Carpenters' trials and triumphs—work that remains the gold standard for melodic pop. This beautifully illustrated definitive biography, with exclusive interviews and never-before-seen photographs, is a must-have for any Carpenters fan.
Author: Karen Tongson Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477318860 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 153
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In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her brother, Richard, to international fame belied a different sort of tragedy—the underconsumption that led to Karen's death at age thirty-two from the effects of an eating disorder. In Why Karen Carpenter Matters, Karen Tongson (whose Filipino musician parents named her after the pop icon) interweaves the story of the singer’s rise to fame with her own trans-Pacific journey between the Philippines—where imitations of American pop styles flourished—and Karen Carpenter’s home ground of Southern California. Tongson reveals why the Carpenters' chart-topping, seemingly whitewashed musical fantasies of "normal love" can now have profound significance for her—as well as for other people of color, LGBT+ communities, and anyone outside the mainstream culture usually associated with Karen Carpenter’s legacy. This hybrid of memoir and biography excavates the destructive perfectionism at the root of the Carpenters’ sound, while finding the beauty in the singer's all too brief life.
Author: Wise Publications Publisher: Wise Publications ISBN: 1783236256 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 49
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It's Easy to Play Hymns is a fabulous collection of simplified, easy-to-read arrangements of over 30 popular hymns for Piano - Perfect for the beginner pianist looking to bolster their repertoire and improve their playing. Song List: - Abide With Me - All People That On Earth Do Dwell - All Things Bright And Beautiful - As With Gladness Men Of Old - Eternal Father, Strong To Save - Glorious Things Of Thee Are Spoken - He Who Would Valiant Be - Holy, Holy, Holy - How Great Thou Art - How Sweet The Name Of Jesus Sounds - Jerusalem The Golden - Jesu, Lover Of My Soul - Lead Kindly Light - Lead Us Heavenly Father - Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory - Nearer My God To Thee - Now Thank We All Our God - God, Our Help In Ages Past - Worship The King - Onward Christian Soldiers - Praise My Soul The King Of Heaven - Praise To The Holiest - Rock Of Ages - Stand Up, Stand Up For Jesus - Tell Me The Old, Old Story - The Church's One Foundation - The Day Thou Gave'st Lord Is Ended - The King Of Love My Shepherd Is - The Lords My Shepherd - The Old Rugged Cross - There Is A Green Hill Far Away - Through The Night Of Doubt And Sorrow - We Plough The Fields And Scatter - When I Survey The Wondrous Cross
Author: Randy L. Schmidt Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 161374417X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 394
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With a string of number-one hits showcasing Karen Carpenter's warm and distinctive vocals and Richard Carpenter's sophisticated compositions and arrangements, the Carpenters were responsible for some of the most popular music of the 1970s, and this compendium collects more than 50 articles, interviews, essays, reviews, and reassessments that chronicle the lives and career of this brother-sister musical team. Writings from pop journalists and historians such as Daniel J. Levitin, John Tobler, Digby Diehl, Ray Coleman, Robert Hilburn, and Lester Bangs provide insight into the music and personalities of the duo who produced such timeless pop music. From serious musical analyses of the Carpenters' arrangements to lighter pieces in which Karen and Richard discuss dating, cars, and high school, this new edition has been revised and expanded to include nearly a dozen additional pieces, some of which have never been published.
Author: Carpenters Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation ISBN: 9781540032720 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 80
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(Piano Solo Personality). An exquisite collection of 20 of the most recognizable tunes from this popular '70s sibling-duo in a variety of thoughtful and unique arrangements by Phillip Keveren. Includes: (They Long to Be) Close to You * For All We Know * Please Mr. Postman * Rainy Days and Mondays * Solitaire * Ticket to Ride * Top of the World * We've Only Just Begun * and more!
Author: Wise Publications Publisher: Wise Publications ISBN: 178323623X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 49
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It's Easy to Play ABBA is a fabulous collection of simplified, easy-to-read arrangements of 15 popular ABBA songs for Piano - Perfect for the beginner pianist looking to bolster their repertoire and improve their playing. Song List: - Arrival - Dancing Queen - Fernando - Hasta Manana - Honey Honey - I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do - Knowing Me Knowing You - Mamma Mia - Money, Money, Money - Name Of The Game - Ring Ring - S.O.S. - Take A Chance On Me - Waterloo - Why Did It Have To Be Me
Author: Wise Publications Publisher: Wise Publications ISBN: 1783236264 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 48
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It's Easy to Play Boogie-Woogie is a fabulous collection of simplified, easy-to-read arrangements of 20 popular songs in the Boogie-Woogie style for Piano - Perfect for the beginner pianist looking to bolster their repertoire and improve their playing. Song List: - Alright Okay You Win - Blue Suede Shoes - Brazilian Love Song - Catch A Falling Star - Cinderella Rockafella - Cuanto Le Gusta - Frankie And Johnny - Green Green Grass Of Home - He's Got The Whole World In His Hand - He's Got The Whole World In His Hands - Jailhouse Rock - King Of The Road - Never On A Sunday - Night Train - Proud Mary - Ramblin' Rose - Release Me - Spanish Harlem - The Last Round Up - When The Saints Go Marching In
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