Karen Carpeneter died 42 years ago.

Legend has it that Frank Sinatra said Karen Carpenter "was the only singer that he would pay to see.".

One of the stupidest things I have ever done was to trade the only Carpenters album I owned in at the local Peaches store in Atlanta. They were giving a 50 cent credit for used records toward new albums, so I picked out a few from my collection that I had listened to a couple of times, but felt like I wouldn't be listening to them much in the future. The clerk who helped me tried to talk me out of trading it in (I think he knew it was a decision I would would later regret, which I did). There is no other female artist that would be mistaken for Karen Carpenter - her voice was that unique.

@discnik

Fifty cents???

You must have more albums than cents!!! 

Or should I say, you have more albums than sense...

...Either way seems right. 😜

Anyway, I've done much worse. Twenty-five years ago I put together a $20,000 high end audio system and sold it for a great loss just one year later!

You might ask why I would do that.... Well the answer is even more preposterous.  I quit a great job, sold most everything, and moved to a deserted island called Dry Tortugas. So I definitely have regrets too!!

In the late 70s, fifty cents was probably equal to $2.00 today. Albums typically were around $6.98 each at that time, so I got a credit of $3.00 by trading in the six albums out of my collection. The others were probably real dogs because I don't recall any of their titles. As some have expressed in this thread, at the time I was not a huge fan of the Carpenters. Some of their songs sounded contrived, to put it charitably. If you do the math above, Peaches was actually given just a 25% discount on the dollar.

seriously, and respectfully. when it’s a post for her, about her, would it be hard to spell her name correctly? Nine characters...

And yes, the most amazing voice, ever. Not my #1 but in the top 10, rated for emotional connection.