Karen Carpeneter died 42 years ago.

With all this talk about the Royal Philharmonic, I guess I'll have to give it another listen.  I bought an import of it a few years ago, and I only played it once.  I cannot say it did a lot for me, but sometimes I put stuff on on the wrong night.

The only other Carpenters CD I own is the MFSL A Song For You which I bought back in the '90s and which truly has a great sound.  I cannot help but love Top Of The World.  I remember when I was in Junior High or there abouts hearing the Now And Then cassette one of my friends owned, and thinking it had some neat songs on it.   I used to see it on ebay, I think it may have been a Pony Canyon import or maybe a JVC XRCD, and nostalgia has had me close to pulling the trigger, but I have so far felt that they always wanted ridiculously too much $ for it. 

@grislybutter You wrote “ESL” … My brain refuses to cooperate with acronyms so I looked it up.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  Now I get the idea. Is that a real acronym?!? A lot of time could be saved for the reader if it were written as “english second language.” 😄. Anyway, what is your first language, and where are you from?

…And about my mistake, my embarrassment was much more harsh than your words. ☺️ But I’ll get over it.

@mitchagain I never heard the song “Hey Papa” so I streamed it to know more. It’s a nice song and I could listen to more of that. 
 

There are many things like music, movies, news, popular trends, etc that I have missed through most of my life, because I lived a fairly remote life. Dry Tortugas is just one example. But currently I’m getting caught up with normal [abnormal] life.

@unclewilbur Hungary/Hungarian. Wasn't my first choice but no one asked me  

Yeah.  And if sheʻd have taken just half that sandwich from Mama Cass, theyʻd still be alive today.