When I was young,
I’d listen to the radio,
waiting for my favourate songs.
When they played I’d sing along.
It made me smile.
Those were such happy times and not so long ago,
how I wondered where they’d gone.
But they are back again,
just like a long lost friend.
All the songs I love so well.
Every sha_la_la, every wo-wo-wo-wo still shine.
Every shing-na-lin-na-ling
that they are starting to sing so fine.
When they get to the part,
where he’s breaking her heart,
it can really make me cry,
just like before.
It’s yesterday once more.
卡朋特最初的道路并不顺畅，他们和好友Webs Jacobs的第一盒样带以失败告终，但这并未在他们日后的演艺生涯中带来丝毫阴影。1968年,兄妹俩的首张专辑《offering》借助beatles的《Ticket To Ride》得到注意，于是和当时许多成名歌手一样，他们开始走上流行摇滚之路。可是时代为卡朋特创造了机会，就象十九世纪的美国需要秀兰.邓波尔一样，六十年代的美国将卡朋特捧为了英雄。就在人们面对校园里和街道上的毫不间歇的骚乱暴动，经历着史上最大一次代沟问题，而陷入无助和绝望的时候，这对来自Downey小镇的，歌声醇美，轮廓鲜明，总爱唱着爱情歌曲的兄妹便成了救世主，一时间，所有的父母和孩子都开始聆听同一首歌“why do birds,suddenly appear,everytime you are near....”
卡朋特用《close to you》搭起了两代人之间的桥梁，歌声里跃动着他们热爱生命的心。整个七十年代早期，卡朋特一直在不停的成长，慢慢成为了全世界最负盛名的流行音乐组合，录制了无数排行榜金曲，“Rainy Days and Mondays”，“Goodbye to Love”，“We've Only Just begun”和“Top of the World”都是当时耳熟能详的歌曲，Grammy奖也毫不迟疑的降临在他们的额上。可生活总不会是一帆风顺的，到了1975年，卡朋特一贯坚持的Pop-Rock路线逐渐变得不时髦了，Richard和Karen也被各自的个人问题所困扰，卡朋特有了解散的迹象，Karen和Phil Ramone 一起录制了一张个人专辑。但几个月后，兄妹二人又在一起演出了，1981年的《Made in America》是他们最出色的一张专辑。
就在人们以为卡朋特就要恢复昔日雄风时，悲剧发生了。----不幸地，她患了厌食症。在karen的墓碑上刻着这样简单的文字：a star on earth，a star in heaven.“A sang for you”，十七年后的今天，Karen还在深情地唱着：“and when my life is over， remember when we were together，we were alone and I was singing this song for you!” 仍旧是邻家那个嗓音恬美的女孩，和她的名字卡朋特一样纯朴。
（专辑目录）
1969 Offering /Ticket To Ride
1970 Close To You
1971 Carpenters
1972 A Song For You
1973 Now And Then
1973 The Singles 1969-1973
1975 Horizon
1976 A Kind Of Hush
1977 Passage
1978 Christmas Portrait
1981 Made In America
1983 Voice Of The Heart
1984 An Old-Fashioned Christmas
1989 Lovelines