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a kennedy

(29,462 posts)
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 09:39 PM Dec 2019

Our PBS station is asking for money and their thank you gift this hour and a half of requesting

to become members are the Carpenters CD’s and coffee cup. I loved Karen Carpenter’s voice, so pure , so angelic, so innocent. I have all the CD’s of the Carpenters......won’t be buying this membership.....I am crying at how much I miss them, her especially.

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Our PBS station is asking for money and their thank you gift this hour and a half of requesting (Original Post) a kennedy Dec 2019 OP
I used to turn out the lights orangecrush Dec 2019 #1
She did have a beautiful, true voice. I love her Christmas music. LisaM Dec 2019 #2
British singer Rumer sounds quite a bit like Karen TexasBushwhacker Dec 2019 #3
They lost their young audience when.. getagrip_already Dec 2019 #4
Really??.........damn, oh wait, you mean PBS right?? I almost thought you meant the a kennedy Dec 2019 #5
yes, the cpb, pbs, and npr..... getagrip_already Dec 2019 #6
My local PBS always asks for my money House of Roberts Dec 2019 #7

orangecrush

(19,236 posts)
1. I used to turn out the lights
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 09:46 PM
Dec 2019

Light some candles, open a bottle of wine, and listen to the Carpenters in my 1957 VOM tube hi fi stereo.

It sounded so lifelike, it was like she was in the room.

Beautiful.

LisaM

(27,759 posts)
2. She did have a beautiful, true voice. I love her Christmas music.
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 09:54 PM
Dec 2019

It's just such a waste that she died so young. I would have loved to have heard her break away from Richard's rather lush, overblown arrangements and try some other material (nothing really wrong with his arrangements, but I'd like to hear her without them).

getagrip_already

(14,250 posts)
4. They lost their young audience when..
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 09:59 PM
Dec 2019

Tey conducted the great purge and started carrying the gop's water. They outright fired reporters who wouldn't follow the new corporate messaging. They went from center liberal to right/conservative in a year.

And they have continued to move right ever since.

So all they have left are rich white seniors with memories of the 60's and 70's.

Beyond sad......

a kennedy

(29,462 posts)
5. Really??.........damn, oh wait, you mean PBS right?? I almost thought you meant the
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 10:06 PM
Dec 2019

Carpenters........whew, got ya. Have not given to PBS for a long, long, time.....although our local Wisconsin public shows are really good. But, I still haven’t been a member for years.

getagrip_already

(14,250 posts)
6. yes, the cpb, pbs, and npr.....
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 10:12 PM
Dec 2019

All part of the right wing now. Sure, some of the shows are entertaining, but the news is very slanted. Beyond sad.

The carpenters are still very good. They haven't really changed afaik.

House of Roberts

(5,120 posts)
7. My local PBS always asks for my money
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 10:16 PM
Dec 2019

by pre-empting the shows I like with crap like memory improvement seminars.

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