Richard Carpenter - CBS News Nighwatch interview (Part 1) video free download

Wendell Brown

A damn excellent pianist. 

computersolutions164

I wish he was my piano teacher !!

Jhones Bastardo

Very good I loved the Carpenters.

arfies

I felt "Little Girl Blue" was an excellent biography that reads like a novel. It's very sympathetic towards Karen, and doesn't sensationalize anything, but doesn't sugarcoat it either. Others may disagree, but I liked Richard better in that than I did in Ray Coleman's authorized biography "The Carpenters" where he comes across as bitter, IMO. in LGB, he's angry, but more human, and you feel for him even if you don't always agree with him.

Oppeldeldoc1

Do you have anything else from this first version of Nightwach?

Vincent Ton

He smokes?

Tim Brooks

Based on what I have heard/seen, Richard has been smoking WAY too many cigarettes......I hope cancer doesn't catch up with the last legacy to Karen Carpenter!

vmuto1

@antefe Thanks for your opinion.

simplywow2009

Richard is a musical GENIUS!

Keezie27

Richard is very talented and i've always felt he was very underrated as a composer, producer and instrumentalist. I really enjoyed this. Thx for posting.

tony thelma

never on this planet or planets to come---wiill touch the greatness of the carpenters and i've 8045 million more words to type but with only a couple hundred characters remaining -i'll break it down for the next 3 -4-5 years---their music must be listened to the end of time----------jaybird

JennTess1

Thank you Ned, for posting this interview, it somewhat shows the aundience how serious and calm Richard Carpenter actually is. He comes across sympathic and gentle talking about his dear sister Karen Carpenter. Somehow it is so needed to see this, for in the youtube there are so many opinions and my hope is that this interview will help to know Richard better. We all see how Karen, next to a perfect drummer,was the fun and vital half of Carpenters, how Richard only wishes to produce good music.

JennTess1

When I listen to all the answers and see all the images of the two dearest artists forming The Carpenters and when I hear the questions, all fed by press and writings, and witness Richard answering them so calmly and so carefulli in such a fine way , all I can think of is how modest and even shy Richard Carpenter comes across. Being a perfectionist, yes, but they both were!! That is all I see. It's all about body language. Carpenters were related a brother and sister surely! rest is private!!

Beth Mosior

cooooool thanx sooooo much for sharing

newvillefan

@vmuto1 I disagree, Richard was a tyrant in the studio. He'd often not allow Karen to even know what she was singing until she arrived at the studio. Petula Clark, having worked with Richard, is on the record as saying 'it wasn't easy, but it was good'.

Mona Milbrodt

Is there an accurate biography out there that depicts their lives and her death in a detailed, interesting way?

vmuto1

Richard answers are the way it was- NOT the way Mr. Randy Schmidt portrays him in his Little Girl Blue book. Rich was smart enough tough to know that people like Mr. Schmidt would come along & stir the pot. BELIEVE ME, Richard is the most honorable & humble man you'll ever meet, like he says they were perfectionist . Rich is not a pusher in any way I would like to thank everyone who has written to me who originally bought into Little Girl Blue as they now understand that Rich far from a villian

devydu

@arfies Thanks for your reply to my comment. Actually, I should have been more specific and said I did not care for the interviewer, Harold Dow, as he seemed to lack some compassion and made Richard uncomfortable. But of course he was a serious get-to-the-point news correspondent. But I at least enjoyed Richard's exquisite piano performances, as he still grieves for sister Karen.

arfies

@devydu I actually do like the interview. Usually he comes across as so serious, especially when it came to Karen's death, but it's nice to see him remembering the happier times.

devydu

I don't care for this interview of Richard in this clip, but I love his piano performance of Carpenters medleys. As we most often see him as the piano accompaniest to Karen's singing, I really appreciate his piano solos & creative arrangements, displaying his talented classical training and "singing" the songs on the ivories - so exquisite & enchanting to listen to. Thank you, Ned, for posting.

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