The Carpenters
The Carpenters tabata un duo vokal i instrumental merikano, formá pa e rumannan Richard (n. 1946)  i Karen Carpenter (n. 1950 - f. 1983). E rumannan a muda di New Haven (Connecticut) pa Downey (California) na aña 1963 unda na a kuminsa presentá komo duo na 1965. Nan ta un di e duonan mas famoso i aklamá den e historia di musika pop i a skor hits tanto na Merka komo na Oropa.

E numbernan musikal mas konosi di The Carpenters ta: (They Long to Be) Close to You, We've Only Just Begun, Top of the World, Yesterday Once More, I Need to Be in Love en Superstar.

Diskografia 
 Ticket to Ride (1969)
 Close to You (1970)
 Carpenters (1971)
 A Song for You (1972)
 Now and Then (1973)
 Horizon (1975)
 A Kind of Hush (1976)
 Passage (1977)
 Christmas Portrait (1978)
 Made in America (1981)
 Voice of the Heart (1983)
 An Old-Fashioned Christmas (1984)
 Lovelines (1989)
 As Time Goes By (2001)

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