Richard Carpenter: Karen and I were born in New Haven1, Connecticut, uh, I in October of 1946 and Karen in March of 1950. My father had an 1)extensive and 2)eclectic collection of seventy-eights at the time. Really from the time I was three, four years old, I was interested in listening to not only the little children’s records they bought me to play, but the more and more I heard of what he had in his collection, I wanted to get at it. And Karen, whether she was that interested in it, whether she just wanted to, to hang around with her big brother, she came down and we’d put a 3)stack of records on and just sit and listen.
Karen Carpenter: When we finally did get into A&M records, it took Herb Alpert, who was a musician and not, uh, he’s the musician half of the A&M, he’s not the business half and he, uh, saw what he liked musically in it and didn’t stop to think whether it would sell or not. He just took us because he dug it.
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