Chords for Richard Carpenter - Good Morning, America, 1983 (Part 1)

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_ me _ [C] belong to [D] be _ [A] to _ [D] you _ _ _ why do [D] you_
Nine months [N] ago Karen Carpenter died apparently as a result of anorexia and
later than this hour Richard Carpenter [G] remembers his sister and their wonderful [A] career together.
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_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [A] The Carpenters [F] Karen and Richard with one of the scores of hit records they
[Em] made during the 70s [Gb] to most of us Karen Carpenter [Eb] seemed like she was on top of
the world [E] but she suffered from anorexia nervosa [Gb] the disorder that causes so many
young people to starve [B] themselves.
Last February [Ab] Karen Carpenter [Bb] died suddenly
of heart failure apparently caused [E] by the anorexia.
In a few minutes Richard
[Db] Carpenter joins us to talk about his sister and their wonderful music.
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_ _ Nothing _ [Fm] [Bb] to do [Eb] but _ [Fm] frown rainy days and Mondays always get [Eb] me _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ [Eb] down _ [F] Oh _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] That I'm creation
The [Bb] only _ explanation I [Bb] can find
_ [Eb] If the love that [F] I've felt [Bb] ever since you've [Eb] been around
[Bb] No one else but me at [Cm] the top [F] of the [Bb] _
world
During the [E] 1970s Karen Carpenter [Eb] and her brother Richard really did seem to have it all [E] they
had one hit [F] record after [Eb] another [Gb] with songs [E] including We've Only Just Begun
close to [Eb] you that have become [Bb] classics.
The Carpenters were [B] known almost as much
for their [Bm] clean-cut image if [Gbm] you will as for their music but what a lot of people
[B] did not know was that for a long time Karen was suffering from anorexia
nervosa and virtually starving herself.
[F] Two years ago she began therapy for her
illness as condition and last February when she was only [D] 32 years old just when
she seemed on [E] her way to being cured she [Dm] died from heart failure [Gb] that was a
apparently the result [G] of [Bb] the anorexia.
Certainly the [Gb] Carpenters music lives on
another album has just [F] come out called Voice of the Heart and [E] Richard Carpenter
is with [Db] us this morning.
Good morning [Abm] Richard.
Good morning David.
Why did you
[Gb] this album [E] this kind of album this [D] music right now nine months [Bb] after Karen's death?
Well we were on our way along [D] with the album [Gb] and after giving it a great deal [Bb] of
thought _ [F] I [Bb] _ decided to go back in the studio and complete [A] it.
_ [E] Karen meant [F] a great deal
[Gb] to many [Fm] millions of people [A] and I [D] feel it's a tribute album [E] and that it should be
[Gm] heard to have all that wonderful [E] singing just sitting on the shelves of the record
company [D] didn't seem right.
How [E] much did you have to add back into it?
Did you have
to write [Eb] more or add tracks?
Well [A] yeah I had to [G] do the _
[Gb] the arrangements [F] as far as
completing the [N] arrangements.
How we _ _ [F] normally worked was [Eb] bass piano [F] drums and
_ Karen's leads _ and that was the _ beginning the foundation and then of [Gb] course with the
[E] multi-track [F] recording we could [E] put whatever on whenever we wished so I went
back in and [F] completed the background vocals and strings horns [Eb] woodwinds
additional instruments [N] etc.
So what we're going to hear really [B] is another [E] Carpenters
[Eb] album [E] recorded in 81 and 82 _ [Bb] really?
The bulk of it yes yes.
[B] How when did [F] you
Richard when did [Gb] you and Karen [Eb] both realize that she had a [N] real problem that
was dangerous?
Well _ _ [B] my family friends and I realized it as [Eb] early as 75 _ _ [F] but of course
one of the [B] problems with [D] anorexia nervosa [C] is that the victim [N] a lot of times does
not [Gb] realize it herself.
When [Ab] did Karen realize that [Ebm] she had to get some help of
some kind?
_ [G] In 1981 _ so that was many a year I mean [D] it's hard to put ourselves in
her place it [B] really is but it's [F] the type of [B] thing I know [E] _ _ _ she [F] was having trouble
with because all the people right around [Bb] her were concerned _ so she knew [G] _ that
[Gb] that something was wrong but [Bb] it has to be in her heart of hearts that [E] she had to
believe that she in fact [C] was suffering with this [Bb] disorder.
What about [E] now
pressure?
Now goodness [Gb] knows [N] yours is a pressure business anybody who's been
successful or not successful feels the same pressure as of course are many
businesses [B] that have pressure.
What have the doctors said to you?
[Bb] Was it pressure
[G] of some kind that [Gb] leads someone or Karen to this?
What do you know?
[Bb] Well see that's
very difficult [B] to _ [Gb] say because _ [Bb] _ _ [F] again another problem with the [Gb] disorder is
exactly what causes it [Db] and it's easy to point a finger at the pressures of [N] the
business but Karen adored her career and the pressures and so do I.
_ _ So I really
really don't think it was that at all. _ _
_ Do you have a clue though?
I mean as close
as you were together do [Ab] you have a [D] clue in the _ [Ab]
back [Gb] of your mind as to how [Bb] she
was afflicted and [Ab] _ [E] she's not alone as [F] we know.
Oh no [Gb] not at all we're hearing more
and more every day and [E] Karen's [Gb] passing has really [E] focused worldwide [Eb] attention on
this [G] disorder. _
I've [B] given this a great deal of [Em] thought as [Eb] to what could
possibly have started this [Gb] and I can see [G] that _ _ _ _ _ [A] Karen wanted [B] to lose some weight.
_ _ [Ab] Karen had a _ an hourglass figure [D] _ _
[F] broad shoulders and thin [Eb] waist and kind of [B] the
old hourglass figure [F] and of course with the thin as in thing that started [E] in the
70s it became [Gb] a little more _ [F] fashionable more in to kind of [B] be like this but there
was nothing she could have done about that.
Now what _ _ _ takes one person from just
[Gb] losing a few [E] pounds _ [Bb] to obsessive dieting that's [E] the mystery and [Em] I don't know. _
_ [F] How have you [B] dealt with all this?
Well [Gb] at times I really [F] go through rough periods
of course [Bm] because _ _ _ unfortunately _ [Gb] Karen has passed away and I [Ebm] [F] realize this but other
times with the way time does get by us all [Ab] I sit [F] down and [Ab] reflect and I [Bb] cannot
believe she's gone.
32 [B] years old Karen [Bb] did not drink she did not [Gb] smoke _ [E] _
she never
touched [N] drugs and _ here she is [G] gone from heart [B] failure.
See the theory that there
are several that have been advanced and the one that [E] makes most sense to me is that
the weight that was put back [D] on Karen at the end of her _ [Eb] therapy [F]
had gone on too
quickly.
The [E] body was feeling a [Gb] certain amount of [Db] weight for so many years and here
were 30 [Eb] extra pounds in a relatively short period [D] of time and it really put a strain
on the heart combined [Eb] with her active schedule.
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So obviously [B] it was a shock.
Thank you for joining us today.
Thank you David.
_ _ _ [E] More tomorrow with [Eb] Richard and with Richard and [B] Karen's parents in this forum. _
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