Richard and Karen Carpenter, collectively known as the Carpenters, had previously scored No. 1 hit singles with “(They Long to Be) Close to You” and “Top of the World,” while “We’ve Only Just Begun,” “Rainy Days and Mondays,” “Superstar,” “Hurting Each Other,” and “Yesterday Once More” had all peaked at No. 2.
On the album chart, however, the Carpenters couldn’t get past No. 2. Their second album, 1970’s Close to You, 1971’s self-titled effort, and 1973’s Now & Then all peaked one position shy of the summit. It wasn’t until A&M decided to collect the Carpenters’ greatest hits on one album that the duo was truly on top of the world, or at least on top of the album chart.
When A&M began compiling The Singles 1969-1973, he was adamant about one thing. “I didn’t want to call it Greatest Hits, because most of those things are the act’s only hits. They’re not the greatest hits, they’re the only hits. Since we were doing quite well, I figured this would be Volume 1,” he said to me in an interview for The Billboard Book of Number One Albums.
Richard Carpenter Could Often Pick the Hits
Often Richard knew when the duo had recorded a hit track long before its release. “‘Superstar/ ‘We’ve Only Just Begun,’ ‘Hurting Each Other,’ and ‘Sing,’ I thought were hits right off the bat, but I couldn’t say that about ‘Close to You’ or ‘Top of the World,’” he explained.
'It's About Time'
“Top of the World” hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 on Dec. 1, 1973. Just over a month later, the Carpenters scored their first and only No. 1 album. “I remember Karen saying it’s about time that an album of ours went to No. 1 in Billboard,” Richard recalled.
Tragically, less than a decade later, on Dec. 4, 1983, Karen Carpenter died from heart problems brought on by anorexia nervosa. She was 32.
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