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Karen and brother Richard Carpenter\\\'s work, a union of multitracked orchestration and the unfakeable vocal talent of lead singer Karen, was a central thread in the cultural backdrop of the 1970\\\'s. Their version of \\\"Ticket To Ride\\\", an inverted slowdown of the rocker previously done by the Beatles and others in uptempo fashion, was the first hit single; that song charted worldwide in 1969. The next year would bring \\\"Close To You\\\", 1971 would bring \\\"For All We Know\\\" and \\\"Rainy Days And Mondays\\\"... and the output only to this point would surpass the entire careers of most acts. \\\"Touch Me When We\\\'re Dancing\\\" from 1981 was the last significant single before Karen Carpenter\\\'s untimely death in \\\'82. She died young and kept her voice all the way to the end. Posthumous releases of unheard and remixed material continue to the present day, managed by producer Richard Carpenter. Although they ex...