Carpenters — In Concert at the New London Theatre
Recorded November 28, 1976
New London Theatre · London · 
England
Setlist
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Album featured at the showA Kind of Hush1976There's a Kind of Hush and I Need to Be in Love present the studio album released that year.“To see the Carpenters close their 1976 British tour with a performance prepared for television.”
Context
On November 28, 1976, the Carpenters' British run reaches the New London Theatre for a TV recording. Karen and Richard bring two songs from A Kind of Hush, released months earlier. The meeting closes the tour of the country with a backing band, an orchestra and room for the instruments.
Karen sings There's a Kind of Hush and I Need to Be in Love, but also takes the drums in the Strike Up the Band segment. Richard leads the passage through Warsaw Concerto on piano. Close to You gets an instrumental treatment in the style of Spike Jones before reappearing in the medley of hits.
The BBC turns the performance into a program and airs it in December of that year. The recording also crosses borders: a 1985 Dutch broadcast remains documented in the Beeld en Geluid archive. Between recent songs and instrumental numbers, television preserves a duo that is not limited to the meeting of voice and piano.
- Karen takes the drums, and Richard plays Warsaw Concerto on piano with orchestral backing.
Lineup at this show
The lineup of this performance — not necessarily the current one.
- Karen CarpenterVocals and drums
- Richard CarpenterVocals, piano and keyboards
- Tony PelusoGuitar, keyboards and bass
- Cubby O'BrienDrums
- Bob MessengerBass, keyboards, saxophone and flute
- Doug StrawnKeyboards, clarinet and vocals
- Danny WoodhamsBass and vocals
Trivia
Karen takes the drums in a segment gathering songs associated with the Gershwin brothers.
Richard performs Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto, backed by an orchestra.
Close to You appears in two treatments: an instrumental version in the style of Spike Jones and the medley of hits.
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