This past Sunday marked the 35th anniversary since Karen Carpenter died at the age of 32, from a heart attack caused by complications relating to anorexia. She had a wonderful voice, and I always thought it was an octave deeper than you would expect from such a petite woman (even prior to the anorexia). "Superstar" has always been one of my favorite "guilty pleasure" songs. Even though it was released in 1971 and, therefore, technically falls outside the temporal parameters of Retro Video of the Week, it's my damn blog, so I'll post it. And what is time anyway, but a construct by which to measure our existence? The song hit #2 in 1971, and regained fame in 1995 when Tommy Callahan and Richard Hayden tearfully belted it out during a sales roadtrip. Here is the video of the song in all its glory, pre-anorexia.
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