"Karen had no idea how ill she was," Richard stated in a press release accompanying the Voice of the Heart album in November 1983.
Paramedics rushed her to Downey Community Hospital where she died of cardiac arrest at 9:51 a.m. She was found unconscious at her parents' home in Downey, California, on the morning of February 4, 1983. Postman." Less than a year later, the world was shocked by the sudden death of Karen Carpenter at age 32. There were three more singles from the album, ending with another Marvelettes cover version, "Beechwood 4-5789," which paled in comparison with "Please Mr. Made in America yielded their final Top 20 single, "Touch Me When We're Dancing" (number 16 in August, 1981). After working on it for a year, the album was shelved in favor of a new LP with her brother. "We'd always enjoyed our work, and when you get to a point that you're not enjoying it, you have to call a halt." Karen recorded a solo album in 1979 with producer Phil Ramone. "I'd just had enough," Richard told Grain. The brother and sister took a self-imposed rest beginning in 1978. "It took a long time to do that album and I was wearing out." "Around the time of Horizon we started to get tired," Richard told Paul Grein in a 1981 Billboard interview. "Solitaire" and "There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)" made the Top 20, but beginning in 1976 the Carpenters entered a slump they found difficult to overcome. The follow-up, "Only Yesterday," was the last Top 10 single (number four in May, 1975) for the duo. Nine weeks later it became the third and final number one single of the Carpenters' career. The first 45 pulled from their Horizon LP, it debuted on the Hot 100 at number 77 on November 23, 1974. Postman" was their first single to heed such advice. Songs like "Johnny Angel" and "The End of the World" prompted some critics to suggest that Karen's voice was so-well suited to covering pop hits, she should consider doing it more often. In an innovative move, Karen and Richard had strung together a rapid-fire succession of oldies but goodies on their Now and Then album, with a fictional DJ providing the connective tissue. 4 "Only Yesterday" and first charting on June 28, 1975, Horizon spent 18 weeks on the Hot 200 album chart and was certified a gold album by the R.I.A.A. Postman" was the first single from the Carpenters' sixth studio LP, Horizon, and the sibling act's thirteenth Billboard Top 40 single. Postman" (with the exception of their very first 45, the Beatles' "Ticket to Ride." Songs like "Superstar" (Leon Russell), "Hurting Each Other" (Ruby and the Romantics) and "Sing" (from Sesame Street) became better known by the Carpenters than their original recordings. The Carpenters had released other singles that were cover versions, but all of them had been less obvious than "Please Mr. 1971, and "The Loco-Motion" by Little Eva in Aug. The first two songs to accomplish this unusual feat were "Go Away Little Girl" by Steven Lawrence in Jan. Postman" was the third chart-topper of the rock era to be number one twice by different artists. The first Motown song to go to number one (by The Marvelettes in Dec. Postman" to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Istory repeated itself for the third time when the Carpenters' took "Please Mr.
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