I'm in the mood for..?

After a beautiful sunny weekend Sunday, spent pottering in the garden (as is my wont), it is a jolt to the system to have to get up and go to the office again. "Work is the curse of the drinking classes," a wise man once said...

Ho hum. Onwards and upwards.

Today would have been the 70th birthday of the sublime Miss Karen Carpenter, taken from us far too soon. Hers was one of the finest voices to hit the pop charts in the 1970s, and indeed her million-selling hits with The Carpenters are a mainstay of "mellow" radio stations across the world to this day.

Now, "mellow" is not something one would normally associate with our traditional Tacky Music Monday wake-up call - so imagine my joy in uncovering this gem of a routine from Karen and Richard's own TV show.

The outfits! The dancing! The rictus grins! It's perfect...

Karen Carpenter: Disco Madness!

Have a good week, dear reader.

Karen Anne Carpenter (2nd March 1950 – 4th February 1983)

More Karen here and here.