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- 3.000, May 23 2005
- I have returned to updating these pages on a regular basis.
- Added details about Richard's 1994 appearance on the Regis &
Kathie Lee TV show, the Carpenters appearance on the Dating Game in 1970, the
1971 Make Your Own Kind Of Music series, the 1976 Very First Carpenters
special, the 1978 Christmas Portrait special, the 1978 Space Encounters special
and the 1980 Music, Music, Music special
- Added an interview transcription to the Only Yesterday song page,
where Karen & Rischard discuss what songs they wish they had recorded.
- Added an FAQ: Where do Richard and Karen get the songs from? How
are they put together in the studio?
- Added a review of the TIme album.
- 2.001, October 2001
- Added some detailed information about the TV shows.
- Added information about a 1973 insert to Billboard magazine.
- Added information and scans of other articles.
- Added photos.
- 2.000, October 21 2001
- Consider returning to regular updates to the Carpenters FAQ.
Updates had ended when I discovered the official A&M site had ripped this
site off for information they used on their site... they didn't even fix my
typos! After two years I am making some changes.
- Added an radio interview of unknown date to the Articles
page.
- Added Singles 1969-1981 album.
- Added an ad for the Now & Then LP to the album page.
- Added new scans of the Offering LP (front, back and label).
- 1.005, September 16 1999
- Removed Yuko Ogura's articles commenting on the Buried Treasure
article. These articles have been censored by Yuko Ogura.
- 1.004, September
- Added an A&M promo bio to the From The Top page.
- More celebrity quotes on the Carpenters on the FAQ page.
- Information about the evolution of the packaging of the various
vinyl albums added to the album pages.
- Updates on the Resources page.
- Added articles to the Articles page.
- Added more information to the TV FAQ.
- 1.003, September 24
- Added lyrics for: Desperado, Without A Song, You're The One
[Thanks Jose! (jfcosta@br.homeshopping.com.br)]
- Added Naughty Boy's Phil Ramone biography to the Other Musicians
page.
- Added a link to Joe Osborn's page on the Other Musicians
page.
- Added book reviews to the Resources FAQ page.
- Added the Superstar Teaching Machine to the Discography.
- Added to the Photo Gallery.
- 1.002, September 3
- Added lyrics for Honolulu City Lights, If I Had You, If We Try,
Remember When Lovin' Took All Night, Merry Christmas Darling.
- Added a Photo Gallery to the TV, Video and Film FAQ section.
- Added pages for the Offering album and the Japan Anthology box
set.
- Added information to the discography page on Carpenters jukebox
EP (Extended Play) singles used to promote the Close To You, Carpenters, Now
& Then and Singles albums.
- 1.001, June 16
- Added Carpenters Fan Club address to Resources page.
- Added BMG Music promo for Richard's album.
- Added lyrics for Help.
- Added more articles to the Articles FAQ.
- 1.000, June 9
- Added articles from Patty's Scrapbook to Articles FAQ.
- Added transcript of 1993 radio special to Articles FAQ.
- Added home video information to Video FAQ.
- Added Carpenters' television appearances to the TV FAQ.
- Added two new main FAQ sections, one for Articles and one for TV,
Video and Film appearances
- Started the TV and Video FAQ pages
- Added page for Reader's Digest collection: Carpenters: Their
Greatest Hits And Finest Performances
- Added lyrics for Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again
- Changed Cath's email address and made some cosmetic changes.
- Took out redundant "draft" reference, and started numbering at
Version 1.000!
- 0.049, June 4
- Added Love Songs album.
- Updated album and single chart data.
- Added sheet music and picture sleeve scans to some lyric
pages.
- Update URL for England mirror site.
- Added lyrics for: Another Song; Knowing When To Leave; Make It
Easy On Yourself; (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me; I'll Never
Fall In Love Again; Walk On By; Do You Know The Way To San Jose; The Night Has
A Thousand Eyes; Our Day Will Come; One Fine Day; From This Moment On; Now;
Sailing On The Tide; Make Believe It's Your First Time; Ordinary Fool.
- 0.048, May 28
- Added FAQ email contact links to key pages.
- Repaired links on Palladium album page and One More Time lyric
page.
- 0.047, May 25
- Resources page updated information and links, new Newville Page
link, new Newville Avenue mailing list information
- Added scan to An Old-Fashioned Christmas album page
- Added album page and lyric links for Yesterday Once More and
Interpretations albums
- Added album pages for Carpenters: The Compact Disc Collection and
From The Top box sets
- Links added between song lyrics and Stories Behind The Songs
page
- Added comments by Richard on the Ticket To Ride, Close To You,
Carpenters, A Song For You, Now And Then, Horizon, A Kind Of Hush, Passage,
Christmas Portrait, Made In America, Voice Of The Heart and Lovelines
albums
- 0.046, March 18
- Added lyrics (thanks to Paulo Filho!): Please Mr. Postman,
There's A Kind Of Hush, Boat To Sail, B'Wana She No Home, Two Sides, Man Smart
Woman Smarter
- Fixed links for This Masquerade single
- 0.045, December 17
- Lovelines album details
- Added FAQ question on writing to Richard
- Added more details on the Christmas releases FAQ
- Removed failed links from Resources page (where did Benedict Woo
and Kenny Carpenter's pages go?)
- Cleaned up various formatting and link problems
- 0.044, December 11
- Now & Then lyrics: This Masquerade, I Can't Make Music,
Heather, Fun, Fun, Fun, The End Of The World, Da Doo Ron Ron, Deadman's Curve,
Johnny Angel
- Voice Of The Heart lyrics: At The End Of A Song
- Made In Amerca lyrics: Because We Are In Love (The Wedding Song),
Touch Me When We're Dancing, When It's Gone (It's Just Gone)
- Lovelines lyrics: When I Fall In Love, The Uninvited Guest,
Lovelines
- Karen Carpenter lyrics: Lovelines, Last One Singin' The Blues,
All Because Of You
- Added Pianist-Arranger-Composer-Conductor to the discography
page
- Added discussion of various Carpenters Christmas configurations
to the FAQ
- 0.043, December 8
- Transcript of a radio broadcast featuring Karen introducing the
Chirstmas Portrait album, added to the Christmas Portrait album page.
- 0.042, December 3
- Voice Of The Heart lyrics: Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymnore,
Look To Your Dreams, Prime Time Love, You're Enough, Two Lives
- 0.041, September 3
- Created a Newville Newsletter page for Randy's news summaries.
Access via the Resources page.
- Created the Other Musicians link and added articles on Cubby
O'Brien and Hal Blaine.
- 0.040, August 28
- Changed Newville Avenue subscription information.
- Linked lyrics for Live At The Palladium album.
- Passage album lyrics: All You Get From Love Is A Love Song, I
Just Fall In Love Again, On The Balcony Of The Casa Rosada / Don't Cry For Me
Argentina.
- Linked lyrics for The Singles: 1974-1978 album.
- Horizon album lyrics: Aurora, Solitaire, I Can Dream Can't
I.
- Made In America album lyrics: Strength Of A Woman, (Want You)
Back In My Life Again, When You've Got What It Takes, Somebody's Been Lyin', I
Believe You.
- Carpenters albums lyrics: One Love, Sometimes.
- 0.039, August 1
- Added to the FAQ page: Richard Carpenter discusses the "Buried
Treasure" list with Yuko.
- 0.038, May 27
- Finished updating lyric links to Song Index page.
- A Kind Of Hush album lyrics: Sandy, One More Time
- Close To You album lyrics: Mr. Guder
- 0.037, May 23
- Added album links to Song Index
- Started lyrics links to Song Index
- 0.036, May 22
- New Song Index page added to the Discography section.
- 0.035, May 15
- Change URL for Newville Avenue web page.
- 0.034, April 15
- Ticket To Ride album lyrics: Invocation, What's The Use,
Benediction.
- Close To You album lyrics: Reason To Believe, I'll Never Fall In
Love Again, I Kept On Loving You.
- Carpenters album lyrics: Druscilla Penny.
- 0.033, March 3
- new FAQ article on Carpenters movie appearances.
- 0.032, January 31
- Details about Richard's new solo album (including track list)
added.
- A Kind Of Hush album lyrics: Can't Smile Without You, I Have You,
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
- Made In America album lyrics: Those Good Old Dreams, Beechwood
4-5789
- 0.031, January 28:
- Chenge URL for England FAQ site.
- Horizon album lyrics: Happy, (I'm Caught Between) Goodbye And I
Love You, Love Me For What I Am, Eventide.
- A Kind Of Hush album lyrics: You, Goofus.
- 0.030, January 21:
- Close To You album lyrics: Love Is Surrender, Maybe It's You,
Baby It's You, Crescent Noon.
- Carpenters album lyrics: Saturday, Let Me Be The One, (A Place
To) Hideaway.
- Now & Then album lyrics: Jambalaya (On The Bayou).
- Live In Japan album lyric links.
- Horizon album lyrics: Only Yesterday
- FAQ Buried Treasure article: spelling and formatting
changes.
- Fixed Resources links to display full screen. Thanks Cath!
- Changed Randy's personal email address
- Yuko Ogura's article on the Buried Treasure songs added to the
FAQ.
- Added more celebrity opinions of the Carpenters to the FAQ.
- Fixed discography dates for recent releases and Richard's
upcoming solo album.
- 0.029, January 12:
- Completed The Singles 1969-1973, The Singles 1974-1978, Christmas
Portrait, Live In Japan, Live At The Palladium, An Old-Fashioned Christmas and
Time LP pages.
- 0.028, January 3:
- References to io.org changed to vex.net
- Musician credits completed for Voice Of The Heart.
- Ticket To Ride album lyrics: Your Wonderful Parade, Someday, Get
Together, All Of My Life, Turn Away, Don't Be Afraid, All I Can Do, Eve,
Nowadays Clancy Don't Even Sing.
- 0.027, October 8:
- Reviews of Karen Carpenter album from Entertainment Weekly and LA
Times.
- Article on Karen Carpenter album from New York Times
Magazine.
- Links to Benedict Woo and Mogens Veng's web pages.
- Update to celebrities comments in the FAQ.
- 0.026, October 7:
- Add menu bar to all second level pages.
- album page for Voice Of The Heart.
- 0.025, October 3:
- Create links on non-frame Welcome page.
- Remove user counter from Welcome page.
- 0.024, October 3:
- Links on Welcome page to Canada and England FAQ sites.
- Story behind the song Mr. Guder.
- Grammy Awards and nominations FAQ.
- Celebrity comments about the Carpenters added to the FAQ.
- Released to Newville Avenue readers!
- 0.023, October 2:
- A&M Press Release for Karen Carpenter album added.
- Newville Avenue Mailing List New Info document added.
- Add the WWW pages of Kenny Peters and Huey Pang to the Resources
list.
- Add Polygram Canada's information on the Christmas Collection 2
CD set.
- 0.022, September 30:
- update version number and date on welcome.html
- Karen Carpenter LP cover
- completed album pages for Passage & Made In America
- 0.021, August 13:
- updated version number and date on welcome.html
- convert all file names to lower case
- add links to lyrics: Close To You; We've Only Just Begun; For All
We Know; Rainy Days And Mondays; Superstar; It's Going To Take Some Time
- completed album pages for A Song For You; Now And Then; Horizon;
A Kind Of Hush
- draft album pages for Passage; Christmas Portrait; Made In
America; Voice Of The Heart
- lyric pages: Bless The Beasts And Children; Hurting Each Other; A
Song For You; Top Of The World; Goodbye To Love; Intermission; Flat Baroque;
Piano Picker; I Won' t Last A Day Without You; Crystal Lullaby; Road Ode; Sing;
Yesterday Once More; I Need To Be In Love; Sweet, Sweet Smile; Calling
Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft; Those Good Old Dreams
- added a menu selection and page for Stories & Meanings behind
the songs (songs_stories.html)
- 0.020, August 9th
- changed logo on history, discography, resources and FAQ
pages
- added counter, currently this will only work on the UK end of the
mirror
- given all pages the "clouds2.gif" background and altered the
links to "aninew.gif"
- put borders around all the album covers on the album pages
- new carpfaq.020.tar.gz ready for Paul to collect
- 0.019, August 8:
- add links to Ticket To Ride lyrics
- fix file names of lyric files
- new carpfaq.019.tar.gz file sent to Cath
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