Still a FAVE❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ A little early this year listening. And yet, it’s the emotional feelings, not just at Christmas, but, year round. She was broken, yet sang like an angel. She left the family and music industry too soon. What a treasure 💕 I’m thankful for what we were given by this wonderful family with such talent and wholesomeness. 👍❤️ We’ll all meet again one day. Bring back the ‘70s….PLEASE 🥰
I miss my mum..she sang this to me when we were apart..she has passed & this Christmas won't be any easier to cope with...I'll be back on Christmas and ball my eyes out
This beautiful christmas song i’ve been singing since i was a kid and after 50 yrs i still love this song i can really feel the spirit in this song happy, joyful and sadness at the same time- a magical captivating piece!❤️🎄🎅🏻
This was my mom's favorite Christmas song. My dad passed in 04' and I'd watch her sit alone and listen this and sing this to herself every holiday. She passed in 2023.
What a beautiful christmas song! Im 33 now and alway's hear it every ber month's of the year.this song always play of my mom every year, love this song, also karen carpenter.
So excited about Richard Carpenter's new, "sweetened" remix of the song with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The revamped Christmas CD and LP (ltd-edition gold vinyl, too). -- Frederic, founder of "carpentersgang"
I don't know why I'm here at the end of August...well I'll be back in December to say what needs to be said!!! Enjoy the rest of the few months of the year
Do you know who I think of when I hear this? The best sounding senior citizen (she's 79) in Vero Beach, FL. I once told her 30 years ago the sound of her voice was "the aural equivalent of a caress."
My grandfather died on October 31,2013. A few weeks later they were playing Christmas music on the radio and I was driving my grandmother home from church, this song started playing. I looked over and I saw my grandmother wiping away tears and she was beginning to breathe heavily. They had been married 56 years and this was her first Christmas without him. She followed him 8 years later on June 22, 2021, they are together again in heaven.
I love these lesser popular songs. This and some of her later recordings have an trabscendant quality. As if leaning towards eternity... Such a gift to the world. ❤
The combined genius of Karen and Richard Carpenter shines so brightly in this composition and performance. It always brings tears to my eyes, especially because I remember that countless young women called radio stations in December 1970 asking that the song be played with a dedication to their boyfriend or husband who was serving in Vietnam and so wouldn’t be home that year for Christmas. Tragically, many of those soldiers never lived to celebrate another Christmas at home. May the Lord keep Karen and all those young men forever in His protective embrace.
As a 24 year old man there's nothing more that I want in life is to have a wife that's kind, beautiful, warm, and has a beautiful voice that will marry me and have my children. I will never have that in life, unfortunately. I'm going to die alone. But at least I can dream about it. Would love to wake up in the morning to my beautiful wife and children. I know that'll never happen. I'm cursed from birth to be forever alone. But at least this song is cool though.
Why have i never heard this song before? I thought i knew all of Karen Carpenters songs. This is beautiful, a future Christmas favourite. My wish would be for time to go backwards, and for Karen to have been healed of her illness. It grieves my heart, that she had such struggles ,and sadness, in her short life . May she have found her joy and peace in Heaven . Rest easy and sing with the Angels , Karen
The Carpenters were always more than a bit creepy to me. They always seemed a bit too close, and "Merry Christmas Darling" cinched it for me. Not saying there was anything there, but the vibes were odd, to say the least. Weird is the word that comes to mind.
