[Spunky]

"Why do birds suddenly appear Every time you are near? Just like me, they long to be close to you."

I loved that song.

[TBP]

That’s pretty much the song that made them.

They pulled in material from everywhere. Richard once said that their main influences were “the 3 B’s — the Beatles, Bacharach, and the Beach Boys.”

One night when Richard couldn’t sleep, he was up late watching a movie on TV. A commercial for Crocker Bank came on, and Richard, noticing the music bed, decided they had to do that song. It was “We’ve Only Just Begun”.

Somebody should put together a Karen Carpenter tribute album.