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Readers respond to WYSO's music and culture contributor Greg Simms Jr's flashback pieces about Prince, The Beach Boys and more.

Cites 3 Benefits of In-Person Contact SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- February's International Friendship Month is a time for people everywhere to strengthen personal connections in an...

In the late 1960s, Richard and Karen Carpenter formed the brother-and-sister duo the Carpenters. Richard arranged the music and played the keyboard while his younger sister Karen sang vocals and played the drums. Together, the Carpenters are still the top-selling and top-charting brother-sister group of all time. Signing their first record deal as a duo in 1969, they rocked hundreds of shows through the ’70s, topping the charts in the U.S. and internationally. But one of their lives would be cut tragically short, ending the duo in 1983.

Karen Carpenter had one of the greatest voices of all time during her days as part of the Carpenters with brother Richard Carpenter. Her death at the age of 32 in 1983 shocked the music world but her legacy lives on.

"Wonderama," the beloved metro-area kids' TV show that goes back 68 years, is alive and well and filming in New York.