Carpenters: An Illustrated Discography

With more than 100 million records sold worldwide, the Carpenters are among the most beloved and enduring musical acts of the last 50 years. Randy L. Schmidt, author of the acclaimed bestselling biography Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter has assembled a team of commentatorsjournalists, authors, musicians, and other entertainment industry figuresfor a series of in-depth, insightful, and opinionated conversations on every release. Beautifully presented with more than 200 images, many never before seen, the result is a must-have for pop music lovers.

Randy L. Schmidt is the author of the critically acclaimed Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter, a New York Times Editors Choice and Wall Street Journal bestseller. His latest publication is Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton, a title in the Musicians in Their Own Words series from Chicago Review Press. He also compiled and edited Yesterday Once More: The Carpenters Reader and Judy Garland on Judy Garland: Interviews and Encounters. Schmidt has served as creative consultant for several television documentaries on the Carpenters, including the E! True Hollywood Story, A&Es Biography, and VH1s Behind the Music. More recently, he contributed to Karen Carpenter: Goodbye to Love and Autopsy: The Last Hours of Karen Carpenter, both produced for ITV in the United Kingdom and Reelz TV in the United States. A music educator for more than twenty years, Schmidt teaches elementary music in Denton, Texas.