TOP OF THE WORLD

TOP OF THE WORLD

THIS SONG WAS produced and co-written by Richard Carpenter and sung by his sister (also a drummer), Karen Carpenter. It's a gorgeous song with wonderful production values (it would be difficult to break down the intro, so much is happening).
    Apart from her singing, Karen is famous for being the face of anorexia, a terrible dysmorphic disorder (hating one's body) of chronic self-starvation in order to look thin. As Hamlet said, "I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space were it not that I have bad dreams." Or as the biblical book of Proverbs phrased it, "Better to rule over oneself than conquer a city."
    The record is brilliantly produced by Richard Carpenter with Karen's now famous inhale of breath just before she begins the vocal about 26 seconds into the file. Lyrics are on the video.