Rainy Days and Mondays Video

Why does the sound of Karen Carpenter’s voice touch us so deeply? Somehow the raw need, the quiet desperation and the vulnerable yearning that Karen’s singing embodies reaches everyone who has ever felt unsure or unworthy of love. Where does the purity, simplicity and heart-to-heart communication that her artistry engenders in us come from? That’s what Rainy Days and Mondays (based on the book Some Kind of Lonely Clown by Joel Samberg) explores.