The song’s lyrics were written for a crush in 1946 and the music followed 20 years later. After “Merry Christmas Darling” was released by the Carpenters in November 1970, the love song ...

Soul-baring songstress Bailey has released a reimagined version of “Merry Christmas, Darling.” Bailey selected the classic holiday hit, originally written by Frank Pooler about a love interest ...

The show's holiday music is culled from the Carpenters' Christmas Portrait (1978) and An Old-Fashioned Christmas (released in 1984 after the death of Karen Carpenter). A two-CD set of those two ...

In 1946, the same year Richard Carpenter was born, Pooler was a lovesick 20-year-old who wrote the lyrics to “Merry Christmas, Darling” for his sweetheart, who never received it.

That holiday season, they released “Merry Christmas Darling,” a nostalgic Richard Carpenter-Frank Pooler ballad that reached No. 1 on Billboard’s annual Christmas Singles lists in 1970, 1971 ...

The compilation comes 54 years after the release of the duo's holiday perennial "Merry Christmas Darling." By Paul Grein On Nov. 1, A&M/UMe is set to release the Carpenters’ Christmas Once More ...