Is This Karen Carpenter's Rarest Performance?

Here's the long missing, pretty rare, 1981 live performance by Karen and Richard Carpenter on French television. The other song the duo presented was Touch Me When We're Dancing from their newest album Made in America. In the past, this selection has become unavailable, removed, or given the studio recording as the main track. 

No doubt that Top of the World is one of the Carpenters most loved songs, and this version almost sounds as if its a new recording. Karen Carpenter's rich contralto is instead higher, softer, and brighter, than the A&M Records original. Catch it here before it disappears again.