‘I gotta see your sweet, sweet smile every day…’
(Carpenters on ‘TopPop,’ 1978)

You’ve got two minutes and fifty some-odd seconds to spare for the Carpenters don’t you? Here’s Karen and Richard performing “Sweet, Sweet Smile” on Europe’s TopPop in May of 1978.

“Sweet, Sweet Smile,” written by Juice Newton and Otha Young, originally appeared on the Carpenter’s 1977 L.P., Passage. The tune made it to #44 on the US Hot 100.

Previously on Playback!: The Who, ‘Sister Disco’ (Live ’79)

More Carpenters on Cherry Stereo: Playback!: Carpenters, ‘We’ve Only Just Begun’ (1971)