Pop /Rock : ‘Love Lines’ from Karen:

A new album coming out today includes songs from a solo album Karen Carpenter was working on when she died of heart failure brought on by anorexia in 1983. “Love Lines� is an LP of previously unreleased selections featuring Karen solo and with her brother, Richard. The album, marking the 20th anniversary of the Carpenters’ association with A&M; Records, has four songs from solo sessions overseen by record producer Phil Ramone. Among those tracks are “If I Had You,� which also is being released as a single, and “Little Girl Blue,� from the 1935 Rodgers and Hart musical “Jumbo.� Six years after her death, Carpenter remains a pop idol. A CBS movie-bio, “The Karen Carpenter Story,� was last year’s top-rated TV movie, and an A&M; spokeswoman reports that “the fan mail that still comes in is amazing.�