An excellent interview with Paul Williams was posted by the A.V. Club a few days ago.  Paul touches on the hits he wrote for Carpenters, and the Muppets.  Paul says about “We’ve Only Just Begun”:

But we did get a call from Richard Carpenter saying he’d like to have a copy of the song. There was no way in the world that was ever going to be a hit song; it was this very sentimental, sweet little wedding song, and I think the No. 1 album at the time or around then was In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. So bizarre that all of a sudden Karen [Carpenter] sings it, and it’s a whole new ballgame. As time passes, whenever I hear her sing, it’s just really—what an amazing gift it was, for me and for the world, that she was around to sing.

Read the full article at A.V. Club.