Grammy-nominated childrenīs musician Judy Pancoast was just a kid herself when she told a lie. It was 1973, she was a freshman in high school, and she admits sheīs had little remorse in the past 40 or so years. But in 2017, she found herself unexpectedly face to face with Richard Carpenter - half of the 1970s sibling music sensation the Carpenters, and before she knew it, she had blurted out the truth. `I had the opportunity to tell him, to confess. It was a total scam,` Pancoast says, laughing as she describes posing as a student journalist decades earlier to finagle a meet-and-greet with Richard and his sister, Karen Carpenter, at a Maine concert. `When I look back on it - wow, I was...
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