The sixth single on Come On Come On, " He Thinks He'll Keep Her ", was Carpenter's biggest hit off the album, charting at No. 2 on Billboard's Country chart and at No. 1 on Radio & Records's Country chart.

*" Jubilee ", a song from Mary Chapin Carpenter's album Stones in the Road

Her next studio album, The House Carpenter's Daughter, was released in September 2003 on her own label, Myth America Records.

Carpenter's first album, 1987's Hometown Girl, did not produce any singles, although 1989's State of the Heart and 1990's Shooting Straight in the Dark each produced four Top 20 hits on the Billboard country singles charts.

Carpenter's most successful album to date remains 1992's Come On Come On, which yielded seven charting country singles and was certified quadruple platinum in the U. S. for sales exceeding four million copies.

Carpenter's first album, Hometown Girl, was produced by John Jennings and was released in 1987.

Country singer Wynonna Judd recorded Carpenter's composition " Girls With Guitars " on her 1993 album Tell Me Why.

In 1996, Carpenter's cover of the John Lennon song " Grow Old With Me ," from the Lennon tribute album Working Class Hero, became an Adult Contemporary chart hit.

The album received some of the best reviews of Carpenter's career.

Carpenter's ninth studio album, The Calling, was released in 2007 by Rounder Records ' rock / pop imprint Zoë and featured commentary about contemporary politics, including reactions to the impact of Hurricane Katrina (" Houston ") and the agreement with the Dixie Chicks (" On With the Song ").

Carpenter's tenth studio album, The Age of Miracles was released on April 27, 2010.

Moreland and Napolitano had previously worked together on a Carpenter's cover, Hurting Each Other, for the album If I Were a Carpenter in 1994.

Allmusic's retrospective review deemed Close to You " a surprisingly strong album ", particularly praising Richard Carpenter's original compositions " Maybe it's You ", " Crescent Noon ", and " Mr. Guder ", describing them as superlative displays of both Karen Carpenter's vocal work and Richard's arranging talents.

Carpenter's film used the same source material as the 1951 Howard Hawks film, The Thing from Another World, Carpenter's version is more faithful to the John W. Campbell, Jr. novella, Who Goes There ?, upon which both films were based.

John Carpenter's Masters of Horror episode Cigarette Burns deals with the search for a fictional lost film, La Fin Absolue Du Monde ( The Absolute End of the World ).

Avco-Embassy Pictures, the film's financial backer, preferred either Charles Bronson or Tommy Lee Jones to play the role of Snake Plissken to Carpenter's choice of Kurt Russell, who was trying to overcome the " lightweight " screen image conveyed by his roles in several Disney comedies.

Scottish actor Gerard Butler was close to signing a deal where he would play Snake Plissken in a remake of Carpenter's movie.

On similar note, John Carpenter's The Thing ( 1982 ) was also a mix of horror and sci fi, however unlike Alien it was neither a box-office nor critical hit.

In addition to 2004's remake of Dawn of the Dead, as well as 2003's remake of both Herschell Gordon Lewis ' cult classic 2001 Maniacs and the remake of Tobe Hooper's classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, there was also the 2007 Rob Zombie written and directed remake of John Carpenter's Halloween.

The first neuropsychological theory of hypnotic suggestion was introduced early on by James Braid who adopted his friend and colleague William Carpenter's theory of the ideo-motor reflex response to account for the phenomenon of hypnotism.

Braid soon assimilated Carpenter's observations into his own theory, realising that the effect of focusing attention was to enhance the ideo-motor reflex response.

John Carpenter's Escape from New York ( 1981 ) influenced the novel ; Gibson was " intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake ' You flew the Gulfire over Leningrad, didn't you?

Among independent films, it was overtaken in 1978 by John Carpenter's Halloween, which grossed $ 47 million.

The value of AC bias was somewhat masked by the primitive state of other aspects of magnetic recording, however, and Carlson and Carpenter's achievement was largely ignored.

* John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars was set in the year 2176.

Teresa Carpenter's " Death of a Playmate " article about Dorothy Stratten's murder was published in The Village Voice and won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize, and while Bogdanovich did not criticize Carpenter's article in his book, she had lambasted both Bogdanovich and Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner, claiming that Stratten was a victim of them as much as of her husband, Paul Snider, who killed her and himself.

Carpenter's article served as the basis of Bob Fosse's film Star 80 ( 1983 ), in which Bogdanovich, for legal reasons, was portrayed as the fictional director " Aram Nicholas ," a sympathetic but possibly misguided and naive character.

Carpenter's next film was Assault on Precinct 13 ( 1976 ), a low-budget thriller influenced by the films of Howard Hawks, particularly Rio Bravo.

The film was also significant because it marked the first time Carpenter worked with Debra Hill, who played prominently in the making of some of Carpenter's most important films.

The film was originally released in the United States to mixed critical reviews and lackluster box-office earnings, but after it was screened at the 1977 London Film Festival, it became a critical and commercial success in Europe and is often credited with launching Carpenter's career.

The Thing was made with a budget of $ 15, 000, 000, Carpenter's largest up to that point, and distributed by Universal Pictures.

* John Carpenter's 1976 film Assault on Precinct 13, though not a remake of Rio Bravo, was inspired by the film.

Part of the movie Edward Scissorhands was filmed on Tinsmith Circle in the neighborhood of Carpenter's Run in Lutz.

It was originally called Carpenter Station, after Carpenter's Creek where a railroad station had been established, around which the town grew.

A third adaptation, also titled The Thing, was released on October 14, 2011 and serves as a prequel to the events of Carpenter's film.

* A large portion of fans of John Carpenter's 1982 science fiction / horror film The Thing reacted negatively when a prequel was released in 2011.

The film's producing studios are Universal Studios ( who released the first ) and Warner Bros. Entertainment ( who released most of Snyder's films since 300 ) and the film is set to be directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., director of The Thing, the 2011 prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 cult classic of the same name.

Snake Plissken appears in John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles, a four-part comic book miniseries released in 2003 that was published by CrossGen comics.

Snake Plissken appeared in John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles, a four-part comic book miniseries released in 2003 that was published by CrossGen comics and Hurricane Entertainment.

In turn, this song features many samples from Sly and the Family Stone song, " You Can Make It if You Try ", and its theme seems heavily inspired by the The Splash Band track " The End ( Disco Version )" released in 1984, which is itself based on the theme of John Carpenter's film Assault on Precinct 13.

Dreamland was released on Cuneiform Records in January 2008 and announced as the first installation in Carpenter's " Weird American Gothic " trilogy.

Boy From Black Mountain marked yet another shift in direction, inspired by Carpenter's Southern heritage, Southern Gospel music, bluegrass music, and Southern Gothic writers, and was released by Cuneiform Records in September 2009.