There is Karen Carpenter then there is the rest ❤

@MosaicRose99

Жыл бұрын

Perfectly put.....

@SayItAintSo4real

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Beautifully said.

@chaspullen3544

Жыл бұрын

Facts!

@gmualum08

Жыл бұрын

YES

@GoodStuffForeverMore

11 ай бұрын

Truth 🙌

THE BEST FEMALE VOCALIST...EVER IN MUSIC HISTORY. RIP. KAREN CARPENTER. 🙏🙏🙏❤️‍🔥♥️

Perfect pitch and three octave range plus a beautiful personality and a wonderful person. RIP, karen.

Karen Carpenter sang her own backups and added those tracks to the music. And major music magazine called her the best drummer in America. To repeat another fans remarks: " During their career, the duo scored 1 number one album and another 4 Top 10 albums on Billboard 200, 3 number one singles, 12 top 10 singles and 20 top 40 hits on Billboard Hot 100. Karen's singing and her brother Richard's arrangements sold out concerts in the UK and Japan as well.

Remember, she's singing live and Autotune didn't exist back then. Karen Carpenter was perhaps the most naturally talented vocalist and a once in a century talent.

@robertnathan2843

Жыл бұрын

This is a video performance of the studio version 🎸

@mpa417

Жыл бұрын

​@@robertnathan2843 yes this is the studio recording but her live performances singing this song are pretty amazing

@robertnathan2843

Жыл бұрын

@@mpa417 Absolutely. I was stating for informational purposes. Thanks🎸

Unlike all of the rest of us she saw herself as a drummer who could sing a little. She died too young. She was a great talent from my youth. Love her voice.

Karen was a supremely talented natural singer. Perfect pitch and natural talent. She humbly thought of herself as a drummer that could also sing. We miss her terribly.

@mirozen_

10 ай бұрын

And she really was an excellent drummer.

Her voice,and their songs were the soundtrack to my youth..... I weep each time i hear her....thank you.

(They Long to be) Close to You, We've Only Just Begun, Rainy Days and Mondays, Top of the World, Goodbye to Love, I Need to Be in Love, Yesterday Once More, Hurting Each Other, Merry Christmas Darling, the Carpenter's catalog runs deep.

The musicians behind her are the amazing Wrecking Crew. You could do the most amazing reaction videos to the list of songs that they helped create! Enjoy!

Great group those Carpenters! Maybe best ever!!!

I fell in love with her voice when I was 5 years old!! ❤😊

Karen Carpenter was simply one of the greatest voices ever in pop music. One of her contemporaries, Olivia Newton John, said she NEVER heard Karen Carpenter hit a wrong note. Another, Dusty Springfield, said that what made her different was her lower register. "All of us can hit the high notes," she said, "but the money is in the basement."

@chadley25

8 ай бұрын

Dusty Springfield is pretty awesome in her own right. Never knew she said that! Also like Laura Nyro from that time. But I think the singer among the most analogous to Karen Carpenter is probably Anne Murray. But Karen, of course, is in a class by herself.

Rainy Days and Mondays; It’s a Kind of Hush; Close to You; we’ve only Just Begun and Solitaire

She has a rare voice , one of a kind you’ll never forget 😊❤

One of the neatest voices- her brother (the other 'Carpenter) was a perfectionist, and produced this great music. (oh, and she played drums at a professional level)

Never get tired of listening to this...

Still my all time fav singer. Genuine, haunting, emotional.

Greatest female vocalist of all time!

There is no choir. It's just Karen and Richard. He was a master of what's called overdubbing. This entire thing is just their two voices. Magnificent!

The queen she’s barely 21 yrs old here

Karen is considered one of the best female vocalists ever. She was known as "one take Karen," as she recorded the songs in just 1 recording take, 99% of the time. She is also known as being able to sign in the lowest tones, which most female singers cannot get down to. She was incredible. We lost her too soon. By the way, this is a live performance. The small orchestra is behind the curtain.

“Rainy days and Mondays” is another good one.. although any song is absolutely lovely. Karen had a gift for the ages and remains timeless now…. ❤

Karen had the voice of an ANGEL!!❤

@larryborst9684

5 ай бұрын

Did you know that Paul McCartney said that very thing about her? One of the greatest male vocalists. Of course, I agree. She was beyond awesome.

I'm nearly 65 years old, slightly younger than Karen would be if she were still with us. Here voice can still bring tears to my eyes. She was gone way too soon.

@Jeo-fq1zw

4 ай бұрын

65 here...yes we lost our Angel Karen way to soon..❤❤

some singers could cheat a bit, but she didnt she was pure had a laser voice, so accurate and like manuka Honey

She is one of my favourite artists for over 50 years now. Glad you found her too

She is so natural..... Unparalleled.

Karen was incandescently talented. I still get chills listening to her after all these years. But her brother Richard at the keyboard also deserves tremendous praise for his arrangements. They were the perfect team.

I never cease to be amazed and disappointed by the number and stature of the so called musical elites of today who are totally ignorant of the outstanding and exceptionally talented singers of the 70's and 80's. A time when the quantity and quality of music created in nearly all forms far surpasses the trivial amount and quality of that created today.

My favorite is "Solitaire"

Karen's voice is one of the great wonders of the universe, I hope you can do more Carpenters reactions. Thank you for a great reaction!

@pedrokass2973

Жыл бұрын

Agreeeeee!!!! Yes, she is!!!

What's so interesting is the mention of Karen Carpenter's 'confidence'? I think Karen Carpenter was perhaps one of the greatest natural-born singers of all time, but I think it was her 'confidence' that she struggled with the most in her life.

Lots more from Carpenters that you will love too. Absolutely timeless music that transcends generations and millennia!!

Her voice is so haunting that you could recognise it on the other side of the world in the first verse, she really was a one off performer

Her first words of this song bring tears to my eyes. Such a beautiful voice.

My mother liked her so I started listening to her in my preteen and early teen years and I still love her music.

my heart belongs to her! she was so sweet!

For the next Carpenters song, you should listen to We’ve Only Just Begun.

My favorite Carpenters song is Yesterday Once More. The jazzy harmonies in it are exquisite!

I LOVE Karen. Always!🥰

you really need to do more Carpenters... especially Rainy Days & Mondays

And before auto tune. Just her. Karen had a beautiful voice.

Paul and Elton's favorite all time female vocalist, Mine too...

I get chills and goosebumps when I hear this song.

Three level contralto so effortless. Such a talent taken at such a young age! She ALWAYS BRINGS TEARS TO MY EYES! 50 YEARS LATER.

Karen was truly one of the best ever. And her brother Richard deserves a lot of credit for their arrangements…such a talented pair. I have always loved her perfect pitch…breath control and that incredible contralto voice of her. And she was a great drummer too!

Karen Carpente Superstar in one take while reading the lyrics off of a napkin. She was known as one take Katen. All the backing vocals were done by multitracking Richard, her brother and arranger, and Karen. Unfortunately, we lost Karen in 1983 to cardiac arrest caused by complications of anorexia nervosa. She was 32. Please react to the song This Masquerade by the Carpenters.

@libation2473

Жыл бұрын

She recorded Superstar in one take.

@candicelitrenta8890

Жыл бұрын

A Song For You is another great one

@hurricane1951

Жыл бұрын

This Masquerade is an excellent choice. There's also a video on KZread showing her drumming skills, which I never appreciated before.

@kwpres

10 ай бұрын

@@hurricane1951ee the version of This Masquerade she did for a TV special with Ella Fitzgerald.

butter...Karen's voice has to be one of the smoothest sounding voices to have ever sung popular music...effortless range changes and so so smooth...like butter. No machine assisted studio equipment is capable of duplicating a natural singer like her.

Pull up her drum solos and notice how happy she is

I've always been fond of the Carpenters first hit release, their 1970 arrangement of Burt Bacharach's song: "(They Long to Be) Close to You" The last song Karen recorded before her death in 1983 also tugs at the heart: "Now" You can find both on KZread. Neither may be the best examples of their art, they are just my two favorites

She had great breath control....there is one video where it is around 17 seconds long...she was a contralto and possessed a 4 octave range

@chrisp4170

7 ай бұрын

3 octaves

She had such a beautiful voice. This is my favorite Carpenters song.

Also for different songs to assess her unique talents try, this Masquerade, A song for you, The Rainbow connection, Those good old dreams, enjoy

The Carpenters were one of the first bands to overdub their voices for the background. I saw them twice they were magical.

Yesterday Once More, Rainy Days and Mondays, Song for You... all beautiful Karen songs.

The Carpenters have a lot of hits. I like her cover of "There's A Kind Of Hush".

So, that wasn't a choir, as Karen and Richard (her brother/keyboard player/composer/arranger/amazing musician) both laid in the background vocals, including multiple harmonies. She played the drums and Richard played multiple instruments, and wrote the incredible music arrangements for their songs. Karen's voice is very unique and memorable. Love them! 💞

Karen Carpenter had a voice like honey. It is perfect and gifted from Our Lord.

Absolutely incredible soul and feel❤ it's been said she never hit a sour note live and I believe it

Such a powerful voice coming from a petite woman, she was a legend!

Karen was nicknamed one take Karen, because over 80% of her recordings were issued using the first recording of every single song, a great gift, one of my favourite singers together with a certain Barbra Streisand.

A true Alto. She was one of a kind.Thanks!

Like I always say her voice melts my heart ❤️ ❤

Welcome to "mrs. one take". So she was named from her soundengineers, cause she sings almost perfect.

One of the greatest voices in modern music, yet a reluctant singer, with her first love being drumming. Watch a video of her drumming and you will see her absolutely sparkle. R.I.P. Karen, gone far too soon.

R.i.p. Karen every time i listen to her i get teary eyed, so tragic

I grew up with this music. You are just discovering it. I must be older than I think!

The Voice.

Her voice is a Symphony, so smooth.

I saw a documentary about this group back when I was a young boy in the late 1970s. She and her brother sang the backing vocals in the studio on the original recordings of all their songs. They would layer their voices over and over again to make the vocals sound like a choir of many voices. They were an awesome group with hit after mellow hit. They were huge part of the free and easy sound of that era in music.

Check out her drum solo from 1976 👌

We've only just begun is a great song of theirs.

And by the way…, she was a fantastic drummer too! She played the drums on the studio recordings!

Miss Karen Carpenter always voice make me cry. Her beauty & tatent.

Muy acertada la opinión de la cantante, y tus eres muy hermosa ❤ te admiro mucho

Karen Carpenter is a GOD! You are very pretty and enjoyable, too!!!!

My favorite Carpenters song!

World Class!

Lol.. that 1st wide eyed look when Karen starts

amazing arrangement by Richard

she had one of the greatest voices ever. rainey days and monday's, and we only just begun..to name a few other songs

Probably the number one

I was lucky enough to see them in concert such a long long time ago...sigh.

At the hight of the Carpenters they were more popular than the Beatles. She is considered one of the best vocalists of her time. Check out Rainy Days and Mondays or We've Only Just Begun

Her love was as a drummer.

If you really want to be in awe, listen to Karen do Ave Maria. Shows she wasn't just a beautiful voice with hooks, but a true talent.

@gingers.5933

4 ай бұрын

Ava Maria is one of her best songs ever, stunningly beautiful.

“Beautiful birth control” - Haaa!

Karen have a voice of an Angel

Thank you for reacting to the Carpenters. You need to research this group. Karen had one of the purest alto voices on the planet, Please react to more of their songs.'

Hi Emma, there is a world class group called Leonid and Friends. They covered this song live, and it is incredible. This group is from Russia and cover the likes Chicago, Earth Wind & Fire, Steely Dan, and other groups. Perfect from the musicians, and the singers. Enjoy. Merry Christmas

Beloved karen!Im Charles Melo from Goiania,Goias,Brazil

Karen Carpenter inside and out. So are you miss Emma . I would like to hear you sing a complete song.

Try This Masquerade and Leave Yesterday Behind for her lower voice.

Beautiful voice...

A voz angelical da música americana.

Always enjoy the professional take. Ty…

Her voice is contrato..

The backup singers are actually Karen and Richard. They would sing over and over and then Richard would layer them forming that choir like voice

Here's a recommendation from them, it's called "You've only just begun". That song is amazing by her too!