Forty years later, no women singer can hold a candle to Karen Carpenter. The sweetest voice of all time. Best female drummer in many peoples opinions including mine. The VOICE passes the heart to the soul. Amazing !!!

@bigreg

3 ай бұрын

i agree with you my friend..she is my favorite female singer of all time..i cried while listening to her and richard sing this medley..so many memories

@johnhedtke7571

2 ай бұрын

Think about how many unbelievable women singers there are, and the many genre's. Yet, they are all playing for second place compared to Karen

The best female vocalist hands down!

At 70 yrs. old, the beautiful qualities of her voice, move me to tears.

Jeff, That could easily be the most beautiful 9 minutes in music history. ❤ WOW

Boy, did this make the tears flow. I loved her voice. One of a kind.

This compilation is so.wonderful. Her version of Someday leaves me absolutely speechless. It is so incredibly beautifully sung. Such sensitive and her voice excells to that top note she hits pitch perfect. Emotionally very moving. Richard's arrangements in this presentation were excellent. Absolutely heartbreakingly exceptional ...

There will Never Ever be another Karen Carpenter. Karen was the Original Auto Tune!!! Such a tragic story! RIP.

@ChuckHackney

4 ай бұрын

So, so well said. I can not get over the purity of tone and intonation along with that gentle contralto vibrato. No, never see the likes of this voice again, but I give such thanks I was alive during her time. What a blessing from God.

@iliketowatchvideos47

3 ай бұрын

❤

@ChuckHackney

2 ай бұрын

Never ever a voice like hers, in another stratosphere. Angelic. Spiritual. Pure. Karen is my choice as the greatest female singer of all time.

Wow. That was Karen Carpenter at her absolute finest. What has happened to music since then. It doesn't get any better than this performance. Thx for doing this reaction. It was excellent.

It doesn’t get any better than this! Karen always brings tears to my eyes when she sings. ❤️ P.S. If you’ll notice, she’s does finish that high note off with vibrato. She’s perfect.

I'm back again. I simply can't get enough of this medley. It's hard for me to find words that are worthy of this performance. This is Karen at her very best and I have to watch this at least once a day. Jeff your reaction and comments make this even more special for me. Thx again.

To put it simply the most beautiful voice ever...

I saw this when it was originally broadcast in 1980. I recorded the whole programme on my little cassette recorder and replayed it many times over the years (yes, I've still got it). This is one of my favourite medleys. One thing I always notice is Richard's face throughout the medley. You don't often see him smiling so much so genuinely and naturally. It's as if he realises what an honour it was to have such a special sister.

Ricard's.arrangements and choice of songs was genius. The greatest female singer ever to me.❤❤❤

The most perfect voice of all time for me.

Three octave range! 🥰

Honestly The nearest thing to the voice of an Angel

Best voice ever...

Jeff, i just cant get enough of this performance. It's just so very good. This is Karen at her absolute best in my opinion. The arrangement is incredible. Richard doesn't get nearly enough credit for his singing, writing and arranging. I listen to this at least once everyday and several times on most days. Thanks again.

In this same special, she sings with Ella Fitzgerald, This Masquerade and a small medley. You should check that one out too. Karen was a one of a kind.

I don't know about anyone else....but I have been absolutely captivated the moment she started to sing! ❤

Like Luther Vandross, Karen had no equal. Her sultry lower register and spot on tone of her upper register, will never be duplicated. I read articles that said she was called “one take Karen” in the studio. Love and miss her

Wooo! Wooo! Wooo! The ever great Karen Carpenter! Everything she ever sang and/or recorded is marvelous. And she was a fabulous drummer as well. At 5:12 going into the intro of "Make It Easy On Yourself", oh my. She just, wow! Gives me chills every time I hear her sing it. Incredible voice! Full of emotion, regardless of what she's singing. "Make It Easy On Yourself", "Solitaire" (ugh, rips the heartstrings right out & yet it's another favorite of mine), "A Song For You", "Trying To Get The Feeling Again", "Love Me For What I Am" (excellent lyrics for all of us & our mates), "Goodbye To Love", "Only Yesterday", the list goes on and on and on. Thank you for your reaction.

Yep,Karen Carpenter just has a sound like no other .Those siblings,musicial genius's. Her voice pulls at the heart strings like no other .It was just so joyful and deeply moving all at once .

I simply can't get enough of this video. Thank You, Jeff

Over 40 years later and we still talk about her the way we do. Amazing. And 40 years from now, when most of us are long gone, the next generations will talk about her the same way.

One Of The Greatest Female Singer's Of All Time A Star On Earth A Star In Heaven ❤💔🌹

Karen's voice is I have to say the best voice since recorded music was invented. Her pitches are just incredible. The sincerity in the tone of her voice, for me no one has ever come close or ever will.

@ChuckHackney

Ай бұрын

You could not be more right. There simply isn't a purer, more totally correct voice in all of music. As I say, THAT VOICE. THAT VOICE. THAT VOICE.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Every time I listen and watch this medley I get teary. Karen’s voice is so beautiful and perfect and the arrangements of the songs are lovely. Karen was with us for such a short time but her gifted voice will always live on. ❤

I never saw this .. and I’ve watched a lot on you tube- she’s AMAZING

awesome reaction..so good that you did not stop the video and gave comments while the video played..thank you

@StrateleStudios

3 ай бұрын

😊🫶

I was blindsided when she left us. I thought someone with such a heavenly voice was beyond death.

@marksmess136

3 ай бұрын

And yet her music transcends death.

OUR TALENTED DOWNEY GIRL.....EVEN JUST SINGING IN A ACAPELLA IN HER CAR NEXT TO OURS SHE SOUNDED EXCELLENT! NO VOICE CAN COME CLOSE TO HERS!

このメドレーは何十回も聞いています 低音は、太い声質で重低音 高音は 羽🪶の様に軽く、安定した声 まさに超天才 🌈🪐

Karen Carpenter ! Uma das melhores vozes que já existiu . Beto - Brasília - df 👍😊🥰

The Carpenters were the best and Karen was other worldly ❤

The world is filled with many beautiful singers, that's a accompliment . Karen Carpenter, like any singer has such a unique vocal and style Her voice is like a breath of spring. Very very angelical and smooth and soothing to the soul. She was 15 when i was born in 1964. I grew up listening to her own music Now I'm 60. And still listening. And singing her songs on karaoke

@user-tb1dh4no7h

2 ай бұрын

To stratele, studio. I'm very more grateful, for noticing my comment for Richard and Karen, the carpenters. Thanks for highliting my comment

From the same show, she does a jazz medley with Miss Ella Fitzgerald that is fantastic and continues on with the nostalgia.

I read somewhere that John Lennon actually made a positive comment direct to Karen Carpenter about her amazing voice, praise doesnt come much higher than that! Without any doubt the most recognisable voice of the 70’s. Thanks for the reaction Jeff love trips down memory lane like this 🤩

@tomschmitz-dj1fg

4 ай бұрын

outside a restaurant in Los Angeles, John Lennon came up to her and said to her " I just want to tell you Luv, you have a fabulous voice"... Shortly afterwards, she told her brother Richard of this ( they were huge beatles fans) and asked her brother if he, Lennon, meant what he said.. Sad she didn't believe it herself.

I doubt we will hear a voice as pure as Karen Carpenter ever again. Jeff, I watch this once everyday and only on your channel because it's easy to see that we both think alike when it comes to Karen Carpenter. Her voice is magical .

Remember that Richard is a fantastic arranger.

Thanks for this Jeff. I can tell you were very moved watching this. As am I. You are right. She is sorely missed. A fabulous voice and arrangement.

Yes, there is something about that voice that goes straight to your soul, to your very being. It's as if God is letting you personally hear what an angel is supposed to sound like.

Wow wow wow❤

The tragedy is that she never could see herself the way we all saw her.

The magic of Karen Carpenter ♥

love your reaction to the a voice that is beyond compare

The "VOICE OF AN ANGEL" is passed away,but that "VERY SPECIAL VOICE",remained and still echoed in this universe...timeless and never forgotten until this generation...i'm 22yo,from Philippines and Karen hooked my heart since i was 10...she's my lady and my singer.

Thank you for featuring so many of their lesser known songs

So many songs that send chills up your spine with her melancholy voice like "Sometimes", "Little Girl Blue", "Eve", "Nowhere Man", "California Dreamin", "Evita", "Ava Maria", "Yesterday Once More", "I Won't Last a Day Without You", "Solitaire", "One More Time", "This Masquerade", "A Song for You", "Sweet, Sweet Smile", "I Just Fall in Love Again," "Can't Smile Without You", "One Love", "Two Sides", "Make Believe It's Your First Time", "Now", "If We Try", "You", "Someday" and so many more. Can we start a petition to get the nationwide radio stations to start playing Carpenters music again? Thank you again for doing this tribute reaction and I am looking forward to you doing many more. THE VOICE...THE DRUMMER...THE LEGACY!!!!

Thank you Jeff for reacting to this. You made my dream come true! Karen has this very special way of singing that soothes the soul. Just like you said, she pierces you (in the best way possible.) Lots of happy tears when I listen to her and Richard. Thanks again. I very much enjoyed your observations.

Richard was playing the piano with this big smile on his face. He knew they were making magic one more time.

10:29 holy harmonies

Best singer I have ever heard! Chills!❤

Just 3 years later she was gone…. Such a special voice she gave us. ❤

That was absolutely amazing. I like when she adds those little voice inflections that aren't normally in her songs.

You should check out "Carpeners, Burt Bacharach and Hal David Medley" here on KZread, it's a live outdoor show and is really fantastic.

Several songs that I was not very familiar with. Very satisfying. Honestly she could have sung the phonebook and made you swoon.

Her music saved my life as a kid who was deathly afraid of my father.

A timeless voice. You are oh so right. She is sorely missed!!

Have Loved Karen since 1970 when I started and stopped drum lessons. Restarted drum lessons at 63 and aspire to play like Karen and Viola Smith did! Having been from Connecticut, I also felt comfortable with her. Very few singing drummer's and I missed seeing her and Richard. Appreciate these clip.

She was such a a beautiful young lady gone way to soon

Wonderful, emotional reaction. She is truly missed. Thanks, Jeff.

A wonderful voice and a presence to go with it. It makes the performance doubly enchanting.

Hey Jeff, we meet again, thanks for sharing KC music, please do find the time to play something from Tori Holub, the re birth of KC and well worth listening to her for any Carpenter fans. Her work is real live studio recordings and is a die hard Carpenters fan. Cheers for sharing this video. ❤.

@StrateleStudios

2 ай бұрын

Tori is on the schedule! 👏👏👏

@naresh2592

2 ай бұрын

@@StrateleStudios Awesome. Looking forward. She recently did a mind blowing performance.

@naresh2592

2 ай бұрын

@@StrateleStudios just edited my previous comment as I was not sure of Jim's last name.

@StrateleStudios

2 ай бұрын

@@naresh2592 👍👍👍

Perfection! Thank you for this video!

As far as the horns go, remember they were with A&M Records. The "A" was Herb Albert who had The Tijuana Brass

That was simply stunning 😮

3:23 Yes, those horns!! They take me back!

Absolute musical paradise...thank you for posting!

Goosebumps

Loved it! Thank you. Greetings from the UK.

So Beautiful.

Great reaction 🤭 please react "Carpenters A song for You" in complete version. Best regards fron Chile 😊

Thank you for this sweet moment of nostalgia/

Fire reaction!!

Wow🤯🤯

I like your analyses because you don't pause all the time like other analyzers do. I'm crying. I think hear Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

@StrateleStudios

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yes stopping the video kills the flow and makes it about the reactor instead of the music…no good.

I hope if there is such a thing in heaven, I can tell her how much she is loved down here, then, and still to this day. Blessings, Chuck

@michaelasay8587

4 ай бұрын

I hope I see her in heaven with my sister that died prematurely at 38...She had the voice of Karen ...cryin, cryin here😢😢😢

Fantastic Karen!!!

Wow. Karen is my favorite female singer and I’d never heard this before. Thank you!

@tomschmitz-dj1fg

4 ай бұрын

mine as well, always has been, always will be. I l enjoy countless singers, male and female, countless groups, different genres, different eras, but for, Karen is always going to be "the one"....

Jeff, I think you and I are from similar eras. I, too, really liked the Carpenters and it was a real tragedy about Karen,. I hadn't heard them for quite so time. Then I heard Karen start "Rainy Days" and within 2 syllables I knew it was Karen Carpenter. It was such a shock I backed it up and started over. What a nostalgia trip. Kudos for finding this recording.There's just something about Karen's voice. I think I have the same instant recognition when I hear Lucy Thomas. A fellow reactor said: When you hear Lucy you KNOW it's Lucy. In my 80+ years there have been very voices that stood out like Karen (and now Lucy).

Hello Jeff, I am 66 so I remember them

@StrateleStudios

4 ай бұрын

What an amazing time my friend

@harrydai1862

4 ай бұрын

Yes it was, Just like the Money man sang, I wanna go back, but I can't go back I know

Compare this with their stuff from 1970 and it is clear that she got so much better. Oh, what they could have done had we not lost her.

And the absolute shame is that we are robbed of Karen doing a complete solo version of This Masquerade instead of a snippet, or a complete duet version of This Masquerade with the first Lady of Song, the exquisite great Ella Fitzgerald!! A so freaking missed opportunity!

kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y39r1LKil6urYaw.htmlsi=dgbyNP9XozWeyUn8 Here are the isolated vocals of Karen for the Music Music Music arrangement. Her voice quality is absolutely amazing! Much credit cans be given to Frank Pooler her college choir director at Long Beach State. He strongly stressed the importance of dictation and enunciation to his a cappella group.

Just wonderful, how one can dissapear into the world of her beautiful voice and singing 🫠🫠🫠 ….. so special❤️🌟. I really enjoyed that - thank you🤗.

@StrateleStudios

4 ай бұрын

🫶🫶🫶

Now separately regarding this reaction. Other than my difficulty in watching thin Karen, it’s so beautiful. Cubby on drums FTW. There’s another one of these with Karen in an evening dress, on drums. Maybe even this show. As I stated in my other post, my first time here and subscribed. I like watching people of my generation doing this stuff, second only to a youngsta discovering Karen for the first time and their brains melting out of their head with joy. That and Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time. 🤣 Great reaction to a classic. Also check out the channel of Harvey Stig, he’s using some kind of magic (AI Based?) video rescue and restoration to save old Carpenters videos. I mean, mind glowingly beautiful. 4K and all. No distortion 4:3. Joe

I've not seen this anywhere online. This channel has a first. That was a good special. Richard had to insist on not mucking up the show with skits and such. If anyone is interested, another piece from this show has Karen doing a little softshoe, before jumping on the trap set and whaling. The "I Got Rhythm Medley" really shows she had drum chops out the wazoo.

Saw the Carpenters live at SMU in early '71. It was excellent. A small backup group, 8 to 10 total, IIRC. Most, if not all of the band, sang harmony if they weren't playing a wind instrument. Remember this was very much in the pre-synthesizer with sampling days. What a voice, gone far too soon, kind of like Eva Cassidy!

Jeff, Love watching your reactions and was wondering if you've heard the Carpenters "Those Good Old Dreams" it's another masterpiece.

@StrateleStudios

4 ай бұрын

I don’t think I’ve heard that one

No other female singer has touched the world like Karen has. Perfection has a wonderful sound.

Please listen to Leonid and friends The Speck of dust, you will enjoy it😊

Nobody can compare with Karen's incredible voice along with her genius brother Richard. There is a wonderful 19 year old singer from the Uk called Lucy Thomas. I highly recommend that you react to any of her numerous videos, she's just released her 5th studio album. This autumn she is due to star in the West End in London in a brand new musical especially written for her called "Rosie." Many rectors have said she is already one of the best singers in the world. I'd love to know what you think?

@StrateleStudios

4 ай бұрын

Search my channel, I’ve done some from Lucy. 😊👏

I have their piano book. I play the songs constantly. So sad her mother hounded her about her weight. I celebrate her birthday every March. I would play them all the time on the radio and harmonize with her.

@michaelasay8587

4 ай бұрын

Sweetie...do you simg? Do all you can with you're talents!!!

@maryannarep

4 ай бұрын

@@michaelasay8587 I just got back from singing at Carnegie Hall so yes I sing.

@michaelasay8587

4 ай бұрын

​@@maryannarepFantastic! So I can look you up online under this name?

Omg ...the song Someday....so freaking beautiful...God why did you have to take her and my sister so young!!

Obviously this was prerecorded. Doesn’t make it any less beautiful though.

@StrateleStudios

4 ай бұрын

Hahaha yes of course but we can play along so we get warm and fuzzies right?

😢 n, 😢 ng here... crying... tried to get it out!!

The only modern singer that even comes close to Karen is Ksenia Buzina.

I heard she could still be alive in the All World Protection Program along with a lot of other famous people🙏 STAY TUNED.

Time to remember Anne Murray, and kd lang.