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@THEPATRIOT1000

2 жыл бұрын

Pleaaaaase check out Roberta Flack songs ..Killing Me Softly

@OverandOutChief1

2 жыл бұрын

Always great review brother. When you get time, try out some classic country of George Strait and Conway Twitty.

@powerhead125

2 жыл бұрын

Hey brova heres a track for you. Hope you enjoy. kzread.info/dash/bejne/q5N6yNSgn7nVfM4.html Crank up em bass

@kateruterbories2692

2 жыл бұрын

Cherubim! They are the singers!!

@calethguillen8041

2 жыл бұрын

Hey brother could you please react on one of the best songs in the world called Me and Mrs. Jones by Billy Paul. Greetings from Honduras ✊

She was one of the Exceptional BEST. Rare. ✨

Karen, Freddie, Steve! All BEAUTIFUL voices!!!

I would play their records growing up and Karen's voice was so perfect. You would feel lifted up. What a shame to lose such a talented woman. I'll never say goodbye to this music.

@32a34a

2 жыл бұрын

To hear her sing the song Solitaire could rip your soul into pieces but it is such a beautiful song.

@cherylreichardt

2 жыл бұрын

@@32a34a Superstar always did it for me. Such raw emotion!

@corytrevorson1411

2 жыл бұрын

I remember sitting in front of our stero and opening up the album cover . I can't remember which one it was but it was a trifold with a picture of their house

One of my favorite Carpenter's songs. Effortlessly angelic voice. Richard doesn't get enough credit for writing these songs. Great pick.

@ajkendro3413

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of these songs were written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach. Richard did most of the arrangements.

@jaysinger535

2 жыл бұрын

Most of their songs were covers. This was one of their originals. Richard co-wrote this song with John Bettis.

@oldermusiclover

2 жыл бұрын

mine is I Need To Be In Love and Bless the Beasts and The Children

@stevetournay6103

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, a pure live version. (I can recognize subtle differences from the studio version. Have heard the 1972 studio version of Goodbye To Love hundreds of times...and this ain't it!) With this song, Richard Carpenter invented the power ballad...

@stevetournay6103

2 жыл бұрын

@@ajkendro3413 Well, some were, yes, including their 1970 megahit Close To You. They covered numerous other songwriters too, notably Paul Williams (We've Only Just Begun, Rainy Days And Mondays) and Leon Russell (Superstar, This Masquerade, A Song For You). Of course Richard was a composer too, along with his usual lyricist partner John Bettis (Eve, Yesterday Once More and this song, among others).

I grew up singing Karen Carpenter songs...from the age of 2, I started singing along with her. A part of me literally died with her since she was such a HUGE influence on me through my entire life. I pray to see her and visit with her on the other side. Thank you Jamel for doing what you do and for keeping all this great music alive.

Yes her voice was above the Angels!

This could be the story of her love life. Carpenters took a big hit from their fans for using (gasp!) an electric guitar. Yes, this was live and it sounds exactly like the recording. She had the ability to do that in a performance.

@juliebarrows8149

6 ай бұрын

John Bettis, the guy who wrote these lyrics wrote it with both Karen and himself in mind, he said.

Karen recognized that her sultry lower register was what made her singing so special; she said once, "The money is in the basement. This is one of the first "power ballads" to have a blazing fuzz guitar solo. I understand the guitarist (Tony Peluso, RIP) started playing little gentle guitar riffs and Richard had to prod him to shred, resulting in this masterpiece. Many Carpenters fans were put off by it because they saw the group as a soft pop group.

One of the best voices of all time

This song, by the way, is the first ever power-ballad. The late Tony Peluso on the fuzz guitar just put the song into the stratosphere. Richard was the genius behind this arrangement. RIP Karen, the most perfect singer of all time.

@r.d.sandman6474

2 жыл бұрын

The Carpenters were NOT a power band, not even close, so much for that point. You know beans, Nimrod. Or you’d talk her drumming

@floydlawson3765

2 жыл бұрын

@@r.d.sandman6474 Kinda rough there. Do a little research. Some do consider it the first power ballad. Everyone knows Karen was a great drummer. that wasn't his point.

@johnharris6655

2 жыл бұрын

@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee And you can be a Heavy Metal band and have a hit song with a love ballad called "Beth"

@jerickson725

2 жыл бұрын

@@r.d.sandman6474 Nirmal is correct (in a way). The reason the industry say this "could" be considered the first "power ballad" is because some of the first hard rock bands to record "power/monster ballads" have said they structured the ballads based on this song by the Carpenters; beginning soft and slow, building to an energetic guitar solo, then ending soft & slow. There are many articles written by music industry professionals the mention this. So maybe you should do a little research and apologize to @nirmal kirtisinghe, because he is correct. Even if he was incorrect, your response was mean. R .D. Sandman, are the nimrod for being both wrong and rude!

Such a talent . Her voice was so beautiful.

Simply the best. I have never heard a more pure voice.

Her voice was so beautiful; she was so beautiful. These lyrics came from her heart and that is eminently sad.

Karen Carpenter's voice was the female equivalent of Nat King Cole's voice. Both were glorious and untouchable by anyone then or now.

@mikeywid4954

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent analogy and absolutely true.

Tony Peluso on guitar, one of the great solos of all time...caused a stir when it first came out as the Carpenters were accused of going "heavy metal" lol

The way her voice goes so effortlessly from little girl sweet to almost contralto while staying on perfect pitch is just amazing.

The guitar work on this song is pure fire! When i twll people that they laugh and say its the Carpenters, but you play them the track and their blown away.. great music all the way around..

Her voice was as perfect and clear as a mirror

Major props to Herb Alpert, who signed The Carpenters to A&M when they were rejected by other labels. Herb is also amazing, I'm not sure if you've reacted to any of his music, but he's an awesome trumpet player, still going strong in his 80s. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass were huge in the late 60s and then he continued as a solo artist.

@donpaladino

Жыл бұрын

Oh MAN! Lonely Bull

@DaleC1980

Жыл бұрын

Herb Alpert just played a concert near me. I bought tickets as soon as I saw. It was impressive at 87

@surbana9803

Жыл бұрын

I just saw a comment that Ambrosia was originally going to be a country band until Herb Alpert told them they should do more r&b. Isn't that interesting?@@DaleC1980 Makes me wonder how many other stories there are out there from other artists whose careers he influenced like that. Pretty amazing.

loved the Carpenters all my life - Caren had and still has the purest voice ever ... love your appreciation for fine music btw from NZ

I never heard this song before. But Karren Carpenter was really special. She had the most incredible voice. She was at the top.

....and she can drum too !

Exactly, Jamal. Sad but soothing?? Only the Carpenters. My favorite singer ever. ❤

"No one ever cared if I should live or die" Been there. Poor, sweet, lovely Karen. RIP.

@stevetournay6103

4 ай бұрын

When I sing this song I change the lyric there to repeat "say goodbye" rather than the original "live or die". Karen didn't write the lyric, John Bettis did (Karen wasn't a songwriter)...but it still bothers me to hear Karen sing those half dozen or so words, because when she does she's just so damn wrong...people did care, and they still do.

her voice makes me cry

Gone way too soon….. what a rich, amazing voice! “Solitaire” and “Hurting Each Other” are even better! 💞

@dsusan17

2 жыл бұрын

I love Solitaire!

She had such an angelic voice. One of a kind.

What an amazing voice she had. No autotune needed here. RIP

She had the cleanest, most mellow voice. So beautiful.

She had a one-of-a-kind voice... hauntingly beautiful.

So effortless. Beautiful.

This was the first real power ballad. Most people don't really realize it but all the elements are there. I remember listening to this album when I was a kid in the early 80s. I loved the guitar solo. It was one of the first I taught myself. Tony Peluso (may he RIP) is the guitarist. When he was hired he was surprised because he was a rock guy from England but accepted the gig. He was practicing with Richard and Karen in the studio but it wasn't really working. Richard called him on it and Tony questioned what they wanted because they were the carpenters. He was playing soft, mostly chords. Richard wanted more. He wanted a hard solo. He wanted the song to build in intensity and tension until the guitarist went off on a solo (classic power ballad before it had a name). Richard said to Tony (about the solo), "I want you to play the melody for 5 bars and then turn it up! Soar off into the stratosphere..." That's what Richard and Karen imagined with this song. It is in my opinion their greatest song and it was a precursor to over a decade of major musical influence. Thanks J for doing this one. I have been waiting. Goodbye To Love is culturally significant to rock music even if people don't realize it.

@ffjsb

2 жыл бұрын

You absolutely nailed it.

Their “ticket to ride” cover is awesome too.

Oh God, her voice.♥️♥️

Live all the way !!!!!¡!

I love her!!!

@jamel_AKA_Jamal Have you done any Karen Carpenter songs with your brothers? I would love to see the first time they heard her

Jamal, I agree with you! When her voice begins it is a breath of fresh air - she had the voice of an Angel and that is no overstatement at all.

The Carpenter’s are timeless. Karen has unique voice.❤👍

I started playing Mom's records at about age 10, first I sang along with Johnny Mathis, then Nat King Cole, and then she brought home that first Carpenter's album, oh my, been in love with Karen's voice for over 50 years.

This. Is. Live. Karen's voice was utter perfection. Absolute purity.

So talented. And she was a percussionist in high school. So very talented.

Thanks, Jamal. Karen was the GOAT! Her voice was straight from Heaven.

You must react to the carpenters Christmas catalog… Amazing, beautiful and so very appropriate at this time of year

Karen Carpenter was a VERY great artist....& a lovely lady who greatly suffered in her life, brought on by the fact that she was painfully shy....she loved the drums & was fantastic at it, then, was basically forced to start singing, when they realized how great she actually was.....in the end, methinks it all attributed to her sad, early death......if things had been different for her, she might still be with us....I was 5 yrs old when she died & still remember it being announced on the Eve News & we all cried.........RIP , Sweet Lady.....🥰😍😔

She has the voice of an angel.

Yes, she was absolutely that good live.

She goes down there, stays there...effortlessly! rip!

Karen Carpenters voice was so mellow that it made me feel good, and relaxed! She had perfect pitch!! I wish so much she had been happier, and that she had lived longer, because she had so much more to sing, and the fans loved her...me included!

Such a beautiful pure singing voice;what a beautiful woman and that voice will never be duplicated;soft and sweet❤️

She was not only an incredible singer, but an incredible drummer as well.

Karen was one of a kind. There will never be another like her. She had such a pure calming voice. And she was a terrific drummer. That was her passion even more than singing. Sadly we lost her so young. Thankfully we have her legacy left in her music.

@auldthymer

2 жыл бұрын

The Carpenters had a variety special in 1976. One segment is a stage with some 6 or more percussion setups. While an offstage orchestra plays "Strike Up the Band" Karen runs -- runs -- from setup to setup. With a maniacal grin on her face. She was having fun. We never knew she was really a goober!

@dagmar.6954

2 жыл бұрын

@@auldthymer That is the show I was thinking of. She had such joy on her face.

I saw them live many times and Karen was always perfect. She was funny and silly and serious and beautiful. The drummer was Cubby O'Brian, who used to be one of the original Mousketeers.

@oldermusiclover

2 жыл бұрын

interesting

@oldermusiclover

2 жыл бұрын

@J T always thought he was a cute kid

On this song we might be hearing her best singing. What a voice and what a perfect song for her.

She was my dad's favorite singer. May they both rest peacefully.

When in concert the Carpenters usually did Rainy Days and Mondays as the lead in to Goodbye to Love. What you're hearing at the beginning of the video is the end of Rainy Days.

I saw the Carpenters in concert when I was 13 years old, her voice was absolutely amazing. Please react to "The Carpenters Live in Concert 1972 The Songs of Burt Bacharach (Medley)"

@eggy1962

2 жыл бұрын

The full length medley is awsome

Karen had not only a gorgeous voice, but it also had so much sincerity in it.

We love you Karen Carpenter ❤️❤️❤️🙏

The greatest contralto voice God has ever gifted. I was truly heart broken 💔 the day we lost this musical 🎼 genius.

Karen truly had the voice of an angel. So beautiful and soothing. RIP

That fuzzy guitar was so controversial back then ….. older fans said they were selling out to rock n roll …. Anyway she is and will always be the greatest vocalist of all time - so clean crisp and clear!

@halweiss8671

2 жыл бұрын

As a teen, I kept waiting for the Carpenters to do a song like this just to show they had it in them. I wasn’t disappointed then, and I like the song even more now.

@j.kevvideoproductions.6463

2 жыл бұрын

My favorite song of theirs .

@timothyparsons8327

2 жыл бұрын

It works though…can’t imagine this song without the fuzz!

@fredrikjelkefors9336

2 жыл бұрын

@@timothyparsons8327 Yes i agree..

One of the great female voices of rock/pop. The Carpenters were a great band, and this song is simply fire.

Her voice was a gift from god.

I really do like the way you find good things to say about people, Jamel, and the Carpenters had their place on Top-40 radio back in the day and it was great. And in this song, they were rockin' out, for sure. :)

Her breath control was extraordinary, if you listen in this song she's doing 3, 4 lines without taking a breath.

@paulk9985

2 жыл бұрын

That was Richard's idea. He wanted to see how well she could do this without breathing.

Karen had the MOST perfect tone and vocal ability EVER!! I have ALWAYS LOVED her, then AND NOW!!

"whatever is above that, that's what her voice was" well said

She was so healthy And beautiful here… SOOOO MISSED :(

OH, My God Amazing....Live....

One of the great vocals of all time I loved Karen she had so much heartbreak in it showed me her song

A once in a lifetime voice...I especially love, love love her lower tones

She was such an angel,and had no idea she was.Her deep sadness is palpable,not having met a man who loved her the way she deserved to be loved.😪😔

For sure she didnt need any "help" with her voice it is smooth and perfect, RIP Karen. thanks so much for posting all your videos. 👍👍

if we're lucky enough to get to heaven i expect to here karen carpenter singing

"Goodbye To Love" has been my favourite Carpenters track since I first heard it in the early 70s. It has, more than any other, been the soundtrack to my life and it will be played at my funeral.

And she was sick here......unbelievable! Such an angelic voice! RIP karen 🙏 ❤

I could relate to Karen, but with age and knowledge, I have really come to appreciate Richard Carpenter’s arrangements. He created their sound. Gets little credit.

I just do not want that fuzz tone guitar solo to ever end. I never get tired of it, even after 50 years!

What a loss when Karen passed. There’s no mistaking her crystal-clear, pitch- perfect voice. This was before the invention of auto-tune.

Tony Peluso is a guitar god. This solo made this their most rock'n'roll song and switched it from ballad to high octane! I love the contrast.

I’ve seriously got chills listening to this!!!

She was a helluva drummer, too.

Thank you, Jamel, for keeping her music alive. Sure it was early soft rock, but... you said it... "so soothing". I call her Saint Karen, she is that adored !

Karen Carpenter had a voice that could break your heart and make you love it.

The thing is, when you have a voice like that, you don't need an autotune, or any magical additions in the recording studio, you have talent, so her studio voice was here live voice too!!

She is angelic ❤.

The Carpenters where born and spent their childhood in New Haven Connecticut, than moved to California to further their careers...the city is very proud of accomplishments they achieved.

Beautiful ❤

I grew up listening to Karen. I would sometimes cry listening to her. So powerful.

There's something so unique about Karen Carpenter's voice. There's so much longing and melancholy in her singing that i don't think anyone's ever been able to capture.

Having seen The Carpenters in concert in 1972 I can verify she sounded phenomenal live. There's not a lot of singers that sound better than their records but she is one. As I got older and attended numerous concerts you knew the real talented musicians and the ones that needed help in the studio. The other female singer I have seen in concert that sounds better live than on her records is Pink and she's even hanging upside down and spinning. Really talented women.

@jerickson725

2 жыл бұрын

You are so right; we think alike! I've been a Carpenters fan since 1972 when I was 8. My favorite artist for the last 20 years is Pink! Never got to see Karen live in person, but I finally got to see Pink during her last tour, and I'm anxiously waiting for the next opportunity. She is the best of the best!

One of the best female singers in the history of pop/rock music. I always well up when I hear her voice. Beautiful

She had one of the most beautiful voices! I still remember how shocked we were when she passed away. Also, this was considered one of the first true rock ballads! It was Richard's idea to put that electric guitar solo in near the end of the song, and the record big wigs thought he was crazy! They deserve to be in the RR Hall of Fame! RIP Miss Karen! Your music will live on forever!

What a voice. Smooth as silk. Such a shame she had so many issues. For her family and friends, but also all the music she would have done that we will never hear.

Thanks for sharing JaJ. I'd like to suggest Anne Murray as another great female voice of the same era. Her voice also has that pure, soothing tone.

@traceycombs3220

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely! JaJ should listen to "Snowbird".

@nancy9478

2 жыл бұрын

You and me against the world is a heartbreaker.

@nashtndawg

2 жыл бұрын

Jamel won't ever come back after hearing Shadows in the Moonlight! lol!

@christinevr7698

2 жыл бұрын

Anne Murray’s song “You needed me” is so incredible; she’ll rip your heart out with her voice and you won’t even feel it.

Beautiful song, beautiful voice, beautiful soul. ☀️

Such a beautiful talent, miss Karen so much ....what a gift

To me, one of the Carpenters best songs. I vividly remember driving a bus for a college singing group and leaving.L.A. headed to Fresno the day Karen died. The choir director said she had one of the best voices in music. I totally agree.