1. Was that an Oboe and flute? I think it sounds good together going back and forth. 2. Is that a small vibrato that I hear on the shorter notes that I'm hearing. Normally not a vibrato fan but I'm cool with it on shorter notes and not with a huge wave length.

@evanhughes1510

3 жыл бұрын

A 1978 video of Karen singing on the Tonight Show a cover of ABBA’s ‘Thank You For the Music’: kzread.info/dash/bejne/amFhx5Z7dLObhag.html

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

alright I'll react to this one. It should be out next week or the week after. I watched the beginng but I don't know the Carpenters enough to know all their songs. So don't tease me too bad if I'm lost.

@evanhughes1510

3 жыл бұрын

Jaybriel Akoi ok looking forward to it. But it’s not a Carpenters song. It’s her singing a song by the band ‘ABBA’. You may not know who ABBA was, but they were a swedish band that had tons of hits in the 70s

@evanhughes1510

3 жыл бұрын

Are you still doing Solitaire?? It has a bunch of those real low notes, which you love...

@adelitamaliwat3613

3 жыл бұрын

O7oo7iiioiooi

She was the greatest vocalist ever,and with Richards arrangements! Wow what a team 🎤🌟🌟❤️

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

ya, her voice was amazing but not only that his arrangements were just spot on.

@dennisgeorge3238

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaybrielakoi7747 do you get it...yes the arrangements are great....its Karens voice that carries all their songs!!!

Her voice is equisite and this is the most heartbreaking song as it was the last she ever recorded.

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

yeah ....but we're just lucky we had her. I wish she could have sung more . It would have been so nice.

Perfect. Her voice and her soul are in this song. I will love her and her memory.

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

so sad we lost her before i even knew it.

Karen recorded Now while on a break from her treatment in April of 1982. She did it in only one take. She,was truly amazing!

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

That's one take karen for ya

This song is absolutely beautiful. She sings it so beautifully.

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

She was amazing. She has fans like me that were born after she passed.

@crystalthomashKC

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaybrielakoi7747 I think that is awesome. I listened in the 70’s. I idolized her. I wanted to be her. It’s so nice to see later generations appreciating her beautiful voice.

Beautiful girl...she is still so missed. R.I.P.

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

agreed she's absolute awesomeness

R i p lovely songbird😔😔😭

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunate that we lost her but at least we had her.

So good. This is what Richard calls a 'work lead.' Karen lays down her vocal track to use for the other musicians to use as a guide. When the overall instrumentation is done, Karen would go back and record the "true vocal" for the final track. But of course this is perfect in so many ways. I read years ago that within the industry, the sound engineers, the guys in the booth, nicknamed her "first-take-Karen."

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

First take, that's just some natural talent there. I don't think you can practice or train into that sort of stuff.

@stevenburger7158

3 жыл бұрын

Karen's "HAPPY / HEALTHY" Solo Album 1980 (released 1996) = 13 yrs. after passing away, it went Platinum (1M sales) because it was great > despite lack of support! Ramone & Quincy Jones loved it & tried to get A&M & Richard to release it then > Karen was HAPPY beyond words, per friends! Karen never would have even dated Tom Burris > if involved with Solo Album & Shows & becoming her own Healthy Woman, while Richard took off 1979! Then a 2nd Meteoric Rise would have launched “CARPENTERS” Together Again! How Sad it never happened while she was still with us.

@SayItAintSo4real

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevenburger7158 I agree with everything you said. Tom (Burris) who? The whole trajectory of her life changed the day her solo album was shelved. So sad.

I mean she was the best female vocalist who ever walked in this planet.

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, that's def really arguable.

@No1KCfan6

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaybrielakoi7747 I agree with him/her :-D

@williamsmith-kd4bd

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaybrielakoi7747 It's really not arguable. neilmar is correct.

@crystalthomashKC

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree.

@dennisgeorge3238

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaybrielakoi7747 It is no arguable...you have heard many Carpenters songs and you know Karens voice is the all time best!

An amazing voice. One of my favorite songs.

She really wanted to be married and have a family and she never really got it. Her marriage was brief and flawed. The lyrics just make that more heart wrenching. But of course her voice stands above her struggles.

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

Oldies lyrics are so good.

@mikewrasman5103

3 жыл бұрын

Her husband was a money grabber. He was always asking for her money. He thought she was a personal ATM.

There will never be a voice like Karen ,I just wish. She could of got the help that is now available .she shouldn't have died !! So sorry we weren't there for her❤️🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Perfect pitch along with unlimited talent! Best ever!

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

im so jelly of people with perfect pitch.

@nkcbrazil

3 жыл бұрын

Not only perfect pitch, and amazing tone but find a singer who you could understand every word, very few. Especially today don’t know what half of them are screaming about. The low registers are a lost art too.

Elvis and Karen knew each other and admired each others music and some people said they talked real briefly about doing a duet can you imagine how great that would of been! Karen is by far my favorite female singer period I introduced my kids to them and they enjoy there music!

Love this song 💕

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

ya it's awesome.

She is one of the few masters that the earth has. Show respect . Wait till she's done. Then react. Thanks for your efforts. Scholars are writing about her voice.

I still miss her !!

@jaybrielakoi7747

2 жыл бұрын

her voice is absolutely gold.

I do wish Richard would still be making beautiful music today. He's genius!

The english horn and flute in the end was awesome.

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

English horn lol....it's so not a horn.

Yes, she had so much more to sing....a special voice they say comes every generation...a voice like Karen's comes once in a lifetime....

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I wonder who we could consider an equivalent or maybe a modern day version.

@No1KCfan6

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaybrielakoi7747 no one.

@dennisgeorge3238

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaybrielakoi7747 noooo oneeee!

@helokopter924

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaybrielakoi7747 no one Once in a lifetime...

There will never be another Karen carpenter x

I dont care about an oboe or a flute...its Karen's last recording and one of her best! She is missed and we get to hear her great voice in these recordings! One of a kind singer!

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

Dont tell that to my oboe and flute friends.

@dennisgeorge3238

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaybrielakoi7747 Those instruments are great...but again Karen's voice over shadows everything else!

Goat nobody better and I miss her deeply 😪

Pls keep her memory and voice alive so that young people now and in the future will know what an angel sounds like...

R.I.P. 😢😢

Brilliant! We can tell what instruments are playing!

May 18, 1982--------------- " Karen did a ' work piece " on this song, with Richard at piano------------After she died, in the fall of '83, Richard went back & orchestrated this song, added The OK Chorale -------------& put it on her posthumous album, " Voice Of The heart " ------------but this is the very last time Karen put her voice to song. EVER. she was very ill, at around 90 Lbs-------------but that voice -------------ohhh, that voice. ---------------------------RIP Karen , died at 32 y/o, did not smoke , drink, or use illegal drugs. It was the daily use of Syrup Of Ipecac, forcing her to vomit., that killed her L-Ventricle , & her heart. When she collapsed & paramedics got to her, she had NO BP, or heart rate, at all ; Karen's heart was dead. ----------------Too tragic, too terrible.--------------------------------wolfsky9, 74 y/o

I am unable to hear this, without tears.--------------no matter how i try.--------------------------Wolfsky9, 74 y/o

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

woof woof

That 'ring the bell' graphic and noise is SUPER ANNOYING and really breaks the mood.

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

my bad.

Listen to the two versions of make believe its your first time the carpenters version with a bridge and the karen carpenters solo album version just featuring a piano and karens gorgeous voice

I like the flute and english horn duet near the end!

I recommend you to react to a cover of California Dreamin that they did, it is a demo that shows Karen's vocal extension and out of curiosity she plays drums on this song when she was only 17 years old at the time, I ask that you please react to that song

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

Can you drop the link? I wanna make sure I get it right.

Great reaction 😢 please react Carpenters Ave Maria

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

That's on the list.

One of the things I love about Carpenters and ABBA is that in their heyday, the world was not jaded, cynical, and angry like it is today. You could still write (and sing) songs with what is now considered saccherine and cringy lyrics.

Some upbeat Carpenters songs you could do are “There’s a Kind of Hush’, ‘Sing’, ‘Please Mr Postman’, ‘Top of the World, ‘Mr. Guder’, ‘Let Me Be the One’, ‘I Won’t Last a Day Without You’...and please feel free to do a Christmas song or three, even though it’s only July

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

Christmas song? Ohh wow, they have a whole Christmas album. Didn’t even realize it. I thought it was just merry Christmas darling.

@evanhughes1510

3 жыл бұрын

Jaybriel Akoi Yes, their Christmas album from ‘78 is called Christmas Portrait, and the songs are so rich sounding and amazing with Karen’s voice. The best ones are Home For the Holidays, Sleigh Ride, I’ll be Home For Christmas, Little Altar Boy, Have Yourself a Merry Lottle Christmas, and of course Merry Christmas Darling

@evanhughes1510

3 жыл бұрын

Jaybriel Akoi it’s considered by many to be THE gold standard of Christmas albums. It’s a total classic. The songs sound so rich and amazing with Karen’s voice. Her voice IS Christmas.

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

@@evanhughes1510 I feel like my generation peeps are all about Mariah Carey. Her stuff is totally Christmas. I def hear The Carpenters too though. But here's my question....who decides what Christmas Albums are gonna be every year type things. Like someone sat there and decided Merry Christmas Darling and All I want for Christmas is you (Mariah) would be played in every store for Christmas. Who decides that?

@evanhughes1510

3 жыл бұрын

Jaybriel Akoi I think at least part of it has to do with what became popular and what singles sold really well or were requested most by radio listeners, over the years, but not sure

SIR------------What you hear---------was done after Karen died in 2/83 ------------Richard had a work lead -----------& then re-did the song with orchestra & chorus. -----------------Recorded may of '82, when Karen was in the worst of her disease, weighing 95 lbs. -------------Yes----------the last time we ever heard her voice on record. --------------when she collapsed at home , her heart had given out---------at 33 y/o ----------ans she neve rdran, smoked or did illegal drugs. ------------------------tragic --------------too tragic. -----------------Wolfsky9, 74 y/o

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

thanks for all the comments.

As Karen and Richard left the studio Karen said I'm sorry Rich I can do that better. And we all know what happened the next day.

SIR--------IN MAY OF '82, WHEN KAREN RETURNED TO LA, AFTER HER HOSPITALIZATION IN NYC, RICHARD TOOK HER TO A& M STUDIOS, & HE RECORDED WHAT WAS CALLED A " WORK LEAD " , MEANING IT WAS ONLY RICH AT PIANO, & KAREN, SINGING ALONG. RICHARD PLANNED TO ARRANGE / ORCHESTRATE THE SONG, LATER .AT THAT POINT IN MAY OF '82, KAREN'S ANOREXIA & BINGE-PURGE EATING, WAS AT IT'S VERY WORST, AS SHE WEIGHED ONLY 89LBS . --------AFTER KAREN DIED IN FEB. '83, RICHARD SPENT THE SPRING /SUMMER RE-WORKING UNFINISHED SONGS, UNRELEASED SONGS, & THIS ONE , " NOW ", WHICH WAS THE VERY LAST TIME KAREN EVER SANG IN THE STUDIO-------EVER. ---------HE ORCHESTRATED THIS ONE, & THEN ADDED THE " OK CHORALE", A VOCAL CHORALE OF 10, AT LONG BEACH STATE UNIVERSITY, WHO RICHARD HAD USED BEFORE, TO ADD BACKGROUNDS, BECAUSE OF COURSE, KAREN WAS GONE, SO SHE & RICH WERE NOT ABLE TO OVER-DUB THEIR OWN VOICES AS THEY DID ON 95% OF ALL CARPENTERS RECORDINGS. -------THE ALBUM, " VOICE OF THE HEART ", CAME OUT IN THE FALL OF '83, & WAS THE 1ST OF 2 POSTHUMOUS ALBUMS RICH HAS PUT TOGETHER, THE OTHER ONE BEING " LOVELINES " .-------------------MJL, 75 Y/O

@jaybrielakoi7747

Жыл бұрын

It's so sad that we lost her so soon. She had so much more awesome music to share Im sure.

curious to see some reaction to her solo album i know what i've heard of it sounds good,don't know why it was shelved?

Cont: Karen never would have even dated Tom Burris > if involved with Solo Album & Shows & becoming her own Healthy Woman, while Richard took off 1979! Then a 2nd Meteoric Rise would have launched “CARPENTERS” Together Again! How Sad it never happened while she was still with us.

The music more beautifull for my is mascared !!!!

She recorded this song in one take.

Too sad

Karen's "HAPPY / HEALTHY" Solo Album 1980 (released 1996) = 13 yrs. after passing away, it went Platinum (1M sales) because it was great > despite lack of support! Ramone & Quincy Jones loved it & tried to get A&M & Richard to release it then > Karen was HAPPY beyond words, per friends! Karen never would have even dated Tom Burris >

NOW ESTA CANCION NO SE PUEDE CREER, LOS ARREGLOS MUSICALES MAS LA VOZ DE KAREN SON SUBLIMES, ES UNA BARBARIDAD

Carpenters music video for ‘Sleigh Ride’ (from their Christmas television special): kzread.info/dash/bejne/iYypuLN-msuncrA.html

After Karen's death, several of what were more or less compilation albums came out, using outtakes from earlier sessions and several songs (like "Now") the lead vocals of which were just work leads. Karen had cut a solo album in 1979 while Richard sought help for his own issues; not released at the time, it did appear in the 90s. In 1987 Richard cut a solo CD called "Time", which features two fine tracks, "Something In Your Eyes" featuring Dusty Springfield on lead vocal and "When Time Was All We Had" which showcases Richard's vocal arranging and overdubbing skills, he turns himself into a Peter Hollens style a cappella choir...

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

See I’m eventually gonna have to figure all that stuff out and download it into my brain so I can chronologically get it all understood.

@Aldopetti

3 жыл бұрын

I love “Something in your eyes”

@StudeSteve62

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaybrielakoi7747 The two cuts from "Time" are interesting as (like some of the post-ABBA A&U tracks) they are Carpenters after Carpenters ended. "Something In Your Eyes", especially, is utterly "Carpenters" in sound; it is SO easy to imagine Karen singing it. (It was a modest radio hit in Canada and, I think, Australia.) When you're back feeling better, Jay, you should react to some of the post-Carpenters RC and/or post-ABBA A&U stuff. Far as I know no one else yet has, and there are some great songs there...

@StudeSteve62

3 жыл бұрын

@@Aldopetti So easy to imagine Karen singing it. It's one of Richard's own compositions and was really written for her. Dusty hits it out of the park though, in her own completely different style...

@StudeSteve62

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaybrielakoi7747 Incidentally, Jay, being a brass player, you would likely also enjoy hearing "When Time Was All We Had" for another reason, there's a short (and very emotional-sounding) flugelhorn solo on that song by Herb Alpert of Tijuana Brass fame. Herb Alpert was the "A" of A&M Records, with whom Carpenters signed in 1969 and stayed their entire career. He and Richard are probably still friends...

Sir--------------you need some context about what you're actually hearing. --------On 5/2/82, karen & Rich came together ar A & M studio, with this song Richard have found, & they did what's called a " WORK LEAD " ------------meaning it was just Richat the piano, & karen, singing off of the music sheet. THEY often worked this way, so then Richard could do his magic, with arrangement & orchestration. So-----after karen's passing, Rich had several " work leads" , plus a couple unreleased songs, & he RE-DID ALL OF THEM, with orchestra, & in this song, The OK-Chorale, from Cal -State, Long Beach. THEY added backgrounds, as obviously, Rich & Karen could not dso their overdubbing they usually did for backgrounds. -----------" Now " is still, the very last time Karen ever put voice to song, & with her Brother. ---------Ther's one part of the video, where karen , one year earlier, weighed 92 lbs , & looked ghastly. In that '81 ABC Special, much was done, to hide her weight loss, but her face didn't hide it. ----------------Also again : Anorxia nervosa did NOT kill Karen. it was her hidden, daily--deadly, use of syrup of Ipecac, to ' BINGE-PURGE" eat. using that to force vomiting, eventually killed her heart muscle, & when she collapsed on 2/3/83, she had no heart activity, at all. NONE -----------------it was just too tragic-------------also, this song is so ironic ------because her very brief marriage had fallen apart by this time, & she had divorced a man who used her & took her for millions . --------------Song was written by Dean Pitchford , the guy who wrote, " FOOTLOOSE " -------yeah, that guy-------WolfSky9, 74 y/o-

Apparently Karen had a very quiet voice. Without the mic you could barely hear her they say. A case of where the studio and the mic really made the artist. That's not a meant as a criticism, but just an observation.

She never had the love of her mother sadly . Richard was always the favorite. Her parents were not the type that would hug or kiss or say to her I love you. Just not touchy feely people who showed much emotion, and her mom’s favoring of Richard must have really damaged her. I’m sure they were resentful that Karen ended up as the star with all the attention, not Richard.

@jaybrielakoi7747

3 жыл бұрын

My parents are great and all but they’re not the most encouraging. It sucks but looking at a lot of my friends it wasn’t the style last decade. And I know some people want and need that acceptance. It’s unfortunate she never got it, for such a perfect person.

@mikewrasman5103

3 жыл бұрын

We know where Agnes is. She always criticized Karen's weight.

@johnfranklin5277

3 жыл бұрын

I assume your a realitive, or close family friend. You state this like its an absolute fact. Otherwise, its gossipy hearsay. I never take statements like you just made as fact. I don't know who you are, or how you have such information. I never heard such a thing, and I'm 61. Followed and lived thru their entire career. Of course I've never read gossip magazines like star, or national ENQUIRER, which this sounds like it may have come from.

@evanhughes1510

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnfranklin5277 it’s in official Carpenters documentaries

SIR --------PLEASE ALLOW AN EXPLANATION FOR WHAT YOU'RE HEARING HERE. THIS IS NOT------TECHNICALLY KAREN'S FINAL RECORDING. IN MAY OF '82, WHEN KAREN WAS TERRIBLY ILL, SHE LEFT TREATMENT IN NYC, CAME BACK TO LA, TO WORK WITH RICHARD. " NOW " WAS ONLY A " WORK LEAD ', MEANING ALL RICHARD HAD WAS KAREN ,SINGING ALONG TO RICHARD ON PIANO. AFTER HER PASSING., RICHARD TOOK THIS, & A FEW OTHER SONGS THAT WERE INCOMPLETE, & ARRANGED / ORCHESTRATED THEM YOU'LL ALSO NOTE A CHOIR HERE; THAT IS / WAS, THE OK CHORALE, FROM LONG BEACH STATE UNIVERSITY, A 14 PERSON CHORALE, BACKING KAREN. -------YOU'LL ALSO NOTE, OR YOU SHOULD, KAREN,S VOICE HAS LOST IT'S BEAUTIFUL ALTO/ CONTRALTO. NOW, SHE'S ALMOST A MEZZO SOPRANO. SHE WAS DESPERATELY ILL HERE, ALL OF 89 LBS ON HER 5'5" FRAME. -------------IT IS THE LAST TIME KAREN'S VOICE WAS RECORDED AT ALL.--------------------MJL, 75 Y/O

He looks like a girl! If he applied for a job with my company, he would be informed to cut his hair. That is very unprofessional!

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