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Post by Rick Henry on Aug 8, 2005 21:25:40 GMT -5
 About a week ago Cam brought up the topic of Karen's finest vocal performance and he gave us a list of 30 or so songs to chose from. This brought to my mind if we opened it up to all songs Carpenters and Karen ever recorded. Which ten songs would you say are Karen's very best vocal performances of all-time.
I'll come up with my list. Though definitely I know right off "Road Ode", "Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again" and "Desperado" make my top ten list.
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Post by cam83 on Aug 8, 2005 21:33:05 GMT -5
SOLITAIRE
AVE MARIA
TRYING TO GET THE FEELING AGAIN
SUPERSTAR
I CAN'T MAKE MUSIC
CRESCENT NOON
SOMEDAY
HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
CHRIST IS BORN
IF I HAD YOU
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Post by enigma on Aug 9, 2005 7:26:30 GMT -5
Here are my favorites no doubt I left some out and theres no way I can put only ten songs in a long career like Karens she had several best performances on all her albums and some that were never on albums.
Superstar
Only Yesterday
The End Of The World
Nowhere Man
Rainy Days and Mondays
Crescent Noon
Baby Its You
(Im Caught Between ) Goodbye and I Love You
Solitaire
Ava Maria
Christ Is Born
This Mascarade
I Need To Be In Love
For All We Know
Two Sides
When Its Gone (Its Just Gone)
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Post by Ming on Aug 9, 2005 10:21:40 GMT -5
This is a good topic. I need to think about it. I will post my choice later. There are many best performances.
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Post by STEVE1975 on Aug 9, 2005 17:03:39 GMT -5
Here are my top 10 favorites (in no particular order)
Rainy Days and Mondays
We've Only Just Begun
Goodbye To Love
A Song For You
I Wont Last A Day Without You
Road Ode
Touch Me When We're Dancing
Sometimes
All You Get From Love Ia A Love Song
You
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Post by Ming on Aug 9, 2005 20:18:15 GMT -5
My choice:
Yesterday Once More
Let Me Be the One
All of My Life
Close to You
Sometimes
Road Ode
I Can't Make Music
(I'm Caught Between) Goodbye and I Love You
Desperado
Ordinary Fool
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Post by Rick Henry on Aug 9, 2005 22:25:56 GMT -5
The following are what I consider to be Karen's ten finest vocal performances of her entire career.
I Can't Make Music - Karen's vocal performance here is pristine and has a certain shine.
Desperado - This is easily one of Karen's most poerful and emotional performances of her entire career.
Love Me For What I Am - Another near perfect performance by Karen. Featuring her entire vocal range.
Solitaire - Same reasons as the above two songs. Karen was at her peak of vocal ability on the album "Horizon". Her voice was it's strongest and most intensely emotional.
A Song For You - This is a truly amazing vocal by Karen. It's rich, deep and soulfully dark.
Road Ode - Same as "A Song For You"
Rainy Days And Mondays - Same as "A Song For You"
Superstar - Same as "A Song For You"
If I Had You - What is outstanding here in her vocals is the creative and unusual arrangement at the end. This really showcases other sides of Karen's voice we generally don't get to hear.
Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again - With "Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again" Karen got it perfect. Her vocal tones are rich and dark. Her pitch is pleasingly pleasant. She sings completely on key and 100% with in her range on this one. And it's a very bold and powerful vocal. This is truly Karen's very best vocal performance of all the work leads which have been released. |
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Post by Moe on Aug 10, 2005 2:31:47 GMT -5
 You're the One Solitaire Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Ave Maria Goodbye to Love One More Time I need to be in Love Rainy Days and Mondays Superstar I heard the Bells on Christmas Day
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Post by Rick Henry on Aug 11, 2005 0:52:17 GMT -5
You're the One Solitaire Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Ave Maria Goodbye to Love One More Time I need to be in Love Rainy Days and Mondays Superstar I heard the Bells on Christmas Day Hi Moe! It's easy to see you're partial to the Christmas songs. Though you are right a lot of those Christmas tunes are some of Karen's very best vocal performances. I especially like "He Came Here For Me". It's an understated yet dramatic performance by Karen. |
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Post by JohnnyAngel on Aug 11, 2005 10:18:35 GMT -5
I think the 90% of her interpretations are the finest.
But in this ocassion I highlight the Karen's powerful vocals combined with the smoothness of Richard's vocals on "Do you hear what I hear".
Anothe ones that comes to my mind:
Crescent noon
Our day will come
All you get from love is a love song
Eve
1980 ABC TV Special Medley (Sing, Knowing when to leave, Make it easy on yourself, Someday, We've only just begun)
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Post by Rob813 on Aug 23, 2005 18:33:07 GMT -5
Boy it's hard to narrow the list down to 10, but here I go. These are my choices as defined by Karen's vocal performance and in no particular order:
You're The One - absolutely sublime
Superstar - Who could sing this better?
We've Only Just Begun - because of Karen this song is timeless.
When I Fall In Love - the greatest love song by the greatest singer.
Now - Karen's farewell song that is just perfect.
Solitaire - eat your heart out sopranos - Karen deepest and richest vocal performance.
This Masquerade - sheer perfection
Sometimes - sometimes simplicity is all you need.
Merry Christmas Darling - Karen's voice always gives me chills on this classic Christmas song. It will be played 100 years from now!
I Can't Make Music - just Karen and a piano and voila - magic. It doesn't get any better than this.
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Post by Christian on Sept 11, 2005 11:04:50 GMT -5
Wow, this is really difficult. I don`t know it I could choose one.
But it`s interesting to see so many mentioning Trying To Get... I love her reading of it! The first time I heard it I was stunned. She sounds so intimate and close, I cannot put it to words. Almost like she`s sitting on my shoulder and singing it.
And she sounds so relaxed and warm on it. My guess is that since it`s a work lead, she`s even more relaxed and casual. And her famous "conversational style" is so present on this song. Simply wonderful!
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Post by Rick Henry on Sept 12, 2005 21:13:20 GMT -5
Wow, this is really difficult. I don`t know it I could choose one. But it`s interesting to see so many mentioning Trying To Get... I love her reading of it! The first time I heard it I was stunned. She sounds so intimate and close, I cannot put it to words. Almost like she`s sitting on my shoulder and singing it. And she sounds so relaxed and warm on it. My guess is that since it`s a work lead, she`s even more relaxed and casual. And her famous "conversational style" is so present on this song. Simply wonderful! I was also pleased to see that so many people consider "Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again" to be one of Karen's best performances. I feel of all the songs released after her death this one is easily the best of them all with "Ordinary Fool" being a close second. |
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Post by smoothie2 on Sept 12, 2005 23:25:16 GMT -5
???Truly not easy to narrow it down...anyway,
You're the One
For All We Know
Solitaire
Rainy days and mon.
Superstar
Merry Christmas Darling
I Won't Last a Day Without You
A Song For you
Road Ode
Only Yesterday
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Post by makapip on Sept 14, 2005 3:32:44 GMT -5
I really like the "California Dreamin" , Masquerade"
"If i had you", "Superstar"
California Dreamin is cool because we get to hear a fast
tempo plus we can hear Karen when she was young
and had a trebly voice.
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Post by Sammy on Sept 15, 2005 10:11:38 GMT -5
This Masquerade
Trying To Get The Feeling Again
Solitaire
Desperado
Superstar
Rainy Days And Mondays
Sometimes
A Song For You
Road Ode
Ave Maria
Ordinary Fool
Close To You
If I Had You
I Can't Make Music
Leave Yesterday Behind
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