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Post by patricia on Sept 3, 2006 11:01:21 GMT -5
On the following link cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/radio2/nos/zomerfestival/20060727.rm .You can hear a dutch concert. It will start after three minutes. ( first you will hear a litte bit news and a intro for the carpenters. It was a concert at 14 november 1976 in the Jaap Eden Hal in Amsterdam. I hope all of you can enjoy it. Best Regards from patricia |
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Post by GoodOldDreams on Sept 3, 2006 21:53:24 GMT -5
On the following link cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/radio2/nos/zomerfestival/20060727.rm .You can hear a dutch concert. It will start after three minutes. ( first you will hear a litte bit news and a intro for the carpenters. It was a concert at 14 november 1976 in the Jaap Eden Hal in Amsterdam. I hope all of you can enjoy it. Best Regards from patricia Hi Patricia, Welcome to this forum! This show sounds like it was a part of the 1976 European/world tour the Carpenters did that was also recorded on their album "Live at the Palladium" in London. Can you translate some of the commentaries before and after the show? An interesting bonus in the recording you gave us the link to is the uncharacteristic joke Karen made about how Richard picks his women, plus other tidbits not included on the record album. Thanks for the find! |
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Post by wisejester7 on Sept 3, 2006 21:58:23 GMT -5
patricia, Welcome.
Thank you for the link! I'm listening right now ;-)
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Post by patricia on Sept 4, 2006 13:37:49 GMT -5
The commenataries before the show are as follow:'This Whole summer the radio 2 summer festival. Radio 2 with the summer festival live concert : "The brother and sister which were extreme populair in the Usa. RIchard and Karen Carpenter, most probably is the memory of them still high because of the early death of Karen Carpenter, which has a connection with her eating disorder. Tonight in the radio2 summer festival a concert from the 2 clean cut American from New Heaven Connecticut: The Carpenters. It was espacially Richard which started on a young age with music, he played piano and his 4 year old sister just listen a little bit to him Later started Karen on Drums, before brother Richard noticed that his sister has a very special voice. A voice which were extremley (i don't no the english word for this, it compares to that she had a pure wonferful voice) and a liite bit innocent and girly girl. A voice which compared to the sound of the music he made. Their succes started with a number of the Beatles Ticket to ride and the mean succes begin with the song We 've only just begun. Their succes hold on for almost ten years, till the death of Karen on febraury the 4th in 1983. After al ive of eating problems she died of a heart attack. Only 32 years old. You will start listening to a carpenters concert which were originally recorderd by the tros on 14 november 1976". The rest of the commentaries is not intersting if refers to the songs they played and that he didn't know all the titles of the song and that you could inform him for all the titles. Sorry for my english, i am not so good in grammatica. Best regards from Patricia
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Post by GoodOldDreams on Sept 4, 2006 14:45:22 GMT -5
Patricia,
Thank you very much for the translation! It helps us to better understand what is being said between the phrases that are in English.
Are there photos of the Carpenters on the dutch site that has this link? How popular is/was the music of the Carpenters in dutch culture? It is interesting to learn more about our favorite subject matter from other perspectives!
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Post by Rick Henry on Sept 4, 2006 20:51:21 GMT -5
 Hi Patricia... thank for the link to this concert. I just love it - what a great performance. I have this one on DVD - I purchased from Ebay.
In regards to your question Dreams about how popular Carpenters were in Holland, Belgium and Netherlands (these are the primaries in Dutch culture). I have a chart from Netherlands to share below:
NETHERLANDS
Singles
Close To You #33
Superstar #21
Yesterday Once More #7
Top Of The World #14
Jambalya #3
Please Mr. Postman #33
Albums
Now And Then #2
Singles 1969-1973 #2
Horizion #21
Beautiful Love Songs #27
The Collection #40
Only Yesterday Greatest Hits #4
Carpenters biggest hit in Holland was "Jambalaya". "Please Mr. Postman" and "Yesterday Once More" were also sizeable hits in Holland.
I am working on finding other charts for both Holland and Belgium - this is a lengthy project as it takes a good amount of internet searching and also using online translators as most of these foreign sites are in foreign languages. |
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Post by BethMosior on Sept 4, 2006 21:32:42 GMT -5
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Post by GoodOldDreams on Sept 5, 2006 1:06:37 GMT -5
Hi Rick, Thanks for your great research! It is interesting to note how the singles and albums containing "Jambalaya" and/or "Yesterday Once More," both originally from the 1973 album "Now and Then," seem to consistently outrank the other classic Carpenters singles and albums on the dutch charts. Both songs have choruses that have a catchy sing-along quality, and perhaps therein exist their common appeal. |
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Post by enigma on Sept 5, 2006 8:34:36 GMT -5
welcome patricia thanks for the concert link that was cool to listen to I recall seeing the carpenters perform on some dutch show Karen was wearing a low cut white dress if I recall correctly they got a good reception and performed Close to You and Yesterday Once More and I do seem to recall Jambalya as well being performed now I see why the latter selections were choisen   |
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Post by YesterdayOnceMore on Sept 11, 2006 14:19:36 GMT -5
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Post by Ming on Sept 12, 2006 10:25:57 GMT -5
Thank you for the link and your translation, Patricia.  I find that Dutch is a beautiful language too. Ming |
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and welcome to this wonderful site Patricia 
I find that Dutch is a beautiful language too.