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Post by ThomB on Oct 8, 2003 18:50:27 GMT -5
Just listened to Karen's solo and I had to go back and listen to Guess I Just Lost My Head a second and third time. So know I can get it out of my mind.
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Post by Will on Oct 10, 2003 1:23:12 GMT -5
Christmas music today.
Put my head phones on at work but forgot to turn on the music. After a while I realized I was playing the songs in my head anyway.
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Post by Rick Henry on Oct 10, 2003 3:40:15 GMT -5
Christmas music today. Put my head phones on at work but forgot to turn on the music. After a while I realized I was playing the songs in my head anyway. Good sense of humor Will I like that one. I love the Carpenters' Christmas music. It's the only worthy of playing year round. Cam has suggested a Christmas music forum, so over the next few days we will have a forum about K&R's Christmas music which will be functioning year round.
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Post by smoothie2 on Oct 10, 2003 19:19:59 GMT -5
for the past few days, I've had "Shoo-be-do-lang-lang" from "Yesterday Once More" going around in my head over..
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Post by smoothie2 on Oct 10, 2003 19:28:39 GMT -5
I have the Christmas Portrait music and love it loveit ..I guess I like "Home For the Holidays" the best although all of them are superb. And I SO LOVe .."Baby It's You" and "Maybe It's You" they are both similar in tempo. Also I like the background vocals and sounds that compliment the chorus on "Maybe It's You" because it really makes you feel you're there at the ocean with the rush of the tide coming in. Similar songs with choruses or tempo that have to do with sailing or the feel of the ocean are of course Boats A-Sail and All You Get From a Love Song..a free spirit type of smooth sound on those.
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Post by smoothie2 on Oct 11, 2003 12:11:20 GMT -5
oops that's "Boats To Sail"
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Post by Christian on Oct 12, 2003 13:13:43 GMT -5
I love Guess I Just Lost... and it is in my head all the time, especially the backup singing which I think is brilliant.
When she sing " I`ve got the feelin` inside" I get goosebumps as it is so greatly sung.
It was mentioned that other people sung backup on the album but I strongly believe that the only song which has other vocals on it is Making Love..., the duett with Peter Cetera.
Once again I must say that I think Karens soloalbum had some great and different vocals. The album did was it was supposed to do, show her in a new and different surrounding.
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Post by Rick Henry on Oct 12, 2003 21:31:12 GMT -5
"Guess I Just Lost My Head" is my favorite song from K's solo. It has certain classy smooth jazz type sound to it and Karen is almost playful in her reading of the song.
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Post by Will on Oct 12, 2003 22:18:40 GMT -5
Good sense of humor Will I like that one. I love the Carpenters' Christmas music. It's the only worthy of playing year round. Cam has suggested a Christmas music forum, so over the next few days we will have a forum about K&R's Christmas music which will be functioning year round. Great! Thanks.
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Post by Will on Oct 12, 2003 22:42:12 GMT -5
I love Guess I Just Lost... and it is in my head all the time, especially the backup singing which I think is brilliant. When she sing " I`ve got the feelin` inside" I get goosebumps as it is so greatly sung. It was mentioned that other people sung backup on the album but I strongly believe that the only song which has other vocals on it is Making Love..., the duett with Peter Cetera. Once again I must say that I think Karens soloalbum had some great and different vocals. The album did was it was supposed to do, show her in a new and different surrounding. Add me to the list of admirers of this song. Karen's backup vocals on this album are amazing. They're pleasantly complicated, well thought out and well executed.
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Post by Rick Henry on Oct 13, 2003 8:11:01 GMT -5
Add me to the list of admirers of this song. Karen's backup vocals on this album are amazing. They're pleasantly complicated, well thought out and well executed.
Yes Karen's backup vocals on the solo album are amazing. I believe Rod Temperton (of the group Heatwave; remember "Boogie Nights" and "Always and Forever") did the vocal arrangements, which on the album's credits they call it vocal acrobatics. I enjoy listening to the album with headphones on so I can hear the different vocal parts Karen is doing. I especially like the vocals on the fade out on "Lovelines" and "If I Had You" has some truly amazing vocal mixes. But my favorite of all the solo songs is still "Guess I Just Lost My Head".
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Post by John in Phoenix on Oct 24, 2003 12:51:50 GMT -5
Good topic - and right on cue too !
I have had "Don't try to win me back" from Karen's unreleased solo album cuts, and the song is making me CRAZY ! Argh. It's got some really great 'hooks' in it that involve Karen and a piano/electric guitar and it keeps looping back again and again and again......and has been for days. I love Karen's voice....but to have it in my head for days on end can become painful. That's what I get for downloading it off Kaaza........(As it begins again....)
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Post by Rick Henry on Nov 3, 2003 22:55:06 GMT -5
A friend at work was mentioning who he thought were the greatest female vocalists ever. First he mentioned Ella Fitzgerald, he said because she has style. Next he said for sheer grit and energy Janis Joplin and then finally he said no one can sing as smooth and silky as Karen Carpenter.
Just the mention of Karen and ella in the same sentence put the Karen/Ella Medley in my mind where it's been stuck all day, especially "I Don't Get Around Much anymore". What a duo, what a medley. Sure wish there was more of them together.
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Post by smoothie2 on Nov 4, 2003 16:08:41 GMT -5
:)Something that came into my head finally after thinking about it some...and not that this really fits in with the topic here but I remembered the name of Marilyn McCoo (sp?) who sang with Billy someone...! anyway she also sang great with the group she was in with Beautiful Balloon..don't know if she would mix with Karen's voice or not..
I'm really hitting that mid-40 highway hard at times..ha..
smoothie
I still am hung up on yesterday once more chorus... "still shines"... And I like the ending of Yest. once More as played on the Now and Then..she repeats "when I was young I listened to the radio,...so fine.." and it fades out.
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Post by smoothie2 on Nov 4, 2003 16:18:02 GMT -5
:)I haven't heard that Ella and Karen medley, but I know of it just by browsing Carps music ... I also love the Road Ode song...until I looked up the lyrics on-line..I did not know what Karen was saying or singing on the part that says...I knew this part.("I wonder if these feelings ever change"..) the part I wasn't understanding was "how long I'll lift this load" and it surely is a song that fit the way she began to feel about all the crowds and the busy-ness of what she was doing.
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Post by Rick Henry on Jan 18, 2004 22:03:48 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I have had " Desperado" on my mind for days now. Just love that song.
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Post by Will on Mar 10, 2004 23:59:00 GMT -5
Rainbow Connection
all day long
It's gone now, but it will back soon enough.
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Post by smoothie2 on Mar 11, 2004 0:27:12 GMT -5
;DI've had Mr. Guder stuck on my mind for days now...it's just a fun song with the bada bada...chorus..and perfect harmony and the wonderful electric flute and drum parts.
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