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Someday
Sept 10, 2005 22:37:55 GMT -5
Post by Rick Henry on Sept 10, 2005 22:37:55 GMT -5
PLEASE READ FIRST
Please write a review or make comments on the song "Someday". Any off-topic posts will be deleted.
Along with your reviews and comments please give this song a rating of one star to five stars. One star being the lowest and five the best.
If you have any question please email me at carponline@hotmail.com
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Someday
Sept 11, 2005 10:23:03 GMT -5
Post by Christian on Sept 11, 2005 10:23:03 GMT -5
This song is wonderful, a true classic. For me it`s somewhat reminiscent of the classic songs from the 30`s to the 50`s. A great song that I wish they had re-recorded in a complete version later on. I think a 1975 version of this song would have been perfect as I think Karen sings it too high on the MMM medley.
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Someday
Sept 12, 2005 13:30:47 GMT -5
Post by beaner on Sept 12, 2005 13:30:47 GMT -5
This song is definitely gets a 5-star rating from me. I always loved this song and the way Karen sings it. It is really close to being a chill factor song.
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Someday
Sept 12, 2005 21:23:26 GMT -5
Post by Rick Henry on Sept 12, 2005 21:23:26 GMT -5
This one gets a 3-star rating. I love the song itself. It's a beautifully written song and wonderfully performed by the band. And Karen's voice is outstanding. Her voice is rich and full of depth. Not many 19 year olds can sing with the maturity Karen did when she was 19.
In two parts Karen is somewhat out of her range and slightly off-key in the lower end. Even Karen herself said she wanted to rerecord her vocal on this song.
I give this three stars because for some reason the song just does not appeal to me. Regardless it is still an outstanding song.
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Someday
Sept 13, 2005 16:26:55 GMT -5
Post by Rob813 on Sept 13, 2005 16:26:55 GMT -5
You're a tough cookie Rick. Of course I don't have your background in music. I rate it a 5 because although the lyric is overly dramatic, Karen nails the emotion behind the words. She had a chance to redo part of this song in the 1980 medley from Music, Music, Music. Considering she was 19, I think she did an incredible reading of this classic song.
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Someday
Sept 13, 2005 16:44:30 GMT -5
Post by Carps1000 on Sept 13, 2005 16:44:30 GMT -5
I LOVED IT then & DO now U can hear K really breakin out in it. Best on LP. 5 stars
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Someday
Sept 15, 2005 10:22:54 GMT -5
Post by Sammy on Sept 15, 2005 10:22:54 GMT -5
I like this song. But not a favorite of mine. Three stars.
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Someday
Sept 19, 2005 2:57:04 GMT -5
Post by Moe on Sept 19, 2005 2:57:04 GMT -5
I gave it 4 stars because it is a great song, but when comparing it to the the remake in the 1980 medley version, it really pales. Karen just got better with time!
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Someday
Oct 27, 2005 13:13:20 GMT -5
Post by beaner on Oct 27, 2005 13:13:20 GMT -5
I really like this song. I gave it a 4-star rating. A good song with a hopeful attitude about it.
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Someday
Nov 9, 2005 13:39:31 GMT -5
Post by GoodOldDreams on Nov 9, 2005 13:39:31 GMT -5
A 4-star effort! Beautiful melody, grand orchestration, hopeful lyrics --- what more can one want? This dramatic song has so much potential, but sadly falls short with the uneven vocal delivery. K starts out fine, but later sounds somewhat "pitchy." She strains to be heard in phrases such as "one day when I am able to love you..." and "someday is coming..." The delivery of these lines lack the necessary "oomph" and punch to convey the powerful sentiments convincingly. Maybe the engineering of the sound quality of this first album could be improved. Had the C's re-recorded this song in its full length (even without the choral embellishments as in the "Music, Music, Music" excerpt), this could easily be a 5-star WOW song. Sorry about the ranting--- I will get off Simon Cowell's soapbox now...
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Someday
Feb 17, 2006 15:05:30 GMT -5
Post by Prisoner_Walking on Feb 17, 2006 15:05:30 GMT -5
I must be the only guy here who prefers the '69 vocal to the later "Music Music Music" re-work (I feel that Karen's vocal on that whole MMM Medley sounded alot weaker than normal). Having said that, it's clear that Karen wanted to re-record her vocal on "Someday" in '80 for the same reason why she wanted to re-record "Merry Christmas Darling"...her original vocal was just a little too boisterous...she would have handled it better a year or so later when she became more experienced and her delivery was more sensitive. You guys will probably recall that interview with Karen from '77-ish when she said she felt she'd sung "too loud" early on in her career. Anyway, that aside, I still think this is one of the best tracks on "Offering", and I love the final "some-DAY.....!" so I give it 4 stars. L
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Someday
Oct 6, 2006 10:54:31 GMT -5
Post by YesterdayOnceMore on Oct 6, 2006 10:54:31 GMT -5
I have to say that the song itself, and Karen's vocals are super just as they are, however, I'm one of the old school guys, I suppose, and I do think she got better with some of these particular songs as time went on. You know, after you've sung something for a time, there becomes a comfortable "zone" to the song - that doesn't always happen at first...so I can understand why Karen wanted to rerecord this one at a later time - probably after having sung it repeatedly, and finding that more comfortable "zone." Bravo to her for being able to bring such unbelievable emotion to this song, however - as Rick mentioned, at age 19 for someone to be able to "capture" the entire emotion of the song, and sing it so well, says volumes to me about the true outstanding musician Karen was. 4 Stars Tim
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Someday
Oct 7, 2006 11:33:09 GMT -5
Post by wisejester7 on Oct 7, 2006 11:33:09 GMT -5
I have to say that the song itself, and Karen's vocals are super just as they are, however, I'm one of the old school guys, I suppose, and I do think she got better with some of these particular songs as time went on. You know, after you've sung something for a time, there becomes a comfortable "zone" to the song - that doesn't always happen at first...so I can understand why Karen wanted to rerecord this one at a later time - probably after having sung it repeatedly, and finding that more comfortable "zone." Bravo to her for being able to bring such unbelievable emotion to this song, however - as Rick mentioned, at age 19 for someone to be able to "capture" the entire emotion of the song, and sing it so well, says volumes to me about the true outstanding musician Karen was. 4 Stars Tim I think as Karen got older and more experienced in her craft and...yes, I suppose, more comfortable in each song she sang, that she realized she had a new point of view on how to approach some of the songs that were recorded earlier in their career. If you listen to some of their concerts (on You Tube or where ever you can source it)you can hear how they would change and modulate songs through the years. I suppose part of this was to keep things fresh for their own sakes as well as for those in their audiences.
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Someday
Jan 7, 2016 10:15:55 GMT -5
Post by yorkshirecarpenter on Jan 7, 2016 10:15:55 GMT -5
From the moment the first piano note is played until it peters out into the last, this song is (in my opinion) one of the all-time greats.
I was still less than a year old when this was recorded and must confess that I never heard the album "Ticket To Ride" (as it was on the LP sleeve that a friend of my family gave to me) until I was around 13 or 14 years old, so not long before Karen passed.
Actually, I love the 'early' feel to this whole piece. The fact that it is not technically perfect in its recording quality. Also, that there is a rawness about both the music and Karen's singing almost says to you as a listener that this is the place from where perfection was emerging. These were the beginnings of greatness.
The song has poignant memories for me too. I played it incessantly in my teenage bedroom at the time, feeling lovelorn and like most teenagers, that I just didn't fit. Listening to the Carpenters at that age was a sure way not to fit in with all of my heavy metal / rock-loving peers at school. But this was me, this what was I was, what I did when I closed that bedroom door, and 'Someday' was right up at the top of that list.
I tried to imagine who Karen was singing about. Her vocals were so honest, so heartfelt, this man must have been someone very special. Then I realised that I could relate to it myself. I was dating a girl at the time but my heart wasn't really in it and I knew another girl whom my friends said was keen on dating me. I liked her too, but I wasn't into two-timing anyone and I didn't want to hurt the feelings of my girlfriend either.
As if it was 'only yesterday' ;-) I recall being in a record shop in town one day with my girlfriend and over the top of the vinyl on the next isle I spotted the other girl, or more accurately, she was staring right at me. She looked really crestfallen to see me with my girlfriend and immediately I could feel my heart sink.
Immediately I could hear this song playing in my head. It was as if I was saying to her "Please wait because actually I can feel something too and someday I know I will be asking you for a date..."
As it turned out, I did ask her for a date a while later, but my time - as far as she was concerned - had by then run out. In the fickle world of being a teen, I had stalled a little too long and she had moved on by the time I asked her, so my cry of 'someday' went unrequited.
Still, I love these lyrics and despite all I have read about Karen recording this when she had a cold and not being happy with her performance, or others on here suggesting that she is drowned out by the music in places, I remain absolutely in awe that a 19-year-old girl can sing with the maturity in her voice of a woman many years her senior.
"You'll seem warmer than I had remembered you Laying so close I'll be able to feel you breathe I could never leave..."
That's a perfect example of what I mean.
There's also an air of apology, while at the same time a sense of yearning, in her delivery of
"How I need you someday All I can give you is someday Someday All I can offer is someday Please say that you'll be waiting when someday comes Promise me this and a kiss To keep what you are Always close to me..."
The medley version recorded around 1980 is also superb, the real disappointment there being that Karen didn't record the whole song again, just to see how that would have worked, so I am sticking with the original.
This would have to be in my top three Carpenters tracks ever recorded and I am amazed that it has never been put out on compilations, or that I never hear it on any radio station, because I think the wider world beyond the few of us who hold copies of "Ticket To Ride" (aka "Offering") has missed out on a genuine gem.
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