All You Get From Love Is A Love Song

[Rick Henry]

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Passage (1977)

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[karl]

HI Rick/members.
This is one of my favorite songs the carpenters recorded ,a really catchy tune and great vocals by karen and love the background music.this song should have brought the carpenters back into the top ten instead of peaking at no 35.

[smoothie2]

;D
5 stars all the way for this...surely my fave from the Passage album and high up there along with my other absolutely
favorite songs.
Even though the message of the song itself, is not too cheery
altogether it's SUPerB.
The whole thing puts the pic. of someone out in his boat it has
that laid-back breezy "feel" to it.
Since she or he can't come up with a song to write, perhaps they
will have better luck just getting outdoors.
I love also the great background vocals.

[beaner]

Great song. One of the best on the album!

[Rick Henry]

Five Stars

When I first heard this song on the radio in June 1977, I was bowled over. I just loved the Carpenters new sound. I was so happy that they took a big bold step forward. I was certain that this was going to zoom right into the Top Ten. Well, I was wrong. It was too late for the Carpenters. No matter how great of a record they released it just wasn't going to be a Top Ten hit. And "All You Get From Love Is A Love Song" was a great record. The problem was that after "I Need To Be In Love" a lot of radio programmers pretty much gave up on Carpenters and then "Goofus" came along and made it even worse. So, here comes this great song and right out of the box, without even giving it a chance, it was already panned by more than half of the radio stations which would automatically play a new Carpenters single. "All You Get From Love Is A Love Song" simply did not have a chance to make it.

"All You Get From Love Is A Love Song" is a wonderful optimistic sounding upbeat song with a downbeat lyric. It's pure pop all the way with a slight edge and a hint R&B tinged backing vocals to add some extra texture to it all. One of the highlights of the song is Tom Scott's tenor sax.

"All You Get From Love Is A Love Song" is one of my top five favorite of Carpenters single releases.

[smoothie2]

Wow...didn't know that about it....that really IS a Shame it didn't make top ten on radio
stations. High competition though for air-play. I'm glad it's still around and was recorded, so we can listen and admire it all we want.

[Carps1000]

5 stars. Absolutely Brill. My second altime fave Cs song..True Carps. How it failed 2 make the UK charts is beyond me...I bought 17 copies of it at the time. Words fail me at its true beauty C 1000

[Ming]

5 stars. One of the best upbeat songs of the Carpenters. I love it.

Ming

[ps11932]

Great comments- a breezy feel, upbeat in style but lyrically with a bit of sting of reality- maybe sort of like "It's Going To Take Some Time." This number is part of several collections and I always am glad to hear it, often replaying. I do have one question though- the first 30 seconds or so have the continual sound of something reminding me of a socket wrench-what is it, a non-pitched percussion of some kind?

[GoodOldDreams]

ps11932 said:

Great comments- a breezy feel, upbeat in style but lyrically with a bit of sting of reality- maybe sort of like "It's Going To Take Some Time." This number is part of several collections and I always am glad to hear it, often replaying. I do have one question though- the first 30 seconds or so have the continual sound of something reminding me of a socket wrench-what is it, a non-pitched percussion of some kind?

Hi O.E.,

At the beginning of the music video for this song, the camera lens zoom in past the hands of the conga drum player to a musician holding a percussive instrument consisting of a stick rubbing against what vaguely resembles a small, dark cylinder, which probably has some groove, teeth or other textures on it like a hairbrush or pipe cleaner to create the "socket wrench" sound you are referring to. Perhaps other members might know what this instrument is called...

[ps11932]

Thanks, GoodOldDreams, for the info. about the percussion instrument. I can't recall ever having heard it anyplace else. Maybe I will see one of them one day. Who knows- I might even get a chance to play and discover some hidden talent. Maybe I could make it in Nashville. (Ha! Maybe collecting recycling or something.)

[YesterdayOnceMore]

This is a great song, no doubt. Like Rick, it was exciting to hear Carpenters ON THE RADIO again, FINALLY.

This tune knocked my socks off too, with it's jazz/pop sound. I was so pleased to hear it - and at the beginning, the instrument you have a question about O.E. is called a "guiro" (pronounced wee-row). It's a percussion instrument used a lot in jazz, and one of the things I MOST like about this song is.....the intro. I like all the percussion used - felt Karen probably had a lot to do with the selection of these particular items. The guiro isn't particularly difficult to play, though it wasn't used for rock/pop a LOT.....jazz players and salsa players use it a great deal. I have one of them - they're shaped like a hollow "fish" and Dreams described it quite well in his post with regard to the ridges on the side - it's played with a stick....very simple. They also used the triangle, and the conga drums, etc.

Karen's lead vocal is outstanding, as are the backing vocals. Rich did a great arrangement - lots of good punches throughout the song - those nice accents within the rhythm....LOVE IT.... the whole song is exciting, fresh, and suited Karen and Richard both, well. It's a great listen, and I never pass up the opportunity to hear it.

5 big stars all the way from this dude.
Tim