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Post by cam83 on Oct 1, 2003 14:43:37 GMT -5
Hi All,
I love this song. It is such a classic, standard song. Karen's vocals shine on this one...all polished. And Richard's piano playing compliments her on this song. Just vocal and piano. They should have done an album of just that.
Her vocal is pure perfection. She just lets her silky voice run over the words of the song...caressing in her tender way and style. I love this video that was to have been on the Music Music Music special, but ended up on the cutting floor. Instead Richard used it on the INTERPRETATIONS cd and video. Nice ending with Karen and Richard smiling at each other. You can tell they both enjoyed the music...and each other.
I also think, they used this at the Opening of the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Centre. Where Richard played accompaniement to Karen's singing...where she appeared to be winking at the "LIVE" Richard...
Too bad this celebration wasn't videotaped...which makes me wish that that Richard would perform songs and duets with maybe other celebrities, dueting with a "visual" and "singing" Karen...that would be cool. If Nat King Cole could do that for the song his daughter Natalie Cole did...on her song UNFORGETTABLE...
My thoughts,
Cameron
clongo83@hotmail.com
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Post by Federico Cruz on Oct 1, 2003 17:25:59 GMT -5
Oh, God!.
Cameron, I read your former post and I wrote a post where I mentioned Nat and Natalie Cole, but still I hadn't read this next post. What a coincidence!
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Post by Christian on Oct 2, 2003 9:08:57 GMT -5
Hi!
That`s really a great song! The live performance from Live At The Palladium is also great. A tune which often makes me think of This Masquerade. Although From This... is more upbeat I think it`s the fact that the 2 songs are both so standard.
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Post by Boat2Sail on Oct 2, 2003 10:07:47 GMT -5
the recording from Interpretations is my favorite, but really I love both the live and studio versions. In the live version I especially like how Karen holds the note when she says, YOU'VE GOT THE SWEET LIPS TO KISS....... ME GOODNIGHT. She goes up high on the word kiss and then down low for the next few word, what a great vocal effect.
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Post by Moe on Oct 17, 2003 5:23:31 GMT -5
a little memory... I've had the "Live at the Palladium" since its release. I always liked "From this Moment On." While still in high school and college, I would pick my mom up from work and drive home. Since I was driving, I always played my music. (Since it was the Carpenters, Anne Murray, Debby Boone, ...Mom enjoyed it.) I always bought the LP and would tape on a cassette in order to save the LP wear and tear. One afternoon, I was playing "Live." "From this moment on" came on and Mom went crazy. (for mom anyway) She had not heard this version of the song before and couldn't believe Karen was singing in one key, Richard playing in another, and performing it perfectly and live! She kept saying, "That is impossible!" Mom studied music for years and had great appreciation for the Carpenters and this impressed her. When we made it home, she had me pull out the LP and turn up the stereo and play the song over and over. Then she borrowed the LP and took it to work to have a co-worker enjoy this song. The co-worker enjoyed the song and the rest of the LP for a couple of weeks. When he returned it, someone else saw it and it was gone a coupe of more weeks. I did get the LP back, finally, and never let mom take anything to work again!  It was nice to see others enjoy the Carpenters as I have. They just need to buy their own! LOL |
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Post by cam83 on Oct 20, 2003 16:08:05 GMT -5
Hi Moe,
That is way too cool! To have your Mom pimp the Carpenters to other people. That is neat! I do that all the time to other people, and I don't tell them who is playing, so they listen and try to guess and then I finally tell them, and they are amazed at how beautiful Karen sounds....and many times, I have given dozens and dozens of my Carpenters albums away to anyone who becomes a fan in the process...it can be costly...but a small price to pay to share with someone who likes the music of K and R...
One of my friends has had my VOICE OF THE HEART cd for about 24 weeks...that I let him listen to...and has not returned it...I've tried calling and leaving messages to no avail, and the reason I want it back is I love that cd!!! He really is fascinated by Karen's voice, the control, the range, the purity...He is a vocal major, and has been involved with choral groups, he sings himself and his Dad and Mom are heavily involved in Barbershop Quartet and Sweet Adelaines....So the family is very musical...and so he finds Karen Carpenter's voice just spell bounding! So I think I am just going to let him keep it!! (karen would be so proud of me...)
Cam
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Post by Federico Cruz on Oct 20, 2003 19:58:11 GMT -5
Hi, Cameron!
I do something strange for the Carpenters, and K&R must be proud of me: when I need to give a present or gift to someone, I always buy a Carpenters album!
Sometimes they're grateful, sometimes no.
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Post by Will on Oct 20, 2003 21:29:02 GMT -5
Hi All, I love this song. It is such a classic, standard song. Karen's vocals shine on this one...all polished. And Richard's piano playing compliments her on this song. Just vocal and piano. They should have done an album of just that. Her vocal is pure perfection. She just lets her silky voice run over the words of the song...caressing in her tender way and style. I love this video that was to have been on the Music Music Music special, but ended up on the cutting floor. Instead Richard used it on the INTERPRETATIONS cd and video. Nice ending with Karen and Richard smiling at each other. You can tell they both enjoyed the music...and each other. I also think, they used this at the Opening of the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Centre. Where Richard played accompaniement to Karen's singing...where she appeared to be winking at the "LIVE" Richard... Too bad this celebration wasn't videotaped...which makes me wish that that Richard would perform songs and duets with maybe other celebrities, dueting with a "visual" and "singing" Karen...that would be cool. If Nat King Cole could do that for the song his daughter Natalie Cole did...on her song UNFORGETTABLE... My thoughts, Cameron clongo83@hotmail.com Your right Cameron -- an album of just Karen singing and Richard playing the piano would have been fantastic. I'll add that to my wish list of albums devoted to jazz, country, 50s and 40s (WWII) music. I believe there are a couple of examples of this pure piano/voice approach on the Horizon album and they're fantastic. The Carpenters are one of the few groups that I know of that could pull this off -- just say, "We're going to do a (fill in the blank) style album and we hope you enjoy it (and of course we would have.) |
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Post by Will on Oct 20, 2003 21:38:12 GMT -5
Hi, Cameron! I do something strange for the Carpenters, and K&R must be proud of me: when I need to give a present or gift to someone, I always buy a Carpenters album! Sometimes they're grateful, sometimes no. I tried to get my sister (who is a musician) to listen to some Carpenters' music (50s style) and she wouldn't listen. This bothered me, but I think it is because most people are only familiar with the two or three songs that are played over and over and over again. They did so much more than most people know. |
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Post by Rick Henry on Oct 20, 2003 22:14:11 GMT -5
I tried to get my sister (who is a musician) to listen to some Carpenters' music (50s style) and she wouldn't listen. This bothered me, but I think it is because most people are only familiar with the two or three songs that are played over and over and over again. They did so much more than most people know. The Carpenters' musical output is much more varied, complex and compelling than most people are aware of. Their songs are from different genres from "Calling Occupants..." - a cover of a space song written by a 70's prog rock group, to "I Can Dream Can't I" a late forties big band hit, to their own original country tinged "Top Of The World" and so on. Any genre they attempted they met and completed with complete success. |
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