Goodbye To Love: a curiosity

[federico Cruz]

Hi, all!
I have discovered a curiosity on this song.
Nothing have to do with remixes, but with rerecording or alternate version.
In any liner notes, Richard has declared this song has an alternate version, but I think this is it.
If you listen around the 30 secs. or 33 secs. in some CDs, you will hear a trembling intonation in Karen's voice, when she says "...my life alone" , but in the rest of the song, she does it identical , note by note, in every album this song appears(incredible!).
The trembling intonation is present in: From The Top, Startrax, the original CD A Song For You, Yesterday Once More(the original CD) and Classics vol. 2.
The other version (without the trembling intonation) is present in: the remastered classics CD A Song For You, the Millennium Collection CD, Love Songs, Singles 69-81 and Singles 69-73 (an accelerated version).
In all of these CDs, Goobye To Love appears with reverberation, remixes or different equalization, but, what was the first version of the two?
I suspect the accelerated version in Singles 69-73 was taken like base for the second version of Gooodbye To Love, by reducing it the velocity, because is very similar to the others.

[Rick Henry]

I listened several times to a few different versions from "From The Top", "Yesterday Once More" and the remastered edition of "A Song For You". On "From The Top" it sounds like the volume go low and then back to normal when Karen says "my life alone". also on "From The Top", Richard does a countdown before the band begins playing the song.

Anyway this got me to listen to one of my favorite Carpenters songs several times. Love that guitar solo.

[Christian]

Hi!

I belive the song is speeded up slightly on Singles 69-73 album, and then slowed down on later releases.
The song didn`t have the standard breath in the beginning which is used when you have a cold start( no music intro, I believe that is what its called) because you can hear Richards countdown8as on FTT version.
Well, on my Classics Vol.2 collection you can hear the breath very well and no countdown from Rich

[Federico Cruz]

Christian said:

Hi!

I belive the song is speeded up slightly on Singles 69-73 album, and then slowed down on later releases.
The song didn`t have the standard breath in the beginning which is used when you have a cold start( no music intro, I believe that is what its called) because you can hear Richards countdown8as on FTT version.
Well, on my Classics Vol.2 collection you can hear the breath very well and no countdown from Rich

Then, it must be this way:
the version with the trembling intonation is the first and original version.
K&R were no happy with this song and redid it for "The Singles 69-73", but speeded it up slightly.
Richard slowed it down it for the next CD's releases.
The correct place for the first version of GTL should have been, I think, the remastered classics CD "A Song For You"...