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Post by Aaron on Feb 24, 2004 19:24:16 GMT -5
Hi Everyone
I have recently got my hands of a copy of a totally new song called 'Midnight' does anyone know anything else about it. I am a huge Carpenters fan and have been for years. Love to find new material was so excited and have played it so much lol.
I know that this is not featured on any of the albums but wondered if it was released anywhere else
Lots of Love
Aaron
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Post by Rick Henry on Feb 24, 2004 21:31:43 GMT -5
Hi Aaron, welcome to the forum! What you have found is one of eleven unreleased songs from the Karen Carpenter New York Solo Sessions. The songs are unfinished and unmixed. Nine of these eleven songs have somehow been leaked to the internet and many diehard Carpenters fans now have these songs. Here is a list of the nine songs which have been leaked: Keep My Lovelight Burning Midnight Love Making Love To You It's Really You Truly You Jimmy Mack Something's Missing Don't Try to Win Me Back Again I Do It For Your Love
The two which have not been leaked are titled: Basket Case Church Choir (Wild) - would really love to hear both songs.
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Post by Rick Henry on Sept 17, 2007 23:37:28 GMT -5
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Post by enigma on Sept 18, 2007 18:20:40 GMT -5
I do like Midnight and would like to hear a finished clean version of this unreleased Karen solo song. I love the keyboards that drive this nice little number and Karen as usual is great on this song.
Just a comment on 2 songs on the list Basket Case and Church Choir (Wild) I had a few years ago done research on these titles with 2 other Carpenter sites (including A&Ms Carpenters site) and I believe this one as well so make it 3 sites and the most accepted theory is that these songs had titles and catalog numbers with A&M records at the time of the solo records recording but not a single lyric note or arrangement was recorded or put on paper. The catalog numbers and working titles were a formality to let A&M know what the track list was for the record and what may or may not be recorded for the record. I accept this explanation and have seen absolutely no evidence that these songs exist it makes no sense to leak only nine of the eleven songs and hold these two back. I would love to be proven wrong but I see no reason to believe these songs were ever recorded or even exist beyond the title and Catalogue number.
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Post by Rick Henry on Sept 18, 2007 22:07:43 GMT -5
I do like Midnight and would like to hear a finished clean version of this unreleased Karen solo song. I love the keyboards that drive this nice little number and Karen as usual is great on this song. Just a comment on 2 songs on the list Basket Case and Church Choir (Wild) I had a few years ago done research on these titles with 2 other Carpenter sites (including A&Ms Carpenters site) and I believe this one as well so make it 3 sites and the most accepted theory is that these songs had titles and catalog numbers with A&M records at the time of the solo records recording but not a single lyric note or arrangement was recorded or put on paper. The catalog numbers and working titles were a formality to let A&M know what the track list was for the record and what may or may not be recorded for the record. I accept this explanation and have seen absolutely no evidence that these songs exist it makes no sense to leak only nine of the eleven songs and hold these two back. I would love to be proven wrong but I see no reason to believe these songs were ever recorded or even exist beyond the title and Catalogue number. I agree with you Enigma on "Basket Case" and "Church Choir". Back in 2004 when this thread first surfaced I along with most everybody else thought these two songs existed... but soon came to find out that they were only catalog numbers and only working titles for songs which were to be. I believe this was mentioned in a thread we had going on this forum about a year and a half ago (back in the good old days when we were called The Carpenters Online... remember when...) As for "Midnight"... I love this song... it's one of my top five favorites of Karen's unreleased songs - possibly my favorite. I just love the cool dark smooth jazz feel of it. I can almost imagine Sade or someone of that stature recording this sultry song. The rest of my top five faves of the unreleased tunes are... "Keep My Lovelight Burning", "Love Making Love To You", "Something's Missing" and "Don't Try To Win Me Back Again". I would certainly love to hear cleaned up finished versions of all these unreleased songs... as well as bonus tracks of extended remixed versions of all of them. I have a pretty neat-o remixed version of "Something's Missing"... the music is sped up and it has a great beat to it. The ballad is turned into somewhat a dance tune... and it sounds great.
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Post by Ming on Oct 18, 2007 11:36:20 GMT -5
It is sad to learn that Basket Case and Church Choir don't exist.
Ming
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