Favorite Karen disco track

[ThomB]

My favorite is Don't Try To Win Me Back Again. The music on this one is awesome.

[Christian]

This is really difficult as I love My Body Keeps..., Making Love..., and Keep My Lovelight...
Great to hear Karen sing disco, that girl could truly sing everything.
God, what a talent!!!

[JohnnyAngel]

My favorite Disco track went to "My body keeps changing my mind" this is pure Disco, and I love Disco.
The first time i've heard "Don'try to win me back again" I thought, Gee this could did fantastic in a duet with Freddie Mercury.

[beaner]

Mine is My Body Keeps changing my mind... from the list you gave. However, if Love Makin Love to you can be classified as Disco, I vote for that one best.

[Rick Henry]

" Don't Try..." is my favorite of the disco tracks. It's one amazing big disco song. I like the pulsating instrumental in the middle. Great song, it should be remixed and released.
"Love Making Love To You" is my favorite of the unreleased solo songs and actually my favorite of all the solo songs. But I don't consider it disco. It's more of an R&B jazz rhythm.

[Boat2Sail]

I picked Don't Try To Win Me Back Again. When I first heard it a wave of excitement took over me. Keep My Lovelight Burning runs a close second. I never really got to excited over My Body Keeps Changing My Mind, but it's still a favorite.

[Moe]

I haven't heard the unreleased tracks, so I am voting for "My body keeps changing my mind." There is a lot of energy and a lot of fun in that song.

When "Body" was released on the "From the Top" CD, I thought it sounded familiar, but couldn't place it. Recently, going through some of my sister's Johnny Mathis albums from the 70's, I found the song! Too funny!

Has anyone else found some of Karen's solo stuff recorded by other singers?

[dgfarnsworth]

I would have to say" Don'tTry And Win Me Back Again "(I also enjoy the fact that Olivia Newton John is doing background vocals....although I am not such an Olivia fan these days, as I was in the past.)

What I found interesting....I also have "My Body Keeps Changing My Mind" by the original singer (don't recall his name now): and Karen really didn't stray at all from the original. I love this tune also.

As I have mentioned to others....I don't believe "My Body Keeps Changing My Mind" would ever be released (by Richard) as a single track--simply because the song's "TITLE" is too problematic....and could be taken (by some--not me!) as unappropriate....noting the nature of Karen's illness and death (think about it).

[cam83]

Hello,
I too adore DON'T TRY TO WIN ME BACK AGAIN. I remember the first time I heard it on Napster, I was blown away. It just was a funky tune. Unlike anything I had heard, even on her solo album. It's just a wonderful song. I love the complex higher vocal range. See Karen could sing well, and well in her higher range too.
In the previous post, dgfarnsworth mentions that Olivia Newton John guested on the background vocals, is this true, and where did you hear this? I never thought that Olivia guested on this project although some vocals do sound Olivia-esque.

My thoughts,

Cameron

[dgfarnsworth]

Cam--
I will look for the documentation concering background vocals by Olivia Newton John on "Don't Try To Win Me Back Again". But I can't remember WHERE I read it right now.

Mid-summer last year before anybody really knew much about the "missing tracks" I did some research on the internet. And all the missing tracks were listed (iincluding a "supposed" track of "You're No Good"..[.though THAT Linda Rondstat cover STILL remains a mystery; as no one has produced evidence of this...okay, I digress]....but in my research every song that was "missing" was described in detail....and it was noted that Olivia Newton John did, indeed, do background vocals for "Don't Try To Win Me Back Again."

(I have my post from the forum I USED to post on concerning this details on my ZIP disk--saved; unfortunately, my computer "crashed Sunday night...and I don't know WHEN or IF it can get it back up [computer is hanging on Verifying DMI Pool Data....Update Success]...but if that doesn't work soon....I will try [if I get a time]....to maybe use computer at university]....Hopefully, however, maybe in the meantime somebody else can verify this fact; so, I don't have to go to the trouble!)

But listen, again, to the track carefully. I mean...is there any doubt--now that you know this?. It is Olivia, for sure. (I even put the track on for a friend; who was not aware of this--and she readily picked out Olivia on the background vocals.)

DG

[JIM]

Wow Cam! Olivia is my second fav
to karen! That is an awsome revelation Im going to listen with
headphones to the detail. A freind
told that on winmx there is a dance
remix called Only Yesterday 2003
by DJ Danny Shaffer. I have not
heard this yet but it supposed to
be very good. Don't Try And Win
Me Back is great as is but it would
be an interesting candidate for a
techno remix. Anything to generate
new interest in Carpenters music
in younger people would be great.
My personal disco fav I MY Body
Keeps Changing My Mind. The percussion really drives the song
thru the roof and the complexity
of the multitracking is mind bogoling!!! I can never get over
how tight the harmonies are on
this song. Its a masterpiece of
studio enginering! I could listen
to it a thousand times and never
grow tired of it.
JIM

[Sammy]

Don't Try To Win Me Back Again has such a good strong beat and the vocal arrangement is amazing. Karen went over the top on this song.