"I Believe You" song...and Trying to get the Feeli

[smoothie2]

;D I know I'm years behind as far as owning all the C's music ...but anyway, I have the 25th anniv. cd Interpretations...and of course it's super. Sometimes, I skip to the songs that are like new to me.. because, I haven't heard them until now.
The I Believe You song is really what I call a breezy song as far as the background music goes.
Somewhere not long ago on the forum here..something was said about how Rich. and K. were looked on as goodie two shoes...that clean image thing that always pressured them...
Someone said that one or 2 songs were recorded, but weren't released at the time, because the lyrics were too sexy and folks didn't won't to see Karen as wild or sexy ...because that's what made them unique with the soft harmonies.
And, then I Believe You is recorded and I know someone else sang it back then or in the 80's. That is really such a great song for Karen. It has that soft sound and yet definitely some sexy lyrics...."I believe you when u say that when we make love that it's like the first time we made love....(and then)...we made love and every act of love"
I don't know if that song's on her solo album, but it seems like if it wasn't then it should have been.
When she sings those words....I love it because....it sounds like "hey, this is great because what a wonderful thing it is"
and that pic. you had Rick...not long ago on your post board..where Karen has her head back and the long hair well, it gives me a good feeling because that's a joyful pose. I hope that at the time she posed for that ..that she was happy.
I don't mean for that to sound a little too much as far as sexy things go...but I know you get what I mean.
I think there were too many dark days for her during her life, and I like to see that smile of hers.


The Trying to get the Feeling song is of course terrific ....though it seems when I hear it that the background music drowns her singing out a little too much. It is quite a song though, with the strong piano and vocals booms out.


ok...again ...no one wants to read all that...but I just wanted to air out what I thought.

!!!! ;D

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;DRan out of room for all the letters for Trying to get the Feeling...and so it's Feeling ing....not feeli.....!

[Moe]

"I Believe You" was recorded and released as a single in 1978. I think I still have my 45 version on record! I think it reached 54 on the hot 100, but didn't get much promotion. I never heard it on pop radio back then. It was recorded during the "Christmas Portrait" sessions, along with "Where do I go from here" and a few other songs. "I believe you" was eventually released on the 1981 album, "Made in America." It is a great song and Karen voice never sounded better, so rich and full.

Richard took 1979 off to deal with his drug problem. With the material that was recorded in '78 for the next pop album, I think it would have been great. Coming off "Passage," the more inventive and agressive sound for the Carpenters would have taken them in a new direction while staying true to the traditional Carpenters' sound. This is one of those...what might have been...

"Tryin to get the Feelin' Again," was recorded in 1975 during the "Horizon" sessons. Richard thought the song was lost, but found it in the 90's and filled out the recording and released it on the "Interpretations" CD's. This is one of the "work lead" songs that Karen put her voice on to help the musicians get familiar with a new song. (If you listen closely at the end of the first verse, you can even hear Karen turn the lyric page over.) It is a very different type of melody and lyric that, of course, Karen's sings perfectly. I played the song for the girl I was dating at time, who didn't like Karen's version. Good thing I didn't end of marrying her! No telling what other crazy thoughts she might have had! LOL

[smoothie2]

thanks so much Moe for all the info. about those songs...I don't recall hearing them on the radio back then either.
In '75 I was a Jr. in hi sch. and in '78 I was going to a community college. As far as LP albums are concerned, I think Horizon was the last of R. and K. 's vinyl I owned.
All through those yrs., I continued to adore as I still do R. and K., but I was really too hung up on J. Denver still.

The song "Where do I go from here" as well as Trying to get...
were recorded by B. Manilow. Who is absolutely a superb singer also. And even by their titles, those songs seem to fit together.

[Rick Henry]

I heard "I Believe You" on the radio a few times. The first time I heard it, was before I even read about it in any fan club newsletter, so it was a complete surprise to me. I knew immediately when I heard the voice it was Karen, and I went to the music store the very next day and bought the single - which I still have.