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Post by enigma on May 6, 2005 12:33:43 GMT -5
Earlier I mentioned ELO's "Can't Get It Out Of My Head" as being a great choice for Karen - she could really sing the world out of this song with a great Peter Knight orchestration. But now I have another ELO song that I think would be great for Karen and that is "Telephone Line". This is yet another beautiful ELO melody which I feel is perfect for Karen's voice. I would have loved to see Karen collaborate with Jeff Lynne the leader of ELO. That would have been a great team. Rick excellent choice! Jeff Lynn would have done great production for a solo album by Karen. I look at what he did for Cloud Nine for George Harrison as well as albums by Brian Wilson, Dave Edmunds, Tom Petty, the Traveling Wilburys, and Randy Newman dispite the emense talents he worked with including the Beatles he put his own production signature on the records. You know when you listen, that sound, that its a Jeff Lynn record. He is amazing and teaming with Karen? the results would be phenomenal.
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Post by cam83 on May 6, 2005 12:54:15 GMT -5
Some other sings Karen could have done were the songs country singer and sexy siren DOTTIE WEST did...as Dottie had a husky alto voice, although compared to Karen's crystalline diamond voice, Dottie's was an unfinished, cloudy diamond.
Blue As I Want To Last Time I Saw Him When Two Fools Collide
Dottie West was a neat lady and a survivor. I saw the Tv movie of her life starring Michelle Lee...very good story and wonderful singing by Michelle Lee.
My thoughts, Cam
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Post by Rick Henry on May 27, 2005 11:33:16 GMT -5
%?? $&? %?? I always thought Karen could have done an awesome recording of Lynn Anderson's 1971 hit "Rose Garden". This song is so perfect for Karen. sidebar conversation: Lynn Anderson charted at #74 in 1973 (months before Carpenters) with the Richard Carpenter/ John Bettis penned classic "Top Of the World". Anderson also reached #2 on the country music charts with the famed Carpenters classic. k.d. lang, who has professed to being a Carpenters fan recorded a great version of "Rose Garden" for her fantastic 1986-87 album "Angel With A Lariat".
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Post by Sammy on May 29, 2005 9:44:44 GMT -5
I always thought K&R should have done more Motown songs. Too Many Fish In The Sea, You Can't Hurry Love, The Happening, Nowhere To Run, My Guy are a few good ones.
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Post by smoothie2 on May 30, 2005 23:36:01 GMT -5
I agree Cam about Dottie West...she was a bold and brilliant singer. I love the songs you mentioned by her and she teamed w/ K. Rogers in a grand way too. I also like Fool Hearted Man by her and I think Karen might have done well with that. "somebody's gonna teach you a lesson in leavin' somebody and I hope that I'm around, to watch them knock you down, you're a fool hearted man." ???I also just now thought of a fun song and dance act that would've been neat for K. and R. and that's the American Bandstand song which is on a B. Manilow record. It's a fun song and since the C's did like some of the oldies, that might have been fun for them. ;D
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Post by YesterdayOnceMore on Jun 15, 2005 16:43:59 GMT -5
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Post by YesterdayOnceMore on Jun 16, 2005 9:24:23 GMT -5
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Post by Rick Henry on Jun 16, 2005 21:34:43 GMT -5
I was listening to a compilation tape I'd made for myself, and found a perfect tune for Karen to have done - it's called "Between Us" and I believe it's a Harry Connick Jr. original. It's got a real bluesy feel to it - sort of like "Last One Singing The Blues." I think Karen would have done a great, sassy job on this one, and had a lot of fun doing so! Tim Excellent choice. Karen could have done an excellent album of all Harry Connick Jr. songs. Maybe call it the Harry Connick Jr. Songbook.
*sidebar* for about a good five years or so people used to tell me I looked the spitting image of Connick - but that stopped around 1998. I thought of another last night - a beautiful, beautiful tune that Karen would have been able to throw her heart and soul into - I believe it's a Thelonius Monk tune, called "A Child Is Born." It's a beautiful, misty, soulful ballad. Karen could have breathed new life into it. Another of Monk's tunes that Karen would have done so well would be "Round Midnight." Tim More good choices Tim. Like myself you are a fan of good jazz music. I especially think "Round Midnight" would have been excellent for Karen.
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