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Post by cam83 on Sept 1, 2004 18:44:15 GMT -5
Hi Guys,
I am listening to the song ONLY YESTERDAY, one of my favorite recordings of theirs. I just love the opening beat and then Karen's husky vocals which are very deep. It amazes me at how her phrasing was hers, and hers alone! The way she pronouced words is uncanny and amazing! I love the overdubbed Carpenter harmonies during the song. Sometimes, if you just concentrate, you can actually hear a line of Karen singing a part, counter to the harmony, which sounds heavenly!
For many years, this song was my theme. It got me thru a lot of depression, sadness, loneliness. Which is probably the reason why, when my biography gets published, it will be titled ONLY YESTERDAY, and the sequel YESTERDAY ONCE MORE. I can dream, can't I?(pardon the pun).
I love the ending where their vocals go in different paths, and hearing Karen's different vocal approaches. Very neat.
My thoughts,
Cameron
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Post by Rick Henry on Sept 1, 2004 20:21:56 GMT -5
 I've considered "Only Yesterday" to be my favorite for near ten years now. It's such an excellent song. All the instruments, Karen's voice, the mix of vocals. The lyrics. Everything about this song is fantastic. I was 15 when the song came out and just really getting into music on a deeper sense and "Only Yesterday" was a song which really grabbed me and has hung on all these years. 
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Post by BethMosior on Sept 1, 2004 21:55:19 GMT -5
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Post by enigma on Sept 2, 2004 8:22:59 GMT -5
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Post by Rick Henry on Sept 2, 2004 19:34:44 GMT -5
Wow! I have to compliment you, Enigma, on the way you've communicated your thoughts so descriptively on "Only Yesterday". Very well written.
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Post by karen69roland on Sept 2, 2004 19:59:21 GMT -5
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Post by Moe on Sept 3, 2004 4:48:57 GMT -5
Karen's lower register adds magic to any song!
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Post by enigma on Sept 3, 2004 7:10:15 GMT -5
Thank you for your kind words Rick with a song that is this good it was not easy to put into words what it did and continues to do for me.
Roland you are correct when they interviewed Karen and Richard and asked them about the song they asked them how it felt about having the number 4 song in the nation to which Karen said good but it is still 4 places away from #1 she laughed after saying that but I got the feeling she was only half joking and she and Richard probably were a bit disappointed when it did not go to #1.
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Post by Rick Henry on Sept 3, 2004 7:25:19 GMT -5
I think a lot of us who were around at the time thought for sure "Only Yesterday" would reach number #1. It was such an excellent song, better than "PLease Mr. Postman" - in my opinion. But the thing is at that point the whole image thing and the way critics continued to dog the Carpenters, turned people away from buying Carpenters records. It just didn't matter how good the music was people just weren't going to buy it. The following single "Solitaire" was such a powerful song and really should have reached the top 5, but it didn't. A lot of this had to do with critics and the influence they do have over the buying public. Funny thing is; as time has gone by the Carpenters' music has ended up outlasting a lot of what was popular back in the 70's.
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Post by OceanKing on Sept 3, 2004 22:44:45 GMT -5
This is one of my all-time favorites, too.
What I really love about it is that it has aged amazingly well! If you play it for young folks today who have never heard of the Carpenters, "Only Yesterday" has a contemporary feel to it that is timeless.
And the video is wonderfully conceptual and artistic, the most "modern" of all of their videos. At least they finally got out of the TV studio and were outdoors with the camera making interesting movements around them.
I sometimes think that if the "Only Yesterday" video were played at student unions on college campuses across the country, it would fit in rather nicely with the more current videos. Or at the very least, it would be a rather hip nostalgia clip.
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Post by karen69roland on Sept 3, 2004 22:54:03 GMT -5
I agree OceanKing... 
One of my favorite videos, if not, my favorite.
If you have the chance sometime..., please give me your preferences in the YOUR *Top 10* thread.
Take care...[glow=red,2,300][/glow][shadow=red,left,300]  [/shadow][shadow=red,left,300]Roland C.[/shadow][shadow=red,left,300] [/shadow]
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WOW 
BRAVO 
this song is really TOP of the TOP with me :oWOW 
