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Post by Dave on Mar 14, 2007 19:36:48 GMT -5
I had something that used to happen all the time happen again this morning. It was 6:35 AM, and as I backed the truck out of the driveway I was listening to 620 AM, WKHB, when "Top Of The World" began playing. Now THAT's what I call a "wake-up" song!
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Post by ps11932 on Mar 15, 2007 16:42:34 GMT -5
It's always exciting to hear Carpenters on the radio, and I agree, "Top Of The World" is a great way to infuse some optimism into a morning. It seems like a good many non-C's fans even get a charge out of this one. I'd say it's one of the more optimistic songs and has one of the recurring mood themes, that of being high over recognition of a good relationship. And an application to make is that by a kind word, deep or action, have the ability to put someone else on the "top of the world" too- and make it a better day for someone. (Dave, I'll make a not of this report for the log.)
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Post by smoothie2 on Mar 17, 2007 23:03:14 GMT -5
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Post by makapipi on Mar 25, 2007 0:46:29 GMT -5
When i tuned in to this website , the song "Masqerade " was playing on my earphones, so this is song of day, plus it sounds better when looking around on here. I really like Richard's keyboard sounds and Karen's presence in her voice. I cannot help but think of a some scene in a James Bond movie, or velvet, her voice feels like velvet rub or stroke on my arm.
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Post by Dave on Mar 25, 2007 8:16:55 GMT -5
Just a few minutes ago, I went outside to move my truck. The radio was on 95.3, WJPA, and "For All We Know" was playing. After the song ended, the DJ announced the song, and said "Number 5 on this date in 1971. More as Back to the Seventies continues..." What a nice surprise on a cool, sunny, yet foggy Sunday morning.
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Post by Rick Henry on Mar 25, 2007 11:20:11 GMT -5
When i tuned in to this website , the song "Masqerade " was playing on my earphones, so this is song of day, plus it sounds better when looking around on here. I really like Richard's keyboard sounds and Karen's presence in her voice. I cannot help but think of a some scene in a James Bond movie, or velvet, her voice feels like velvet rub or stroke on my arm. Oh yes, Makapipi, I can hear it also "This Masquerade" as a feature song in the next James Bond movie. The song is dark, sophisticated, romantic and mysterious - perfect for James Bond.
"This Masquerade" is also my Song Of The Day.
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Post by wisejester7 on Mar 25, 2007 17:47:49 GMT -5
Just a few minutes ago, I went outside to move my truck. The radio was on 95.3, WJPA, and "For All We Know" was playing. After the song ended, the DJ announced the song, and said "Number 5 on this date in 1971. More as Back to the Seventies continues..." What a nice surprise on a cool, sunny, yet foggy Sunday morning. You're a lucky guy, Dave. I haven't hear Carpenters on the radio for a while now. And you heard "For All We Know", to boot. I don't think I've heard that song on the radio for years!
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Post by sunnybunny on Mar 25, 2007 17:58:19 GMT -5
I hear Carpenters songs on the radio all the time,Friday I heard Solitare and Goodbye to Love,sometime during December I heard one of their Christmas songs I just can't remember which one it was,and today I heard Only Yesterday.
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Post by Dave on Mar 25, 2007 19:19:28 GMT -5
Just a few minutes ago, I went outside to move my truck. The radio was on 95.3, WJPA, and "For All We Know" was playing. After the song ended, the DJ announced the song, and said "Number 5 on this date in 1971. More as Back to the Seventies continues..." What a nice surprise on a cool, sunny, yet foggy Sunday morning. You're a lucky guy, Dave. I haven't hear Carpenters on the radio for a while now. And you heard "For All We Know", to boot. I don't think I've heard that song on the radio for years! I am lucky that there is another AM station that plays the Carpenters a lot when their automation is on at night. 620 AM, WKHB, near Pittsburgh is the station. But there's a "lite rock" FM station, www.wltj.com/, that has a lunchtime request show, and Vicki always plays my Carpenters requests. Unlike the other two stations, you can listen to WLTJ on your computer at work, and send your requests in via e-mail.
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Post by Dave on Mar 26, 2007 18:52:59 GMT -5
Good ol' AM 620 came through this morning! At 6:35 AM, they played "Mr. Postman". What a coincidence...the Post Office revealed its new "forever" stamp today!
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Post by ps11932 on Apr 11, 2007 16:16:40 GMT -5
"As Time Goes By" has become one of my favorite collections, and as I listened a few days ago, I was even more impressed than usual by the clarity, beauty and mastery of the "I Got Rhythm" Medley. Most of the number is focused on great instrumentation, but the beginning vocals get attention real fast. Then I thought of Gershwin & Carpenter- what a treat to combine some of the very best artistry from 2 generations. Made me think of (sorry- here comes another brief sports analogy) 2 of the greatest basketball players of all time, Oscar Robertson & Kareem Jabar on the 1970-71 Milwaukee Bucks; inevitable that the team would win a championship. Well, with this piece we have 2 of the great champion musicians of the 20th century!
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Post by Rick Henry on Apr 11, 2007 19:38:30 GMT -5
"As Time Goes By" has become one of my favorite collections, and as I listened a few days ago, I was even more impressed than usual by the clarity, beauty and mastery of the "I Got Rhythm" Medley. Most of the number is focused on great instrumentation, but the beginning vocals get attention real fast. Then I thought of Gershwin & Carpenter- what a treat to combine some of the very best artistry from 2 generations. Made me think of (sorry- here comes another brief sports analogy) 2 of the greatest basketball players of all time, Oscar Robertson & Kareem Jabar on the 1970-71 Milwaukee Bucks; inevitable that the team would win a championship. Well, with this piece we have 2 of the great champion musicians of the 20th century! Ahhhh yes I love the "I Got Rhythm Medley" also. what a great musical number. It certainly keeps your toes tappin'. Karen vocal interpretation is also fantastic - though in this number it's the musicianship which comes to the forefront. I especially love Karen's fine drumwork on this.
Thank you O.E. for mentioning this song... it is my song of the day as well.
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Post by Rick Henry on May 2, 2007 22:10:39 GMT -5
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Post by ps11932 on May 4, 2007 19:38:06 GMT -5
Indeed, "Ordinary Fool" is a superbly done masterpiece. ("Voice Of The Heart" is full of great selections- no weak links here.) The vocal range and isntrumental variety take you into the depths of human experience. Dusky is an appropot word for it; kind of bluesy; in some ways representing, in thought theme, a step necessary in arriving to the point of "It's Going To Take Some Time."
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Post by Rick Henry on May 4, 2007 20:35:31 GMT -5
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Post by Dave on May 24, 2007 20:12:21 GMT -5
There are actually two songs of the day, and here's why. Today is the anniversary of astronaut Scott Carpenter's orbital flight aboard his Mercury spacecraft, named Aurora 7. When I read this in the paper this morning, and Barry Banker on WKHB mentioned it, I asked him to play "We've Only Just Begun", and then I told him the story about "Aurora" and how "WOJB" was the final wake-up call for the Apollo 17 moon mission...the last mission to the Moon. He told me that he remembered "Aurora", but that he didn't have it. Out of the first seven American astronauts, only Scott Carpenter and John Glenn are still with us, and Scott recently celebrated his 82nd birthday, if I'm not mistaken.
When it came on the radio, my wife and I danced around the kitchen, while she sang for me. What a nice way to go to work!
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Post by ps11932 on May 25, 2007 18:13:48 GMT -5
Thanks Dave, for helping keep alive the memories of our original space heroes. (I think Wally Schuira just passed not long ago.) I recall Guy Gardner came to speak at work one time- quite an inspiration.
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Post by Dave on May 28, 2007 18:40:02 GMT -5
Thanks fot the flowers, PS. Take a gander at a part of Scott's bio from Wikipedia, and see if anything jumps out at you...as it did me!
"Born in Boulder, Colorado, Carpenter moved to New York City with his parents (Marion Scott Carpenter and Florence [née Noxon] Carpenter) for the first two years of his life. (His father had been awarded a postdoctoral research post at Columbia University.) In the summer of 1927, young Carpenter returned to Boulder with his mother, then ill with tuberculosis. There he was raised by his maternal grandparents in the family home at the corner of Aurora Avenue and Seventh Street. He lived in Boulder until his graduation from Boulder High School in the class of 1943."
According to Gene Kranz, Scott was quite an accomplished musician, and where the other astronauts might be found inspecting their spacecraft Scott was most likely to be found on the beach, strumming his guitar.
I once asked Richard if he had any photos of Agnes with any of the early astronauts (you do know that she worked at the aerospace plant in Downey that constructed the Apollo spacecraft and would later manufacture components used in the construction of the space shuttle Columbia) but Richard has no such photos. That would be one to treasure...two Carpenters, one an astronaut, the other the mother of two future stars.
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