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Post by Rick Henry on Jun 21, 2008 20:38:52 GMT -5
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Post by makapipi on Aug 25, 2008 22:29:35 GMT -5
"Reason TO Believe" hit me today as a nice song
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Post by Rick Henry on Aug 26, 2008 23:37:45 GMT -5
"Reason TO Believe" hit me today as a nice song
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Post by ps11932 on Aug 27, 2008 16:00:00 GMT -5
Great choices- "Reason To Believe" & "Another Song", from Close To You album (which has one of my favorite cover photos, too.) "Another Song" has so many wonderful elements; it reaches depths of emotion from hope to despair. Another of the selections I enjoy is "I Kept On Loving You" which I think is one of Richard's better vocals. The song just seems to have a 70's flavor to it.
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Post by carpentersgermany on Aug 29, 2008 16:28:13 GMT -5
"I kept on loving you" is my favourite "Richard"-Song - I really like it!! My Carpenters song of the day is "Can't smile without you". The Manilow version of the song is part of a current German commercial.. An acquaintance said to me "I really like this song, but there's a version of it that I prefer much more, with a woman singing. I have it on my computer it's "The Carpenters". Do you know them?" That was so funny when I told her that the Carpenters are my all-time favourite band
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Post by Rick Henry on Aug 29, 2008 20:16:55 GMT -5
"I kept on loving you" is my favourite "Richard"-Song - I really like it!! My Carpenters song of the day is "Can't smile without you". The Manilow version of the song is part of a current German commercial.. An acquaintance said to me "I really like this song, but there's a version of it that I prefer much more, with a woman singing. I have it on my computer it's "The Carpenters". Do you know them?" That was so funny when I told her that the Carpenters are my all-time favourite band
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Post by makapipi on Aug 30, 2008 13:58:34 GMT -5
I just saw the movie "Over My Dead Body" a romantic comedy and realized the perfect Carpenter song is "Uninvited Guest". This movie has a ghost which is the lady who died just before her wedding. Later her boyfriend meets another lady but now the ghost starts bugging her to stop seeing her boyfriend. It's crazy isn't it.
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Post by Rick Henry on Aug 31, 2008 9:14:57 GMT -5
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Post by ps11932 on Sept 2, 2008 15:26:48 GMT -5
One sign of the value of this forum is the growing education I have received in appreciating "Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again." I recall a couple years ago I stated that I thought Barry Manilow(whom I do like as a singer) had a better version than The Carpenters on this particular song. Since then I have come t recognize that The C's version is a better rendition, partly because it better captures the raw emotion of the song. It is conveying a mood of anxiousness; desparation brdering on imminent despair. It is not meant to be a sweet sounding song (of which, The Carpenters have many of course) and their versatility and great artistry shows itself masterful again.
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Post by YesterdayOnceMore on Sept 16, 2008 8:57:43 GMT -5
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Post by ps11932 on Sept 21, 2008 13:51:18 GMT -5
I agree- I love "Sailin' On The Tide." Indeed beautifully sung, and the lyrics often express just what I would like to do! On at least one occasion I have in fact handed the headphones to someone and it calmed him down, too; he recognized Karen, though he isn't a Carpenters fan.
I nominate "Eventide" as song of the day. What stands out to me is that whatever perils and difficulties we may face on a particular day of life, we can take solace in our friends who are waiting for us with eager hope.
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Post by wisejester7 on Sept 22, 2008 15:40:18 GMT -5
One of my all time favorites is "We've Only Just Begun". Karen and Richard were so new to us then and their whole future was open before them. The song is one of hope, love and growth. Now, after all these years, the beatitudes of the song's message lingers ever clear.
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Post by beaner on Oct 8, 2008 12:47:30 GMT -5
My song of the day today is "When Time Was All We Had" from Richard's "Time" album, devoted to Karen.
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Post by Rick Henry on Oct 8, 2008 13:50:50 GMT -5
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Post by Rick Henry on Oct 10, 2008 7:11:53 GMT -5
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Post by beaner on Oct 10, 2008 11:38:38 GMT -5
I'll pick "Those Good Old Dreams" today. A favorite lyric of mine over the years has always been what my caption reads in my profile to the left and that is "No more dark horizons, only blue". Love it!!
Although when I was a young girl and this song came out, I used to always sing, at any given time right out of the blue, "same old stage but what a change of scene, no more dark horizons only blue" so I just kept the latter part of it for my caption.
Funny how so very many things we think of.
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Post by makapipi on May 8, 2009 0:09:14 GMT -5
my favorite today is the Rainy Days Mondays 1976 carpenters tv special video on youtube. In the beginning Karen is sitting in a director chair sings a line Rainy Days, then remaining video lip syncs Rainy Days / Superstar, seeing her in this video makes the songs sound better because I haven't seen Carpenters videos for a while only listening to cds.
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Post by carpentersgermany on May 12, 2009 16:39:48 GMT -5
My Carpenters song of the Day is "Bless the beast and children" because I just watched the Semi-Final of the Eurovision Song Contest and whenever I see this show I just think that the Carpenters would have been the perfect Band for this contest. I'm pretty sure that they would have won the competition in the early 70s - especially with this Song..
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