Her voice Is smoother than silk.just incredibly smooth and warm. And her delivery of songs is second to none. She really does make you feel her emotions. She is as close to perfection as it comes
Karen never realized how much this song would have so much relevance to today. For the ability to listen to all the songs that we loved from the past brings back the joy she expresses so well in this song.
Sometimes when I hear her voice, I cry, but mostly they're tears of joy for having grown up in her time. Thank you and all these reaction channels for recognizing the sheer brilliance of this woman and her mesmerizing voice. Karen, always❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Me too! Back when these songs were new ,l was a newly Wed. ALL those memories! Happy times . 50 + years later I ride by those places ,to relive even just for a moment those times. Everyone in my life then is gone ! Alone now & over 70 ,my fate is unknown. There today . Most people still think I am a tough guy??? Few things will bring tears to my eyes! Memories of MOM & KAREN . MISS YOU BOTH SO.KEN.
My very favorite Carpenters song! What a beautiful voice she has. She has so much pain and emotion in her voice and it is so natural how it just flows out. I agree this song itself can make you want to cry.
I was so young when she died, and it was such a sad event for the music world! Now, in 2024, she's still missed so much. Her voice and lyrics exude so much talent! They cannot be matched; definitely one of a kind!
Thanks to YT reactors, all those old songs we loved so well ARE back again 🎶🎵 while we also get to share the joy the reactors have of hearing them for the first time themselves 😄
The immediate context of this song is that, in the early 1970s, there was a revival of interest in 1950s pop music in general and Doo-Wop in particular. So Richard and Karen actually experienced the very nostalgia that he wrote this about.
Tasha, my husband and I were dating during the years of the Carpenters height of fame. All their songs really take us back. She has the best voice I’ve ever heard. I enjoyed your reaction. ❤
The original album was great in that this song served as an intro of sorts to a side-long oldies medley. There might have been a reprise at the end too. Other Carpenters fans, feel free to correct any errors or fill in any gaps.
In your Carpenters journey don’t miss a haunting melody that Richard has called Karen’s Theme. It’s instrumental only but so perfectly captures the beauty and sadness of Karen and Richard’s music and shows his amazing (and overlooked) talent as well.
I'm now 64 and getting older, but it does my heart good to watch young people enjoy the music that I grew up on. Sadly, you missed the very best years that music had to offer.
Excellent reaction. Im 69 and remember Carpenters well. Herb Alpert heard Karen's voice on a demo in 1969 and signed her brother, Richard, and her to A&M records. Karen received 3 or 4 Grammys in the 70s and sold over 80 million records by 1982. She was 1975 rock drummer of the year according to Playboy (John Bonham was 2d). KC had the most beautiful voice-ever, and perhaps THE best female vocalist-ever, because she compels you to listen as she sings in perfect pitch to you, not at you, with haunting emotion. No auto-tune or gimmicks. No professional voice or drum instruction. She was known by the studios as 'one take'. She rarely, if ever, sang more than one take of any song. She was also the ONLY female harmony/background voice in all her songs. She was truly born with an incredible singing talent. Documentaries point out the accolades to her voice, such as, Paul McCartney said she had the most angelic voice after hearing her sing 'Ticket To Ride'. John Lennon ran into her at an LA restaurant and told her "you have a fabulous voice, luv". Supposedly Frank Sinatra stated that Karen was the only singer he'd pay to hear. I recommend songs such as Close To You, Goodbye To Love, Solitaire, This Masquerade, Only Yesterday, Need To Be In Love, Hurting Each Other, I Can Dream Cant I (you've must hear this 1939 ballad ! ), Crescent Noon, Ordinary Fool, We've Only Just Begun, A Place To Hideaway, and A Song For You. KC never knew true love. Her few friends included Olivia Newton John and Dionne Warwick. 5'3" KC really lost weight, due to anorexia, in earnest beginning in 1975. She died in Feb 1983 at age 32 due to heart complications from anorexia.
When I die and I'm standing in line at the pearly gates I hope for two things... that the hot now Krispi Kreme sign is lit and Karen Carpenter is playing on the MUZAK soundtrack, lol.
So warm, expressive, and pure. Karen is incomparable. Her brother wove a tapestry of harmony and instrumentation that perfectly displayed his sister’s gift. What a voice. What treasure. It will never be duplicated.
Nostalgia is such a bittersweet feeling, and Karen captures that perfectly in this vocal! And as usual Richard's arrangement is an absolutely perfect compliment to that vocal.
The magic of Karen Carpenter wow the number one group in the 70s for me it was the Carpenters no one could hold a candle to the Carpenters rip Karen Carpenter
It's so nice to see people your age taking the time to listen to some of the greatest music recorded in the last century. The Carpenters were so popular and loved by so many people. They are still superstars.
Richard understand Karen's voice, and he always put her voice in front of everything else. The instruments is never alowed to overpower her voice. This enabled us to hear her voice in all it's glory.
What a gorgeous comment Tony! I'm so glad you have discovered Carpenters, and particularly Yesterday Once More, which is my personal favourite of theirs. But there are so many other fantastic tracks, have loads of fun discovering them.
Karen Carpenter and Minnie Riper ton are two angels let us have for much too of time. Only the good die young. But we must thank God our Lord for sharing them with us even if it was just for a blink of the eye....God Bless you Tasha and thank you for keeping me their legacy alive❤❤❤❤😅😅
This is such a timeless classic. Your reaction to this piece as always was spot on. I do so enjoy your reactions because you can see how much you love music 🎶! Thank you and take care👍🏻👍🏻🥰
In the early 1970’s, Paul McCartney said that Karen Carpenter had “the best female voice in the world.” About the same time, John Lennon found himself in the same L.A. nightclub as Karen. Lennon made sure that he personally told her that he loved her singing.
I love all Carpenters’ music, but my favorite album these days is Voice of the Heart, released in 1983 shortly after Karen’s death. Its prominent song is “NOW” the last studio recording that she made. But there are so many spectacular songs on this one, including You’re Enough, Two Lives, At the End of the Song, Ordinary Fool (there’s a vocal coach on RUclips that suggests this might be the best one that Karen ever sung), Your Baby Doesn’t Love You Anymore and Look to Your Dreams. If you haven’t checked this album out, please do-you won’t be disappointed.
For those of us 60 plus the Carpenters where part of the tapestry of our lives. We were kids just living our lives and listening to am radio and being with our friends... of all colors. Did our country have problems and strife? Yes. But look no further the "Teach The World To Sing" Coca-Cola Jingles to see that we were trying to make the country and the world better. But, at least back then we had wonderful music like this by the Carpenters. Now all we have is hate and exclusion, but with no Carpenters. Thank you for doing this reaction video.
Tasha, I KNOW T feels this way, so please take this as it's meant ... but I want ... I NEED to give you "the ultimate compliment" ... when I think of a woman, a REAL woman, you are what I'm thinking about !!! You are such a great person !!! You're warm, honest, smart, caring, beautiful inside and out ... and, to put it like Shania Twain, "Man, I feel like a woman!" only, I don't want to BE one, but I lost my wife years ago, and man, I *_WISH_* I had a woman beside me again, and if I had my choice, she'd be exactly like you !!!
While growing up I remember hearing them all the time. Some of my favorites are: "On Top Of The World" -- try Live at the White House Edition", "Please Mr. postman", "Goodbye to Love"" You have nice reaction😀
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That big smile is the best reaction to the Carpenters.
Her voice Is smoother than silk.just incredibly smooth and warm. And her delivery of songs is second to none. She really does make you feel her emotions. She is as close to perfection as it comes
Karen never realized how much this song would have so much relevance to today. For the ability to listen to all the songs that we loved from the past brings back the joy she expresses so well in this song.
Sometimes when I hear her voice, I cry, but mostly they're tears of joy for having grown up in her time. Thank you and all these reaction channels for recognizing the sheer brilliance of this woman and her mesmerizing voice. Karen, always❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Karen's voice feels like the Warm Spring Sun after a Long Cold Winter.
Me too! Back when these songs were new ,l was a newly Wed. ALL those memories! Happy times . 50 + years later I ride by those places ,to relive even just for a moment those times. Everyone in my life then is gone ! Alone now & over 70 ,my fate is unknown. There today . Most people still think I am a tough guy??? Few things will bring tears to my eyes! Memories of MOM & KAREN . MISS YOU BOTH SO.KEN.
Even back in the 70's I loved The Carpenter's. Karen's voice is flawless! One more young, extremely talented artist gone way too soon.
Her gorgeous voice gets me every time. This is one of my favorites by them! Loved your reaction! 😅
My very favorite Carpenters song! What a beautiful voice she has. She has so much pain and emotion in her voice and it is so natural how it just flows out. I agree this song itself can make you want to cry.
I was so young when she died, and it was such a sad event for the music world! Now, in 2024, she's still missed so much. Her voice and lyrics exude so much talent! They cannot be matched; definitely one of a kind!
I've always loved songs that pay homage to music of the past, this one does that very well.
Written by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis, with Karen's vocals and Richard's arrangements, it is one of the masterpieces they recorded.
Thanks to YT reactors, all those old songs we loved so well ARE back again 🎶🎵 while we also get to share the joy the reactors have of hearing them for the first time themselves 😄
I grew up on classic rock,but I swear Karen Carpenter had one of the most beautiful voice's ever!
Same here. My friends and I loved rock music but Karen Carpenter was my guilty pleasure...
"Had?" Who compares today? 🤷♂ Remember no auto tune. IMO, Adele, and Ariana are great, but still not the total package.
The immediate context of this song is that, in the early 1970s, there was a revival of interest in 1950s pop music in general and Doo-Wop in particular. So Richard and Karen actually experienced the very nostalgia that he wrote this about.
Tasha, my husband and I were dating during the years of the Carpenters height of fame. All their songs really take us back. She has the best voice I’ve ever heard. I enjoyed your reaction. ❤
The original album was great in that this song served as an intro of sorts to a side-long oldies medley. There might have been a reprise at the end too. Other Carpenters fans, feel free to correct any errors or fill in any gaps.
In your Carpenters journey don’t miss a haunting melody that Richard has called Karen’s Theme. It’s instrumental only but so perfectly captures the beauty and sadness of Karen and Richard’s music and shows his amazing (and overlooked) talent as well.
Darn you ... Who's cutting onions?!!?😢 reminds me of my youth with heavenly sister listening to Karen and Richard ❤❤
I'm now 64 and getting older, but it does my heart good to watch young people enjoy the music that I grew up on. Sadly, you missed the very best years that music had to offer.
This song captivated me at 8 years old! Great job reacting to this Tasha!
Beautiful music by a beautiful young woman can't go wrong with that cowboys👍
Excellent reaction. Im 69 and remember Carpenters well. Herb Alpert heard Karen's voice on a demo in 1969 and signed her brother, Richard, and her to A&M records. Karen received 3 or 4 Grammys in the 70s and sold over 80 million records by 1982. She was 1975 rock drummer of the year according to Playboy (John Bonham was 2d). KC had the most beautiful voice-ever, and perhaps THE best female vocalist-ever, because she compels you to listen as she sings in perfect pitch to you, not at you, with haunting emotion. No auto-tune or gimmicks. No professional voice or drum instruction. She was known by the studios as 'one take'. She rarely, if ever, sang more than one take of any song. She was also the ONLY female harmony/background voice in all her songs. She was truly born with an incredible singing talent. Documentaries point out the accolades to her voice, such as, Paul McCartney said she had the most angelic voice after hearing her sing 'Ticket To Ride'. John Lennon ran into her at an LA restaurant and told her "you have a fabulous voice, luv". Supposedly Frank Sinatra stated that Karen was the only singer he'd pay to hear. I recommend songs such as Close To You, Goodbye To Love, Solitaire, This Masquerade, Only Yesterday, Need To Be In Love, Hurting Each Other, I Can Dream Cant I (you've must hear this 1939 ballad ! ), Crescent Noon, Ordinary Fool, We've Only Just Begun, A Place To Hideaway, and A Song For You. KC never knew true love. Her few friends included Olivia Newton John and Dionne Warwick. 5'3" KC really lost weight, due to anorexia, in earnest beginning in 1975. She died in Feb 1983 at age 32 due to heart complications from anorexia.
The Carpenters are just magic! They make you smile. Thanks for your great reaction!❤❤❤
When I die and I'm standing in line at the pearly gates I hope for two things... that the hot now Krispi Kreme sign is lit and Karen Carpenter is playing on the MUZAK soundtrack, lol.
So warm, expressive, and pure. Karen is incomparable. Her brother wove a tapestry of harmony and instrumentation that perfectly displayed his sister’s gift. What a voice. What treasure. It will never be duplicated.
Nostalgia is such a bittersweet feeling, and Karen captures that perfectly in this vocal! And as usual Richard's arrangement is an absolutely perfect compliment to that vocal.
The magic of Karen Carpenter wow the number one group in the 70s for me it was the Carpenters no one could hold a candle to the Carpenters rip Karen Carpenter
She does a great version of Jambalaya too
It's so nice to see people your age taking the time to listen to some of the greatest music recorded in the last century. The Carpenters were so popular and loved by so many people. They are still superstars.
Please kerp doing more of her!!
The greatest voice ever.
You Gotta Do ( Solitaire ) Tasha 🙂
Yes, please!!! Solitaire.
This one & Superstar are my favorites!
Goosebumps??? 🙂❤
Richard understand Karen's voice, and he always put her voice in front of everything else. The instruments is never alowed to overpower her voice. This enabled us to hear her voice in all it's glory.
Have you tried 'Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft.' Very different from most of their work, but a lot of fun.
One of my favorites but I have so many but this song just makes you feel memories and songs from the past
I was alive when The Carpenters had so many great hits. I was shocked and confused about Karen's passing.
I'm a strapping young lad who loves mostly blues but great Googly moogly this is out of sight.
Tony...listen to the rest of Karen Carpenter!
What a gorgeous comment Tony! I'm so glad you have discovered Carpenters, and particularly Yesterday Once More, which is my personal favourite of theirs. But there are so many other fantastic tracks, have loads of fun discovering them.
Karen Carpenter and Minnie Riper ton are two angels let us have for much too of time. Only the good die young. But we must thank God our Lord for sharing them with us even if it was just for a blink of the eye....God Bless you Tasha and thank you for keeping me their legacy alive❤❤❤❤😅😅
This is such a timeless classic. Your reaction to this piece as always was spot on. I do so enjoy your reactions because you can see how much you love music 🎶! Thank you and take care👍🏻👍🏻🥰
Sweetie...so many to do! Some of her most beautiful songs were non hits! "You" is a beautiful one. "Bless the bessts and the children"
Hi, if you haven't heard it yet, "Rainy Days and Mondays", is one of their best songs.
In the early 1970’s, Paul McCartney said that Karen Carpenter had “the best female voice in the world.”
About the same time, John Lennon found himself in the same L.A. nightclub as Karen. Lennon made sure that he personally told her that he loved her singing.
I love all Carpenters’ music, but my favorite album these days is Voice of the Heart, released in 1983 shortly after Karen’s death. Its prominent song is “NOW” the last studio recording that she made. But there are so many spectacular songs on this one, including You’re Enough, Two Lives, At the End of the Song, Ordinary Fool (there’s a vocal coach on RUclips that suggests this might be the best one that Karen ever sung), Your Baby Doesn’t Love You Anymore and Look to Your Dreams. If you haven’t checked this album out, please do-you won’t be disappointed.
Beautiful
Thanks
Maybe the best produced song ever.
Fire reaction!!
The beauty of music of all jundras
Thank you for your beautiful smile and this wonderful music
Karen's voice makes me feel better instantly.
For those of us 60 plus the Carpenters where part of the tapestry of our lives. We were kids just living our lives and listening to am radio and being with our friends... of all colors. Did our country have problems and strife? Yes. But look no further the "Teach The World To Sing" Coca-Cola Jingles to see that we were trying to make the country and the world better. But, at least back then we had wonderful music like this by the Carpenters. Now all we have is hate and exclusion, but with no Carpenters. Thank you for doing this reaction video.
Tasha, I KNOW T feels this way, so please take this as it's meant ... but I want ... I NEED to give you "the ultimate compliment" ... when I think of a woman, a REAL woman, you are what I'm thinking about !!! You are such a great person !!! You're warm, honest, smart, caring, beautiful inside and out ... and, to put it like Shania Twain, "Man, I feel like a woman!" only, I don't want to BE one, but I lost my wife years ago, and man, I *_WISH_* I had a woman beside me again, and if I had my choice, she'd be exactly like you !!!
Magic
Imagine if she was alive now she would still be singing
I dare anyone to find such a perfect female voice today....😢
While growing up I remember hearing them all the time. Some of my favorites are: "On Top Of The World" -- try Live at the White House Edition", "Please Mr. postman", "Goodbye to Love"" You have nice reaction😀
Liquid silk!
Love you'll
Have you done Goodbye to Love? my favourite guitar solo
Is she an angel..............¡¡¡
❤
Checkout their cover of the Beatles song „ Ticket to Ride“. You won’t be disappointed. There is a UTube video of it. Enjoy
There's home runs in writing music. Metallica, Go Go's. They all could have had a hit with this.
How could anyone not love these songs,even now.
This music spans generations.
You MUST listen to Tori Holub.....she is the reincarnated version of Karen No joke. I just listened to this lovely new girl