Marcus King - Superstar (The Carpenters Cover)
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- Опубликовано: 12 авг 2020
- Marcus King - Superstar (The Carpenters Cover) recorded in a RealTV session.
Listen to "El Dorado" here: MK.lnk.to/eldorado
Marcus King’s debut solo record El Dorado is a Dan Auerbach produced, genre-bending release from a world-class young talent. A 24-year-old guitar phenom and innovative songwriter who can simultaneously switch from swaggering rock to supersonic soul - Marcus’ vocal powers take center stage on El Dorado, establishing him as one of the most soulful voices of his generation.
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Whoever came up with the idea for Markus to cover this song is genius.
I’m going to say that Dan Auerbach had a hand in this song choice.
Wow. Leon Russell would be smiling for sure!!
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@@vincentmagro4694 💙💙💙💙💙
I'll bet his Mom was a fan when he was growing up. Maybe he saw them do the song on "Tommy Boy" lol
Well. One good thing happened this year. Finding Marcus and Billy Strings.
agreed.
Ya tru
Have you found Taj?
Indeed 😉
I hear ya brother!
10 seconds into the first time I heard him I knew I'd be listening to his music for the rest of my life.
And me
Me too. Marcus and Billy Strings.
Ditto over here, still can't figure out why he's not a household name. Just mind blowing talent.
Truth
Same... 💙💙💙💙💙
The Carpenters would be so very proud.
Saw him this last weekend. Blown away. My daughter took me. In the audience there were many such parent/kid pairs. It was incredible. Markus has such much soul. I loved listening to him interpret songs. There were influences of jazz, George Benson, BB King, The Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker and many more "old school" folks. Versatility, fine lyrics and beautiful tunes, great generosity, technical prowess and pure humble love poured out from him. Thanks Marcus and Band. I am a fan.
Every time I hear him I hear another hint of some of the greatest guitar players in history. Absolutely love his music
What a rare great..I've lived long enough to see music return to life after the loudness wars and protools...
Exactly, perfectly put. 🥰
A nice and yet accurate tribute to my man Marcus King! He is all that and a bag of chips 👍👍♥️🎶🎶🎶🎶🎸
It simply doesn't get any better than this.
yeah.
except Karen Carpenter
Check out his cover of "Summertime" with Billy Strings.
ruclips.net/video/1RNNQYpnukA/видео.html
Check out Sonic Youth’s version! ruclips.net/video/Y21VecIIdBI/видео.html
David Spinozza
Karen's original vocal is simply iconic with it's orchestral arrangement backing. Marcus' stripped down take is more soulful and that guitar work of his is amazing. This is a great version of Superstar.
Right on and I do agree. Just as a heads up though, the original Is Delaney & Bonnie, written by leon Russell
@@Stonecrow25 Thank you for sharing that. I can't believe that I was not familiar with them. What a talented line-up of backing artists they had. The Carpenter's version shows Richard's arranging talent, but the genesis for their final product is clearly in the Delaney and Bonnie version.
The many sides of Marcus King 🤴
Marcus King is a rare talent. He caught my ear the very first time I heard him. Impeccable guitarist and sincere, soulful voice.
In person he’s even more amazing I got goosebumps! He’s the new SRV!
I don’t think he’s the new anybody, he’s the first Marcus King ;-)!
Damn straight
@@bstanley0072 well put.
Pareil pour moi...la première fois c'est pas mal quand même 👍👍👍 Marcus King 😉
Wow a man beyond his years was first thing I said, he's 25 with the smooth jazzy blue's soulful sounds of the 70s
This fellow is the real deal ... what he does to this classic makes it brand new
We've been fed keyboard musicians and now this man opened the door with soul in his guitar and his true grit voice. Thank you
This guy is a beast on the guitar and his vocals are just incredible. Thank the universe for the beautiful music that will just keep on going 🙏🙏🤘🤘🤘🤘
Marcus IS a freakin' SUPERSTAR!! Hands down!! We're watching a very young "Warren Haynes" growning in front of us!!
Wow... I don't think I've heard anyone cover the Carpenters. I love it!
Holy f*ck man didnt u hear about "If I were a carpenter"?!?!
He didn’t cover the Carpenters; the Carpenters covered Delaney and Bonnie… ;)
@@BrysonKeenan yes, most of the Carpenters greatest hits were covers. This is a very nice one, delicately handled.
Carpenters cast their net pretty broadly in search of inspiration, and often turned out definitive recordings. (e.g. "Close To You", "Calling Occupants" or any of their Paul Williams pieces like "We've Only Just Begun").
Richard's own songs, like "Only Yesterday" and "Top of the World" are not too shabby either, and are rarely bettered by other artists.
Luther Vandross does a incredible cover of this but it doesn’t get much better than this. Marcus is the real deal.
Talent, guts and no autotune. Classic!
Show me one live rock performance on RUclips that uses auto tune? None of them. So why is this comment on every video?
Just discovered your music all the way up here in Canada
Al Green + BB King + Ray Charles + Aretha Franklyn + Gladys Knight and you get the sounds of Marcus King
If this guy was born in the 1950's he would literally be as big as Elton John in the 70s and 80s. Top notch performance.
Sigh.. I'm not hating on Marcus. He's got plenty of talent. But if you're going to sit her and tell me you think he's in the same league as Elton John vocally.. I'm not being a dick, do you really think that?
99% of the time I hate remakes of contemporary music (I’m a huge blues fan) but this guy really surpassed the original.
He is singing the original lyrics which is by Bonnie Bramlett/Leon Russel. The Carpenters did a cover but not the original.
The 25 people that gave this a thumbs down, have no concept in what real music and talent sounds or looks like, met Marcus years ago and been a fan for a long time, all the way back to Greenville early times
Everything he sings turns into gold
Love to see great blues players show they can play jazz chords and progressions, tasteful!
This kid has got it all. Great voice and sh*t hot on guitar. Quality.
RUclips allows us to know about the greatest musicians on the planet, so much so that eventually we think we have seen all there is to see. Then Marcus King comes along and stands out even from the best of the best. His guitar playing alone is enough to get your attention but I just cannot think of a singer guitarist who’s voice is as jaw-droppingly good.
Marcus comes from a family of musicians;It's in their blood....their DNA as in so many cases.#StraightOuttaGreenvilleSC
Marcus’s style is so refreshing, such a beast on the guitar and yet so delicate. His voice is amazing and his mastery over both voice and guitar at such a young age blow me away. Imagine what he’ll be producing in the next 5-10 years! You’re the man Marcus thanks for blessing my ears with your beautiful music.
Once in a generation a superstar comes along
Sick amount of talent and soul. So rad!
Only Marcus King could make this song awesome.
I think my heart just broke a little in the best way ❤️❤️
This fellow has grabbed the torch to light the way for as long as he can!
Dude's the real thing. Keep it coming, Marcus King!
The way this man plays and uses nuances in his voice and guitar is so freakin unique is astounding . Pure talent. Put this on the radio! people would react. It made my wife melt
I was looking for the Real thing .. I Found Justice to it !!!!! Well Done !
this young man can play any style of music. this is great
Some people just have unique musical talent. I always joke that Marcus is a same world same time reincarnation of Warren Haynes - just may be true...both bring us extraordinary music in the same way. There is an amazing collection of young “real musicians” with a lifetime ahead of them emerging - we live in good musical times if you look for it. Thanks Marcus and those who play with him!
Are you any relation of Frank Rizzo??
@Tony Rizzo, Not taking anything away from Marcus at all, he's great and a gifted talent, so don't get it twisted? But, you do know that Marcus's first 2 albums were produced by Warren Haynes? Warren was the first to sign Marcus on Warren's own label, and both jam together live all the time when they can.
216Numbskull which is why I specifically wrote “same world same time reincarnation”
Dude is unreal. There is hope.
My newest .. favorite version of this great tune written by Leon Russell and Bonnie Bramlett ..
The song we know today as “Superstar” was originally called “Groupie (Superstar)” when it first appeared on that Delaney and Bonnie B-side.
As you might expect, the song was about a women who fell for a superstar passing through the town where she lived. They spent just one night together, which evidently meant a lot more to her than it did to him because she never saw him again.
Now her only connection with the man she loved is when she hears one of his songs on the radio.
Karen Carpenter’s voice perfectly conveys the sense of longing for the guy she only got to hold in her arms for one special night. Somehow she injects vastly more emotion into “Superstar”…
Long ago, and oh, so far away
I fell in love with you before the second show
Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear
But you’re not really here, it’s just the radio
Alfred Lord Tennyson said “Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.”
That’s not been my experience. And from the way she sung “Superstar”, I’m not sure that was Karen Carpenter’s experience either.
I could just be wildly projecting of course, but for me, even though Karen Carpenter’s voice displays all its usual immense technical quality, “Superstar” always feels to me like it’s got something a bit extra too.
There’s a vulnerability in the words Karen Carpenter sings which always says to me…these aren’t just words I’m singing to the best of my ability, this song hits home with me in a way few others do.
Whether that’s the case or not, the rich orchestration on this most recent version of “Superstar”, courtesy of the Royal Philharmonic, somehow emphasises that vulnerability and makes an already-emotional song into something really quite moving.
Loneliness is such a sad affair
And I can hardly wait to be with you again
What to say to make you come again?
Come back to me again and play your sad guitar
I know we’re talking about one of the most exceptional singing voices of the 20th Century here, but Karen Carpenter really sells this verse. Just the way she sings the word “loneliness” makes you feel this is a path she understands all too well.
Richard Carpenter does an immense job on the production for this updated version of “Superstar”. He makes it into something so much more than just the revival of some well-known tune by a long-departed artist.
It remains firmly the song that showcased Karen Carpenter’s unique vocal talents back in 1971.
At the same time, it’s an entirely different, more vulnerable, more emotional, more mellow, more melancholy, more richly-toned song that could easily have been recorded yesterday…not, as it is now, nearly 50 years ago.
If you love the Carpenters as much as I do, you could do a lot worse than spend a few minutes in the company of this version of “Superstar”.
It uses the original vocal track…which, let’s face it, would be impossible to improve on in any event…but updates the musical accompaniment with the help of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
And it’s just wonderful…from the harp that kicks the track off, to that most mournful of instruments, the oboe, for the rest of the intro, every element of the Carpenters’ version of “Superstar” with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is sheer perfection from start to finish.
Here’s Karen Carpenter on vocals with Richard Carpenter’s updated version of a Carpenters’ classic…Leon Russell and Bonnie Bramlett’s song, “Superstar”… ruclips.net/video/eGrLUavvkIA/видео.html&feature=emb_logo
Just when I think we are heading away from this intimate style of music, something like this comes along and makes my day 😍! Such a gift to the music world! That hollow body is something too 🥵.
Oh Lord, have mercy! Goosebumples.....
this kid is like musical wine....just gets better with time
Marcus singing bluesy, soulfull music just works!!
My goodness this gets better with every listen.
I've been digging Marcus for a few months now. Just fantastic
Got To See This Cat At The Neptune In Seattle..Just Before
The Covid...And We Were Blown Away...So Versatile..Great Band
There is nothing he can't sing loved it.
This is a blast from the past. I haven’t even thought of this song in 25-30 years! Nice job, Marcus!
I'm 3 years late 'discovering ' this. But my goodness glad I did
This is so good I'm speechless 👍👍✌️♥️
This guy has got in spades....wonderful.
Love me some Marcus King ❤️
Cant stop replaying. This man has TALENT! Hope he makes it all the way to the top, he deserves it! Hopefully see him back in the UK sometime soon!
the tone on this guitar is right on!
Didn’t know what to expect…blew me away!
This was my introduction to Marcus King. Amazing artist!
I've always loved the Carpenters, so to hear Marcus cover this was an unexpected pleasure! ❤️❤️
Just when I thought I could not love Marcus anymore, he covers this iconic tune. He is the KING.
Holy fuck this man is a gem, his voice is honey poured over thunder and he has an innate understanding of the guitar like it's an extension of his very soul.
Saw them working on this during soundcheck in December in Pittsburgh. They asked that no one take any videos during sound check bc they wanted to keep new songs they hadn't performed yet a secret. I enjoyed finally seeing it start to finish in one take, gotta say it was exponentially better with the rest of band. Missing the horns.
Music is back the way it should be!!
Those chords, especially in the verse, are pretty damn sweet. Dude gets pretty jazzy with it.
One of my newest finds is singing one of my oldest favourites ❤
You have to fall in love with Marcus King 👑
I love how he introduces everyone
Been impressed from scratch. Now? Just WOW!
NAILED IT!
The perfect union of soul, tone and technical virtuosity, a special talent!
This Marcus is so good
You can learn all the technical talent in the world, but you either have heart and soul as a musician or you dont. This kid has got IT.
My God I didn't think I could love you more... Just Wow!!!! What a great song choice!!! So well done!!
This is just perfect! I'm speechless.
The greatest piece of 'melancholia' ever written.
This guy is so impossible Good It just blows me away every time I watch
This guy can really do it all
Really enjoy Marcus’s brand of Blues.
He is phenomenal. Auditory therapy
This song needs to be available to download! It is freaking genius. Come on Markus....give it to us!!!!!💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓
I'd put this right up there with Farley and Spade's rendition from Tommy Boy
Hang on tight Marcus, theyre starting to figure it out brother! When we all do, we will all be sitting at the same table taking in what you're cooking on the astronomical scale, i hope you handle it like a champ for the 8 decades it will haunt you. Theres a bronze statue artist out there just waiting for that commission man! You deserve it.
How is it I just found out about Marcus King?!?! I was looking at some old guitars in Carter Vintage Guitar videos and was blessed with some of his performances. Wow, hands down this guy should be hitting the big time.
Richard McLain I know zero about guitars but I love the sound of whatever he’s playing
By far best version
Hey Marcus, now that you've done one Carpenter's tune so brilliantly, you are going to have to do another one man. So many beautiful tunes from them. Will you?
Fantastic guy!!! Allready a Superstar!!!
i FOUND THIS GUY TODAY AND I HOPE HE WILL SUCCEED AND HAVE A GREAT CAREER, BECAUSE HE SOUNDS GREAT AND DESERVES IT.
not only can he play phenomenally , his soulful voice is up there with the best , a great combination
Oh my I never thought I'd hear this beautiful and sad song ever again, especially from Marcus. My sister and I used to sing this in her car. Well done Marcus.
Just saw Marcus King live! I'm obsessed. And I love that he's covering The Carpenters. This ROCKS!
Magical voice .. Music i can listen to all day... Thanks Brother...🙏✌
Gotta tellya mr marcus .. that is without any fear of contradiction ..the best cover verrsion of superstar i ever did dune hear ..yes siree bob .. bravo ..take a bow ..😍😎pip pips and carryon pilgrims
Whenever Marcus starts to play you stop whatever your doing and stop what shits in your head, and listen.
The Carpenters were great, loved Karen's voice. Its great to see a contemporary artist appreciate their music and do such nice job. Excellent work.
Baby, baby , baby ,
ohhh baby
Killer killer killer!!
How could anyone give this a thumbs down??
I'm so glad to see the younger generation writing and producing good music, then occasionally someone reaches back in the file and covers a great song from my youth. Right on 💪👍
Saw Marcus at Lake Placid last summer. Can't believe our luck to see this talent on a small outdoor amphitheater. Hoping for a covid vaccine soon so Marcus can get back on the road. I'll be first in line at the next concert.
Or just wait til nov 4.
That’s a beauty of a venue by Mirror Lake 💪🏼
Marcus is just unreal. I like the way he opened up his voice on this track. Clean.
That voice is just amazing. Every time I hear him sing and play it gets better and better and is just going to continue to get better the older he gets. I hope he eventually gets the recognition that he deserves he is a rare talent that does not come around very often.
Teddy Swims....could tear this song up....Marcus is an excellent guitarist
what an incredible cover! Love from the UK boys! X
watch out man. this guy brings it. no one can touch him, he is a monster talent and performer. unreal
Great cover of this Leon Russell / Bonnie Bramlett song. He is such a talented musician. Had the pleasure of seeing him at EC's Crossroads Festival in Dallas in 2019.