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Karen’s voice was effortless and pure. One of the special things about this time of year is getting to hear her frequently on the radio. I just love “Merry Christmas Darling”
Karen Carpenter's voice was as close to perfect as a human voice could be. Her timbre, quality, and pitch were unmatched. The first time I heard the Carpenters, it was either, "We've Only Just Begun", or " Close to You". I was floored with that voice. She used very little vibrato, which many singers use to enhance a phrase ending note, but it also is a slight varying the pitch, alternating above and below it and can cover up a slightly off target, held out note. She needed no vocal enhancements. Her straight up voice was The Carpenter's success; no question about it. Her passing was very sad, and a shock, to me.
Absolutely beautiful voice. And yet I never listened to their music very much because I found it so depressing. Could Karen sing? Absolutely! But their music always made me sad.
@@edwardlynch9973 I know where you are coming from. I give credit, where it is due. She had one of the all time best voices, but I didn't buy much, or listen a great deal to their music, either. I don't think sad is the word for myself, but, kind of odd, and melancholy, I guess. It was different.
I know. I was 21 when she passed, and I cried like a baby. I still cry sometimes when I hear her songs. I felt like I had lost a friend. Both my mother and I grieved over her death. Now my mama is on the other side & I imagine they hang out together sometimes!
Paul wasn’t the only Beatle to love her voice. So did John. Karen’s voice was so warm and welcoming and she had a natural feel for how to use it. She waits very carefully, often deliberately behind the beat where she thinks she needs it, and she apparently did this as a teenager without any coaching. As a result she always sounded mature, never like a kid. She was also a really good drummer, which she was before she was a singer, getting compliments from among others Buddy Rich.
One thing about Karen's singing was her great pronunciation of words,you never had to guess what the beauty was singing,so clear an precise, love the carpenter's!!
My Father met The Carpenters & Herb Alpert when he worked @ Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. He instantly became a fan of all these artists. He said they were all nice, down-to-earth & incredibly talented. My whole family became their fans.
God I loved the Carpenters, especially Karen's gorgeous voice and Richard's arrangements. As a Black teen at the time, being into the Carpenters was, shall we say, niche. But it was what it was. My favorite bands were people like Earth, Wind and Fire, Tower of Power, Santana, Chicago, War and yes, the Carpenters. Incidentally, there is a RUclips video of Karen singing a duet with Ella Fitzgerald. Astounding! They were both great ladies of song who seemed not to realize how beautiful they were, in all ways.
@@pbohearn Totally. They may have been "white bread", but if so, they were "white, done right!". It's interesting. Now, many people who were too cool at the time (whatever the race) will concede that the Carpenters were good and Karen was great.
My favourite Carpenters song, without a doubt, is “Superstar”. Notwithstanding this, I don’t think there is a Carpenters song that I dislike. Karen Carpenter had, in my opinion, the most beautiful voice in popular music history.
In 1971, while I was in Vietnam, I remember listening to Superstar while flying in a Huey helicopter over the Mekong Delta. That was one of my few good memories regarding my time in Vietnam.
Yes but I've always had a hankering to hear her sing something with a little more gravitas: 'I came upon a child of God, He was walking along the road, and I asked him where are you going, and this he told me...' Joni Mitchell's ode to Woodstock. I know it wasn't their bag but I still would have loved to hear it.
"A Song for You" is my favorite Carpenters song. It doesn't get as much recognition as their other songs, but, to me, it is there best song ever. I listened to the Carpenters when I was a child in the 70's, as a middle school girl in the early 80's, and as a grief stricken teenager in the later 80's. I continue to listen to them today as a woman in my 50's. I will keep the music of the Carpenters in my soul forever. Thank you for the music 🎶 ❤🤍💙❤🤍💙❤🤍💙❤🤍💙❤
My favorite Carpenters song is, Bless The Beasts and the Children, from the movie of the same name. To me, a disabled firefighter, the song is a prayer, but also a commission. The ... keep them safe, keep them warm! Light their way when the darkness surrounds them, give them love, let it shine upon them. This was the whole idea for me becoming a firefighter, after my father, and the words would resound in my head as we were rushing to an emergency. I can still get a bit emotional when I hear the song, as if it were one of the times I held a small child in my arms during an emergency. Thanks for posting this video!
Karen's voice and the Carpenters' harmonies were beautiful. There was no wailing, over-egged melisma and fake soulfulness etc - just pure, singing at it's best.
You're so right. Most popular singers today are so untalented or untrained that they cannot hold a long note in pitch and must resort to melismatic techniques. Vocal analysis software has shown that Karen's pitch was as accurate live as it was in the studio, and in some cases more accurate. When I saw that, I was dumbfounded.
@@joejones9520 Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry to name three. I’m not saying that there aren’t great singers today but the most popular ones aren’t there because of their musical talent.
The Carpenters were my favorite group in high school. "We've Only Just Begun" was our senior class song. My favorite song they sang was "Hurting Each Other". I loved "Superstar" and "Close to You" , also. My ex-husband and I would play their Christmas album every year when we were decorating our Christmas tree. After Karen died, it killed me to listen to it, as my brother died unexpectedly at 32, and it was too sad. She did have the most beautiful voice I've ever heard. RIP, beloved singer!
I started listening to The Carpenters from almost the get-go(I have six of their albums). I was FLOORED when she passed in 1983(I STILL can't listen to her voice without tearing up). Hard to believe she's been gone nearly forty years. My mother couldn't understand why I bought their music. She thought it was TOO SWEET. GOD BLESS AND REST YOUR SOUL KAREN. I STILL MISS YOU. 😪😪😪✌✌✌✌
I think we were all collectively stunned when she died. I'm with you - I hear a song of hers start up and there's a pain in my heart. So much that could have been.
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas " is Karen's most magnificent vocal . The way that she opens and holds those notes is incredible. Happy Holidays everyone.
Christmas Portrait is one of their best albums --- and probably one of the best selling. It doesn't get discussed much, but I'd say most people have at least heard 'Merry Christmas, Darling' -- probably my favorite from the album, but it's full of great performances from the duo.
"Christmas Portrait" has to be the best and most traditional of Christmas albums ever recorded. Karen's vocals and Richard's arrangements are superb! There's nothing else out there that even comes close.
I love the song "Close To You". I was a fat kid with low self esteem issues, and when the song hit the top of the charts it was played all the time as a result! Was not enough for me, because when I would hear Her Angelic voice over the radio singing that song, it felt as if She was singing it to me personally, so much so I would blush! lol I didn't feel so ugly anymore. Thank You Karen. Was devastated to hear of Her untimely passing. The Carpenters music will always live in my heart.
Surely had to be. Its difficult to deal with a narcissistic mother. They never let up ever. I knew there had to be someone in her life as she was so kind and fun as well as talented. But she is remarkably BEAUTIFUL. Love out...heres to Karens memory
I was 7 years in 1972 living living in Puerto Rico. Did not know one word of English. The Carpenters was my first love music in English. Even as a 7 year old I stopped what I was doing when I heard Sing A Song, Rainy Days and Monday….etc…. but the main one was Top Of The World! Ironically with all the issues….she was beautiful and had a voice no one has ever matched. Miss her. Richard is doing great which is good to see and he just finished a project of their music and honoring his sister! Classy man! 🙏🏼
My mother hated me from the first moment she knew she was expecting me. My older siblings were always praised but not me. My mother once told me when I was in my 20's when I asked why she & Daddy waited till their 40s to have me. Her words to me were cold & heartless.....she said "you were a mistake....you weren't wanted"! It's taken me years to finally start to like myself. Poor Karen.... I feel her pain. RIP Karen!
I’m sorry you were treated that way. My own mother told me if she had it to do all over again, she would never have had children….just dogs instead. When she eventually passed away we could only find one picture of her smiling. It was a picture a her eating with her friends. We had to crop out the lobster to use it for her death announcement.
@@MelindaMc Oh Melinda!! I'm so sorry you had to go through this! But always remember, God loves you and He wanted you to be born to do great things!! I love you too! Blessings forever my dear. GOD DOES NOT MAKE MISTAKES!! 🙏❤️😘
My partner and I both loved The Carpenters. Maurice died at just 46 in my arms and I played You're The One at his funeral as my farewell to him. It expressed everything we felt for each other. Forty years Karen's has now been gone, my whole life as an adult and still her voice sings loud and clear.
Herb Alpert, who co-founded A&M Records, had a huge hit song in 1968 called "This Guy's In Love With You", written by Bert Bacharach. It was a bit syrupy and the hook was that the trumpeting bandleader rarely sang vocals with his music. Somebody handed Alpert a song they thought would be a top-selling follow-up to his hit but Alpert thought it was so over-the-top syrupy that he rejected it however, he thought about letting his new act, The Carpenters, give it a try if they were willing. That song was "Close To You" and was the top-selling hit of the Carpenters' career. When you go back through the lyrics, you could see why Alpert nixed it for himself but it was the number that really sent Karen and Richard into the pop stratosphere. Karen's singing voice was perhaps the best of all time for a pop female vocalist. When you hear it, you know right away whose voice it is and that is a rare quality. RIP, Karen.
HERB WAS BRILLIANT BUT I QUESTION HIS OPINION OF CLOSE TO YOU ITS A FANTASTIC SONG AND OF COURSE KAREN VOICE WAS A GOD GIVEN UNIQUE GIFT R I P AMEN ALSO BB A FABULOUS COMPOSER 👌
My favorite is their version of “A Song For You”. I still choke up when she sings ..”and when my life is over”. I still have a crush on her all these years later. The best female vocalist of the rock era.
Her voice was like deep rich melted chocolate. I did not like their material but her voice was magical. I was having my hair cut when her death was announced. I had image issues too and was dieting dangerously. My boyfriend of four years ended our relationship and I was under exam pressure at Uni. Her death brought me up short. She was eleven years older than me. It made me take stock and seek help. God bless her.
Don't believe what gossip writers say to sell their books. Her relationship with her mother was no worse than most kids of that era. I had a poor relationship with my dad but I never took sleeping pills or induced vomiting.
Nah… she was a stone cold woman. Stories go back for over 50 years. But you’re right.. there was/are a lot of shitty mothers out there. This particular mom was unfortunately documented as a horrible person
Angela Holmes I agree with you completely on all of this , .as i can sympathize with her as both my parents , my father and mother were cruel and abusive to me and my 2 sisters and brother so i feel her pain .God bless you always .🌹💖💖🎉
@@cwheremonster8870 There are too many documented examples of Agnes Carpenter’s idolation of Richard-and her dismissiveness of Karen-to brush away. Even the softest accounts of the duo point this out. I grew up a few years after them, with an icy mother who anointed a “golden child,” and recognize the signs and signals!
It was a shock when the radio announced Karen's sudden death those many years ago. A darkness descended and I cried all day. Thankfully her hauntingly beautiful voice will be with us always.
"Top of the World" was ground breaking and still lives today as one of the best in mixing musical genre. In May of 1970 I was an usher at one of their concerts at our Uni. (Thank you, PLU Knights !) I was on stage right and watched her mouthing the words prior to her entry. I was fixated on her and remember thinking, "What a beautiful woman!" So goddam sad she went the way of so many other insecure kids from bad marriages. She had everything: a voice like an angel, the smile that made us melt, and the disposition that asked us "What was life all about?" A true beauty. I also remember that every member of the six-piece orchestra played at LEAST 5 instruments, each to perfection to studio sound in every song! Plus, Richard was in a wrist cast? Genius!
I loved listening to the Carpenters music. I was heart sick when Karen died as I understand the world had lost a beautiful Angel. I never understood how her Mother could be so cruel to someone whom only wanted to bring beauty into the world. I still wonder what songs I missed out on hearing from them. May she be at peace now.
Nancee C. I feel the same way about Karen's Mother. Give all of her love and attention on Richard. I started to listen to The Carpenters whin I was in Jr. High. Still love their music. She has always been an Angel, now she has her wings. Fly high Karen.
I can absolutely relate to Karen's insecurities stemming from never receiving her mother's love and seeing it all go to her brother. My relationship with my own was identical to this and I have struggled for decades to feel any sense of self worth because of it. I had forty years of abuse and emotional neglect from mine, yet some people naively declare that "all mothers love their daughters" (or "all mothers love their children equally").
It was incredibly common. My parents put me on a diet back then, I swear I was never fat, but my father was mortified looking at me, I needed to be eight inches taller according to him- or twenty pounds lighter, at ten years old.
@@patricialongo5746 As a child of the sixties, I know that what you say is true. Kids today have no idea the (often impossible) standards kids of our era were held to.
That is so untrue. Most mothers love all their kids in various ways. But sadly there are exceptions, even in my family. In the Carpenters biopic from the late 80's. Sadly at the end before she died, it did seem she and her mom.were mending fences. There is a biography out about her entitled Little Girl Blue. I read some of it a few years ago. It would be cool if Richard wrote a memoir. Never knew he married his adopted first cousin.
Grew up listening to their records and to this day I cannot have a smile on my face when hearing Karen singing. She had the greatest pure voice of anyone that I have heard over the years and with Richards song making they are the greatest duo of my generation(my opinion). I like to think that god recalled her back to heaven so that they can have her singing for them. Wish I could have seen her in person, RIP.
"I Need To Be In Love" and "Goodbye To Love" - because in live performances you can see the words ring true to her. Amazing that so many of her male fans were hopelessly in love with her (me included) and she had NO idea.
Karen Carpenter, had probably one of the most purest voices, ever. And it’s just a shame that she essentially died because of others opinions of how she was supposed to supposedly look. She took it to the extreme.
That was a psychological, mental and emotional condition that manifested physically. I think she was desperate for her mother's love and attention, initially, and it was also tied to the crazy touring schedule. But it went way, way, too far and, before she knew it, she couldn't stop the compulsion to self starve.
Early in their career Karen saw a photo of herself on stage that made her look heavy. So she decided to fix it. She did not want to jeopardize their chances of success. Her weight was something she had control over and it literally killed her.
I'm kind of convinced that 'the nail in the coffin' (sorry...) was that asshat that she married, who didn't tell her that he had a vasectomy, and, apparently, she really wanted children, and this guy refused to reverse the vasectomy... I have to think that this kind of total betrayal of her love must have been the thing that reinforced her downward slide...may Tom Burris rot in whatever place he ends up...
I became enamored with the carpenters when I was 11 years old in 1974. It took me two weeks of delivering newspapers after school to save $7 to buy yet another Carpenters album, plus the bus fare downtown. That is what I call true love. RIP my sweet Karen. I am grateful to both you and Richard for adding so much beauty to my life and to the world ❤️❤️❤️
Was absolutely obsessed with the Horizon album. Wore out the 8-track, the cassette and the vinyl. "Love Me For What I Am" is definitely a favorite. I also love "Bless the Beasts and the Children." Karen could sing anything. I still miss her after all this time. RIP sweet angel. 🙏
I was too, and just listened to the whole thing again recently. Surprising how easily I remembered the words. My favorite is "I Can Dream, Can't I", what a stunning arrangement by Billy Strayhorn. But the whole album is magic, like dreaming while awake.
I love all the Carpenters songs. For All We Know, Close to You, We've Only Just Begun, and Merry Christmas Darling are my favorites. I saw them live in Fort Worth, Texas in 1971 and paid $6.50 for my ticket!
'Goodbye To Love' was my anthem in my late teens, because that was exactly the way I felt. Karen Carpenter had one of the most beautiful voices that has ever existed. And Richard Carpenter was a genius on the piano. Rest In Peace, Karen Carpenter.
The Carpenters were my favorite records I listened to in my tiny Sound in the Round record player! I still have all my favorite songs, 40+ years later. I still mourn the loss of Karen. Her voice was so beautiful.
I was a huge Carpenters fan growing up. But my favorite song of theirs was the last song Karen recorded, called “Now”. It is beautiful and yet quite haunting.
I never heard this song until about 5 years ago and you are right, It is absolutly amazing. Read she performed that in 1 take. What a gift we lost way to soon. Listen to her everyday . My favoite forever.
Every Wedding in the 70's played "We've only just begun", the early 70's had some memorable easy listening music, The Carpenters, Carly Simon, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Carol King, Jim Croce and even Cher had multiple hits.
I'm more of a metal guy, but I can't help but get enchanted with Karen's soft soothing and very feminine voice. For me, she's got the most beautiful female voice in modern music history!
Superstar will always be my favorite Carpenter song. Caron had a voice like no other and I am so happy that not only do I own several of their albums but you can still hear it on the radio today.
My favorite Carpenter's song (although it's hard to pick just one) is "Yesterday Once More". Karen had a midnight velvet voice that soothed and delighted everyone. When she died I was heartbroken as was my brother. He always said that Karen was supposed to marry him, that's how big a crush he had on her.
@@FactsVerse I forgot to mention earlier that Karen and I share the same birthday - March 2nd. She was exactly seven years older than me. I am honored by that fact.
I have a distinct memory of their "Yesterday Once More" cover album of '50s music. Someone played it during our gymnastics practices in high school. Strange how something only 20 years prior to the '70s was considered nostalgia, but music I listened to 40 or 50 years ago is just 'classic' .
I have liked The Carpenters since hearing "The Singles 1969 - 1973". My brother bought it around 1975. I'd have to say my most favourite two songs would be "Only Just Begun" and "For All We Know" with its haunting sound of the oboe. It's just really perfect in every way.
We've Only Just Begun. I was 10 years old and heard it on WWLE radio Cornwall NY. Takes no effort at all to hear her voice in my head. To my recollection she is my earliest memory of a beautiful woman. Heart breaking to me still this very moment that if only she could've seen herself through the eyes of her many fans and realized she WAS beautiful in every sense of the word.
Can't pick a favorite song. I have always said that Karen had the most timelessly beautiful voice ever. I think people will forever find them and their music.
I followed the Carpenters as a kid. My Dad brought home some of their records and I have been hooked since. Whether on Records Tape or Digital, I always have their music playing. It is part of my life in music. They were way different compared to any of the music in the 70s. So special Karen was to me in her gifted voice, it was like her soul pouring out of her. It truly was. It is really true many of our most beloved performers have such deep problems in their lives. If maybe things were just a bit different, maybe Karen and Richard would still be delighting us today. Though Karen now in Heaven with God, singing with the Angels as an Angel herself. We were all blessed to have The Carpenters in our lives. I can't imagine my music without them.
“If Silk could sing it would be Karen’s voice”. I’ve loved listening to her songs ever since I was a kid. It was always a joy to see their TV Specials. I always sang songs not ever learning the lyrics. I was more a listening to the instruments, tune, harmony and melody. Not, much older, I listen to the lyrics and always go in and tell my wife or friends “Hey, did you ever learn the lyrics of this song” whatever songs it was. But, I listen the their lyrics and they are very flippin really depressing. I love this generations reaction to hearing her sing for the first time.
One of the best voices to sing songs. There was a time when I was a teenager, I was just obsessed with her sultry voice. So smooth and effortless. I still listen from time to time.
I discovered The Carpenters in 1995 when I was just 12 years old and now 39 I love them even more, all discography complete in CDs and I am from Chile 🇨🇱 so the Carpenters made it way far beyond, as you asked my fave songs are ForAllWeKnow, Lovelines, MrPostman, BlessTheBeastsAndTheChildren and well all many more, I think I subscribed your channel probably 4 years ago, amazing info and finally about the Carpenters, Thanks! Hugs from Chile 🇨🇱
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Karen Carpenter had one of the greatest voices of the 20th Century! She is so missed and I know Richard misses her very much. His writing and musical orchestrations/arrangements were superb. The Carpenters were unique and one of my all time favorite groups...they're truly an icon of pop music history.
My favorite song is 'This Masquerade '. For me, February 4, 1983 was the Day that Music Died. I cannot express how much I love her music; how easily and often she brings tears to my eyes. Many times I find myself listening a non- Carpenters song (Sheridan's Lotta Love!, King's It's too Late!) , and thinking how beautiful it may have been rearranged by Richard and sung by Karen. And dreaming of some huge Divas/Duet-like albums sharing songs with her friends Petula Clark, Olivia Newton-John and Dionne Warwick, perhaps also Carly Simon, Carole King, Helen Reddy, Linda Ronstadt, Bette Midler ... D@mn, how much I miss her!
I grew up listening to the carpenters. My grandparents were huge fans so would always have them playing on the tape deck when I visited. I still remember the day Karen died. I was 9 years old but it felt like the world had ended. Rest in peace sweet Karen.
I grew up listening to "The Carpenters" so they are really special in my childhood memories. Paul McCartney is right. I also consider Karen's voice as the most beautiful angelic female voice. It is sad she passed away so young. Nevertheless, her voice will be eternal being loved by her loyal fans. Thanks a lot "The Carpenters" for so many inspirational moments!
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I never knew that about her mother. Its really sad that happened. Unfortunately, mother's are the most important person in a child's life. How she could be so cruel. A beautiful voice undead and timeless!!❤️❤️
The Carpenters were one of my mothers favourites, she'd always sing their songs to me. I still get goosebumps when I hear Karen sing, such a beautiful voice.
For a long time, I didn't play any of their songs, because of her death and tears would flow when I hear her sing. I can appreciate more the songs now that time has passed.
I first heard their music in the late 60's and I have always been a fan of the Carpenters. At that time rock was getting more psychedelic and music was changing rapidly, but the Carpenters music was there for all to enjoy no matter what age you were, especially their holiday songs...so sad that Karen died so young.
Karen's voice was all over the radio, huge hits, "we've only just begun" is one of my all time favorite songs, haunting voice, thanks Karen for great music.
yes, people today probably cant imagine how much the Carpenters were on the radio, it was a huge part of anyone's life who grew up in the 70s, they were always in the background.
No one like Karen her voice, mellow rich, smooth, mezzo, like velvety flowing melted chocolate, and carried such a soothing tone that it enveloped you and captivated you.
From watching lots of interviews and hearing Karen speak I get the very clear impression she was a very cool and hip person. Would have been a great person to know and be around. Great energy and good sense of humour. One of the best things you can say about another human being.
She was very cool and very, very talented. As talented as she was with singing and playing drums and bass, she also showed great potential as an actress and comedienne. I wish she had done some acting and worked with other artists. I'm sure she would have had she not run out of time.
"I'll say Goodbye to Love." Sang all the Carpenter's Tunes alone-in the basement in Cincinnati, Ohio 1974. I absolutely was enthralled. Such a velvet voice!
This song "appeared" in a 1940 Bing Crosby movie "Rhythm On the River". His character was a songwriter, who would often mention a song he had written ("Goodbye To Love", of course). But it was never heard in the movie. The title alone was enough to inspire Richard Carpenter to write it.
I love The Carpenter 's.I seen them in concert in 1973. They were great I had all their Albums I been a fan since I was 19 years old Now I am 72 years old RIP.beautiful.Karen Carpenter 👑✝️❤️🙏✨🥁🎤🎙️🎸🎼🎵🎶
I was a shock when she died. I loved their music and it made me cry when she died and always felt that it must have crushed Richard when he lost Karen. I was in shopping in a J.C. Penney's in the greater Seattle area when it was announced over the store speakers since it was tied into a local radio station and people throughout the store were visibly shocked and saddened.
When bulimic Karen was regularly using syrup of ipecac to induce vomiting, it wasn’t widely known then that ipecac can dissolve the heart muscle-a contributing factor to the heart attack that killed her. Also, the drug to which Richard became addicted was quaaludes.
I first heard Karen on the radio as a preteen. It wasn't until I watched her biopic with my mom years later that I discovered she was the woman my mom had met briefly when the Carpenter Trio played in the Battle of the Bands at the Hollywood Bowl the same year my mom's choir did. My mom could rarely listen to Karen because of the deep loss she felt over Karen's passing. I love Karen's voice & sing her songs all the time. As a vocalist, I aspire to be as devoted to my craft as she was. My favorite song she recorded was For All We Know. She was beautiful inside & out and her voice reflected that beauty.
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Carpenters were NOT a "folk" vocal duo, they were "pop".
"Steady as she goes !"
All I can say is a voice like that will never come again !
THE TRUTH.
Less sexism: " could play the drums just as well as any man ". Wow...any man? that good? I wish I could iron as well as any woman...
I'm heavy metal through and through, but absolutely love the Carpenters. Karen's drumming is painfully underrated.
Karen’s voice was effortless and pure. One of the special things about this time of year is getting to hear her frequently on the radio. I just love “Merry Christmas Darling”
Her final solo album is everything...Until Now...💔🎼🎵🎶🌈🕊
Love that one. ❤️🎄
Her Ave Maria is absolutely sublime
I agree!
Merry Christmas Darling is a Special Song!
I feel so warm and fuzzy inside, when I hear "Merry Christmas Darling". I can lay on the bed, and just dream. What a wonderful feeling.
Karen Carpenter had a voice so pure, clear, exceptionally lovely and timeless. There will never again be a voice like hers. Rest in Peace, Karen.
SO TRUE
Marilyn McCoo of the Fifth Dimension was another whose voice was clear, and clearly understandable.
Karen Carpenter's voice actually sends 'warm' chills up and down my spine, her voice is that unique and special.
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@@FactsVerseRainy Days And Mondays and Masquerade for me
Karen Carpenter's voice was as close to perfect as a human voice could be. Her timbre, quality, and pitch were unmatched. The first time I heard the Carpenters, it was either, "We've Only Just Begun", or " Close to You". I was floored with that voice. She used very little vibrato, which many singers use to enhance a phrase ending note, but it also is a slight varying the pitch, alternating above and below it and can cover up a slightly off target, held out note. She needed no vocal enhancements. Her straight up voice was The Carpenter's success; no question about it. Her passing was very sad, and a shock, to me.
Absolutely beautiful voice. And yet I never listened to their music very much because I found it so depressing. Could Karen sing? Absolutely! But their music always made me sad.
@@edwardlynch9973 I know where you are coming from. I give credit, where it is due. She had one of the all time best voices, but I didn't buy much, or listen a great deal to their music, either. I don't think sad is the word for myself, but, kind of odd, and melancholy, I guess. It was different.
I know. I was 21 when she passed, and I cried like a baby. I still cry sometimes when I hear her songs. I felt like I had lost a friend. Both my mother and I grieved over her death. Now my mama is on the other side & I imagine they hang out together sometimes!
Love that Paul McCartney said her voice was “Angelic”. I was lucky to see them perform live years ago.
Paul wasn’t the only Beatle to love her voice. So did John.
Karen’s voice was so warm and welcoming and she had a natural feel for how to use it. She waits very carefully, often deliberately behind the beat where she thinks she needs it, and she apparently did this as a teenager without any coaching. As a result she always sounded mature, never like a kid. She was also a really good drummer, which she was before she was a singer, getting compliments from among others Buddy Rich.
My dad played the violin on all their albums.
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That’s so cool!
I’ll bet he had some cool stories to tell.
How interesting. Can you please tell us more
Awesome! Kudos to your Dad.
One thing about Karen's singing was her great pronunciation of words,you never had to guess what the beauty was singing,so clear an precise, love the carpenter's!!
My Father met The Carpenters & Herb Alpert when he worked @ Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. He instantly became a fan of all these artists. He said they were all nice, down-to-earth & incredibly talented. My whole family became their fans.
God I loved the Carpenters, especially Karen's gorgeous voice and Richard's arrangements. As a Black teen at the time, being into the Carpenters was, shall we say, niche. But it was what it was. My favorite bands were people like Earth, Wind and Fire, Tower of Power, Santana, Chicago, War and yes, the Carpenters.
Incidentally, there is a RUclips video of Karen singing a duet with Ella Fitzgerald. Astounding! They were both great ladies of song who seemed not to realize how beautiful they were, in all ways.
Wow, Karen and Ella! I’m going to check that out!
I still can't get over how pretty Ella's voice was. One in a Billion!
Thank you for that find! She and Ella so fabulous!
At a time of “Black is beautiful,” the carpenters were the whitest of the white lol yeah I would say they were niche lol
@@pbohearn Totally. They may have been "white bread", but if so, they were "white, done right!". It's interesting. Now, many people who were too cool at the time (whatever the race) will concede that the Carpenters were good and Karen was great.
My favourite Carpenters song, without a doubt, is “Superstar”. Notwithstanding this, I don’t think there is a Carpenters song that I dislike. Karen Carpenter had, in my opinion, the most beautiful voice in popular music history.
In 1971, while I was in Vietnam, I remember listening to Superstar while flying in a Huey helicopter over the Mekong Delta. That was one of my few good memories regarding my time in Vietnam.
I concur!!
Yes but I've always had a hankering to hear her sing something with a little more gravitas:
'I came upon a child of God, He was walking along the road, and I asked him where are you going, and this he told me...' Joni Mitchell's ode to Woodstock. I know it wasn't their bag but I still would have loved to hear it.
My favorite too!
"Superstar" is #3 on my list. "A Song for You" is #2. And topping at #1, IMO, is "This Masquerade".
"A Song for You" is my favorite Carpenters song. It doesn't get as much recognition as their other songs, but, to me, it is there best song ever. I listened to the Carpenters when I was a child in the 70's, as a middle school girl in the early 80's, and as a grief stricken teenager in the later 80's. I continue to listen to them today as a woman in my 50's. I will keep the music of the Carpenters in my soul forever. Thank you for the music 🎶
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My favorite Carpenters song is, Bless The Beasts and the Children, from the movie of the same name. To me, a disabled firefighter, the song is a prayer, but also a commission. The ... keep them safe, keep them warm! Light their way when the darkness surrounds them, give them love, let it shine upon them. This was the whole idea for me becoming a firefighter, after my father, and the words would resound in my head as we were rushing to an emergency. I can still get a bit emotional when I hear the song, as if it were one of the times I held a small child in my arms during an emergency. Thanks for posting this video!
One of our favorites too, you've got fine taste! What other types of video would you like to see?
Karen's voice and the Carpenters' harmonies were beautiful. There was no wailing, over-egged melisma and fake soulfulness etc - just pure, singing at it's best.
she was a great drummer also.
You're so right. Most popular singers today are so untalented or untrained that they cannot hold a long note in pitch and must resort to melismatic techniques. Vocal analysis software has shown that Karen's pitch was as accurate live as it was in the studio, and in some cases more accurate. When I saw that, I was dumbfounded.
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@@deirdre108 who today is successful but cant sing?
@@joejones9520 Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry to name three. I’m not saying that there aren’t great singers today but the most popular ones aren’t there because of their musical talent.
The Carpenters were my favorite group in high school. "We've Only Just Begun" was our senior class song. My favorite song they sang was "Hurting Each Other". I loved "Superstar" and "Close to You" , also. My ex-husband and I would play their Christmas album every year when we were decorating our Christmas tree. After Karen died, it killed me to listen to it, as my brother died unexpectedly at 32, and it was too sad. She did have the most beautiful voice I've ever heard. RIP, beloved singer!
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“We’ve Only Just Begun” was my senior class song, too. 😀
Wow .. 32 years old .. Just like Karen.
@@jeffbrown5039 - Yes, and he died suddenly of a brain aneurysm. I've never gotten over it.
@@festivelady826 Death is more real than life. You simply MUST get over it.
My favorite is "Superstar". The arrangement and her voice just hauntingly beautiful, smooth, soulful.
I started listening to The Carpenters from almost the get-go(I have six of their albums).
I was FLOORED when she passed in 1983(I STILL can't listen to her voice without tearing up). Hard to believe she's been gone nearly forty years.
My mother couldn't understand why I bought their music. She thought it was TOO SWEET.
GOD BLESS AND REST YOUR SOUL KAREN. I STILL MISS YOU. 😪😪😪✌✌✌✌
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I think we were all collectively stunned when she died. I'm with you - I hear a song of hers start up and there's a pain in my heart. So much that could have been.
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas " is Karen's most magnificent vocal . The way that she opens and holds those notes is incredible. Happy Holidays everyone.
Christmas Portrait is one of their best albums --- and probably one of the best selling. It doesn't get discussed much, but I'd say most people have at least heard 'Merry Christmas, Darling' -- probably my favorite from the album, but it's full of great performances from the duo.
Ain't nobody that could sing a Christmas song like Karen could.
"Christmas Portrait" has to be the best and most traditional of Christmas albums ever recorded. Karen's vocals and Richard's arrangements are superb! There's nothing else out there that even comes close.
My Christmas Darling
@@iluvmusicals21 Yes. dreamy!
I love the song "Close To You". I was a fat kid with low self esteem issues, and when the song hit the top of the charts it was played all the time as a result! Was not enough for me, because when I would hear Her Angelic voice over the radio singing that song, it felt as if She was singing it to me personally, so much so I would blush! lol I didn't feel so ugly anymore. Thank You Karen.
Was devastated to hear of Her untimely passing. The Carpenters music will always live in my heart.
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Sing it to all my babies, and now my grand child! ❤️
So sad to hear that Richard was the golden child and Karen was the child who could do nothing right in the eyes of their mother.
Agnes had to be a narcissist.
Surely had to be. Its difficult to deal with a narcissistic mother. They never let up ever. I knew there had to be someone in her life as she was so kind and fun as well as talented. But she is remarkably BEAUTIFUL. Love out...heres to Karens memory
An early review said something along the lines of "Richard and his chubby little sister...." That may have been a trigger factor.
Most likely. The movie about her highlights this.@@Tmanaz480
Keep this in check. Often you don t know unless you are there.
I was 7 years in 1972 living living in Puerto Rico. Did not know one word of English. The Carpenters was my first love music in English. Even as a 7 year old I stopped what I was doing when I heard Sing A Song, Rainy Days and Monday….etc…. but the main one was Top Of The World! Ironically with all the issues….she was beautiful and had a voice no one has ever matched. Miss her. Richard is doing great which is good to see and he just finished a project of their music and honoring his sister! Classy man! 🙏🏼
My mother hated me from the first moment she knew she was expecting me. My older siblings were always praised but not me. My mother once told me when I was in my 20's when I asked why she & Daddy waited till their 40s to have me. Her words to me were cold & heartless.....she said "you were a mistake....you weren't wanted"! It's taken me years to finally start to like myself. Poor Karen.... I feel her pain. RIP Karen!
Favorite KC songs..Goodbye to Love...n. It's Gonna Take Some Time
I’m sorry you were treated that way. My own mother told me if she had it to do all over again, she would never have had children….just dogs instead. When she eventually passed away we could only find one picture of her smiling. It was a picture a her eating with her friends. We had to crop out the lobster to use it for her death announcement.
@@maryhartsock7792 Oh Mary, how sad. I'm sorry for your lost & sorry your mother was so unkind. You are loved! Never forget that! Blessings! 🙏❤️
I feel your pain I too was a mistake and hated by my mother.
@@MelindaMc Oh Melinda!! I'm so sorry you had to go through this! But always remember, God loves you and He wanted you to be born to do great things!! I love you too! Blessings forever my dear. GOD DOES NOT MAKE MISTAKES!! 🙏❤️😘
It's sad that karen lost her battle with anorexia she was such a gifted and kind person 😥😢
There will NEVER be another voice like that..
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My partner and I both loved The Carpenters. Maurice died at just 46 in my arms and I played You're The One at his funeral as my farewell to him. It expressed everything we felt for each other. Forty years Karen's has now been gone, my whole life as an adult and still her voice sings loud and clear.
We're very happy to know that you and your partner love the Carpenters. Thank you so much for sharing your life story. Be safe and have a great day 😊
Karen's voice was as smooth as butter. What a gift!
i heard john lennon was the beatle who recognized karen was fine vocalist.
Karen had the greatest female voice of all time. Rest easy Angel.
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Completely agree💖👌
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K. D. Lang was inspired by Karen.
Yes most definitely! Her and Judith Durham of the Seekers are my all time favorite voices.
Herb Alpert, who co-founded A&M Records, had a huge hit song in 1968 called "This Guy's In Love With You", written by Bert Bacharach. It was a bit syrupy and the hook was that the trumpeting bandleader rarely sang vocals with his music. Somebody handed Alpert a song they thought would be a top-selling follow-up to his hit but Alpert thought it was so over-the-top syrupy that he rejected it however, he thought about letting his new act, The Carpenters, give it a try if they were willing. That song was "Close To You" and was the top-selling hit of the Carpenters' career. When you go back through the lyrics, you could see why Alpert nixed it for himself but it was the number that really sent Karen and Richard into the pop stratosphere. Karen's singing voice was perhaps the best of all time for a pop female vocalist. When you hear it, you know right away whose voice it is and that is a rare quality. RIP, Karen.
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I did not know that ... thank you for the story.
Close To You was also written by BB.
Karen was soooooo beautiful!!!!!
HERB WAS BRILLIANT BUT I QUESTION HIS OPINION OF CLOSE TO YOU ITS A FANTASTIC SONG AND OF COURSE KAREN VOICE WAS A GOD GIVEN UNIQUE GIFT R I P AMEN ALSO BB A FABULOUS COMPOSER 👌
My favorite is their version of “A Song For You”. I still choke up when she sings ..”and when my life is over”. I still have a crush on her all these years later. The best female vocalist of the rock era.
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Karen had the voice of an angel. Listen to her sing Ave Maria. RIP Karen.
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Her voice was like deep rich melted chocolate. I did not like their material but her voice was magical. I was having my hair cut when her death was announced. I had image issues too and was dieting dangerously. My boyfriend of four years ended our relationship and I was under exam pressure at Uni. Her death brought me up short. She was eleven years older than me. It made me take stock and seek help. God bless her.
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Nothing syrupy about herbs version of this guys in love with you . Carpenters to me were so boring sounding .I never understood their success.
I can't believe how cold blooded Karen's mother was towards her all her daughter wanted from her was her love
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Don't believe what gossip writers say to sell their books. Her relationship with her mother was no worse than most kids of that era. I had a poor relationship with my dad but I never took sleeping pills or induced vomiting.
Nah… she was a stone cold woman. Stories go back for over 50 years. But you’re right.. there was/are a lot of shitty mothers out there. This particular mom was unfortunately documented as a horrible person
Angela Holmes I agree with you completely on all of this , .as i can sympathize with her as both my parents , my father and mother were cruel and abusive to me and my 2 sisters and brother so i feel her pain .God bless you always .🌹💖💖🎉
@@cwheremonster8870 There are too many documented examples of Agnes Carpenter’s idolation of Richard-and her dismissiveness of Karen-to brush away. Even the softest accounts of the duo point this out. I grew up a few years after them, with an icy mother who anointed a “golden child,” and recognize the signs and signals!
It was a shock when the radio announced Karen's sudden death those many years ago. A darkness descended and I cried all day. Thankfully her hauntingly beautiful voice will be with us always.
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I too was gutted, i had wanted to see them live, never got the chance.
"Top of the World" was ground breaking and still lives today as one of the best in mixing musical genre.
In May of 1970 I was an usher at one of their concerts at our Uni. (Thank you, PLU Knights !) I was on stage right and watched her mouthing the words prior to her entry. I was fixated on her and remember thinking, "What a beautiful woman!" So goddam sad she went the way of so many other insecure kids from bad marriages. She had everything: a voice like an angel, the smile that made us melt, and the disposition that asked us "What was life all about?" A true beauty.
I also remember that every member of the six-piece orchestra played at LEAST 5 instruments, each to perfection to studio sound in every song! Plus, Richard was in a wrist cast? Genius!
“Top of the World” is, quite simply, a perfect pop song. 3 minutes of joyous ear candy. They just don’t make ‘em like that anymore.
I loved listening to the Carpenters music. I was heart sick when Karen died as I understand the world had lost a beautiful Angel. I never understood how her Mother could be so cruel to someone whom only wanted to bring beauty into the world. I still wonder what songs I missed out on hearing from them. May she be at peace now.
Nancee C. I feel the same way about Karen's Mother. Give all of her love and attention on Richard. I started to listen to The Carpenters whin I was in Jr. High. Still love their music. She has always been an Angel, now she has her wings. Fly high Karen.
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Her mother and father were alcoholics. My great Aunt used to purchase alcohol at the same liquid store and was an alcoholic too.
@@gingercollier7949 That was a family with issues that didn't do either child well.
I blame the abusive treatment Karen recieved from her mother as the cause of her anorexia and death
I can absolutely relate to Karen's insecurities stemming from never receiving her mother's love and seeing it all go to her brother. My relationship with my own was identical to this and I have struggled for decades to feel any sense of self worth because of it. I had forty years of abuse and emotional neglect from mine, yet some people naively declare that "all mothers love their daughters" (or "all mothers love their children equally").
@Jessica Smith There's no excuse for why they've chosen to make our lives so unpleasant. 😢🤗
All mother's love their sons..not the daughters.....my experience
It was incredibly common. My parents put me on a diet back then, I swear I was never fat, but my father was mortified looking at me, I needed to be eight inches taller according to him- or twenty pounds lighter, at ten years old.
@@patricialongo5746 As a child of the sixties, I know that what you say is true. Kids today have no idea the (often impossible) standards kids of our era were held to.
That is so untrue. Most mothers love all their kids in various ways. But sadly there are exceptions, even in my family. In the Carpenters biopic from the late 80's. Sadly at the end before she died, it did seem she and her mom.were mending fences. There is a biography out about her entitled Little Girl Blue. I read some of it a few years ago. It would be cool if Richard wrote a memoir. Never knew he married his adopted first cousin.
'FOR ALL WE KNOW'....Love that song. Her range...just incredible!
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Grew up listening to their records and to this day I cannot have a smile on my face when hearing Karen singing. She had the greatest pure voice of anyone that I have heard over the years and with Richards song making they are the greatest duo of my generation(my opinion). I like to think that god recalled her back to heaven so that they can have her singing for them. Wish I could have seen her in person, RIP.
Hands down, the most beautiful voice ever recorded.
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So many great songs. "Superstar" is a masterpiece. Karen was the greatest female singer - ever.
Finally! A video without interruption, and well done, too! Thank you.
"I Need To Be In Love" and "Goodbye To Love" - because in live performances you can see the words ring true to her. Amazing that so many of her male fans were hopelessly in love with her (me included) and she had NO idea.
Karen Carpenter, had probably one of the most purest voices, ever. And it’s just a shame that she essentially died because of others opinions of how she was supposed to supposedly look. She took it to the extreme.
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That was a psychological, mental and emotional condition that manifested physically. I think she was desperate for her mother's love and attention, initially, and it was also tied to the crazy touring schedule. But it went way, way, too far and, before she knew it, she couldn't stop the compulsion to self starve.
Early in their career Karen saw a photo of herself on stage that made her look heavy. So she decided to fix it. She did not want to jeopardize their chances of success. Her weight was something she had control over and it literally killed her.
I'm kind of convinced that 'the nail in the coffin' (sorry...) was that asshat that she married, who didn't tell her that he had a vasectomy, and, apparently, she really wanted children, and this guy refused to reverse the vasectomy... I have to think that this kind of total betrayal of her love must have been the thing that reinforced her downward slide...may Tom Burris rot in whatever place he ends up...
I became enamored with the carpenters when I was 11 years old in 1974. It took me two weeks of delivering newspapers after school to save $7 to buy yet another Carpenters album, plus the bus fare downtown. That is what I call true love. RIP my sweet Karen. I am grateful to both you and Richard for adding so much beauty to my life and to the world ❤️❤️❤️
Was absolutely obsessed with the Horizon album. Wore out the 8-track, the cassette and the vinyl. "Love Me For What I Am" is definitely a favorite. I also love "Bless the Beasts and the Children." Karen could sing anything. I still miss her after all this time. RIP sweet angel. 🙏
I was too, and just listened to the whole thing again recently. Surprising how easily I remembered the words. My favorite is "I Can Dream, Can't I", what a stunning arrangement by Billy Strayhorn. But the whole album is magic, like dreaming while awake.
I love all the Carpenters songs. For All We Know, Close to You, We've Only Just Begun, and Merry Christmas Darling are my favorites. I saw them live in Fort Worth, Texas in 1971 and paid $6.50 for my ticket!
'Goodbye To Love' was my anthem in my late teens, because that was exactly the way I felt. Karen Carpenter had one of the most beautiful voices that has ever existed. And Richard Carpenter was a genius on the piano. Rest In Peace, Karen Carpenter.
The Carpenters were so talented! Karen had one of a kind voice., they were absolutely amazing and gifted! Thank you for the awesome songs!!
The Carpenters were my favorite records I listened to in my tiny Sound in the Round record player! I still have all my favorite songs, 40+ years later. I still mourn the loss of Karen. Her voice was so beautiful.
I was a huge Carpenters fan growing up. But my favorite song of theirs was the last song Karen recorded, called “Now”. It is beautiful and yet quite haunting.
I never heard this song until about 5 years ago and you are right, It is absolutly amazing. Read she performed that in 1 take. What a gift we lost way to soon. Listen to her everyday . My favoite forever.
Beyond incredible how long it's been since Karen left us. What a talent.
Every Wedding in the 70's played "We've only just begun", the early 70's had some memorable easy listening music, The Carpenters, Carly Simon, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Carol King, Jim Croce and even Cher had multiple hits.
I'm more of a metal guy, but I can't help but get enchanted with Karen's soft soothing and very feminine voice. For me, she's got the most beautiful female voice in modern music history!
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Try listening to Lara Fabian
Superstar will always be my favorite Carpenter song. Caron had a voice like no other and I am so happy that not only do I own several of their albums but you can still hear it on the radio today.
My favorite Carpenter's song (although it's hard to pick just one) is "Yesterday Once More". Karen had a midnight velvet voice that soothed and delighted everyone. When she died I was heartbroken as was my brother. He always said that Karen was supposed to marry him, that's how big a crush he had on her.
I always thought she was beautiful- and so sweet.. and THAT VOICE... wow....
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@@FactsVerse I forgot to mention earlier that Karen and I share the same birthday - March 2nd. She was exactly seven years older than me. I am honored by that fact.
I have a distinct memory of their "Yesterday Once More" cover album of '50s music. Someone played it during our gymnastics practices in high school. Strange how something only 20 years prior to the '70s was considered nostalgia, but music I listened to 40 or 50 years ago is just 'classic' .
Stalking much? Just tell your brother to buy the record and leave it at that.
I have liked The Carpenters since hearing "The Singles 1969 - 1973". My brother bought it around 1975. I'd have to say my most favourite two songs would be "Only Just Begun" and "For All We Know" with its haunting sound of the oboe. It's just really perfect in every way.
I saw the Carpenters in concert in 1975 when Horizon was released. Beautiful collection! Desperado, Solitaire are my favorites on this album.
Thank you for sharing your experience with the Carpenters! Glad you like them 🎶
We've Only Just Begun. I was 10 years old and heard it on WWLE radio Cornwall NY. Takes no effort at all to hear her voice in my head. To my recollection she is my earliest memory of a beautiful woman. Heart breaking to me still this very moment that if only she could've seen herself through the eyes of her many fans and realized she WAS beautiful in every sense of the word.
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Can't pick a favorite song. I have always said that Karen had the most timelessly beautiful voice ever. I think people will forever find them and their music.
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Karen's beautiful heartfelt vocals are timeless. What a tragedy her passing was. RIP Karen ♥️
She was one of many beautiful voices that blessed our ears
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I followed the Carpenters as a kid. My Dad brought home some of their records and I have been hooked since. Whether on Records Tape or Digital, I always have their music playing. It is part of my life in music. They were way different compared to any of the music in the 70s. So special Karen was to me in her gifted voice, it was like her soul pouring out of her. It truly was. It is really true many of our most beloved performers have such deep problems in their lives. If maybe things were just a bit different, maybe Karen and Richard would still be delighting us today. Though Karen now in Heaven with God, singing with the Angels as an Angel herself. We were all blessed to have The Carpenters in our lives. I can't imagine my music without them.
No voice quite like hers.
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Tommy boy scene with Spade and Tommy Boy fighting over the Radio then started Singing “Don’t you remember you told me you loved me Baby” Classic!
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“If Silk could sing it would be Karen’s voice”. I’ve loved listening to her songs ever since I was a kid. It was always a joy to see their TV Specials. I always sang songs not ever learning the lyrics. I was more a listening to the instruments, tune, harmony and melody. Not, much older, I listen to the lyrics and always go in and tell my wife or friends “Hey, did you ever learn the lyrics of this song” whatever songs it was. But, I listen the their lyrics and they are very flippin really depressing. I love this generations reaction to hearing her sing for the first time.
Mixed metaphor much? If you could eat Karen's voice it would taste like currant chiffon mousse with sprinkles of rose petals.
Hearing Karen sing Superstar always puts a lump in my throat. The greatest female vocalist that ever lived or ever will live.
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She was an incredible star but very troubled. My dad bought her house after her death and the neighbor told us that her mother nagged her to death.
Wives everywhere: Rejoice!
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there was a review of the Carpenters where Karen was said to be overweight. After this she started the extreme dieting that killed her.
One of the best voices to sing songs. There was a time when I was a teenager, I was just obsessed with her sultry voice. So smooth and effortless. I still listen from time to time.
I discovered The Carpenters in 1995 when I was just 12 years old and now 39 I love them even more, all discography complete in CDs and I am from Chile 🇨🇱 so the Carpenters made it way far beyond, as you asked my fave songs are ForAllWeKnow, Lovelines, MrPostman, BlessTheBeastsAndTheChildren and well all many more, I think I subscribed your channel probably 4 years ago, amazing info and finally about the Carpenters, Thanks! Hugs from Chile 🇨🇱
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Well among all if I had to pick one? Just one? it would be PlsMrPostman wich is also my ringtone ♥️
Karen Carpenter had one of the greatest voices of the 20th Century! She is so missed and I know Richard misses her very much. His writing and musical orchestrations/arrangements were superb. The Carpenters were unique and one of my all time favorite groups...they're truly an icon of pop music history.
SENSATIONAL MUSIC!!! Been listening to them from day one! Heart broken when Karen passed, a great loss to the world!! Bless Karen she is an Angel!
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My favorite song is 'This Masquerade '.
For me, February 4, 1983 was the Day that Music Died.
I cannot express how much I love her music; how easily and often she brings tears to my eyes.
Many times I find myself listening a non- Carpenters song (Sheridan's Lotta Love!, King's It's too Late!) , and thinking how beautiful it may have been rearranged by Richard and sung by Karen.
And dreaming of some huge Divas/Duet-like albums sharing songs with her friends Petula Clark, Olivia Newton-John and Dionne Warwick, perhaps also Carly Simon, Carole King, Helen Reddy, Linda Ronstadt, Bette Midler ...
D@mn, how much I miss her!
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They were marvelous and had a blend that only a brother and sister could create. My favorite song of theirs is "Top of the World."
The Carpenters were a fabulous group-Karen had an outstanding voice.
There is NOTHING Weird about The Carpenters!!! They were ABSOLUTELY PERFECTION Especially Karen's VOICE!!! xoxoxoxoxoxoo
I grew up listening to the carpenters. My grandparents were huge fans so would always have them playing on the tape deck when I visited. I still remember the day Karen died. I was 9 years old but it felt like the world had ended. Rest in peace sweet Karen.
Karen Carpenter - a voice spun from gold; also liked Linda Ronstadt.
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Linda was one my favorite female vocalists.
I grew up listening to "The Carpenters" so they are really special in my childhood memories. Paul McCartney is right. I also consider Karen's voice as the most beautiful angelic female voice. It is sad she passed away so young. Nevertheless, her voice will be eternal being loved by her loyal fans. Thanks a lot "The Carpenters" for so many inspirational moments!
We're very happy to know that you love listening to the Carpenters. Thank you for sharing your life story too! By the way, which song is your favorite?
Their two songs I liked the most were Superstar and their version of This Masquerade. Actually any song Karen sang was beautiful.
I never knew that about her mother. Its really sad that happened. Unfortunately, mother's are the most important person in a child's life. How she could be so cruel. A beautiful voice undead and timeless!!❤️❤️
Richard would refute this if you asked him about this
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Mothers, unfortunately, are women. That's how.
@@TheLarryBrown Usually abusers are victims of abuse themselves. And being a woman has nothing to do with it.
The Carpenters were one of my mothers favourites, she'd always sing their songs to me. I still get goosebumps when I hear Karen sing, such a beautiful voice.
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If Richard and his wife are cousins by adoption, they're not actually cousins..
I've loved all of their music since I first heard "Close to you" but my all time favorite is "I say goodbye to love". Rest in Peace my Angel 😇
Thank you for sharing your favorite Carpenters songs! May Karen find peace.
For a long time, I didn't play any of their songs, because of her death and tears would flow when I hear her sing. I can appreciate more the songs now that time has passed.
I first heard their music in the late 60's and I have always been a fan of the Carpenters. At that time rock was getting more psychedelic and music was changing rapidly, but the Carpenters music was there for all to enjoy no matter what age you were, especially their holiday songs...so sad that Karen died so young.
Ordinary Fool is my favorite song by the Carpenters. My first time hearing it--I fell in love with it.
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Karen's voice was all over the radio, huge hits, "we've only just begun" is one of my all time favorite songs, haunting voice, thanks Karen for great music.
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yes, people today probably cant imagine how much the Carpenters were on the radio, it was a huge part of anyone's life who grew up in the 70s, they were always in the background.
I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s, the Carpenters were my favorite. Karen had a special voice. I love all there songs , they were all my favorites
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Karen Carpenter A Star On Earth And Star In Heaven You Are Missed ❤️💔
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No one like Karen her voice, mellow rich, smooth, mezzo, like velvety flowing melted chocolate, and carried such a soothing tone that it enveloped you and captivated you.
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I love their first album 'Offering' ('Ticket To Ride') and their second album 'Close To You'.
From watching lots of interviews and hearing Karen speak I get the very clear impression she was a very cool and hip person. Would have been a great person to know and be around. Great energy and good sense of humour. One of the best things you can say about another human being.
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She was very cool and very, very talented. As talented as she was with singing and playing drums and bass, she also showed great potential as an actress and comedienne. I wish she had done some acting and worked with other artists. I'm sure she would have had she not run out of time.
"I'll say Goodbye to Love." Sang all the Carpenter's Tunes alone-in the basement in Cincinnati, Ohio 1974. I absolutely was enthralled. Such a velvet voice!
This song "appeared" in a 1940 Bing Crosby movie "Rhythm On the River". His character was a songwriter, who would often mention a song he had written ("Goodbye To Love", of course). But it was never heard in the movie. The title alone was enough to inspire Richard Carpenter to write it.
The recent mix-in with the Royal Philharmonic was a FANTASTIC call
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I'd choose "Solitaire" as my favorite. Karen's singing is absolutely superb!
How could anyone choose one favorite of the Carpenters? They’re all so good, but if I had to choose, it would be “We’ve Only Just Begun,”
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"Goodbye to Love" tied with "Merry Christmas, Darling." I will probably die on this hill.
I loved "Top of the World" - such an upbeat song. I also loved Karen's cover of "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" and their Christmas songs.
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I love The Carpenter 's.I seen them in concert in 1973. They were great I had all their Albums I been a fan since I was 19 years old Now I am 72 years old RIP.beautiful.Karen Carpenter 👑✝️❤️🙏✨🥁🎤🎙️🎸🎼🎵🎶
I was a shock when she died. I loved their music and it made me cry when she died and always felt that it must have crushed Richard when he lost Karen. I was in shopping in a J.C. Penney's in the greater Seattle area when it was announced over the store speakers since it was tied into a local radio station and people throughout the store were visibly shocked and saddened.
When bulimic Karen was regularly using syrup of ipecac to induce vomiting, it wasn’t widely known then that ipecac can dissolve the heart muscle-a contributing factor to the heart attack that killed her. Also, the drug to which Richard became addicted was quaaludes.
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THERE WILL ONLY BE ONE KAREN CARPENTER💚🕯️SHE WAS/IS ALWAYS WILL BE THE BEST 🌹VOCALIST 👍✨
There are so many amazing songs by The Carpenters but I think my fav is "Eve".
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I first heard Karen on the radio as a preteen. It wasn't until I watched her biopic with my mom years later that I discovered she was the woman my mom had met briefly when the Carpenter Trio played in the Battle of the Bands at the Hollywood Bowl the same year my mom's choir did. My mom could rarely listen to Karen because of the deep loss she felt over Karen's passing. I love Karen's voice & sing her songs all the time. As a vocalist, I aspire to be as devoted to my craft as she was. My favorite song she recorded was For All We Know. She was beautiful inside & out and her voice reflected that beauty.
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