Happy Anniversary to Linda and Robert! This is a splendid song selection as a way to celebrate your 40th and all those memories you have together. That was a lovely rendition, Patricia and Matt. I enjoyed the singing in this guitar arrangement, which shows that the song stands on its own without the need for large-scale production with clarinet, horn stabs and layered harmonies. I enjoyed the discussion of the song's history... also regarding the chord changes. I laughed at Matt's alternate lyrics and Patricia's "reality check version" of the couple finding a new home. Being a young kid in California in the early '70s, I actually recall seeing that bank advertisement on TV.
That's AMAZING love that. Yes I've seen it on RUclips. Richard literally watched TV every night he said. Not sure how he made it fit with shows, but he did. I dearly love so many of their hit songs and has always been some of my favourite recorded music and will likely remain so for my whole life. True musicians' music in my opinion, and my ears were turned on to them when I was a young kid myself, as provided a challenge to learn from an arrangement point of view and often from a harmony/melody one as well. Most popular music I listened to I knew and understood every single note instantly and was boring and it provided me with an "oh, what was that, wow that was nice, got to listen to that again and learn from it", and like I said, given her voice was largely free from extemporisation and ornament in comparison to her contemporaries it was also a great reference point for learning. I would go as far to say that the 14 years of the Carpenters recordings were a turning point, to an extent, of very, very popular music that was rather easy listening and singable being so musically complex (from a traditional western musically trained point of view up until that point). That's not to say that more complex music hasn't been equally as popular since but I just mean in the package they presented. She was exceptionally artistically mature indeed in my view, I know she looked older, but not forgetting the fact their first album was recorded when she was 19 years old, I think the band existed a handful of years before that. She achieved rather a lot in 32 years. Both very clearly exceptionally gifted multi instrumentalists, arrangers, composers and songwriters as well as music memorisers, from a young age and could have carried a career in music in any genre. I'm so pleased that their family moved to socal otherwise they could have had a different trajectory (high school band tutor?) not that there's anything bad or wrong about that but I'm just grateful Karen was able to give her unique combination of talents to the much wider world, the lead singing just a small part of those. Their broad influences yet stylistic homogeneity of the musical world of the Carpenters is very inspiring/influential. Now if only I could find a way to package that concept to profit for the world in which I live today 😂
@@mattredman98 That’s fascinating, Matt, to learn of the impact that the Carpenters’ “musician’s music” had on your education and development as a musician. Since you are an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, adept in arranging for a multitude of instruments and facile at transpositions to another key, I’m not surprised that the Carpenters left an impression on you, though previously unaware. I hadn’t thought of it, but I imagine you’re right about the likely career trajectory of the Carpenters had the family remained in New Haven, Connecticut. They happened to arrive in Southern California when the recording studios in Los Angeles were in rapid ascent, and, having hardly any money, Richard and Karen found their way to the garage studio of ‘Wrecking Crew’ bassist Joe Osborn, who first heard a 16-year-old Karen singing “Ebb Tide” to Richard on piano. At a quite good RUclips studio version re-enactment of “We’ve Only Just Begun” by a 21-year-old 'novice' singer from Minnesota named Tori Holub, I came across a comment by Joe Osborn’s son David Osborn: “During the few days they were coming over and recording the jazz trio in dad's garage studio she happened to sing one song. Dad asked her ‘do you sing’ she said, ‘I sing in the car with the radio’. Nothing about lessons.” Karen was born with a gift for singing that became recognized and celebrated only by the intervention of good fortune. I wish that I understood the mysteries of how “fortune smiles on some and lets the rest go free.” It's even more baffling in these times of living at the mercy of unfathomable algorithms. Of course, in the end, cruel tragedy struck, and Karen was lost to the world, but, as you say, she achieved so much in her 32 years. Matt, thank you for your enlightening reply.
@@PopHorizonScannerI've looked at Tori's videos. Obviously big on tiktok and that trend of people her age getting close as they can to source of their nostalgia. GOOD FOR HER!
I’m interested! I have loved The Carpenters, this song, and that unexpected harmony since I was a kid. This is one of my mom’s favorites and I have to check with her but I’m pretty sure she had a music box that played it. Hearing your rendition brought me back. Thanks.
I KNEW it. I knew you'd like this music and I knew it would bring you out to comment. Possibly due to the reasons I mentioned in my rant in reply to the other comment
Astonishingly good! ❤
Thanks
Thank YOU!
Absolutely heavenly. Thank you both xx
@@Davidcarter74 thank you that's really nice.
Raw, yet professional, I love the uniqueness.
That would be a great strap-line for the series!! Thank you!!
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Just lovely!😊😊
Thank you for a lovely rendition and for making a special occasion even more special.
Happy Anniversary to Linda and Robert! This is a splendid song selection as a way to celebrate your 40th and all those memories you have together. That was a lovely rendition, Patricia and Matt. I enjoyed the singing in this guitar arrangement, which shows that the song stands on its own without the need for large-scale production with clarinet, horn stabs and layered harmonies. I enjoyed the discussion of the song's history... also regarding the chord changes. I laughed at Matt's alternate lyrics and Patricia's "reality check version" of the couple finding a new home. Being a young kid in California in the early '70s, I actually recall seeing that bank advertisement on TV.
That's AMAZING love that. Yes I've seen it on RUclips. Richard literally watched TV every night he said. Not sure how he made it fit with shows, but he did. I dearly love so many of their hit songs and has always been some of my favourite recorded music and will likely remain so for my whole life. True musicians' music in my opinion, and my ears were turned on to them when I was a young kid myself, as provided a challenge to learn from an arrangement point of view and often from a harmony/melody one as well. Most popular music I listened to I knew and understood every single note instantly and was boring and it provided me with an "oh, what was that, wow that was nice, got to listen to that again and learn from it", and like I said, given her voice was largely free from extemporisation and ornament in comparison to her contemporaries it was also a great reference point for learning. I would go as far to say that the 14 years of the Carpenters recordings were a turning point, to an extent, of very, very popular music that was rather easy listening and singable being so musically complex (from a traditional western musically trained point of view up until that point). That's not to say that more complex music hasn't been equally as popular since but I just mean in the package they presented. She was exceptionally artistically mature indeed in my view, I know she looked older, but not forgetting the fact their first album was recorded when she was 19 years old, I think the band existed a handful of years before that. She achieved rather a lot in 32 years. Both very clearly exceptionally gifted multi instrumentalists, arrangers, composers and songwriters as well as music memorisers, from a young age and could have carried a career in music in any genre. I'm so pleased that their family moved to socal otherwise they could have had a different trajectory (high school band tutor?) not that there's anything bad or wrong about that but I'm just grateful Karen was able to give her unique combination of talents to the much wider world, the lead singing just a small part of those. Their broad influences yet stylistic homogeneity of the musical world of the Carpenters is very inspiring/influential. Now if only I could find a way to package that concept to profit for the world in which I live today 😂
@@mattredman98 That’s fascinating, Matt, to learn of the impact that the Carpenters’ “musician’s music” had on your education and development as a musician. Since you are an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, adept in arranging for a multitude of instruments and facile at transpositions to another key, I’m not surprised that the Carpenters left an impression on you, though previously unaware. I hadn’t thought of it, but I imagine you’re right about the likely career trajectory of the Carpenters had the family remained in New Haven, Connecticut. They happened to arrive in Southern California when the recording studios in Los Angeles were in rapid ascent, and, having hardly any money, Richard and Karen found their way to the garage studio of ‘Wrecking Crew’ bassist Joe Osborn, who first heard a 16-year-old Karen singing “Ebb Tide” to Richard on piano.
At a quite good RUclips studio version re-enactment of “We’ve Only Just Begun” by a 21-year-old 'novice' singer from Minnesota named Tori Holub, I came across a comment by Joe Osborn’s son David Osborn:
“During the few days they were coming over and recording the jazz trio in dad's garage studio she happened to sing one song. Dad asked her ‘do you sing’ she said, ‘I sing in the car with the radio’. Nothing about lessons.”
Karen was born with a gift for singing that became recognized and celebrated only by the intervention of good fortune. I wish that I understood the mysteries of how “fortune smiles on some and lets the rest go free.” It's even more baffling in these times of living at the mercy of unfathomable algorithms. Of course, in the end, cruel tragedy struck, and Karen was lost to the world, but, as you say, she achieved so much in her 32 years. Matt, thank you for your enlightening reply.
@@PopHorizonScannerI've looked at Tori's videos. Obviously big on tiktok and that trend of people her age getting close as they can to source of their nostalgia. GOOD FOR HER!
@@mattredman98 high school band tutor? I don’t recommend it lol. If only stardom were one of my trajectory options.
@@michaelraymond952 you are beyond a star in my eyes. Very few people like you
Patricia, your voice is like a magical prodigy because you go from Opera to ballads , all delivered in a flawless and always beautiful way. Thank you.
I’m interested! I have loved The Carpenters, this song, and that unexpected harmony since I was a kid. This is one of my mom’s favorites and I have to check with her but I’m pretty sure she had a music box that played it. Hearing your rendition brought me back. Thanks.
I KNEW it. I knew you'd like this music and I knew it would bring you out to comment. Possibly due to the reasons I mentioned in my rant in reply to the other comment
@@mattredman98 so you’re saying this was a trap?! Haha. I’m happy to take the bait.
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Well done, once again, as always. ("Some of us" might be interested in learning in which commercials/adverts either of you sang or played ... )
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