Posted on 04/26/2016 12:01:29 PM PDT by simpson96
Hope you enjoy. Top Of The World
music *ping*
A far cry from the “entertainment” at the White House since 2009, I might add.
She had such a beautiful voice and she played drums! How can you beat that?
I have to say, though, that I’ve never liked him.
And the little “ye-ha” at the beginning and the end....
1973:
- An international televised broadcast by Elvis Presley as he performs a concert in Hawaii that is watched by more people worldwide than the moon landings.
- Best Picture of the 45th Academy Awards: The Godfather.
I’ll bet Karen didn’t grab her crotch like today’s “performers.”
The Carpenters are one of my guilty musical pleasures. Their songs are low key, heartfelt and great to listen to. I saw a documentary about them a few months ago. Karen Carpenter was discussing how they had gone form old buses to Lear jets and the inspiration for the song On Top Of the World was on a Lear Jet flight to a concert.
My other new favorite is Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. I never realized Teddy Pendergrass was their lead singer. You want to hear what SOUL music is, listen to their recording of Don’t Leave Me This Way.
I'm familiar with Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. My favorite of theirs is "The Love I Lost".
Thanks for the Blue Notes heads up.
I’m a punker, but I’ve always loved the Carpenters. My first album was a Carpenters album, with the 2 of them posing on tidal pools in California, it looks like.
I am teaching my 4 year old to sing “Close To You” in a non-ironic manner, which is difficult.
That’s a great one too. For a white guy, I deeply prefer 70’s R&B music.
I think both songs have long versions. Pendergrass sang lead on both and really let’s loose.
I’m not real familiar with much of his music, but I think I’m going to listen to more of it.
My favorites are Earth, Wind and Fire and the Spinners.
That’s the one song of theirs I really don’t like.
It was popular when my little brother was a baby and my mom would always sing it to him like a lullaby.
It just never did it for me.
Do you know of Ann Peebles? I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwoKq6HPwkE
Probably my favorite female vocalist. She had a truly unique voice.
Good voice.
It would have a great duo if Karen and Allison Krause could have sang together. That would have been an angelic choir bar none. The same holds true for Joey Feek. Karen died before either Allison and Joey came along but that would be on of life’s big what ifs. Karen’s version of Ave Maria is by far the best rendition of that song EVER.
“She had such a beautiful voice and she played drums! How can you beat that?
I have to say, though, that I’ve never liked him.”
I am a musician and a vocalist. I have long considered hers to be one of the greatest popular voices in recorded history. She is typically damned with faint praise by the elitist rock musicologists (who want everyone to be edgy and depraved), but, interestingly, both Madonna and Chrissie Hynde hold her in high esteem.
I understand your attitude about Richard: He could not match her performing ability, but some university music departments have advanced classes that study his arrangements; he is a deceptively sophisticated and original arranger, somewhat like Brian Wilson.
I once heard them live, at a university, and yes, Karen played the drums.
“My first album was a Carpenters album,...”
My very first album (freshman college) was also a Carpenters album.
Her voice plus his music are inimitable.
“Probably my favorite female vocalist. She had a truly unique voice.”
I agree entirely. One of these days I am going to compile my Top Ten; she will certainly be highly placed on it.
I appreciate your tag line: Theodore is absolutely correct (which means he is perforce politically incorrect).
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