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Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun 1970
youtube ^ | 3/19/16 | The Carpenters

Posted on 03/19/2016 8:47:13 PM PDT by mdittmar

Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun 1970


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: carpenters; music; songs
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To: Jane Long

The song I believe was for Crocker Bank which was brought out by Wells Fargo which still exists.


41 posted on 03/19/2016 10:04:05 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A voice that was like warm honey in the morning.


42 posted on 03/19/2016 10:11:02 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Taken from a bank commercial written, and sung, by Paul Williams, correct?

Hucklebuck--Paul Williams (1949)

43 posted on 03/19/2016 10:12:22 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Apparently they got so many replays on You Tube from Freepers that they closed the site for copywrite infringement.

no worries, I can still hear her singing those songs in my memory.


44 posted on 03/19/2016 10:15:29 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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To: mdittmar

Superstar is my favorite.


45 posted on 03/19/2016 10:18:17 PM PDT by Busta Rhymes
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To: lee martell
Jackie makes me marvel why so much talent and beauty, also Roman Catholic, comes packed in one beautiful package. I've watched her mature into a teen, and just hope she won't go the way of Charlotte Church. I think Jackie is better grounded, but her schedules seem grueling at times.

I certainly hope for the best for her. I'm running behind on some of her newer videos, but I liked the one with the beautiful dresses.

It's Jackie Evancho Signs Pop - Go Time - HD

She will be a beautiful woman. I just wish her happiness. Her siblings seem to kind of get pushed aside, but I saw where they take turns going on travel. Go Time is different for her, little vignettes are charming. She's so lovely in the forest green dress and the light cream tunic, with a darker tan flounce.

46 posted on 03/19/2016 10:21:10 PM PDT by Aliska ("No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." HRC 1/24/16)
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To: Nacho Bidnith

Very nice. Thanks. I knew nothing about this trend. I’m guessing you mean South Korea. I don’t see Kim Jong Un stepping up to the mike to karaoke the song “People” as sung by Barbara Streisand. Maybe he’d do that song ‘I’m So Ronely’, as heard in the animation movie Team America.


47 posted on 03/19/2016 10:21:14 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: NCC-1701
Word around the campfire was that John Wayne wanted her to be in True Grit in the role Kim Darby played. And that Elvis Presley was highly considered for the role Glen Campbell played. TG would have been a totally different movie had that happened.

I'd heard the part about Elvis, but not Karen Carpenter. You're right - it would've been a lot different. The Kim Darby + John Fiedler combo sneaks an odd Star Trek crossover tinge into the film, which couldn't have been foreseen at the time.

48 posted on 03/19/2016 10:25:07 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Aliska

You have an appreciation for adjacent color schemes and elegant clothing design with subtle embellishments. Have you designed clothing, in reality or maybe just using a vivid mind’s eye? I’ve met some people who have that same sense of design about cars, not that I do.


49 posted on 03/19/2016 10:27:32 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

You are correct. South Korea has a very well developed entertainment industry and for a relatively small country they have a lot of talented people.

I do like a lot of the K-Pop girl groups, but the Davichi girls are known for their singing, mostly ballads and even though I don’t understand the lyrics, I find their voices to be soothing and melodic.

They have lots of songs, videos and TV appearances on youtube.

Thanks for listening.


50 posted on 03/19/2016 10:34:46 PM PDT by Nacho Bidnith (America is a country founded by geniuses and run by idiots. Trump 2016)
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To: lee martell
I think it comes from when I graduated to Vogue designer patterns when I did my own sewing. I never owned nor sewed a dress as elegrant as some I've seen in the videos, but I do have an appreciation for the beauty and styling of them.

I can enjoy the beauty and fashion in others. Men as well as women.

I know where a lot of my love for elegance came from, period movies.

With men, it might be cars and architecture. You have good taste in music. I presume you would have good taste in cars, too. I had a little Ford Maverick, yellow, my favorite color, with racing stripes, medium brown pseudo-leather seats. My father bought it for me new after my husband left me. We had a 57 Chevy convertible when I got married. After that we traded it for a sapphire blue Ford convertible, it was a lemon. I never got too much into cars after that.

51 posted on 03/19/2016 10:49:04 PM PDT by Aliska ("No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." HRC 1/24/16)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why have all those videos you posted (3 links) suddenly been pulled due to copyright infringement?


52 posted on 03/19/2016 10:51:47 PM PDT by Aliska ("No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." HRC 1/24/16)
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To: mdittmar; lee martell
I guess I never mentioned anywhere that I grew up with music, played the piano, viola for a year, violin through hs. Piano was in the classical style, two songs I kind of mastered Prelude in C# Minor and Polonaise in Ab major. The latter I never played like it was meant to be played because the fingering in the intro and other parts is very difficult. Plus I hated the thing. I just played it because my teacher pulled it out of her music cabinet and put it in front of me. It never occurred to me to ask if I could play something different.

After I gave up any musical dreams, I played for my own enjoyment, church music, show tunes, a few more classical ones, Moonlight Sonata and Nocturne in Eb (never remembered the keys), from the Eddy Duchin Story. Also I worked on Rhapsody on a Theme from Paganini from Somewhere in Time and many others.

I played in orchestra all the way through jr high and hs, but I always felt the band kids had it better. Some, of course, played in both as you can't have an orchestra in only strings.

My talent or lack of it, here is something interesting. I do not know how people memorize music. I memorized by feel. After I'd played often enough, I just felt it. I lost that ability for some reason. I never memorized the notes or saw the music in my head or played classical music by ear (I can play some pop music by ear) and learned to improvise chords a little.

Later in life I bought a church organ. I played the Phantom of the Opera songs full blast lol. Those I read the music for the left hand and improvised the chords and pedals (not very well I must say).

Singing I could carry a tune and had a range about like Karen but sure didn't sound pretty like her wonderful voice. I could do soprano and alto, some pretty high notes, but I could only do the melody. Much later, I started getting the knack for harmonizing. Too bad so much of it came later in life. But whatever voice I had, I ruined it with my chain smoking, cannot sing at all now.

My dream now would have been to work on improvisation with the melody by ear, the chords, their inversions, broken everything that goes into a song.

53 posted on 03/19/2016 11:33:53 PM PDT by Aliska ("No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." HRC 1/24/16)
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To: mdittmar

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54 posted on 03/19/2016 11:38:51 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Aliska

Interesting history. You’ve been able to develop your talent in many different settings. Many say, if a child starts learning how to play musically, that trait of being able to analyze, identify and compare, stays with them throughout life. Many take this skill set into other arenas of performance. I’m thinking of people like Condoleeza Rice.

It’s funny that you mention J.S. Bach Prelude in C. I love that piece. As you know it’s from his book of instructions
for one of his many sons. What was that title;
Well Tempered Clavier. That simple little song takes you all sorts of places if you let it. It is absolutely hypnotic
(in a good way) for people like me, who want to hold on to a melody and keep following my nose (or ear as it were). The octave and tonal changes are very, very nice. I rarely get to talk about that
tune, as I am not a trained musician, and most people are not aware of it’s existence or it’s
gentle power to beckon. If I could ever learn to play that song, I’d be very fullfilled indeed.


55 posted on 03/19/2016 11:54:39 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell
No, I didn't know Bach's Prelude, never played much Bach. I will be sure to look that up and listen and learn; you've got me curious about it. I was saving yt videos, a lot of Schubert, but can't save any more. Will have to try to find the one or two I especially liked.

But to listen to too much classical, can't get into it. The melody is number 1 for me. The music I like best has pretty melodies. Some classical pieces have sections with lovely melodies, Moonlight Sonata, think it's the second movement, hypnotic to me also Tschaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.

The one I played was Rachmaninoff's C sharp Minor. Boom, boom, boom. I loved page 2.

I have learned to listen to some pop music and pick out some of the things that make them work so well, self harmony through dubbing, chord changes for transition, different embellishments. But as you noted with Some Velvet Morning, I wouldn't be able to critique that well at all like you did.

Thanks for the inspiration from someone who can talk music. It's time to knock it off. Past time, but I have my days and nights turned around lately :-(.

56 posted on 03/20/2016 12:05:06 AM PDT by Aliska ("No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." HRC 1/24/16)
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To: mdittmar

In 1975 or so, the CBS network chose took the first step in changing the way video for news broadcasts was gathered. Up to that point, film camera crews shot the footage, which was then processed and cut for broadcast. At best, it was a several hour operation.

CBS decided to do its newsgathering using a video camera, and a “portable” 3/4” videotape machine that weighed about 25 pounds. They made the announcement at their annual affiliates meeting by having the news crew shoot footage of the station owners and guests dancing at the hotel ballroom. We then cut the footage to music on videotape and they surprised the affiliates with the footage at the end of the night. The song we used was “We’ve Only Just Begun”.


57 posted on 03/20/2016 12:56:44 AM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: Aliska

Could have something to do with the fact that Paul Williams is the President of ASCAP, the world’s largest performing rights society....


58 posted on 03/20/2016 1:09:59 AM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: mdittmar

She is the finest female pop vocalist I have ever heard.

Gotta include Anne Murray, Patsy Cline, Dinah Washington, Ruthie Henshall also in the top 5.

Giving credit to Annie Lennox, Stevie Nix and Natalie Merchant also


59 posted on 03/20/2016 3:58:57 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: mdittmar

Her version of the Bonnie Bramlett song “Superstar” was always my favorite Karen Carpenter song.


60 posted on 03/20/2016 4:55:03 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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