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Barry is on QVC. Just said he would have loved to sing with Karen on his dream duet album. Said he listened to her solo album but didn't hear a song that would work and the rest of her recordings were on Carpenters albums and that wouldn't have worked
Thanks, interesting bit with Barry .
Although, "Dance in the Old Fashioned Way" comes to mind as a (possible?) duet.
First thing I thought of. As it exists on AS TIME GOES BY, it's kind of icky being a brother and sister singing it.
Harry
the only duet she approved was Peter Cetera.
Karen's solo album would be the only album that he could've drawn a possible duet track from.Richard will never license out a Carpenters recording to another artist.The fact that he seems to have made a beeline for her solo LP and not even considered Carpenters' albums is a really interesting (but hardly surprising) revelation. It makes me wonder what would have happened if he had found a track that suited. Who would have remixed it to accommodate Barry now that Phil has gone? Would he have approached Richard, whose tepidness for the album is well known?
Exactly Jeff and gauging the audience reaction when she said Karen Carpenter....what a missed opportunity. The way Barry talked it was as if he had choice of any song from her solo album but I wonder if Richard would have approved, after all the tracks were presented the way Karen last approved them, the only duet she approved was Peter Cetera. That's why I say, 'You're Just In Love' may be a better fit.
Exactly - to me it sounded as if meant he wouldn't be able to get the rights to use the Carpenters catalog......and definitely he was not looking for obscure songs (such as the ones on her solo album) but signature songs by the artists.....I'm assuming the resistance was not on Barry's side but Richard's. And I don't totally blame him - the whole 'duets with dead people' thing, whether it's Barry or Kenny G or whoever, sort of creeps me out.
(Not Natalie and Nat - she was his daughter and it was a stroke of genius......)
If you listen to the interview carefully,he conceded that Karen only made one solo album-and that was the only album he would've been able(get permission) to pick from.He then stated that he wouldn't have had the ability to use tracks from Carpenters albums.
First thing I thought of. As it exists on AS TIME GOES BY, it's kind of icky being a brother and sister singing it.
And I don't totally blame him - the whole 'duets with dead people' thing, whether it's Barry or Kenny G or whoever, sort of creeps me out.
(Not Natalie and Nat - she was his daughter and it was a stroke of genius......)
Regardless of material, any man with a baritone or bass voice would have a tough time singing in the range chosen for some of Karen's recordings because of her deep, low voice. I know from trying countless times to sing along with certain tracks. Once my voice changed at age 14, it became more of a challenge. You're either singing an octave too high or an octave too low (I'm a bass).