Graeme
Well-Known Member
After all that I didn't decide which was the least best as a single. Neither were a good choice and they should have gone back to Horizon and released Happy instead of Goofus and not released anything else off the Made In America album after Those Good Old Dreams. But I'll go for Beechwood as least best single as I like Goofus and its goofy charm and I think I'd have been more likely to buy it.I went to two Carpenters tribute concerts last year and one of them actually did Beechwood. I could hear a couple of people around me saying they'd never heard of it before.
It has never been one of my favourites but performed live I thought perhaps I'd developed a new appreciation of it. But when I played it at home the next day I was left feeling lukewarm about it again. My better half was surprised the song was off a later album, assuming it was an earlier recording.
When I first heard the song (on the Reflections compilation album) I didn't know that they were perhaps too old to record it and I hadn't seen the video. For me, it's just too slick sounding and by the numbers, lacking the fun and energy of Mr Postman. To be fair to Richard and Karen though I'm not all that keen on the original version either.
For me Goofus is by far the more interesting song and underrated. Completely daft choice for a single though.