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My first single was "We've Only Just Begun, in the winter of 1970.
Interpretations. 25 December 1994. I was 18 and I'd seen a video for Trying To Get The Feeling Again on the Chart Show and asked for the album for Christmas.
Top Of The Pops 2 would make more sense than the Chart Show. All I really remember of the video was the Disneyland Dumbo ride footage. I look on YouTube for it every so often, but nothing as yet. I miss Top Of The Pops 2.
I videotaped that clip and then later lost it. The promo for that has never surfaced since its airing on Top Of The Pops 2 on BBC2 in 1994 but it was amazingly well put together, with snippets of Karen from other promo videos matching her mouth to the lyrics of the song.
I purchased Close To You, followed by Carpenters, followed by Ticket to Ride from the Gemco store located a mile for K&R's Downey home. Those were the days...
Well, I was quite young then (age 14) so I wasn't 'out and about much'. But, I do remember seeing the Carpenters road van at the Gemco store and I believe it was being driven by Mark Rudolph. Other than a concert at the then 'Universal Amphitheater' in 1973 as part of the Now & Then tour, I didn't see Karen and Richard in person. I do remember though some other kids in high school talked about knocking on the Newville door around Thanksgiving time and seeing Karen.Wow! I'm guessing you would see them out and about from time to time?
What it doesn't capture is the panicked rush to the stereo when the track began and I mistook the radio tuning bit for the cassette getting mangled!
Well, I was quite young then (age 14) so I wasn't 'out and about much'. But, I do remember seeing the Carpenters road van at the Gemco store and I believe it was being driven by Mark Rudolph. Other than a concert at the then 'Universal Amphitheater' in 1973 as part of the Now & Then tour, I didn't see Karen and Richard in person. I do remember though some other kids in high school talked about knocking on the Newville door around Thanksgiving time and seeing Karen.
I have a vivid memory of 'The End of the World' playing on the family car's radio when we were all out for a family drive one Sunday when I was eight or nine. Right at the end of the song, where Karen hits the low notes, my oldest sister said, 'Karen Carpenter has a strange voice'. I thought, 'I really like it'.
Lol. I like that last note. Thanks for your comment, newvillefan.Great post!
That last note on End Of The World has always jarred with me. The syllable it ends on, coupled with that low note, makes it sound like she's saying "aaah" at the dentist. It doesn't sounds natural at all and really spoils an otherwise beautiful reading and version.
You said a mouthful!'Close To You' LP, Christmas, 1970, at age 8.
And I haven't been the same since.