A Song for Karen

[Mark-T]

Time to time, I run into a song thats screams "Karen would have done this one SO well."
Add a new one to my list-
Just listening to the Gladys Knight album "Before Me'.
The song "This Bitter Earth" would have been a great song for Karen.
Tender, introspective, and warmly hopeful.
I highly recommend this album....

 

[goodjeans]

"It Never Rains In Southern California" The writer, the subject matter, the classic sibling overdubs, the drumline (with either Karen or Jim Gordon playing strong drums). I have thought and wished for years that Carpenters would have remade that one. They could probably have done it in an afternoon and taken it to #1 and I don't care which year or what was 'hot' at the time. Not too strong an opinion, eh?

 

[Johnny Angel]

The first time I heard Crystal Gayle's recording of Talking In Your Sleep, I thought it would have been perfect for Karen. The line "I've heard it said that dreamers never lie" has that low register that Karen was able to sing so well...

 

[Dave]

"Our Day Will Come"--A COMPLETE version outside of "The Oldies Medley" (been looking for a thread to discuss this particular song in The Carpenters canon, in their Forum on this Board) would be well-done in the manner of "Hurting Each Other"; both songs were originally done by Ruby & The Romantics (who also did "Baby I Could Be So Good At Lovin' You", as a single, which was also covered by The Sandpipers)...

"Our Day Will Come" was also done by Roger Nichols & The Small Circle of Friends and also as the perfect '60's-Folk/Pop song by We Five and got revived in the '70's by The Ray Conniff Singers (which seems to be dated, despite, even with the electric wah-wah guitar, it seems to be struggling for life) and by Frankie Valli... --The many versions even w/o a "complete" Carpenters reeindition, still do it justice...!



Dave