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@GaryAlan, I am in virtually complete agreement with you! Yet I actually like "Breaking Up...." However, I would have preferred the slow version as well.Listening to this LP, side one then flipping to side two, as originally delivered--
it strikes me that the album is better than it is usually given credit for....
Notwithstanding Richard Carpenter down-grading it through the years,
the album has its strengths. Horizon--it is not--but, still, that's not a fair comparison to make.
(1) I Need To Be In Love, One More Time, Boat To Sail, I Have You.....that's a great sequence for side two.
Each of those songs are strong, in my opinion.
(2) The Hush remake, that is still one of my all-time-favorites !
(3) Goofus, perhaps not single-worthy, but an excellent arrangement.
(4) Had the beefier arrangement for Can't Smile Without You been used, a winner.
( When was a decision made to record that additional arrangement ? I wonder....)
(5) As I've said previously, Sandy is the weak link here--in my opinion.
(6) You--what a great song.
(7) Breaking Up...well, I do not really care for it, but, I would if it had been the slower version.
The artwork for the entire LP, cover, sleeve, vinyl...very nice.
So, all-in-all, not a bad LP by any stretch of the imagination.
Liner Notes on the 40th Set includes this by Richard Carpenter:
"Karen dealt with many career problems better than I."
Am I the only one who thinks that the LP might have performed better if released sooner than
June 11, 1976 ?
Isn't the Cover photo/artwork depicting a "wintery" feel ?
Not really a "summer" record.....
I get more of an autumn feel from the cover. Like a Thanksgiving-time-frame in early-October.
My first Olivia album, "Have You Never Been Mellow", was a gift from my sister for my 15th birthday. When she handed it to me, she teased, "I got you this, because I figured that even if you don't like the music, at least you can stare at the picture. Try not to drool on it!" Well, it took only one listen, and I was a fan for life, and to this day, it's still one of my favorite album covers! Seems that my sister correctly guessed my taste in music... and women.I did buy my first Olivia album and the first of Norah Jones because uhhh, I liked what they looked like. Shallow I know, but once I heard them, I did find I liked the music too.
Argh where is the rest of the article? Lol
It may have done better if released around September, as some of the tracks have that autumnal, introspective feel to them. Even more so in the case of Horizon.
Rick, you can actually read that tiny, tiny print? I'm impressed!Argh where is the rest of the article? Lol
I completely agree with it so far....