⭐ Official Review [Album]: "VOICE OF THE HEART" (SP-4954)

[newvillefan]

there are a few entries for peter pan moon on youtube. it is a gentle, child-like song. i do not know if it is the same as carpenters recorded, but it is a unique title to have multiple offerings. google search peter pan moon, the song. i can easily hear a richard carpenter treatment.

Sounds like another Rainbow Connection…thanks, I’ll have to look it up.

 

[Harry]

Is the Peter Pan moon a harsh mistress?

 

[Without A Song]

I’ve looked too and nothing. At first I thought it might have been a soundtrack song but no such song exists. Given that it’s never been recorded by another artist, it sounds like a demo they were considering releasing at the time but that they never got round to finishing.

We know from Richard himself that are still a few songs with a complete or partial lead that he could put out if he wanted to. The tracks with a partial lead could be woven into a nice medley, similar to what ABBA did with the ‘Undeleted’ tracks:

Complete Leads

All My Life
Won’t You Play A Simple Melody
Try And Win A Friend
Something’s Missing
Why Don’t They Understand

Partial Leads

All Good Things Don’t Have To End
Come And Be Kind
Peter Pan Moon
Fallin’ For Love

I wonder if any of the songs Richard is rumored to have sung lead on in the early 1980s ("Fool Me," "Some Guys Have All the Luck," "Love as Old as the Heart") have complete leads.

 

[ars nova]

there are a few entries for peter pan moon on youtube. it is a gentle, child-like song. i do not know if it is the same as carpenters recorded, but it is a unique title to have multiple offerings. google search peter pan moon, the song. i can easily hear a richard carpenter treatment.

now i am going to contradict my own statement, i found this comment::

Very nice! Is this the same song that the Carpenters recorded? But Richard can't release it because Karen never completed her lead vocal? How did you find the sheet music? It's a very obscure song. Thanks for posting!

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@KevinThomasCavanaugh
4 years ago
No - I wrote this song

 

[Someday]

I’m sure I read somewhere long ago, there was a rumour that Carpenters had been offered ‘Candle on the Water’ in ‘77. Would have been perfect, even though with the Passage sessions they were seemingly trying to escape the Disney-esque image …

 

[ullalume]

I’m sure I read somewhere long ago, there was a rumour that Carpenters had been offered ‘Candle on the Water’ in ‘77. Would have been perfect, even though with the Passage sessions they were seemingly trying to escape the Disney-esque image …

I think they were in talks to do songs...or a song...from the "Rescuers" -"Someone's Waiting For You". I think Candle on the Water was Petes Dragon. But I see your point. Both were Disney both were from '77.
It took on average 3-4 years to do an animated feature though, so I'm guessing they were approached in '75 or '76 to do it. Richard must have been DEAD against it because I bet karen would've done it for free.

 

[JohnFB]

I think they were in talks to do songs...or a song...from the "Rescuers" -"Someone's Waiting For You". I think Candle on the Water was Petes Dragon. But I see your point. Both were ... so I'm guessing they were approached in '75 or '76 to do it. Richard must have been DEAD against it because I bet karen would've done it for free.

Both are very lovely songs, made for her voice/style, and exactly what she should have been singing - exactly what her millions of fans worldwide were waiting and hoping to hear from her...just another lost golden opportunity in a long string of them...

 

[masqueraded]

Starting to think I'll never get this or Lovelines RC cds. I ordered a cd from discogs but the seller sent me the 40th Ann. Cd by mistake. Granted I know it's the same masters but want to complete my collection. Messaged a user on discogs about his copy of Lovelines. Hope they tripple check and give me te right answer. I hate mod cds. I know they're semi official but still seem off to me. I want the real thing.

 

[hannahtobin]

They cut it on the evening of June 13, 1980 into the early hours of the 14th. A couple of guitar overdub sessions with Peluso ensued over the next several days through June 23, followed by a full orchestral chart recorded on August 26 (same day Karen's "Wedding Song", "Last of the Romantics" and "Somebody's Been Lyin'").

It must have been an intense period of recording with so much happening in a short time. It's always interesting to hear about the process behind the music. Thanks for sharing!

 

[masqueraded]

Finally got a copy of this on remastered classics. Now I just need Lovelines (that's not a dumb mod cd)

 

[Vinylalbumcovers]

Finally got a copy of this on remastered classics. Now I just need Lovelines (that's not a dumb mod cd)

If you want it to sound really good, this is the one you want:

https://www.discogs.com/release/24303863-Carpenters-Voice-Of-The-Heart

The "remastered classics" versions of these albums all have compressed sound. They're louder but they don't sound as good. Thankfully, these early CDs are cheap and plentiful.

Ed

 

[Rick-An Ordinary Fool]

Yup, I have this one too and sounds amazing. Under the logo it says Audio Master Plus Series

 

[Simon KC1950]

I've really gotten into listening to this album again after quite some time.

My favourite Carpenters song at the moment is "Sailing On The Tide" recorded during the Passage sessions on the same day as "You're The One" and the day after "All You Get From Love".

I once considered it a fairly lightweight outtake but it has really grown on me recently. Maybe I need a holiday?

It's the perfect summer song and would have been a great B-side to the "Honolulu City Lights" single.

 

[Harry]

My AM+ VOICE OF THE HEART is a very early copy. Made by Denon, Japan for US, it doesn't even have a UPC bar code on the back.

https://www.discogs.com/release/13097529-Carpenters-Voice-Of-The-Heart

 

[Rick-An Ordinary Fool]

My AM+ VOICE OF THE HEART is a very early copy. Made by Denon, Japan for US, it doesn't even have a UPC bar code on the back.

https://www.discogs.com/release/13097529-Carpenters-Voice-Of-The-Heart

Mine has Made by Denon USA and has the bar code. Did you buy it online or at a record store?

 

[Harry]

I'm sure I bought it in a store back in the 80s, probably a Sam Goody/Musicland or a Wee Three Records. Back then, when you were browsing through the CD sections of the store, basically, if you saw a title you wanted, and you could afford it, you'd buy it. There was no thought at all as to whether a particular disc was made in the US or Japan or Germany - it just WAS a CD. I certainly had no idea that if I bought the same title at a different store that it would be made in an entirely different part of the world.

I also have a thought now, that maybe the reason it didn't have a barcode was that it probably came in a longbox and the UPC code was on that. In those days, just about all titles came in a longbox or long blister-pack configuration.