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Has anyone ever seen Carpenters perform Bless the beast and the children at The Academy Awards from April 1972.Im suprised it has surfaced on youtube.I would like to see performance
Okay, golden-eared folks, get out your headphones and check this out:
In the 1991 remix of "Superstar", there are two or three "ticks" in the opening. I say two or three because I think one is kind of covered by the rest of the mix. These ticks sound to me just like a tick on a vinyl record would sound, and they occur more toward the left of the stereo. Get out your CDs of either LOVE SONGS or INTERPRETATIONS or GOLD GREATEST HITS and listen carefully at around :06, :09, and :12 into the song.
I'm not sure about the one at :06 - if it's there, it's buried in the mix, but the :09 and :12 are clearly there. The question is, what in the world happened to this 1991 remix that would put ticks into the mix? These ticks are not present in the original, not in the 1985 remix, not in the SACD 2004 remix, nor the RPO remix.
The 1991 remix got a lot of mileage on compilations over the decade or so before the SACD remix and I'm surprised that these ticks somehow leaked through Richard's quality control.
I found this as I was listening to a version of GOLD, the one with "[K2]HD Mastering" to help someone who was looking for that disc. I thought I was hearing things when the ticks appeared. Just for the heck of it, I brought the track up in Audacity to see the waveforms at these points. Turns out that with a quick click on the "repair" function, these ticks disappear, just like they would if it were a vinyl problem.
Then I went to check out the other mixes and copies of the 1991 remix and they all have it.
Interesting. You think it’s the click track from Karen’s headphones?
I went on the Oscars.org website and filled out the form from the contact us page and requested they add this clip to their 1972 Awards page. Probably won't happen but worth a shot.Hi
Has anyone ever seen Carpenters perform Bless the beast and the children at The Academy Awards from April 1972.Im suprised it has surfaced on youtube.I would like to see performance
At the end the blogger also states this:Here is a blog which provides two links to scholarly analysis of the song Superstar:
The blogger adds, among other things: "First, Karen Carpenter is a great singer.Carpenters – "Superstar" (1971)
Loneliness is a such a sad affair And I can hardly wait to be with you again Back in the seventies, my friends and I thought that t...2or3lines.blogspot.com
Second, Richard Carpenter is a great arranger. And third, the Carpenters’ “Superstar” is a perfect pop record."
Superstar is the song that started my love affair with the Carpenters. From (They Long To Be) Close To You through Rainy Days And Mondays, I enjoyed hearing their songs on the radio but it was this song that just blew me away as to how talented they were. Would certainly include this song on a sample of Carpenters recordings to anyone who has never heard any of their songs.At the end the blogger also states this:
At the very end of the song – after Karen sings her last note – Richard has one final surprise for us. The strings play one more chord, and then another. The last chord in particular is so soft that you may have never noticed it before, but it is as unexpected and sublime a final chord as I have ever heard.
[bolding mine] He's absolutely correct about this. I always listen for this last orchestral chord. There's an ever-so-slight pause before it happens. It's insertion here was a stroke of genius!
He used the same soft, sweet, drawn out final chord at the end of "You're The One" also...
Perfectly conceived closures to two of his very best arrangements - and two of Karen's finest recorded vocal performances.
Absolutely! It would be very interesting to see what other songs the devoted and knowledgeable fans here would include on an "Introduction to the Carpenters" CD for the newbees to their music...among select others I would now include "Close to You", a song I've just recently learned to love, principally because of Richard's subtle but brilliantly conceived arrangement - it took me 50 years to realize just what a great musical concept this song was...Superstar is the song that started my love affair with the Carpenters. From (They Long To Be) Close To You through Rainy Days And Mondays, I enjoyed hearing their songs on the radio but it was this song that just blew me away as to how talented they were. Would certainly include this song on a sample of Carpenters recordings to anyone who has never heard any of their songs.
Sorry, all of my copies of the soundtrack are pretty noisy, especially with my new cartridge. No digital “corrections” were made—what you hear is a flat transfer.
On all the vinyl rips I’ve ever heard of this version of the song, the opening piano has always sounded to me like they were played on an uneven turntable.
The noise on the loud parts is the big reason why I'm sad about the A Song for You version. (Not sure if the record has that noise too, but the CD does.)Like the turntable was getting up to speed after a few notes or so... Yeah, mine sounds that way too.
For some reason though, the Japanese Single Box version got that part right. It's still a needledrop though and has a small phasing error and some noise on the loud parts.
Does your Japanese Single Box version sound like this one?Like the turntable was getting up to speed after a few notes or so... Yeah, mine sounds that way too.
For some reason though, the Japanese Single Box version got that part right. It's still a needledrop though and has a small phasing error and some noise on the loud parts.
This really is one of my favorite Carpenters' songs: