Another Son
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Since we're on a Horizon roll.... I used to wear Solitaire out when the song was new... Particularly, the added organ snippets that RC added on the single rendition. Even now, when it plays - I review that segment, wishing it was turned up in the mix even a little louder... I wonder as I write this, did the 45 have it louder than the Gold version? hmmm
Addendum: Just You tubed the single... (love that organ!) man oh man... that song kills. the ending particularly.
'Solitaire' used to hypnotise me when it was a single being played on the radio. I must have listened to it a million times over the years. If I did play a snippet of a song over and over again, it would be the very last 'Solitaire' in the song, just to enjoy Karen's warm, rich, deep tone and that long-held note.
A snippet of a song that I actually have played over and over is the first section of 'California Dreaming' before the drums come in and the tempo speeds up. The melancholy of it is delicious. Of course, it's partly the melody and the background meaning to the lyrics that gives the opening verse such impact. But Richard has also created a wonderful piano arrangement to underpin the whole thing. Then add Karen's brilliant, emotive vocal and you have a perfect combination for such a song. An amazing vocal in that first section for a seventeen-year-old girl. Just piano and voice, and the effect is heavenly.