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"Love Making Love To You" is a great arrangement and a real stand out track. I'm aware a lot of fans really dislike most of those unreleased songs, I'm just amazed at how Phil Ramone was able to take Karen's vocal abilities in another direction.
Quite frankly, my blood pressure increases every time I give it some thought.
Then I suggest your blood pressure is a dangerous 708 over 111.
How do I arrive at that figure? Simply - you've made 111 of the 708 posts in this thread (not counting this one that makes 709), which gives you something between 15 and 16% of the posts here in this thread. And that doesn't count any of the posts you've made in other threads that mention the solo album.
Seriously Gary, you need to come to terms with the distant past (yes, distant - it was 35 years ago!). Take yourself back to when you were happily listening to the brand new song, "(They Long To Be) Close To You" in the summer of 1970. And then think about dwelling on something that had happened 35 years prior - in 1935.
(Just a fun exercise in the length of time here.)
All of this of course is to be taken lightheartedly, but with just a twinge of concern for your health and well-being. Maybe a is in order.
Harry
I've already answered these questions several times in this thread,but will briefly explain again:Karen's album, or, rather all of the recorded songs for that album,
if marketed and sequenced properly, at that time, along with the
artwork/photos, had great potential.
I remain baffled as to the decision to cancel the album.
Not looking for a conspiracy, simply asking for reasoning.
Karen Carpenter--was she led to believe it was 'all systems go' for this album,
up until the time when the 'rug was pulled out from under her'--in an instant?
A year of arduous recording, travelling, high expectations...and, then,' bingo' --it's over, in an instant?
I do not understand the entire timeline from early 1979 to early 1980, the details...what really happened?
I mean, let's face it, not much to go on in the official Fan Club Newsletters.
Half a million dollars...explain this entire fiasco to me...it really does not make sense.
Quite frankly, my blood pressure increases every time I give it some thought.
Well, Thank God for the 1996 CD Karen Carpenter, and the later SHM-CD, and the lovely promo poster.
Unfortunately, Karen is not here to enjoy the attention it has deservedly garnered.
...free as a song, singing forever......
Richard chose the best ones, then moved Karen's voice more to the forefront of the mix. Somehow the audio quality of her solo album sounds a bit distant to me, but on Lovelines her voice regains its warmth and resonance on those solo tracks.
And, especially on this date "Something's Missing":
IMO, of the songs that didn't make it onto the official solo album, this one is the best. I still can't fathom why it wasn't selected (unless it's because Karen felt it sounded too much like a standard Carpenters ballad). But for me, this song shows off her vocal and emotional range so much better than much of what was chosen for the solo album. I understand that Karen wanted to have fun, try out new sounds, etc. And I applaud that. But I also think she sort of "threw out the baby with the bathwater" by not showcasing her greatest strengths as a singer. I think that if this song had been included on the album, my opinion of it would have improved.