LondonRobert
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i will have to have another listen to the vinyl and compare
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I have always felt this as well. It's the only song out of the entire catalog I've felt this way about...Karen don't you know your not allowed to get colds lolI still think that "I Just Fall In Love Again" sounds like Karen was in the latter stages of a head cold. I can hear the nasal quality in her voice.
I think she would have needed to rerecord her lead vocal to at least make the record sound better.
Robert what tracks on Passage are you referring to?I agree, although there's a couple of tracks that don't quite sound 'right' to me on passage.
It's almost as if Karen's vocals have been put through some sort of machine that has given them an artificial sort of 'edge', I can't quite put my finger on it, it's as if Richard wanted that pre 'now and then' album vocal sound, but did it artificially.
I could of course just be talking a load of rubbish!
Recorded 1978:
I Believe You
Where Do I Go From Here
Honolulu City Lights
When I Fall In Love
Slow Dance
Little Girl Blue
Dancing In The Streets
Dance In The Old-Fashioned Way
Leave Yesterday Behind
Adding:
You're The One (1977)
Ordinary Fool (1976)
Trying To Get The Feeling Again (1975)
I'd say some kind of Album, there.....
^^Regards the so-called "head-cold" sound,
I've always felt that the leads on the 1976 Television Medley,
and, too, with the 1976 Palladium vocals,
all of these had that 'head-cold' quality to my ears--much more so
than the song I Just Fall In Love Again.
Thanks, Chris,
for thinking of approaching Richard Carpenters as to more detail !
There's enough tracks there to fill up an album, but what a random mix of styles. Too many covers and not a hit among them (I'm ignoring the earlier outtakes recorded before 1978 when I say that).
Well definitely I just fall in love again, two sides ( in particular - well theres two sides, theres another side of me, theres the one you thought you lived with, the one you never see............ ) it just seems to kick in when she goes up in her register at that bit.Robert what tracks on Passage are you referring to?
Cassette tape, anyone ?
I'm Listening to the cassette tape of Passage--
no issues that I can discern.
In fact, the very cassette that I purchased at "The Record Bar"....in 1977.
Hey, I still love this album.....
Stylistically, Richard was all over the place by 1978. There doesn’t seem to have been any plan in place to release an album (aside from the Christmas album) and he seems to have decided to record whatever came along that caught his/their ear (evidenced by hearing Honolulu City Lights on holiday and deciding to record that). For All We Know was born in a similar way but by the late seventies, he seemed to have lost his knack for spotting potential dynamite material.
I’ve said it before but Richard seems to have been fundamentally unable to stretch and grow the Carpenters as producer/artist from the late seventies onwards and I do think this is why they ended up floundering by 1981/1982, stylistically speaking. With Karen as the obvious star of the act, he should have looked around at what artists like Ronstadt and Streisand were doing. Even from within the duo, Karen had the most marvellous potential had she had her wings clipped, but she was never given the freedom or room to breathe and grow. The same formula that worked in 1970 was old hat by 1981.
For what it's worth, two quick fixes to the lyrics --- 40 years later:
"I'd live anywhere that you wanted to."
"And love will grow into a friendly little girl who looks like we do."
I notice that Passage times-out at a length of 38 minutes, 39 seconds.
Horizon comes in at 34 minutes, 13 seconds.
The Tan Album, Carpenters, comes in at 29 minutes, 36 seconds.
The tan album is quite the shortest time-wise.
I rarely read about the brevity of the Tan album, for my tastes
it was the album that needed more tracks.