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Chris- Do you think One More Time and Ordinary Fool were both considered at the same time but one was chosen over the other? Sort of like You're the One and I Just Fall in Love Again for Passage.
Chris- Do you think One More Time and Ordinary Fool were both considered at the same time but one was chosen over the other? Sort of like You're the One and I Just Fall in Love Again for Passage.
Isn't there also a tendency to favor the latest thing you've worked on?
Have we heard of these before? Have any of them seen release? Tell us more, please.It’s quite possible, although they recorded several other tracks over the ensuing months. My guess is they just weren’t taken enough with it to finish it. So glad we have it all these years later though ☺
Have we heard of these before? Have any of them seen release? Tell us more, please.
And it didnt in the uk. Got to No 3.UK Record Mirror, June 19, 1976:
THE CARPENTERS: 'A Kind of Hush' (A&M, AMLK 64581).
"Apparently, this eighth Carpenters' album expresses the duo's change of attitude, according to
Richard - although he doesn't go on to explain exactly what that change is. Listening to the album
I couldn't find anything startlingly different --Karen's voice is as pure as ever, and all the usual
vocal arrangements, care of Richard, are as strong as ever. In short, the album is as predictable as
ever, albeit enjoyably predictable. Side two contains to my ears the three best songs; 'I Need To Be In Love',
'One More Time' and Jackie De Shannon's lovely 'Boat To Sail.' There's also their last hit single
and what I think is their next single, Neil Sedaká s Breaking Up Is Hard To Do."
UK Record Mirror, June 26, 1976:
CARPENTERS: I Need To Be In Love (A&M, AMS 7238).
"Perfect. Thrills down the spine for the young men listening to the velvety voice (all in love with Karen);
and agreement from all the young ladles. Her presentation is superb, as always. The Carpenters always
choose songs wide enough to appeal to everyone, but always make sure the quality doesn't suffer in doing so.
Can't fail."
Thinking of the drums for Goofus and Sandy on the Hush album: Cubby O'brien.
From Cubby (Oct 1996):
"O'Brien says he saw Karen just four days before her death. "They had gotten some action on a new record, and we were going out on tour for the first time in two years..." Had Karen lived, O'Brien says, the Carpenters' "place would be exactly what it was before: The reviewers would hate them, and everybody else would listen to them and buy their albums! Their music was some of the best music of the '70s."
Source:
Not so Mickey Mouse
December 1983, interview Cubby O'brien:
“When I joined the Carpenters, I had three days to learn the show with no music—only a tape. I walked around A&M Records with the tape to my ear, rehearsing and learning all the drum fills because Richard wanted to reproduce everything that either Karen or Hal Blaine had done,” he laughs, imitating a Hal Blaine fill in the air. “I was going crazy trying to learn all these fills, and what song they went in, and where. At that time Karen was playing too, and we were playing exactly the same fills on the same drums. We did that for a year or two with Karen still playing. "
Source:
Cubby O'Brien - Modern Drummer Magazine
Thinking of the drums for Goofus and Sandy on the Hush album: Cubby O'brien.
From Cubby (Oct 1996):
"O'Brien says he saw Karen just four days before her death. "They had gotten some action on a new record, and we were going out on tour for the first time in two years..." Had Karen lived, O'Brien says, the Carpenters' "place would be exactly what it was before: The reviewers would hate them, and everybody else would listen to them and buy their albums! Their music was some of the best music of the '70s."
Source:
Not so Mickey Mouse
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Does anyone know what song or music Cubby refers to when he says "They had gotten some action on a new record..."?
Wondering if this was a general comment about maybe recording a new album, or something more specific.
Maybe he’s referring to “The Very Best Of The Carpenters” that hit #1 in Australia and #2 in New Zealand in early-1983 (although it’s New Zealand peak wasn’t until May 15, 1983, not sure when it hit in Australia).
Also Beechwood 4-5789 had been a Top 10 hit in New Zealand on March 28, 1982.
charts.org.nz - Carpenters - The Very Best Of The Carpenters
New Zealand charts and music portalcharts.nz
Does anyone know what song or music Cubby refers to when he says "They had gotten some action on a new record..."?
Wondering if this was a general comment about maybe recording a new album, or something more specific.
Maybe the tour was in the early planning stages and had only been confirmed but with no dates and locations.'I've never heard anything about them having a tour of Australia planned at this time', it's supposed to say, above.
Maybe the tour was in the early planning stages and had only been confirmed but with no dates and locations.
But the interesting thing with “The Very Best of the Carpenters” is that it contained the single edit of “Calling Occupants”. I think that version was used since the 1-disc album had 20 songs on it, so for space issues the single edit was used (“Calling Occupants” had hit #19 in New Zealand so it was a Big hit there for the Carpenters).