If it wasn't good enough to release in 1979/80, why was it good enough to release in 1989?
Everything takes on additional value when the source of it is suddenly gone.
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If it wasn't good enough to release in 1979/80, why was it good enough to release in 1989?
If it wasn't good enough to release in 1979/80, why was it good enough to release in 1989?
Everything takes on additional value when the source of it is suddenly gone.
I tend to disagree, Karen was pretty proud of her solo album with or without Richards approval of final playback. If the fans had kept asking her about it she would have found a way to get the material out to the fans. It was also inevitable that another solo album would have appeared with a new direction she was wanting to head. She shelved it but wasn't going to forget about it, pleasing the fans is something she would have wanted to do. She just seems like that kind of person.Here's the above question asked another way: if it wasn't good enough to release in 1979/1980 and Karen had lived, would it have been released later in her lifetime?
I think the answer to that would be a resounding "no".
Well with regard to her solo material, it was known as it was publicized in Billboard and the trade magazines she was recording with Phil Ramone. The fans also knew about the solo album with monthly updates in the fan club newsletters. So it was no secret.Here's a question I never really thought about before. Looking at the list of material that was released after Karen died -- and the still-unreleased items. How many of those items were known about before she died?
Put another way -- if she had lived, would Richard have kept sitting on the unreleased material and would fans have found out about all of it, or did a lot of this material just get "unearthed" after Karen died and may have otherwise never seen the light of day?
Right, we have the transcript in English of Richard going through the buried treasure list and it is most likely the reason why we received much from that list. Singers are known to over record and I bet there is stuff from Olivia that is not known of today, we didn't know about her version of John Denver's hit Looking For Space until it appeared on Japan box set.The unreleased 'buried treasures' song list being leaked out to fans is a BIG reason why we have several songs today in our collections. I'm thankful that Richard took notice of it. 'Leave Yesterday Behind' and 'The Rainbow Connection' are the two songs that were a direct result of that list finding its way into the 'Mook' book.
Richard also has stated that he was being deluged for years with outright demands for the solo album's release. That's why he finally decided to release it.
Here's a question I never really thought about before. Looking at the list of material that was released after Karen died -- and the still-unreleased items. How many of those items were known about before she died?
Put another way -- if she had lived, would Richard have kept sitting on the unreleased material and would fans have found out about all of it, or did a lot of this material just get "unearthed" after Karen died and may have otherwise never seen the light of day?
Here is the first time I have seen an advert (although small) letting the public know about the single, Honolulu City Lights. This ad appeared in The Gavin Report Dec 12, 1986. The photo they used for this is interesting, could this have been the cover art for the single release and then later dropped?
(1) Who were the original Bass Players on the original mix of these songs ? And why were they replaced?
(2) What did the "remix" of these two songs consist of ? That is, what aspects were altered ?
Lovelines retains the original bass in the remix. The original bass player on If I Had You would have either been Doug Stegmeyer or Louis Johnson. I'm sure with Richard it was just a style thing, he probably just thought Joe Osborne could do a better job.
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In Lovelines the opening four bars were cut and the song fades early, running at around 4m30s as opposed to the solo version which clocks in at over 5 minutes. There's more reverb on the drums (as there also is on the remix of My Body Keeps Changing My Mind) and Karen's lead vocal is also brought much more to the fore on the remix. In the original version, she's drowned out by the backing vocals in places, particularly at the end of the first chorus on the line "cos lovelines never fade...".
If I Had You was subject to what's probably the most extensive remix of all the solo tracks. The bass part is new and some of the percussion parts in the choruses are quieter in the remix. Richard also replaced a couple of vocal takes on certain lines and completely revised the ending, so that the "call and response" vocal section ends completely cold, as opposed to fading out with the rest of the track.
While listening to
Uninvited Guest
it amused me to realize I had never gotten this lyric correct...
"I should leave you,
but I love you,
Oh, it doesn't make sense."
I, for one, do not hear those (emboldened) words when listening to the song !
While listening to
Uninvited Guest
it amused me to realize I had never gotten this lyric correct...
"I should leave you,
but I love you,
Oh, it doesn't make sense."
I, for one, do not hear those (emboldened) words when listening to the song !