Rick-An Ordinary Fool
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I know most people here don't like this song but I love it...especially this video...I love what she does at 24-25 seconds.
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That effect was achieved with a spot filter over the lens. I have a vintage one from the 70s. It's a thick convex lens, with a hole cut in the center. Depending on the focal length of the lens it's attached to, and the lighting, the effect can be anything from mild soft-focus around the edges, to dramatic flaring and ghosting, all while keeping the center circle sharp and distortion-free. It's loads of fun to play around with, but not something that I've used very often.It’s interesting how they used a lens that gave it the look of looking into one of those old Christmas bulbs that had the one side look like it had a “belly button”, or even the shape of an eyeball if you were looking at the cornea.
I know most people here don't like this song but I love it...especially this video...I love what she does at 24-25 seconds.
I know most people here don't like this song but I love it...especially this video...I love what she does at 24-25 seconds.
I like that cover art for the single.
Karen's nuances (above) while singing
Goodbye To Love--June 1978 (?)--are incredible.
Did anyone mention their album
Passage, in this 1978 interview ?
For the 1973 performance on Tonight Show, Johnny Carson held up their album,
The Singles 1969-1973, to camera and audience.
Even Merv Griffin, 1981, held their Made In America album up to the cameras.
After reading the interesting comments regarding
Man Smart, Woman Smarter...I had to spin the LP Passage...once again.
I must say, I still very much LOVE this album.
We begin with the fantastic cover art, then the Music:
The captivating B'Wana She No Home,
The ear-candy that is All You Get From Love is a Love Song,
The incredibly beautiful, if bombastic production of, I Just Fall in Love Again,
The beautiful operatic Don't Cry For Me Argentina,
The country-tinge of Karen's playful rendition of Sweet, Sweet Smile,
Two Sides, simply gorgeous. That ending, wow...
Man Smart, Woman Smarter...surely adventurous,
Finally,
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft...over-the-top fantastic.
Passage is one of my least played Carpenters albums, but having just read your comment I honestly don’t know why, as I like every song! I’ll be playing it in the car later today!
Rick, once again you are there with some great photos...appreciated!Something funny I just realized....Karen wore this same outfit on multiple occasions...
She wore it on the TopPop Music Video above of "Sweet Sweet Smile"
She wore it again in the opening of Space Encounters tv special, singing the same song.
She wore it again on The Tonight Show in 1978
On the TopPop video and The Tonight Show she wore the famous record album charm necklace.
I'm sure the camera man loved that bling.
I think she got her money's worth from that outfit.
Come on where was her wardrobe consultant? Don't ever wear the same thing twice. lol
TopPop Video
Space Encounters Opening
The Tonight Show
If you also notice on the high res photo above of Karen from Space Encounters she’s wearing her famous K ring.Rick, once again you are there with some great photos...appreciated!
Sorry Harry, a little off-topic;
Karen's limited wardrobe is perhaps some more evidence in how the duo's management "dropped the ball"? You had Cher making a fashion statement each week on her show dressed in Bob Mackie outfits (never the same thing twice), and then you have Karen, a very beautiful women, wearing stuff that looked like the leftovers from a Downey garage sale. I understand that Karen was very frugal personally, and a lot of this was her doing, but the management should've stepped in and corrected this...
You had Cher making a fashion statement each week on her show dressed in Bob Mackie outfits (never the same thing twice), and then you have Karen, a very beautiful women, wearing stuff that looked like the leftovers from a Downey garage sale.