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The best thing to do is put an ad on Craigslist Los Angeles(LA has the largest Japanese population in the US)-seeking someone who can do some Japanese to English translating.You might get a response from some Japanese college students who are looking to make some extra money.I think enough time has passed that what is printed in the MOOK in Japanese about the buried treasure tracks should not be kept a secret. The time has passed and we won't be getting these anyway so why not talk about them. I don't see the problem with interpreting the English translation.
That's a start Mr J but it's not complete.
I think that anything with a full lead from Karen or a finished track should have been considered for a Carpenters release. A comment like, "I ought to pull that out and put it on the new album"....makes me think he could have done that on any of the full Karen lead or finished tracks. The tracks without a full lead from Karen (at this point in time 2014) will never ever be released because Richard no longer has the recording voice he did 10 or 20 years ago and it just would not match up to Karen's younger voice. However the tracks with a full Karen lead or finished tracks should be considered as bonus tracks added to a future commemorative CD collection.
Perhaps, "Slaughter On Tenth Avenue" would make it to new release titled Carpenters go Halloween.
Richard was evidently referring to his instrumental "Pianist Arranger" album,which he was working on at the time of the MOOK interview. "Slaughter" is an instrumental-and would've blended in well with the album.Amazing commentary from the Mook, thanks! Which album do we surmise he was talking about in the above comment? The Mook was published in 1996, so the only new albums to come after that were 'Love Songs' in 1997 and 'Pianist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor' in 1998. 'As Time Goes By' came later in 2000, maybe he was considering tracks for that as early as 1996?
Unless of course he means Karen's solo album
The tribute album had nothing to do with the release of Karen's album. I remember speaking with A&M's director of catalog development in 1996-and it was totally an issue of A&M wanting to wait for the "right time".They wanted enough time to pass after Karen's death before giving it a release to ensure that the album wouldn't affect Karen's legacy(or reputation).If I recall, their was some concern (by A&M staffers)
after the sale of Polygram to Universal (?, or,was it A&M to Polygram ?)
that precious unreleased material would then be destroyed, or otherwise never be released.
Certainly A&M ceased to "exist" independently after being gobbled-up by UMG.
Thus, the lawsuit by Alpert and Moss (which they did win).
Why it took until 1996 for the solo album's release puzzles me, as too the comment, by
Phil Ramone to Richard, asking if the album would ever see the light of day.
(And,only after the Tribute album's moderate success, do I believe there was any thought as to its
subsequent release-I could be wrong.)
Seems to me, and again, I could be in error, that these Carpenters' releases (then and now)
are entirely controlled by the artists' recording company.
Given how events have transpired with the distribution of music over the web, downloads and such,
the relationship that,say, Karen and Richard, had with A&M Records, no longer exists (for any artist).
Again, thankfully, we do have what we have!
Would love to have Richard Carpenter's input, his 1970's "diary" of their career-- if you will, though.
The tribute album had nothing to do with the release of Karen's album. I remember speaking with A&M's director of catalog development in 1996-and it was totally an issue of A&M wanting to wait for the "right time".They wanted enough time to pass after Karen's death before giving it a release to ensure that the album wouldn't affect Karen's legacy(or reputation).
I wonder what Peter Pan Moon sounds like or what the feel is? Just the title itself sounds pretty cool.
ENGLISH TRASLATION NEEDED NOW!!!!!I just pulled out my copy of the 'Mook' book, which I hadn't looked at in some time. It's absolutely amazing! What an undertaking. You can tell Yuka put her heart and soul into it.