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If I could triple like your comment I would. Certainly not an I Got You Babe for Cher where shouting replaced singing. Karen nailed it.Funny- for a woman known for her sexuality and flaunting it, I think Karen's version is much more sensual.
Funny- for a woman known for her sexuality and flaunting it, I think Karen's version is much more sensual.
120% agree with you there. I know it's all academic because the album didn't see the light of day until 1996, but this song should have made the final cut and is way better than many of the songs on there. The vocal arrangement is stunning.
Ah....I see most of us are on the "same page" regarding this song !
As I have said all along--one should compare Karen's solo songs--- not to other Carpenters' hit songs--
but, to place the solo work itself against that of her contemporaries.....
If approached in such a light, there is so very much to love and admire in
many of Karen's solo recordings !
Love Making Love To You is one of Karen's very best !
Comparison of these two versions is yet
another piece of strong evidence in support of Karen's effort.
And, really, Karen was singing as an adult on these solo songs !
I'm all for a Vinyl solo gatefold-double-album.....
I Can Dream Can't I ?
Well maybe Richard will have a change of heart and finish the track after all from the Carpenter world we got "Get Some"Yes! Absolutely should have been included in the final album. As Dave said, perhaps it wasn't because of it being so racy? I know she wanted to go there with her material, but it may have been a little too much for comfort of the family and mom. How I wish Karen's version would be released officially or remastered. I guess that will just remain a wish.
Karen's vocal, to my ears, while being intimate, isn't believable. The choruses really aren't for me. I don't feel her really "letting go" like the lyric demands. Cher does; Karen doesn't. The whole thing just sounds wrong coming from Karen - not because she never really did it before, but because she doesn't interpret it that well. I just don't buy it.
Ed
I think I've shared this sentiment before... For all the gems on Karen's solo work, much of the lyrical content of songs, such as "Love Making Love to You," was far beneath Karen. It was embarrassing, classless, and debasing. For Karen's vocals, I agree that "the money was in the basement." To deviate to the direction of the gutter lyric-wise was an unfortunate choice...