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I was listening to Bette Midler's 1990 album "Some People's Lives" this morning and the final song "The gift of love" reminded me of this old thread. Suddenly I could hear Karen singing the song and it gave me a strong "Made in America" vibe, if you know what I mean.
The song was written by the same team responsible for the Bangles' smash "Eternal flame": Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly and Susanna Hoffs. I first heard it on Norwegian superstar Sissel Kyrkjebø's album "Gift of Love" (1992). I'm including both versions here.
Every time I hear Rita Coolidge sing "We're All Alone" I think of Karen's vocals and Richard's potential arrangement of the song. When I hear the Boz Scaggs original version I don't think of Karen at all.
As soon as I read the title "All The Way" it hit me that this title appears on thr Carpenters "Buried Treasures" list.
We all know it’s highly unlikely - more like impossible - but just imagine for a second that it was the same song and there was a Sinatra cover by Karen sitting there in the vaults. If I’m not mistaken the track is listed as 1980 on that Buried Treasures list, so it would be a Karen vocal of the same quality as the Music, Music, Music recordings.
A bit off topic, but I heard something about Karen being scheduled to record " All Time High" and then suddenly died.I get it! But think what Richard could do...evident by what he did with Leon Russell songs (Superstar, A Song For You, This Masquerade). When I hear Russell's version of A Song For You, I marvel at what the heck Richard must have "heard" in that song and how he could make it a Carpenters classic. The original is so far from what I'd think as a potential Carpenters song. I'm sure he could do/have done the same with many Boz Scaggs songs!