newvillefan
I Know My First Name Is Stephen
No comparison. Karen recorded new vocals, new material, new producer. This album is the original vocals with the original producer and the original backing tracks thrown out and redone. It’s abysmal.
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No comparison. Karen recorded new vocals, new material, new producer. This album is the original vocals with the original producer and the original backing tracks thrown out and redone. It’s abysmal.
CarpentersToYou
Somehow you brought the gambler out in me...
I'm glad it's not just me, Stephen. I couldn't even get through the 2 that just came out.
Vinylalbumcovers
Ah am so steel een luv weeth yoo
I recently paid to download the 1977 Rita Coolidge hit song, "We're All Alone," a song written by Boz Scaggs. I tend to think Karen Carpenter could have done an excellent job singing "We're All Alone." But Rita's version is very good and reached number 7 on the Billboard charts.
The album, Anytime . . Anywhere, reached number 6 on the US charts in 1977.
What is interesting about Rita Coolidge is that almost all of her 1970s and 1980s albums were issued by A & M Records.
Her album with Kris Kristofferson, "Natural Act," released in December 1978, reached 106 in the US. Rita's September 1979 album release, "Satisfied," reached 95 in the US. Rita's August 1981 album release, "Heartbreak Radio," reached 160 in the US.
Rita's next two album releases, 1983's "Never Let You Go" and 1984's "Inside the Fire" did not chart in the US.
It's great the A & M Records was loyal to Rita Coolidge during this somewhat down period in her professional career. She's a great singer and I am interested in listening to more of her music and perhaps purchased more of it as well.
Can anyone think of a song that both Karen Carpenter and Rita Coolidge both sang? Superstar perhaps? Where there any others?
The album, Anytime . . Anywhere, reached number 6 on the US charts in 1977.
What is interesting about Rita Coolidge is that almost all of her 1970s and 1980s albums were issued by A & M Records.
Her album with Kris Kristofferson, "Natural Act," released in December 1978, reached 106 in the US. Rita's September 1979 album release, "Satisfied," reached 95 in the US. Rita's August 1981 album release, "Heartbreak Radio," reached 160 in the US.
Rita's next two album releases, 1983's "Never Let You Go" and 1984's "Inside the Fire" did not chart in the US.
It's great the A & M Records was loyal to Rita Coolidge during this somewhat down period in her professional career. She's a great singer and I am interested in listening to more of her music and perhaps purchased more of it as well.
Can anyone think of a song that both Karen Carpenter and Rita Coolidge both sang? Superstar perhaps? Where there any others?
rockdoctor
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Rita Coolidge was one of the first to record Superstar and it was on A&M's Mad Dogs and Englishmen by Joe Cocker. She was also a writer of the song but is not credited. Karen recorded it after Richard heard Bette Midler singing it on The Tonight Show. The first album that I got by Rita was Fall Into Spring. I had heard her debut album at a friend's house about a year earlier. Satisfied is my favorite. I did get all her A&M releases over the next few years.
I have a few Rita Coolidge albums on original vinyl. Some are a bit beat up from radio station use, others in pretty good shape. Mostly, the CLASSICS VOLUME 5 serves my needs when I need to hear a Rita Coolidge track.
My sister, who once had a 'thing' for Kris Kristofferson, gifted me her copy of FULL MOON so I could have the track that Herb Alpert appears on: "A Song I'd Like To Sing".
My sister, who once had a 'thing' for Kris Kristofferson, gifted me her copy of FULL MOON so I could have the track that Herb Alpert appears on: "A Song I'd Like To Sing".
rockdoctor
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I have both the A&M Kris and Rita lp's and the Classics CD.I have a few Rita Coolidge albums on original vinyl. Some are a bit beat up from radio station use, others in pretty good shape. Mostly, the CLASSICS VOLUME 5 serves my needs when I need to hear a Rita Coolidge track.
My sister, who once had a 'thing' for Kris Kristofferson, gifted me her copy of FULL MOON so I could have the track that Herb Alpert appears on: "A Song I'd Like To Sing".
I purchased the two disc cd Delta Lady a few years back and I carry that one on my road trips.
Walkinat9
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Walkinat9
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Always happy if this song by Fay Lovsky gets played during the holiday season. The video was shot in the TopPop studio in late 1981. You can still see a Roman statue and the sphynx, which were also there when Karen & Richard were in the studio to shoot a video for "Touch me when we're dancing"...
Besides that Christmas song, I know Fay best for a song I heard on a compilation LP with various artists on it, from the mid-'80s. Always thought it was kind of intriguing. Now I have the full "Cinema" CD from which it was pulled
Besides that Christmas song, I know Fay best for a song I heard on a compilation LP with various artists on it, from the mid-'80s. Always thought it was kind of intriguing. Now I have the full "Cinema" CD from which it was pulled
Simon KC1950
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I just wanted to share this cover of John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads by Lana Del Rey. Her artistry really is the real deal among current artists; she also has a melancholy to her voice that matches so well with this style of song.
She recorded this track some time ago and I'd longed to hear it. Finally it was released on Friday. I'm hoping her unreleased American standards & classics covers album will follow.
She recorded this track some time ago and I'd longed to hear it. Finally it was released on Friday. I'm hoping her unreleased American standards & classics covers album will follow.
JohnFB
She was born to belong to the lines of a song...
I first heard this pretty song years ago in an uptempo version by the innovative male vocal group The Four Freshman.
Here it is slowed down into a sweet, lovely ballad by the surprisingly talented Doris Day, who was a popular singer with several Big Bands in the 40s before she hit it big time in the movies and later on TV:
Here it is slowed down into a sweet, lovely ballad by the surprisingly talented Doris Day, who was a popular singer with several Big Bands in the 40s before she hit it big time in the movies and later on TV:
newvillefan
I Know My First Name Is Stephen
I’ve always loved Doris Day - her version of ‘Fly Me To The Moon’ is probably the best of all the different ones I’ve heard, and faithfully copied by Agnetha Fältskog on her 2004 covers album My Colouring Book.
Gloria Estefan - Words Get In the Way
When I listen to all of the great brass arrangements on Karen Carpenter's solo album, I sometimes think of Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine.
When I listen to all of the great brass arrangements on Karen Carpenter's solo album, I sometimes think of Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine.
newvillefan
I Know My First Name Is Stephen
The Gloria Estefan track that I love more than any of her records is ‘Anything For You’. Same goes for Celine Dion’s ‘To Love You More’. There’s something about the lyrics, matched with their vocal delivery and the arrangements that gets to me every time.
JohnFB
She was born to belong to the lines of a song...
In the title of the song and in its choruses Gloria sings about how "...there's something I've been trying to say to you, but the words got in the way..." I knew there was something vaguely familiar about that phrase and it finally hit me this morning while listening again that it's the same phrase (cleverly ironic expression) that appears in "This Masquerade":
Both afraid to say we're just too far away
From being close together from the start
We tried to talk it over but the words got in the way
We're lost inside this lonely game...
Coincidence? Maybe. I think that phrase probably predates either song, going back in the vernacular many
years. Maybe centuries. Maybe to Shakespeare?!?
But, the two songs not only have that in common. They both have that, what would it be, latinized/Jazzy rhythm, and the same sensual, brooding, yearning emotional feel. Great stuff!
Both afraid to say we're just too far away
From being close together from the start
We tried to talk it over but the words got in the way
We're lost inside this lonely game...
Coincidence? Maybe. I think that phrase probably predates either song, going back in the vernacular many
years. Maybe centuries. Maybe to Shakespeare?!?
But, the two songs not only have that in common. They both have that, what would it be, latinized/Jazzy rhythm, and the same sensual, brooding, yearning emotional feel. Great stuff!
