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All I can say about Anne Murray's comments about "Could I Have This Dance" is that I saw her make them on a TV talk show, probably an interview by Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show."The other singer was Kenny Rogers and after hearing Anne's version with herself singing both parts, Capitol records did not want the song recorded as a duet and told her to keep it the way they heard it. They were right as it did go on to win a Grammy. I've never heard Anne complain about singing low, her voice is infact lower than Karen's, the two women would have complained if the song was too high not low!
There's no way to make an objective comparison between Anne Murray and KC-two totally different types of singers in two different genres.Anne Murray dull!!!! Her choice of songs was much better than the Carpenters especially in the late 70's and early 80's. She made brilliant albums between 1978-1985. Practically all of them went gold or Platinum in the States.
No- Anne and KC weren't "exactly the same,stylewise". I've heard many of Anne's albums-and she is basically a Country singer,and she sings like a country singer.Anne is actually more similar to Reba McEntire,Juice Newton,Crystal Gayle & Bonnie Raitt.Both Anne & Karen are contralto's, but I always use the team 'alto', i think most people do. I don't see how anyone could place their voices anywhere esle. Any lower they both would sound like a man, and both women couldn't sing much above an octave above middle c, unless in falsetto!(Something that neither did that often). Style wise Karen and Anne are exactly the same!!! This is why when you check under listings....'people who also brought the Carpenters brought Anne Murray'. Anne was country / pop, and the Carpenters were 'pop' often driving into country , and both were also huge on the 'Adult contemporary chart, infact both are in the top 10 artists of all time on that chart. If they weren't similar how would they end up on the same type of chart? ' Karen often listened to and sang country songs, wasn't 'Sweet Sweet smile' her choice. And what about 'Top of the world', 'Jambalaya', 'Reason to believe', 'Those good old dreams' do I need to go on! Also didn't Karen also audition for Kenny Rogers in the late 60's. Anne has an amazing voice, in fact she is one of the most respected female singers of all time, just read around in other performers books, interviews etc. It was said that if Anne Murray recorded a song noone esle would touch it as they could not compete. Infact over the years I would say I have read of more singers rating Anne than Karen as a great singer. Didn't John Lennon also say that Anne made the best ever cover of a Beatles song!