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It is one of the highlights of the medley!I actually prefer the live Palladium version over the studio one. That doesn't happen often.
It’s one of my favorites! It’s like eating a piece of chocolate on chocolate birthday cake!Karen and Richard Carpenter,October 30, 1978,
I Won't Last A Day Without You:
Richard: "That again was out of a big pile of demos."
Karen: "We hadn't thought about it as a single.
Richard: "We were never totally happy with that record."
Karen: "We really did like it, but just not as much as some of the others."
(ref: Liner Notes, Reader's Digest).
Listening to the White Label Promo 45- of
I Won't Last A Day Without You,
the strings seem to come in with a stark difference (in arrangement) near the end of the song
compared to any other--especially from that which appears on the CD Singles 1969-1981.
Anyone hear this difference ? (or, any difference for that matter ).
Karen and Richard Carpenter,October 30, 1978,
I Won't Last A Day Without You:
Richard: "That again was out of a big pile of demos."
Karen: "We hadn't thought about it as a single.
Richard: "We were never totally happy with that record."
Karen: "We really did like it, but just not as much as some of the others."
(ref: Liner Notes, Reader's Digest).
I Won't Last a Day Without You is a great song, one of my favorites! It gets tons of play on all my devices.
It's interesting that they used the sped-up version of the album mix of I Won't Last a Day Without You for THE SINGLES 1974-1978 compilation and not the actual single mix, since this was a collection of their singles.
Here's an odd one - Sometime back in 99 or so, Japan issued the single version on a 3" CD in conjunction with some kind of Toyota promotion.
This may have been discussed here, but it seems that Karen's 'Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh', which opens the song, isn't as full in CD mixes as it was on the vinyl. It's as if a couple of layers of the multi-tracked harmony have been taken out.
Richard changed and remixed the multi-tracked harmonies on the intro every time he remixed the song, which is what drives me crazy whenever I listen to it.
Richard changed and remixed the multi-tracked harmonies on the intro every time he remixed the song, which is what drives me crazy whenever I listen to it.
This may have been discussed here, but it seems that Karen's 'Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh', which opens the song, isn't as full in CD mixes as it was on the vinyl. It's as if a couple of layers of the multi-tracked harmony have been taken out.
This is one of the factors I really dislike about most of the remixes (and why I've moved towards the catalog as it was originally presented). Some of the harmonies seem missing or drowned out.Richard changed and remixed the multi-tracked harmonies on the intro every time he remixed the song, which is what drives me crazy whenever I listen to it.
This is one of the factors I really dislike about most of the remixes (and why I've moved towards the catalog as it was originally presented). Some of the harmonies seem missing or drowned out.
There’s one particular vocal part - ironically his own - that’s buried on the later remixes that really bugs me.
. Some of the harmonies seem missing or drowned out.
I love the wistful piano ending that wasn't on either mix before.