Late2theParty
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And I think Steely Dan's work on Aja and Gaucho showed that there was a lane in popular music to go there. Lately, I've been enjoying repeating her work on "Bwana" and thinking...she can do ANYTHING. So sad.For me, Carpenters’ version of this tune is definitive. George’s is very nice but Carpenters’ wins by a landslide. I always liked Carpenters’ smooth jazz-tinged tunes. They’re the ones that Richard doesn’t overproduce. He does enough and gets out of the way so Karen can shine. Only Ordinary Fool is overproduced (think if Meatloaf did a saloon song) but Karen’s vocal is so amazing that she wins anyway.
I’d love to have seen Carpenters head down this road. They wasted a lot of time chart chasing after Horizon and that time could have been better spent taking a left turn into jazzier things. Karen had the chops and Richard definitely did too.
Ed