Rick-An Ordinary Fool
Well-Known Member
Which version do you like better?
Top of the World literally sweep the nation back then & to Richard & Karen's suprise & there record team, it was one of there biggest hits. Even though Karen & Richard thought it was just gonna be a nice album cut. Richard says that once they started singing this track at concerts, the response was overwelming, he says the fan mail didn't stop coming in & it became Gold in Japan. It charted based on fan requests alone. (That's amazing to me cause it wasn't even a single, right?)
Then later they re-mixed it & re-cut new vocal lead w/ diff steel guitar.
It amazes me that for a song to get that much response why did they feel the need to re-do it? In any case I'm glad they did. The re-mix is nice & polished.
However I like the original 1972 version better, the way Karen pronounces some of her words & her expressions just seem more intimate to me. I can almost hear her smiling when I listen.
Top of the World literally sweep the nation back then & to Richard & Karen's suprise & there record team, it was one of there biggest hits. Even though Karen & Richard thought it was just gonna be a nice album cut. Richard says that once they started singing this track at concerts, the response was overwelming, he says the fan mail didn't stop coming in & it became Gold in Japan. It charted based on fan requests alone. (That's amazing to me cause it wasn't even a single, right?)
Then later they re-mixed it & re-cut new vocal lead w/ diff steel guitar.
It amazes me that for a song to get that much response why did they feel the need to re-do it? In any case I'm glad they did. The re-mix is nice & polished.
However I like the original 1972 version better, the way Karen pronounces some of her words & her expressions just seem more intimate to me. I can almost hear her smiling when I listen.