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^Correction: Not Still in love with you
I meant I'm still not over you
(1) Too bad Richard (Carpenter) and John (Bettis) had not pooled their respective talents together
to present TEN new Carpenter/Bettis compositions for a "Karen Carpenter" titled Album !
(2)There was an interview with Herb Alpert where he says "we were not exactly giving them (KC/PR) any songs."
So, if all parties concerned were so adamant about keeping those KC solo songs vocally "in the basement,"
WHY did no one suggest anything ? For instance, how about an album of American Standards (e.g., What's New ?)
or an album of duets (e.g., KC/Ella) ?
(3) Still, no matter, there are some great things happening on the solo songs we got (and, didn't get) !
I still say, Rod Temperton, Karen Carpenter and Phil Ramone gave us some awesome music.
Big deal that the vocals were not "in the basement".....that only adds to the variety and
explicitly constructed experimental aspect of the solo album.
By the way, one of my favorites is
Still In Love With You !
For me they’re not even in the same league. Richard takes breaths between each line most of the time. There are vocal overlaps at the end but they are overdubs recorded separately. There aren’t any of the lengthy vocal phrases on the RC track whereas Goodbye To Love is awash with them. The longest line I hear that doesn’t contain a breath is “Sleepin' away almost half of the night/Now who”.
Is having some good moments on an album enough?
I did a re-appraisal of the tracklist a while back which assumed the track had been finished and included. I’ve just read it back now and still think it would have made for a better album overall...
https://forum.amcorner.com/threads/solo-album-and-single-success.15953/page-6#post-174830
A year later from this last post (^) Something's Missing is almost as autobiographical as "I Need To Be In Love." I'm really surprised Phil and Karen never finished this. Maybe Phil thought this song-lyric was the kind they were trying to get Karen away from? Who knows.
It would of made a nice Carpenters record had Richard been able to finish the production. Another wonderful could-of-been moment from the fascinating solo sessions of Karen Carpenter.
Bettis went on to write Human Nature, One Moment in Time, Madonna Crazy For You!!! What if those songs went to Richard with the same Richard arrangements? Music history would be so much different. Incredible when you think about it.