The Carpenters - Carpenters Gold: 35th Anniversary Edition
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Free Music Notes for Carpenters Gold: 35th Anniversary Edition
Free Music Review: A great survey of the Carpenters' best works
Hit: 5 Stars
I grew up listening to Karen Carpenter's throaty alto vocals on my parents' favorite "easy listening" station as a young man, so purchasing this album was purely to satisfy my sentimental side. When I first purchased the album and began listening to it, my daughter was only two, and she very much took to "Yesterday Once More," which will forever be known in our household as "the Sha-la-la-la song." Toddlers latch onto melodies and will not let go, as we quickly discovered. My daughter sang the sha-la-la-la song everywhere: in the car, on walks, in the grocery store... One day, she broke out into the verse in our neighborhood Target store, and as if to demonstrate the universality of the Carpenters' appeal, a middle-aged woman approached her and reminisced that "they just don't write music like that anymore, do they?"
No, they don't. This collection puts together all of the favorites that will recall those golden, bell-bottom wearing, bicentennial, Gerald Ford-era years of the mid-seventies when everybody was glad that Watergate and Vietnam were but a bad memory. Some of the tracks resonate better than others today (I didn't copy such tracks as Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft or Bless the Beasts and Children to my iPod), but I can always rely on the Carpenters' sweet but sappy renditions of "There's a Kind of Hush," "Touch Me When We're Dancing," "Yesterday Once More," or "Top of the World" to put me in a mellow, mid-seventies mood. A must-have anthology for anyone who lived through some of the really awful music that dominated the 70s.
Free Music Review: Cathy Poet
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm a real Carpenters fan. Love Karen's mellow alto voice. Miss her.
Great collection of all their best.
Free Music Review: ALL THEIR HITS HERE ...NOTHING MISSING!
Hit: 5 Stars
Finally... someone who can put together an anthology. This is the one to buy if you've been trying to get all of your old stuff on 45s and LPs on CDs. I want to thank Richard Carpenter for this compilation job well done. Rest in peace, Karen. I miss your voice.Free Music Review: Gold: 35th Anniversary Edition The Carpenters
Hit: 1 Stars
I throughly enjoyed the Christmas CD I received from Amazon, and I am sure the 35th Anniversary Edition is wonderful as well. BUT when I received the Christmas CD the 35th Anniversary Edition was not included. I e-mailed Customer Service, but have never received a reply. Perhaps you can tell me what I need to do. I was charged for both CD's on my Discover card. Please replyFree Music Review: The very best and beyond!
Hit: 5 Stars
In or around 1969,Richard Carpenter and his now-deceased sister Karen got a contract with A&M Records. For nine solid years,the pair have had at least one recording on hit parade each year. This is a great collection of easy listening songs in pop form. Many easy listening and adult contemporary radio stations in America and other countries play the Carpenters' recordings. CLOSE TO YOU sounds undoubtedly beautiful. The trumpet heard on the track may be Herb Alpert's(he and Jerry Moss founded the A&M label). TICKET TO RIDE is a Lennon-McCartney classic in a style all the Carpenters' own. From 1973's NOW AND THEN are SING,JAMBALAYA and YESTERDAY ONCE MORE. TOP OF THE WORLD,GOODBYE TO LOVE and SUPERSTAR are OK. I love RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS,a hit from 1971. Karen sings,"Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.". No one could have blamed her,I have to admit. PLEASE MR. POSTMAN was made famous by the Marvelettes in 1961 and later covered by the Beatles,unbelievably. 1977's PASSAGES brought another great song,ALL YOU GET FROM LOVE IS A LOVE SONG. From that same album is the somewhat comical CALLING ALL OCCUPANTS OF INTERPLANETARY CRAFT. From 1981's MADE IN AMERICA,Karen,by this time a married woman,delivers her usual gorgeous vocals on TOUCH ME WHEN WE'RE DANCING,later covered by the country band Alabama. She and her brother also give us another cover of a Marvelettes hit,BEACHWOOD 45789. Sadly,Karen spent her final years battling anorexia and complications from the disease claimed her in April 1983 at age 33. Richard moved on to a solo career which was disappointing compared to the one with his sister. The other songs are great. I dedicate this item to the memory of Karen(1950-1983).