This is surely what angels sound like when they sing...no vocal acrobatics, just Karen's pure & perfect voice, alongside Richard's harmonies & beautiful arrangements. So thankful for the recordings that we can still enjoy, all these many years later. She's been gone longer than she was here, but her voice & Carpenter's music will long live.
Just the shear perfection of her vocal quality shines through in this recording. I think this song is actually one of my favorites, but I love everything she sang. What a beautiful gift she graced us all with. Miss her so much!
Me too!! I'm approaching 60 and still love her just as much as the 1st time I heard her on the radio.What an impression she left on us.Karen is like no other.Really miss her.
Her voice never fails to give me chills. I've never heard anybody even close to the depth and quality of her voice. I can think of a few who are 2nd best in my book but none really come close to perfection the way Karen did.
I feel the same as yall. Been listening to her since 1969. I have started listening to Tori Holub...she is as close to Karen as is possible I think. Give her a listen.....
It is so hard to believe that the incomparable Karen Anne Carpenter has been gone 38 years! God how the world misses tremendously her phenomenal voice and incredibly nice, warm personality!
Sure do miss her.The best voice I've ever heard! Yes her nice and warm personality drew me to her immediately from the start when I was 7 years old.She was so funny and quick witted along with being a really good dancer, drummer and bass player to.I still can't get enough.
@@michaelbarlow6610 From their t.v. Specials.1976 just a quick dance with John Denver.1977 Christmas Special with Kristi McNichol( quick hop scotch) 1978 Christmas Special "Angel Dance" With Kristi McNichol & Georgia Engel, Irish dance with Gene Kelly ( same show) 1980 "Music Music,Music"( her best dancing).Perry Como Christmas Special called Perry Como Christmas Show" guests The Carpenters and Rich Little.
@@RitaSora . I haven't seen those TV specials in years which is why I don't remember Karen Carpenter as having been a good dancer. I'll have to watch those specials again if they are viewable on TH-cam.
@@michaelbarlow6610 Yes they are on youtube but type in full version.They are also available from eBay on dvd.They bring back alot of great memories.Enjoy!
This was the very last song Karen recorded prior to her death. It's on their album "Voice of the Heart", and Richard did an amazing job putting it together with the OK Chorale filling the background vocals Karen would have sung. A truly beautiful album.
I met Karen and we talked for a little while in front of our dentist office in Downey on Paramount Blvd in October 1976!! Gorgeous in person and was dressed up really nice in spite of a warm Fall Day!! It was exciting to meet her and a day i wont forget! My friends who worked at Gemco would see the whole family over the years in the 70s when they shopped at Gemco as it was very close to the Carpenter home......
So what does a Voice of an Angel sound like ...Glad that she was a Human just like U n I or the World would never have known such a Beautiful Sound like hers...Very Unique, Crisp n Refreshing to listen too...Today’s Music n Singers are All Tryna out do each other with the same sound... But this Carpenter sound will carry on thru more Generations yet to come 🌹🌹🌹
And this was ten months before she passed. It was from her final recording session. This vocal was only meant as a work lead, to show the rhythm section how the melody went. Karen never had the chance to rerecord it. But of course it wasn't necessary anyway. Listen to "Superstar" as covered by Karen. That, too, is a first take vocal. And more: it was the first time she ever sang the song...that first shot became a hit single.
This is one of the best songs Karen recorded. You just feel so much of her thru this song.....heartbreaking that it was her last.....thank you Karen for sharing your beautiful heart and soul with us all, we were very lucky to have you....I hope you are at peace now, I’m sorry that in life, you did not have that one person that could hold you up to make it to the other side of your suffering....I would have held your hand tight.....RIP Karen. We love you forever! 💜💜
Marek Karolczuk An angel who touched the hearts of many people and forever will be irreplaceable. Miss you so much rest in peace Karen carpenter. You left this world too soon but your lovely velvety contralto voice never will
I look at Karen's life this way - although it may seem an odd comparison to many, but humankind was gifted with Nikola Tesla - the man who gave us alternating current of which we would never have heard of Karen Carpenter- and then we WERE gifted with Karen whose voice is immemorial in time as Tesla's inventions are (over 800 patents). So Tesla is my hero for his altruistic love of mankind and providing us with incredible technology (and yet dying in poverty), but Karen with her time-immemorial voice died for lack of love, never have achieved her goal of a happy marriage and children of her own. But both will live in our hearts for eternity. I thank the Universe for both of these brilliant, once-in-a-lifetime gifted human beings (along with Richard of course). Tesla has been forgotten (except for the electric car built in his name by Elon Musk) but Karen's voice and personality will never be forgotten. We should be so blessed.
Really heart bursts because of her voice and passion. I still think i may save her from dying. Still now this type of voices have never been sung. Open my heart and let you win. I dont know but wherever i am will always remembers her warmth and touch of her voices.
Find me any singer in 2021 who could do this, no auto tuner here, just pure talent and. vocal skill. Looking back with today’s knowledge it still amazes me more was not done to support Karen carpenter to deal with anorexia… such a sad loss because of a poorly understood disease. One can only imagine the strength and tone of her voice had she reached 50, 60 or 70…. Alas
What a beautiful voice my wife and myself would listen to the records the 78s Bonnie had my wife and just be happy. She has since passed can I still listen to them now it makes me happy but it makes me sad two Beautiful woman that passed Karen and my wife Bonnie God bless them both hopefully they Meet in heaven
I can still remember exactly where I was when I heard she died. Stunned. We still listen to the Carpenters when we are on long drives and love to relax with their blends expertly put together by Richard.
I'm a millennial but I love the Carpenters' music, especially Karen's voice! Yeah, sure, Mariah and Whitney have all the range and power but Karen's voice was just... _perfection!_
Thank You for posting this beautiful song and video.I love this song and love Karen's voice on it.I absolutely LOVE the wings on Karen's back.Very nice last recording of the best voice I have ever heard!
La voz más bonita femenina de la historia de la musica. La hermosa Karen Carpenter. Su talento junto a su hermano Richard. Perdurarán por siempre en la memoria de todos 🙂😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💜💜💜
pretty amazing. I hadn't quite appreciated this reading all the way until - well... now. I wish RC would include this on another Royal Philharmonic lp and leave off the choir. I'd rather he overdub a few vocals here and there - and just leave it to Karen for the most part. Thanks for posting.
For some reason, I need the music with the vocals. It is haunting to me to just hear her isolated vocals. Maybe it makes me too sad because of her untimely death, so I need the music to make me feel less sad. I guess that speaks to the exquisite power and perfection of her vocals.
Richard did all their recording on multitrack tape machines with instruments and voices all recorded on separate tracks - easy to isolate any track during playback- also adjust blending levels for the final mix - he is a huge fan of the early Les Paul and Mary Ford recording techniques-
Thank you for your clear explanation John! I understand that Richard has the multitrack tapes, but how did you got hold of those? I'd love to hear more of those a capella's!
Judging from all the phasing you can hear, the vocal has probably been isolated using phase cancellation / inversion and frequency tools such as those in Audacity. This is why you can still partially hear many elements from the original mix that weren't successfully removed.
May 18, 1982-------------Rich & Karen did a " work piece " with Rich at piano.------------it was the last time ever, that Karen put her voice to music. --------She was desperately ill, < 90 Lbs. -------------------I cannot listen without tears. --------------------------------------WolfSky9, 74 y/o
Dear Karen, your mother, your brother and Tom Burris killed you. They killed an angel. I hope they burn in the hell for ever !!! - /// Please, rest in peace my sweet Karen, . . . my love ! 💔 💔 💔
This is amazingly creepy. And so very sad. The weight issues. The horridly biased mother. The incest. The way she was pushed into a corner. The temptation of fans to disregard the worst stuff and focus solely on the music - the lush arrangements by Richard or Peter Knight. Somehow your isolating the lead vocal conjures up all of this in my imagination. Great job. Now would somebody please go after Richard.
Who were Karen's tormentors? They know their role in her demise. May God have mercy on your souls. You might have helped her. You instead were a source of torment for his incredible human being.
Hey it's not fair to judge people in her life. She had anorexia a mental illness. Her family encouraged her to get treatment but she refused.When finally she agreed to have treatment her heart was already damaged which caused her death. God loves her and maybe would not want her to suffer from complications. Just be glad she was born to give happiness through her incredibly beautiful singing voice.😁
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This is surely what angels sound like when they sing...no vocal acrobatics, just Karen's pure & perfect voice, alongside Richard's harmonies & beautiful arrangements. So thankful for the recordings that we can still enjoy, all these many years later. She's been gone longer than she was here, but her voice & Carpenter's music will long live.
100 percent perfection ❤❤❤
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Dear Karen !
Utterly superb!
😢she had a angels voice!
Just the shear perfection of her vocal quality shines through in this recording. I think this song is actually one of my favorites, but I love everything she sang. What a beautiful gift she graced us all with. Miss her so much!
That voice, that voice almost brought me to tears. There will never be anyone like Karen Carpenter.
She had the most beautiful voice I'd ever heard.
Stunning!
In my book she was the best female vocalist of all time!
You and anyone else with working ears.
In my book too
Mine too
Boy, You got that right!!!
This brings tears to my eyes. She had a truly divine voice!
After all these years, I am now 65 and I still love Karen as much as I did in the 70s!
Me too..I'm 67..My HS girlfriend looked like her, bangs and all..Both are gone..
Her voice is a bridge back to our youth and the preparation for the way ahead.
Heaven sent ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Me too!! I'm approaching 60 and still love her just as much as the 1st time I heard her on the radio.What an impression she left on us.Karen is like no other.Really miss her.
I'm 64... and have loved her since I was 12.
Impressive, no one could have sung better, you made my life happier
Her voice never fails to give me chills. I've never heard anybody even close to the depth and quality of her voice.
I can think of a few who are 2nd best in my book but none really come close to perfection the way Karen did.
Perfection... thank you for sharing
I feel the same as yall. Been listening to her since 1969. I have started listening to Tori Holub...she is as close to Karen as is possible I think. Give her a listen.....
I love her voice, well, I love her voice, her eyes, her smile, her hair, her writing and all her photos ❤😍
It is so hard to believe that the incomparable Karen Anne Carpenter has been gone 38 years! God how the world misses tremendously her phenomenal voice and incredibly nice, warm personality!
Sure do miss her.The best voice I've ever heard! Yes her nice and warm personality drew me to her immediately from the start when I was 7 years old.She was so funny and quick witted along with being a really good dancer, drummer and bass player to.I still can't get enough.
@@RitaSora . I've never read or heard that Karen Carpenter was a good dancer. Where did you read or hear that?
@@michaelbarlow6610 From their t.v. Specials.1976 just a quick dance with John Denver.1977 Christmas Special with Kristi McNichol( quick hop scotch) 1978 Christmas Special "Angel Dance" With Kristi McNichol & Georgia Engel, Irish dance with Gene Kelly ( same show)
1980 "Music Music,Music"( her best dancing).Perry Como Christmas Special called Perry Como Christmas Show" guests The Carpenters and Rich Little.
@@RitaSora . I haven't seen those TV specials in years which is why I don't remember Karen Carpenter as having been a good dancer. I'll have to watch those specials again if they are viewable on TH-cam.
@@michaelbarlow6610 Yes they are on youtube but type in full version.They are also available from eBay on dvd.They bring back alot of great memories.Enjoy!
This was the very last song Karen recorded prior to her death. It's on their album "Voice of the Heart", and Richard did an amazing job putting it together with the OK Chorale filling the background vocals Karen would have sung. A truly beautiful album.
I met Karen and we talked for a little while in front of our dentist office in Downey on Paramount Blvd in October 1976!! Gorgeous in person and was dressed up really nice in spite of a warm Fall Day!! It was exciting to meet her and a day i wont forget!
My friends who worked at Gemco would see the whole family over the years in the 70s when they shopped at Gemco as it was very close to the Carpenter home......
So good that she got to experience real love before she died.
She Had The VOICE
of An Angel♥️🌟😇
So what does a Voice of an Angel sound like ...Glad that she was a Human just like U n I or the World would never have known such a Beautiful Sound like hers...Very Unique, Crisp n Refreshing to listen too...Today’s Music n Singers are All Tryna out do each other with the same sound... But this Carpenter sound will carry on thru more Generations yet to come 🌹🌹🌹
This is the sound of a truly gifted voice. Karen’s vocals are absolutely incredible. Love her and miss her
❤️💙💜
Truly One of the Best of All Time
All in one take. Just wow!
Supernatural 🌟
And this was ten months before she passed. It was from her final recording session. This vocal was only meant as a work lead, to show the rhythm section how the melody went. Karen never had the chance to rerecord it. But of course it wasn't necessary anyway. Listen to "Superstar" as covered by Karen. That, too, is a first take vocal. And more: it was the first time she ever sang the song...that first shot became a hit single.
She did have the nickname "One take Karen"
KAREN , QUÉ BELLA VOZ ! ❤
What an amazing vocal talent.
Wasn't that just lovely? She had gotten so much better in the 12 years from their debut.
Nice video btw.
La voix de Karen m'a toujours transporté
I wonder how anyone could dislike this, wow
Your Last song...😢
Perfect
My Angel Karen Anne 💖 🌹🤗💞
This is one of the best songs Karen recorded. You just feel so much of her thru this song.....heartbreaking that it was her last.....thank you Karen for sharing your beautiful heart and soul with us all, we were very lucky to have you....I hope you are at peace now, I’m sorry that in life, you did not have that one person that could hold you up to make it to the other side of your suffering....I would have held your hand tight.....RIP Karen. We love you forever! 💜💜
Fantac voice, i miss Karen a lot, my favorite🥰🇩🇰
Marek Karolczuk
An angel who touched the hearts of many people and forever will be irreplaceable. Miss you so much rest in peace Karen carpenter. You left this world too soon but your lovely velvety contralto voice never will
La voix qui me suit depuis mon adolescence ! Un Ange !! ❤🩹
I look at Karen's life this way - although it may seem an odd comparison to many, but humankind was gifted with Nikola Tesla - the man who gave us alternating current of which we would never have heard of Karen Carpenter- and then we WERE gifted with Karen whose voice is immemorial in time as Tesla's inventions are (over 800 patents). So Tesla is my hero for his altruistic love of mankind and providing us with incredible technology (and yet dying in poverty), but Karen with her time-immemorial voice died for lack of love, never have achieved her goal of a happy marriage and children of her own. But both will live in our hearts for eternity. I thank the Universe for both of these brilliant, once-in-a-lifetime gifted human beings (along with Richard of course). Tesla has been forgotten (except for the electric car built in his name by Elon Musk) but Karen's voice and personality will never be forgotten. We should be so blessed.
Karen Carpenter, BEAUTIFUL VOICE. ONE OF A KIND. GOD BLESS YOU KAREN!
Really heart bursts because of her voice and passion. I still think i may save her from dying. Still now this type of voices have never been sung. Open my heart and let you win. I dont know but wherever i am will always remembers her warmth and touch of her voices.
OMG IM CRYING😭😭😭😭😭 I MISS HER SM
you know her personally ?
@@fookimsan997 NOOO im her fan😭
@@all.about.cheonan me too~
Perfection!!!!!
Perfection ❤🌹
Flawless...so beautiful! ❤️
Find me any singer in 2021 who could do this, no auto tuner here, just pure talent and. vocal skill. Looking back with today’s knowledge it still amazes me more was not done to support Karen carpenter to deal with anorexia… such a sad loss because of a poorly understood disease. One can only imagine the strength and tone of her voice had she reached 50, 60 or 70…. Alas
What a beautiful voice my wife and myself would listen to the records the 78s Bonnie had my wife and just be happy. She has since passed can I still listen to them now it makes me happy but it makes me sad two Beautiful woman that passed Karen and my wife Bonnie God bless them both hopefully they Meet in heaven
78s?
I can still remember exactly where I was when I heard she died. Stunned. We still listen to the Carpenters when we are on long drives and love to relax with their blends expertly put together by Richard.
Gifted and very loved by me
I'm a millennial but I love the Carpenters' music, especially Karen's voice! Yeah, sure, Mariah and Whitney have all the range and power but Karen's voice was just... _perfection!_
Miss you so much Karen. X
A 🌟 on earth a 🌟 in heaven.xx
LO DIJE Y LO DIRÉ SIEMPRE. ES LA VOZ MAS DULCE QUE ESCUCHÉ EN TODA MI VIDA. TENGO 61 AÑOS Y SIGO AMÁNDOLA. MARAVILLOSA KAREN. HASTA SIEMPRE!
😍😍😍😍😍 Dios mío qué belleza !!!
She.was a good.singer with music or with out.it RIP.KAREN
BEAUTIFUL 💖💖💖
Beautiful. Shes an angels in heaven leading the choir.
Thank You for posting this beautiful song and video.I love this song and love Karen's voice on it.I absolutely LOVE the wings on Karen's back.Very nice last recording of the best voice I have ever heard!
✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
🌟🌟🌟 KAREN 🌟🌟🌟
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💝 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
💫 💫
Perfect ❤️🌹
A voz mais Linda que EU ja ouvi !
Eu também
La voz más bonita femenina de la historia de la musica. La hermosa Karen Carpenter. Su talento junto a su hermano Richard. Perdurarán por siempre en la memoria de todos 🙂😊👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💜💜💜
pretty amazing. I hadn't quite appreciated this reading all the way until - well... now. I wish RC would include this on another Royal Philharmonic lp and leave off the choir. I'd rather he overdub a few vocals here and there - and just leave it to Karen for the most part. Thanks for posting.
Wow.
Karen Carpenter ❤💕😪😥😓😭👼🎼🎶🎵🎤
A unica!🙏🏽👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🇧🇷❤🌹
Karen uma das maiores da epoca
For some reason, I need the music with the vocals. It is haunting to me to just hear her isolated vocals. Maybe it makes me too sad because of her untimely death, so I need the music to make me feel less sad. I guess that speaks to the exquisite power and perfection of her vocals.
Always the best and then Basia
Simplesmente a voz de Karen é lindíssima .
Beautiful.
Thanks so much for uploading, wonder what My Body Keeps Changing My Mind would sound like with isolated vocals?
Could she just possibly be the lead vocalist in Heaven right now?😊
This is great, thanks for uploading! How did you manage to get an acapella version of this?
Richard did all their recording on multitrack tape machines with instruments and voices all recorded on separate tracks - easy to isolate any track during playback- also adjust blending levels for the final mix - he is a huge fan of the early Les Paul and Mary Ford recording techniques-
Thank you for your clear explanation John! I understand that Richard has the multitrack tapes, but how did you got hold of those? I'd love to hear more of those a capella's!
Judging from all the phasing you can hear, the vocal has probably been isolated using phase cancellation / inversion and frequency tools such as those in Audacity. This is why you can still partially hear many elements from the original mix that weren't successfully removed.
I used online software to isolate the vocals & omit the music! - John Deblaere
May 18, 1982-------------Rich & Karen did a " work piece " with Rich at piano.------------it was the last time ever, that Karen put her voice to music. --------She was desperately ill, < 90 Lbs. -------------------I cannot listen without tears. --------------------------------------WolfSky9, 74 y/o
Nej hvor hun er savnet...😔🇩🇰
This was a studio test run through for their next album❣️Days later she was gone 🥺
It’s over processed, besides that it’s very cool. I’d love to hear Rainy Days this way
Dear Karen, your mother, your brother and Tom Burris killed you. They
killed an angel. I hope they burn in the hell for ever !!! - /// Please,
rest in peace my sweet Karen, . . . my love ! 💔 💔 💔
i am 80 and Karen is favorite sanger
Creo que esta fue la ultima cancion que grabo 😭😭
This is amazingly creepy. And so very sad. The weight issues. The horridly biased mother. The incest. The way she was pushed into a corner. The temptation of fans to disregard the worst stuff and focus solely on the music - the lush arrangements by Richard or Peter Knight. Somehow your isolating the lead vocal conjures up all of this in my imagination. Great job. Now would somebody please go after Richard.
Thanks but let's leave Richard alone huh. Without him we wouldn't have such a legacy of timeless songs on which to remember Karen forever! - John
Karen challenged Toni T to wrestle
I didnt like the original arrangement..but love her vocal...
Who were Karen's tormentors? They know their role in her demise. May God have mercy on your souls. You might have helped her. You instead were a source of torment for his incredible human being.
Hey it's not fair to judge people in her life. She had anorexia a mental illness. Her family encouraged her to get treatment but she refused.When finally she agreed to have treatment her heart was already damaged which caused her death. God loves her and maybe would not want her to suffer from complications. Just be glad she was born to give happiness through her incredibly beautiful singing voice.😁