Carpenters - Where Do I Go From Here?
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- In 1978, while working on their first Christmas album, Karen and Richard also recorded several songs for what was intended to have been a 10th-Anniversary album, including this song "Where Do I Go From Here," a song which had previously been recorded by Barry Manilow and England Dan & John Ford Coley . But personal and health issues for both Karen and Richard prevented them from finishing the album and the songs were relegated to the vaults of A&M.
In 1989, a snippet of the song was featured in The CBS Movie of the Week, "The Karen Carpenter Story," during the scene where Karen is in the hospital. Later that year, the song was finally released on the album "Lovelines."
Where Do I Go From Here?
(Words and music by Parker McGee)
Autumn days...
Lying on a bed of leaves,
watching clouds up through the trees...
You said our love was more than time
It's colder now.
The trees are bare and nights are long.
I can't get warm since you've been gone.
I can't stop singin' sad songs.
Where do I go from here?
Tell me, where do I go from here?
You said you'd take me through the years,
So where do I go from here?
Lovers' plans,
Like fallin' leaves on windy days,
Flutter past and they fly away.
I though I knew you, oh, so well -
And I need you now.
I need to feel you in the night.
I need your smile so warm and bright.
I wish my mind could let you go!
Where do I go from here?
Tell me, where do I go from here?
You said you'd take me through the years,
so where do I go from here?
Where do I go from here?
Tell me, where do I go from here?
You said you'd take me through the years,
so where do I go from here?
You said you'd take me through the years,
so where do I go from here?
My God. This woman's voice awakens feelings that I cannot explain. I'm in love with her. It looks like she whispers the song in my lap. Karen didn't have to shout the song. She was on another level. Current singers can't hold a candle for KAREN
Stand in line and take a number guys .....I miss her too....
Amen to that guy's, there isn't a guy who doesn't love Karen and her music.🥺😢
Thats absolutely so true ..flawless RIP ❤️🌹
Her voice was indescribably beautiful. There'll never be another like her!!😇😇❤️❤️
Exactly well said ♥️🌹🌻💋🙏
Karen Carpenter has one of the most popular singing voices and it truly touch your heart and can make you cry...
The Carpenters were my idols growing up. I wanted to be Karen. I truly idolized her. I was so sad when she passed.
me too - I thought she was perfect in every way
So beautiful and tender .when love ment something..bless her 🌹x
I love this song.
Greatest female voice!! Karen carpenter had such a unique singing she will always be in our ♥️
Karen has been gone for almost 37 years come February 4th 2020 and is still one of the most beloved singers in the History of recorded music.. that's because she was just fabulous.. The best pop voice I ever heard.. She sang so pretty like no other..♥♥
Beyond perfection...
Another Carpenters song that hits the heart to the core.
This is the version for me. Karen Carpenter's voice is very subtle. She seems plain, but there's a lot going on in this singer's throat. Her phrasing and timing are superb. Her timbre like no one else's.
One of the greatest love songs of all time as Karen sings it. This song is a gem You hear the depth of her range. She was so clear and precise. You hear things like "those were simple songs," don't be fooled, these songs Karen performed were some of the hardest and most difficult to perform, but, Karen Carpenter pulled them off flawlessly and in perfect form.
She performed this flawlessly.
@@jeffjohnson5544 For Karen Carpenter it was very simple with her magnificent voice, she could sing anything and it sounded good, when there is talent, the rest is left over
Most of the songs recorded in late '70s and early 80s which were outtakes or performed in one take. That's how great Karen was
To call her vocal talent simple is preposterous and insulting.
Karen Carpenter 's voice was perfect. Pure pleasure listening to her sing every single syllable. God given talent for sure. Amazing...rest in peace, sweet angel.✝️♥️
I will adore this woman, and her angelic voice, until the day that I die.
Karen Carpenter was a gift to American music that will never be replaced.
After all these years Karen is still the best. Her voice is so soothing to the soul.
My wife of 40 years passed away 3 weeks ago and this song has been going through my head day and night ever since. It seems so much more appropriate and meaningful now. Miss you forever, Patty.
Wow. Just reading your comment tonight here in Ireland 10 years on. Hope things have got a little better for you. Sending best wishes to you from a fellow Karen Carpenter fan.
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I'm back again,, as always, this and all of karens,,, Richard's songs,, touch the heart, and soul,, I'm 69 y.o. and this still brings tears to my eyes. She was a one in a million, and will never be topped by anyone else! PERIOD,, LI LOVE YOU KAREN 😍 😘 ❤ 💕 💙 💓
I've heard this song so many times. from several artists today
.this is the first time I cried this hard... its entirely different hearing from Karen Carpenters
Karen had that perfect voice - and when she sang the Angels stopped to listen!
With the first note of any song, you know it's a Karen. Someone once told me her voice was magic. I agree. Miss you Karen Carpenter.
She hypnotizes you in the first line !
EVERY time , guaranteed!!! 💓
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Nobody can explain what always happen while her voice arrives to our hears! It's really impossible ... but is pure magic!!!
It is magic and what l think makes it so unique and moving is that it has a melancholy that it is absolutely beautiful and evolves emotions readily.
What a sad, very moving and extraordinary song.
To me, all of Karen Carpenter's songs will never be equaled. The essence of her voice and the lyrics are always heart warming to most of audiences.
Perfectly stated. Amen.
I love her voice. Such a true song for broken hearts and dreams.
Richard's masterful arrangement frames Karen's voice to perfection. They were such a great team !!!
Autumn days
Lying on a bed of leaves
Watching clouds up through the trees
You said our love was more than time
It's colder now
The trees are bare and nights are long
I can't get warm since you've been gone
I can't stop singin' sad songs
(*) Where do I go from here?
Tell me where do I go from here?
You said you'd take me through the years
So where do I go from here?
Lover's plans
Like fallin' leaves on windy days
Flutter past and they fly away
I though I knew you oh so well
And I need you now
I need to fell you in the night
I need to your smile so warm and bright
I wish my mind could let you go
Repeat (*)
You said you'd take me through the years
So where do I go from here?
Memory; Never forgot, get off from work, went to Parents & was told Karen had died..
we watched news on tv, & I broke down, fought tears.
A masterpiece from later on in their career 1978. Magnificent as always our Karen
You couldn't tell by her flawless performance, but she was very advanced in her Anorexia during that time 😞
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Her emotions were so deep. Her love was a fathom.
When you are born and given a personality like she was gifted with...
It hard very hard..
As the years go by.. the heart bears more and more.
The feelings inside comes out with the voice within.
Only those who have been gifted this way...
knows the unbearable pain of Pure Love.
🙏❤😇
Karen you are deeply missed and will never be forgotten.
The tears are just falling listening too this song and this beautiful lady R.I.P Karen and thank you for the music 🎶 🎵 💔💔💔😢😢😢😢😢
This song is so true - I was going thru the Carpenters Christmas songs and I found it - My wife died 5 years ago - When does the grief stop - does it ever - 24 years of a wonderful marriage - Ok, God - Where do I go from here - This is my new prayer to You!
Ralph Fusco bless you. I'm sure this is still very painful. I have losses also. Give yourself time. The pain never completely goes away, but does somehow get a little easier to bare. prayers
Thank you Sandra for the kind and encouraging words - it's nice to know that other people may feel the way you feel - your words give me hope and of course my hope is always in the Lord Jesus - God bless you and keep you safe - you are a caring person - Ralph
Ralph, in a 10 year span I lost my Soulmate (my Wife), a Brother, and a sister-in-law. The grief will always be with you, but the love of those lost will give you strength to make it through the times you reflect on their absence and feel the pain again. That too will pass.
Thank you Robert for the encouraging and kind words - I wish you well throughout life
Ralph Fusco, you go on and do what every soldier returning without a brother does. You make the best life you can, in the time you've got left. To do less dishonors your departed's memory.
This voice shall NEVER be forgotten!! A TRUE legend in POP music!!
Karen was a "singer's singer" she sang most of her songs with her eyes closed putting her heart and soul into her beautiful voice.
Beautiful songbird 💖
And she always nailed it in the first take.
You are so right!
👌
Karajan conducted the Berlin Phil with his eyes closed as well. Both he and Karen were fantsstic musicians (not merely a singer in Karen's case)
To say outstanding is an understatement ❤💙🧡
The angelical Voice to Karen Carpenters is Very good , the best.
In awe , the depth the timber in that voice.
I get lost in my thoughts, when I´m listening The Carpenters.
Her songs make me so sad ! Shes gone but never forgotten ! Karen had the voice of an angel from heaven where she is now !
Karen Carpenter was an Earth Angel.What a Beautiful One She was and Is.Her Voice was Pure Velvet.I will Always Love her and her Gift to this world.She was only passing through.
The best version for me. Such a lovely song, even though it's sad.
I think this song had enormous hit potential. The lyrics, Richard’s masterful arrangements and Karen’s voice unequaled. By 1978 Top 40 Radio held an unfair bias to their product which is a shame. I think this song is stronger than “I believe you” which I think was also recorded during the same 1978 sessions. If only they were given the respect they earned and deserved.😢
大好きな歌なので聴けてよかったです！ありがとうございます
In another post, I wrote that I really, really think maybe the incredible frequency of her voice has a physical, not just emotional, capability. Her voice maybe truly affects our brains ; and then our brains, thankfully and blessedly, take it to our hearts . Or maybe that's my rationale for why she turns me into a wet mess so very often. Don't know; doesn't matter; thank you, Karen...
love this
👍 hell yaaaaaa !!!
Sitting here in 'wet mess' as you put it, wondering if you just possibly are onto something there. Her voice plus the connections she makes with the sadnesses of the past. Thank you.
It's a mistake to analyze it. Just take it in and mellow out. you can't understand everything in this world and put labels and names on stuff like this.
Not frequency, although her 3 octave contralto is amazing. It's the shape of the sound waves and her ability to manipulate it
simply the most gorgeous human singing voices I've ever heard
The first time I heard her I was in a shopping mall and I had no idea who she was. Her voice sent chills down my spine and I got goosebumps all over.
Voices? There is only one voice here.
Ditto!
she and Momma Cass from the Mamas and Pappas
when she left us i cried and cried,.i went toher funeral and i cried and cried,..my marriage broke up in 86 and i played this song over and over as i left SoCal for Arizona and i cried and cried...I miss her (Karen) and late my ex who also is now deceased...this song is just that moment!!
Thanks Ned! So beautiful and timeless. This is what Classic means. We miss you terribly Karen.
Beauty.
Karen was a gift to this planet
Yes she is.
@@75daytime which are the what's the name of the other artist that sing the song who else recorded I was wondering if it could be Jim Reeves Jim Reeves are any one of those old-time singers please let me know Jim Reeves I admit one of those old-time singers Jim Reeves bed bug 15 so firm you had gone over so that's why I'm a people send Smith weather local weather Mayfield. Calm down what I am and just start do you have recording of any other artist that sing the song where do I go from here
She was one of God's precious gifts to us.💙
Can’t stop playing this .Lost my partner of 45 years.
such beautiful words from the heart being sung by a song bird, Karen Carpenter, she's an Angel in my life, then and now. An angel among us.
Thank you Lord for the short time the world had Karen and her beautiful voice.
Where do we go from here without you, Karen?
To live and to listen to her songs.
Lucie, She died on Feb 4th 1983, too young, beautiful voice, missed by millions
When I watched "The Karen Carpenter Story" in 1989...there was a little snip of this song being played during the movie. The moment I heard it...my heart just MELTED away. This is a VERY touching song and EVERY time I hear it...I get all CHOKED UP INSIDE!! It's just one of those kinds of tunes that just makes me feel that way. The way she sang this song was the BEST I ever heard of in my life because she had such a BEAUTIFUL voice. The song also came out in 1978.
Meu Deus tem gente que vem pra terra com uma missão essa moça veio com o dom de cantar com uma voz de anjo linda perfeita nunca mais teremos outra como ela pena que morreu tão cedo 😭😚❤
She could sing a song you absolutely hated and you would still love it the greatest female vocalist of all time in my mind that sound defines the 1970s
She had the most beautiful voice I have ever heard, her life story was just way too tragic though...Sad, very sad indeed...
She died of Anorexia Nervous and a Cardiac Arrest on February 2, 1990. Such a tragedy. I hope this will make people more sensitive to mental illness. I grew up on the Carpenters.
Lucie Wesson
Feb 4 1983*
Lucie Wesson Karen passed away on February 4, 1983, not in 1990.
That d-$%& anoxeria killed her.
This is my favorite Karen Carpenter song!! What a voice, still listening to her after all these years!! Miss her. The greatest singer. They talk about Whitney Houston, Karen Carpenter was on a another level. Her #1 Black fan!!!
My dear friends, I love Carpenters from my childhood and this song is the MOST beautiful and absolutely excellent in all ways. I promise here to Karen Anne and Richard Lynn that I will let this song play at my own funeral. I seriously promise that! May the Force will be with all of you...always :-)
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Once again, I hear that sweet, emotive voice and the tears flow...
Outstandingly song describe one beautiful Autumn day full of nature gifts like "golden" leaves spiced by Karen's smooth voice from heaven !! WONDERFUL !!
This song is SO gorgeous!
Karen Carpenter, The greatest female pop singer in history, was also a wonderful person! " She was pretty, talented, lovely & classy. "We've Only Just Begun" came out when I first started college. Symbolic of this wonderful song, the world was full of optimism looking for a brighter tomorrow, as people in their young twenties so often are. Nobody could deliver a song like Karen Carpenter. She had the most beautiful voice & nobody could arrange a song and play the keyboards like Richard Carpenter. I miss the Carpenters, their great songs and especially Karen Carpenter, my favorite singer ever!
One of my favorites from this outstanding vocal group. Thanks for posting!
Such a beautiful angelic voice that left the earth way to soon!
I will always love Karen and her very special velvet sweet voice , R.I.P beautiful lady, and thank you for giving us the chance to love and listen to your beautiful voice always
So haunting, so Beautiful
"Carpenters - Where Do I Go From Here?" GOOD PERFORMER thanks
Autumn days
Lying on a bed of leaves
Watching clouds up through the trees
You said our love was more than time
It's colder now
The trees are bare and nights are long
I can't get warm since you've been gone
I can't stop singin' sad songs
(*) Where do I go from here?
Tell me where do I go from here?
You said you'd take me through the years
So where do I go from here?
Lover's plans
Like fallin' leaves on windy days
Flutter past and they fly away
I though I knew you oh so well
And I need you now
I need to feel you in the night
I need to your smile so warm and bright
I wish my mind could let you go
Repeat (*)
You said you'd take me through the years
So where do I go from here?
josefina rebacca thank you for lyrics!
Thanks for lyrics..
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I can feel their music. not so much these days. Carpenters were Perfection!!!!!
Karen WISH with all my HEART I could have been your FRIEND you would still be here NOW SLEEP WELL ANGELXXX
This song just wrecks me. I imagine it's about the death of a lover, gone forever. Fortunately the disco interlude brings it up a bit near the end. So beautifully and sadly sung, Karen, as always.
...they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
Karen Carpenter's second death won't be for a while.
+Reason beautiful... well said :-)
she will never die....for me
That was a beautiful saying. I have never heard before. YOU ARE SO TRUE! Karen will be missed and spoken about for a while.
I still remember the last words my husband said to me. I always will.
At least not until my grandchild be born.
Outstanding description of one golden Autumn day performed by brilliant Karen's voice !!
Gail where Do I go from here I miss you so much. The Lord called you home too soon. I miss you so much.
Beautiful song, thank you Karen!
Beautiful song by 2 beautiful people.
Karen, sings this songs so beautifully, such a beautiful voice, so talented, R.I.P. BEAUTIFUL LADY with that velvet sweet voice..
Never forgot the day was told Karen had passed, I broke down & cried...
Loved her, loved her music..
Still have my vinyls such happy memories...I remember when my grandad died 1990 I was playing the lovelines album in the car " where do I do go from here" played as I left the hospital...so fitting 😥🙏❤️🎶🎵
Karen takes us through the years.
My first time hearing this song. If there’s a more angelic voice than Karen’s, let me know, because I can’t think of one.
Anna German (Poland)?
PURE MAGIC! great voice and wonderful autumn scenes, two of my favorite things Karen Carpenter, and my favorite season Autumn! PERFECT! Karen had a magic in her voice that is very rare, she is/was an amazing artist and person, The world STILL misses her, and always will, she left us WAY too young! LOVE YOU ALWAYS KAREN :) HUGS!
The first time i heard this song was in "The Karen Carpenter Story"...i started tearing up when it started and I "lost" it when Karen sang the first note in the chorus of this song!!! This song chokes me up everytime i hear it!!! but it's a great song and glad Richard and Karen recorded it!!!
Karen's music brings out so much good and..also sadness. Our hearts hurt when we hear her angelic voice and we tend to think, what if that day in February hadn't happened. We missed so much with her passing, I guess that's why we have to cherish what she left behind for us all.
Heartwrenching song from one who, like my beautiful late wife Heather, was too good for this world and taken from it all too soon. One moment we were new parents, married three years prior and head-over-heels in love, the next I was stumbling alone through a bleak grey February aching for her presence and trying to figure out how I was going to get through the rest of my life now that my soul mate was gone and all our plans lay in ashes. Heather loved the Carpenters and the fall (naturally, she was a New England girl after all), and this song encapsulated the sense of nostalgia and hopelessness of those first months and years without her. Almost a decade has now passed and the raw pain inevitably blunted somewhat but not the memory of my lost love and nor will it ever be while my own heart continues to beat. Until we meet again sweetheart 💔
such a beautiful song.
I listened to Barry' Manilow's version, and it is very good, I'm not taking anything away from Barry, he has many great songs; but, Karen Carpenter's version is incredible. Listen to the total unmatched perfection.
I love Barry as well but I have to agree with you
I wouldn't know because I don't listen to Manilow's music (on purpose). My ears (°👃°👂 know this is vocal perfection😇🌞.
In order to really "feel" this song, you have to be in pain. Karen truly was in pain, and that is what enabled her to sing it like this. I sing myself, and in order to really do a stellar performance like this one, the song has to MEAN something to you, to the extent that you have to fight to keep from bursting into tears as you sing it.
Also a Fanilow and totally agree
england dan & john ford coley’s version is better too. i loved carpenters more but hearing this by them i thought it was a great voice w a not great song
That voice...WOW!!!
PERFECTION = KAREN CARPENTER SINGING THIS SONG.
The greatest female voice ever ever
Cimarron Hopper, only Anna German, Russian&Polish singer, could be compared to.
Perfection = Karen Carpenter singing
AWSOME FAMILY
I wish I could have seen her sing this live!
Heard this song for the first time one cold January night seemingly a perfect song that I haven't gotten over with...
You made me teary-eyed, "she's in my soul and in my heart." You were an awesome six-year-old, I'm sure of it....Karen makes our lives better, doesn't she ? We are very very lucky to understand how very very special KC was, is, will always be.
カレンの歌は永遠です。20年ほど前にカーペンターズの曲をCDでたくさん覚えました。
日本人ですがカレンの英語の発音が大好きです。
In many songs of the Carpenters it was very impressive to listen to the drums, and this happens in this song, take the task of listening only to the drums, and you will understand, Karen's passion was drums and she was the best drummer by far, and his voice is pure gold
This is one of the 10 best Carpenter's tunes. Also among the 10 best are "Leave Yesterday Behind" and "Trying to Get the Feeling Again". Interesting, all 3 were released LONG after Karen's death. PLEASE RICHARD, WHAT ELSE REMAINS IN THE CARPENTER VAULTS. RELEASE THE SUPPOSED DOZENS OF TUNES SO THE PUBLIC WILL HAVE THE PLEASURE OF MORE CARPENTERS MUSIC!!!!!!!!!
stunning record. stunning. one of my favorte post 1983 Carpenters recordings.... timeless and flawless.....
I remember playing this song over and over again when my brother-in-law died years ago. It still makes me cry and think about him when I hear it. He died on September 24 and this time of the year always brings back so many memories. He was my best friend. Forever in my heart and soul. I love you Billy.
beautiful
It's well known that Karen was searching for a love, a sense of belonging, that certain someone. That gave her voice another dimension that cuts through all of our defenses and touches our very souls. She's owned my heart since the first time I heard back in 1970. I'll always cherish the memory of seeing her in concert. Thank you Karen for giving voice to my own emptiness. Much love, always!
Ned thank you for keeping Karen alive for the world!
Her breathing is amazing in this performance.
That's true but not "News." She always delivered just as flawlessly , anytime she performed.
Her heart is full of love and emotion with all of her songs and this is a perfect example of her beauty and style. Unfortunately we have lost a great talent!
Wonderful voice and song thanks Karen.....
I just loved her sounds... from a better time in my life I guess.....just beautiful. I don't like the present ... hate all the crap going on...Loved back then
Me too I love the music from big bands, classic, and up to the eighties. The stuff they call music today is nicnamed crap music.
The Carpenters were my all time favorite group back in High School.