The Carpenters - (They Long To Be) Close To You • TopPop
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- Exclusive live performance by The Carpenters (Richard & Karen Carpenter) and band at the 'Grand Gala du Disque', 15 February 1974 in the RAI Congres Building, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Broadcast date:15/2/1974
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I wish she could have seen herself the way we all did: Absolutely beautiful. Her voice evokes a kind of mysterious hopeful melancholy.
Very Good Observation!
Yesss
Excelente comentário!
@@maxwellworldwidehistorical3801
na ngggg
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰
She looks so amazing here! So healthy. This song melts my heart. It's amazing how effortlessly she could sing. I think Dion Warwick described it the best. She said if you could have touched Karen's voice it would be like satin.
It was Karen Carpenter seeing that video that set the wheels of diets and anorexia into motion.
@@pastelskies8466 yes - I didn't know that but I assumed. I was diagnosed in 1986 with anorexia at the age of 16. It was just after my mother (a former beauty queen obsessed with being thin) had me watch a cheerleading video of myself where I realized how "fat" I was. She said a lot. This preceded 2 decades of hospitalizations, etc. I fortunately had an amazing endocrinologist (Dr. Jerome S. Fischer) in San Antonio, TX who took me under his wing and I got better for the most part. I believe many people probably commented on this video to Karen at the time.
Yes, she looks healthy and that amazing voice
A beautiful poetical analogy
Era bellissima e bravissima ‼️‼️‼️❤️👍
She has the voice of an angel
At least now she can sing with the angels choir in Heaven where she is safe
Yes she.has a beautiful.voice.i.like.very.much
I’ve been saying that too! She literally was an angel I believe.
I agree
Yes she does
She wasn't FAT!!!She was super talented and super beautiful !!! My favorite singer ❤
never seen her so heavy...its obvious her weight see-sawed...such a shame because she was so beautiful..fame was her enemy..food was her frenemy.
@@nickterrett6613, i too had never seen her so "hippy", but I would NEVER say heavy or over weight. She was a beautiful curvy women with an Angelic voice. The world lost a wonderful sad human being. Anorexia is a true mental illness 😢😞🙏🌹
@@nickterrett6613and the stress of the business and her mom didn’t help
A lot of people will say they will die or kill for voice like Morisette or Ariana Grande but me.. This is the kind of voice I would die for.
Don't . I wanna live with you forever .
A TH-cam Channel sana ol 🙄
@@khazzy3566 what
A TH-cam Channel nothing.. its just a term here in the philippines that we uses whenever we get jealous on a certain situation.. just dont mind it hehehe 😬
@@khazzy3566 what's jealous
The best female voice ever..
I sooooo agree with you Paul Dallow....no one has ever had a voice like her. She is the Greatest ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Whitney Houston
@@albuquerquewilson22 She’s good but not better
@@Paisly17 both tormented people but Karen just gets to my soul no other singer ever does
Absolutely.
She looked gorgeous, healthy, and curvaceous here. She was perfect the way she was. How I wish she realised that. No one has ever matched that crystal clear, smooth as velvet voice.
anorexia is a vicious disease
You will never hear another pure beautiful voice like hers, ever, gives me goosebumps everytime
Also her family has done a great job protecting her legacy. Thank you for the music.
Sure!
You should hear me give tribute to Karen. Contact me for a audio clip.
@@cherryhardie8102please cut loose of audio
@@NickRatto what do you mean?
Not only one of the great female singers of all time, But a fantastic drummer and percussionist 🥁😎
which is really what she preferred but unfortunately couldn't do her heart's wish. Her end was brought on by the physiological stresses of stardom as singer which placed on her system the deadly disease anorexia nervosa and she suffered a deadly heart attack at a very young age of 32. May she RIP and we find peace with her angelic voice and songs.
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and a very good actress. An accomplished entertainer.
@@FEZKARA This was from a time when they thought she had finally kicked the disease and had put on weight. Sadly not long after this it came back with a vengeance and she lost all she had gained and far too much more that she couldn't afford to lose and not shortly afterwards it took her.
@@mrpoquahI’ve also read her blood glucose at the time she died was an astronomical 1110. They say anything over 300-400 is dangerously high(and I know as I am a diabetic
The other thing more amazing then her talent, was her natural beauty that could captivate anyone. If only she saw herself the way we did. Thanks Karen Carpenter for the beautiful music and grace you shared with us. Always missed and loved.....A Very Devoted Carpenter's Fan💝❤💖
So very true
SHE GOT HER INSECURITIES FROM HER MOTHER, WHO DIDN'T CARE FOR HER VERY MUCH , AND DIDN'T HIDE IT.
@@garlandheard2073 her mother only wanted her money.
The voice of an Angel! Richard is a musical genius. Together, they created some beautiful music!
I can’t believe this is live. I can’t believe she looked SO good. I can’t believe she left us the way she did. I wish you could have been saved 😢
Yes
@Bart, a fantastic, and a
Effortlessly voice, Taken way too soon. Karen had an amazing voice 😥😥
She will always be in our hearts. 💙
People often say that they wished they went to their concerts. Hundreds of men wished they could have dated or even married her. If given the chance to go back in time, I would have liked to try to help her to recover from this dreadful eating disorder. After she regained her health, I would walk away. 💙
@@avriltobin6893 very much so, Avril 😕
Rest in peace Karen
1983 passed
Never gets old listening to Karen’s beautiful voice.
Have been trying for months to find a word to describe Karen Carpenter's voice. The only word so far is: Perfection. Would guess at least a Million people miss her a LOT!
1 Word - UNTOUCHABLE. :) we are on the same page my friend.
Such a beautiful voice and great stage presence.
Ma plus belle histoire d'amour finis par une trahison c'est la vie continue dur dur 🕍🎆🎆
magnifique chanson, je l'adore ! Elle seule peut la chanter aussi bien ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Whitney Houston had the strongest female voice that I’ve ever heard, and perhaps the best range, but Karen Carpenter possessed the purist and most soothing vocals. Both departed much too soon.
They're my two all time favourites ❤️
Of course Whitney had a strong voice she expanded her lung capacity with all of her might....
Karen has the caress and smooth delivery of every single note
Mine too !!
Totally agree!
Whitney had a great voice. Karen is one of the greatest singers to ever live. There's a difference.
Beautiful lady with a perfect voice! One of a kind and the best of all time. She looks very healthy in this performance! She was 5 feet four inches and had a beautiful body and face before anorexia. I always loved the clothes she wore in her performances! Elegant Karen you were and are precious RIP!
I have never seen this before....but Karen looks the most beautiful I have ever seen her. She looks so happy and so content( I accept this may not have been the case). What a wonderful, beautiful soul. I hope she had some wonderful moments in her short life....like she gave millions of people, even now. We love you Karen.
Karen Carpenter é eterna, sua voz é angelical
Real
DIVA!
Karen left us far too soon. She and Richard produced some unforgettable songs...standards now.
2021 i still love the Carpenters i miss Karen love her voice
You are in great company here. I do to. Even though I was a child during these years, I loved the sound of her beautiful voice, which complimented her natural beauty. She was and still a woman with Class who never could be out performed or out matched. She was definitely one of God's precious gifts!!!💙
We all do, my friend ;-)
2022🥰
No hay palabras para describir tanta belleza en esa voz tan extraordinarmente perfecta. Gracias Karen Ann Carpenter por dejar el legado de tu voz. Es muy triste el que hayas partido tan joven. Que el Señor te tenga en su reino.
AMÉN, AMÉN, AMÉN, MÍ PADRE CELESTIAL.
I love The Carpenters music; Karen was so beautiful and talented.
No one could sing like this , the voice of all time .
Everyone is talking about her voice, no one is congratulating the clarinet player for their amazing trumpet solo
good point, were they serious? Karens voice makes up for it....in my opinion
😂
Or for Richard playing that amazing Baldwin grand piano sound on that cheesy Wurlitzer electric piano.
@@TheLarryBrown people on Top pop and Top Of The Pops don’t know what musical instruments sound like.
Haha
Every time I hear a Carpenters song, I marvel. And always with a tinge of sadness.
Greatest female vocalist in recording history. There is no close second.
Not exactly my friend. Karen was super in own style. So what about whitney. Barbara. Minnie . Denice
@@caseypoiter1527 Not even in the same league
@@oldcountryman2795disagree completely. Go check you ears out .because all the about has a greater vocal range than Karen. Karen had the voice but not the range
@@caseypoiter1527 It is your right as an American on this Independence Day to be wrong. And you are very wrong. Karen Carpenter was the greatest female vocalist in recording history.
disagree as I believe the best female vocalist ever to be Anni-Frid Lygnstad of ABBA. her voice is sweet like honey, and with a certain granular quality. also, Frida sings in English and Swedish as well as having sung in Spanish.
No one can sing better, it's a shame she's not with us anymore, God bless her
She liked a lot of the greats died tragically and too young. Her voice still cannot be matched close to 50 years later
Many great singers have come and gone, but Karen Carpenter's voice is the most perfect.
Sounds of heaven
Poor woman, if she could only see herself the way we did when she was alive things would have gone so much better for her. So pretty and talented she was.
My late mother's favorite singer. I hope Karen is singing to my mom in heaven as we speak. A truly gifted performer who left us all too soon. RIP Karen...RIP Ma...enjoy that voice.🙂
She was an angel on earth!
One of the most beautiful ballads ever. It totally makes me melt from the first second I heard the melody.
She is absolutely beautiful in this video. I have been in love with her for over 50 years. Rest in Peace Karen.
Me too
I am from Russia, this is so beautiful music, listen first time, in my life, 2021 year
Welcome to the KC fan club, listeners who knows Great Talent. KC; the Greatest female vocalis in the history of music. 💙
I am from Brasil, Santos Beach, but I remember that's music, because, I had 16 years old, in 1972
Wow, my Good!!!
Yes this is beautiful music I heard Russia is beautiful too!
А по русски нельзя?!
I'm. A. DRUMMER IN A BAND AND EVERYBODY WANTS TO HEAR THIS SONG AT WEDDINGS, I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY REQUESTS WE GET FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL SONG BY THE CARPENTERS, REST IN PEACE KAREN YOU ARE TRULY TRULY MISSED. 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
This is HOW its done ladies and gentlemen. No AutoTune, no nothing. Just a voice and a mic.
She's lip-syncing. This is 90% studio work with a touch of live mixed in.
@@JewandGreek I don't even think this is lip-syncing, It looks more like the audio was just totally laid on top of studio footage later.
@@JewandGreek she is definitely lip syncing here, but in earlier videos it's hard to tell. Her voice and pitch was so spot on, it's hard to tell if she is singing live,or lip syncing to a pre recorded and produced vocal track. You have to really watch her mouth. Check out the video of her doing Rainy Days and Mondays where she is singing and playing drums and tell me if you think she is singing live or lip syncing.
Karen Carpenter by 1974..I'm speechless..
I still cry for this beautiful singer, since passed away!
Best Voice ever, and her brother Richard let her have all the accolades to this day.
God, does not do this often✝️🙏🏻🩸❤️.
I miss her and her beautiful voice so much. It was a real sad day when she left us.
At this moment she was in the best shape of her live. I wish we could've told her
A beautiful talent. Karen's voice and Richard's paino were simply magical. A timeless soud.
Karen was a wonderful, natural vocalist who touched our hearts - and an amazing drummer. We love you, Karen and always will!
without a doubt the greatest voice that has ever passed through this world
Singing live , yet just as perfect as a warm summer breeze. Her voice was heartbreakingly honest, and simple perfection.
Love ♥️ Karen Carpenter never be a voice like hers... so sad the tragic end 😢🙏🏼
Why do birds suddenly appear
Every time you are near?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you
Why do stars fall down from the sky
Every time you walk by?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you
On the day that you were born the angels got together
And decided to create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue
That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you
On the day that you were born the angels got together
And decided to create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue
That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you
Wa, close to you
Wa, close to you
Ha, close to you
La, close to you
My mom says this song reminds her of me. Geesh when your mom says that how humbled can you get? Karen’s voice and pure talent are unmatched.
Karen had the most beautiful voice I have ever heard. Her Angel’s voice now sings in heaven.
I'm an immortal and have listened to Karen sing through several of her incarnations here on earth and i just want to know, who is still listening to her in 2043?
She's so angelic. I sure will miss her.
この歌も、聴き覚えがありますね。こうして聴いてると、本当に、名曲揃いですね。一つとして、駄作はない感じですね。この歌では、バックコーラスも、素晴らしいですね。見事な味付けをしてます。
She looks great and sings effortlessly...so sad to have lost her at such a young age.
She is an angel who came to our lives to give us beautiful music from the soul. Gone but still leaves us wanting more but settle for what we had. Which to me gave people love and admiration for this gift.
Doing what most singers can't do today, live but as good as the record
They invented "auto-tune", because they knew from Karen's voice, no one's pitch will EVER be that perfect! Miss you, Karen. RIP
She was perfection😢
Back to a gorgeous childhood memories 💗💖💕
She could take a song and make it sound incredible with that voice.
Sometimes the most beautiful aspects of our lives are lost so terribly 😢 quickly.
There has not been another voice like Karen’s!! So pure and clear!! Beautiful!!
🤔I've heard a few other renditions of this song that she sang over the years, but in this verson she shows more maturity and really pours out her ❤! Wow, she really brings back memories of a kinder gentler Era in the 70s for me. 😭 Hope you love it as much as me😉🥰🤩
She looks so healthy 😢
Those good ol'days those were the days when we started losing a world treasure into extreme dieting where she lost herself but immortalised her soul in a song she's just controversially phenomenal
People would beg for her beautiful womanly shape now! I know I would! I wish she knew she was as beautiful as her voice! Her voice is so perfect, it literally sounds like its dubbed and its layered vocals! Ugh so soothing! I'm in tears! RIP. 🥺😭
Well, her voice was obviously processed for TV performances. Not to the extent ABBA did it but still it's a well engineered studio recording.
@@awandererTJ whatever, my comment still stands
@@itiswhatitis716 Never meant to underappreciate Karen's talent and beauty. Her live performances were perfect no less. Love her too.
I have always loved to hear her amazing voice. So comforting to hear.
she was an angel, and sang with her heart and soul....rare and lovely, ❤️❤️❤️
So beautiful a voice with a lovely appearance, RIP Karen.
Ahhh. Pure quality. An oasis.
What a beautiful song , and The Carpenters did it so perfectly - what a sweet voice by Karen !!!
Back when artists had pure talent. No auto tune, no twerking on stage, no pomp and circumstance.....talent.
Best voice of all time. I grew up listening to her and Neil Diamond. I was lucky.
● この歌を初めて聴いたのは５０年ほど前だった。
私の好きなバカラックの楽曲のなかでも１，２を争うだろう。
だが、（今では）聴くたびに「寂しさ」も感じてしまう・・。
カレンの心の中を推し量る事は出来ないが、
「もったいない」・・そんな想いが、今も込み上げてくる。
One of the very best duels of the recording industry,! Such a great lose. Love you Karen. I miss you and your beautiful voice
Love this song, reminds me of someone that was special in my life & would sing this song to me along with other carpenters' songs.
Europe here. Every time I see her in the videos and hear her sing, I want to beam myself back 50 years, fly over to the USA and drive to her and ask, "Can I help you in any way? You are beautiful and good just the way you are."
The FINEST voice....EVER to be recorded in the business..
What a talented pair of siblings. Karen had the most beautiful voices of any female singer-ever. And Richard was/is a powerhouse talented singer/songwriter/musician/producer. May God Bless Richard and to Karen-R.I.P.
Beautiful music that brings to tears to my eyes or a smile to my face when I hear it. I came from that generation and loved their music. But I didn't appreciate them enough back then. Now? I am getting ready to buy all their CDs. These songs remind me of a simpler, happier time and stirs emotions in me that are rich and deep. Love their music and appreciate them so much more these days.
Karen Carpenter had a beautiful back in the 1970's (not to mention face and figure)! She looked absolutely gorgeous back then! So sad that she slowly destroyed herself in the ensuing years. Not only can you tell that this is the studio audio recording of "Close To You" for the single and album, but also it is humorous that when at the moment when you hear the trumpet accents in the song, the TV camera shows the clarinet player!
Rip Burt Bacharach an endless list of classics...
Karen Carpenter simply always had the most superb and perfect pitch and will be sorely missed by many but her beautiful music will live on forever!🎼🎼😘
The voice of an Angel who watches over us all! Voice made for the heavens!
The best years... 😌 I wish I could travel in time
The best female singer ever.a true legend and superb drummer.great memories. Rip.karen x
If only she knew in her heart just how wonderful she was.
Wonderful duet and a most elegant and impeccable presentation.
Her voice was always a sweet melody.
Wonderful music. Magnificent lyrics. Melody that soothes and elevates the heart. I am Brazilian and this style of music is similar to Brazilian popular music and Bossa Nova. The Carpenters will continue to touch the hearts of generations.
Aeeeee, conterrâneo! 😊❤😊
RIP Karen your music will live on for eternity!
She has a voice that can bring peace to any war
What a beautiful woman she was...and a voice like an angel! Dearly missed by her fans 😢
Suck a Beautiful Voice. No one has a pure and perfect voice. Sadly missed. You will always be remembered for your Fabulous Voice. R. I. P Karen 😥😥
What a gorgeous woman, with a beautiful figure and awedome voice.
What a shame that she was gone so soon.
Rip Karen.
She was so beautyfull and her Songs are Out of time Karen i Miss you❤️
Una de las mejores cantantes, si no es que la mejor! Y ella fue muy hermosa! Con una simpatía muy natural. QEPD.🌷🌷🌷
I want to remember her like this. She looks great 🤩
Saw her in Lake Charles, LA. We were on the third row. My brother-in-law was filming with an 8mm movie camera, no sound. Every time she sang the words “close to you”, she looked square into his camera. Still have the recording. She was amazing
Beautiful voice, left us all too soon
She was looking healthier here... What a pity, left too soon. Bless you Karen.
Music died when Karen passed away!
@@johnskelton1117 what
Yes we lost a beautiful songbird 🙏🎶
I don't know if this is the exact concert, but there was someone from the crew, or just a person that was known, anyway that person mentioned that she looked fat in that outfit. And that's supposedly when she got really self conscious about her looks. I heard that in a Bio about the carpenters. I'm sure it won't be to hard to find if searched. but if that was the case, that is so sad. Very sad either way....True talent lost.
Sorry but i think this maybe the performance that killed her