WOW! KAREN WAS TAKEN TOO SOON! First Time Hearing Carpenters - Rainy Days & Mondays Reaction!
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- Hello, everyone! Today, we're diving deep into the heart of 70s pop with our first-time reaction to "Rainy Days & Mondays" by the Carpenters. This song, emblematic of Karen Carpenter's angelic voice and the duo's timeless sound, has touched the hearts of millions. Join us as we explore the melancholic beauty of this classic track and pay homage to the incredible talent of Karen Carpenter, whose voice remains unforgettable.
⭐️ WHAT WE COVER IN THIS VIDEO:
Our initial impressions of the Carpenters and the legacy of Karen Carpenter.
Reacting to "Rainy Days & Mondays" and its poignant lyrics and melody.
Discussing the song's themes of loneliness and longing, and how they resonate today.
Our reflections on Karen Carpenter's impact on music and her untimely passing.
🎶 ABOUT THE CARPENTERS & "RAINY DAYS & MONDAYS":
The Carpenters, consisting of siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter, became one of the most beloved duos of the 70s with their blend of pop and soft rock. "Rainy Days & Mondays," known for its emotional depth and Karen's captivating vocals, showcases the duo's ability to convey complex feelings in a beautifully crafted song.
👫 WHO WE ARE:
We're a couple who loves to uncover the stories behind legendary music, sharing our first-time reactions to classic hits and the artists who made them. Our journey is about appreciating the timeless qualities of music and the emotions they evoke.
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I'll take Karen over any of today's singers. Just a pure, angelic natural voice.
This! 100%
You should listen to Angelina jordan, best female Vocalist of our generation at only 18 yrs old
@@primordialsimilarity6262 heard her. I'll take Karen.
@dialsimilarity6262Give me Lucy Thomas any day over Angelina Jordan...
The voices are still there, but they get buried under all of the actors & influencers who are heavily processed and marketed. Carpenters faced quite a bit of resistance from "cool kids" of the day, who dismissed them for their wholesome image, and the music back then was a lot better, so they had legitimate competition. Today, the masses don't seem to even care about actual music.
I'm 63 years old, and Karen's voice STILL gives me "Chill bumps" when I hear her sing. I even get a little misty-eyed from time to time. Gone WAY too soon.
Same
Same❤
I'm 70 and remember loving her in High School.. She still brings a tear from songs I've heard hundreds of times before.
I am 72 and mostly into Hard Rock and Metal but anytime I listen to the Carpenters it brings out my other side hahaha@@MatthewPettyST1300
Can’t say it any better. And I’m a month shy of 63.
Karen Carpenter, had a voice that comes around once in a generation. She passed away from complications due to anerexia. Recommend - We've Only Just Begun and Close to You.
I found it odd that they didn't mention that when they are an exercise couple?
Certainly agree with your picks, Mark, but those are the early and biggest hits. A lifelong fan of theirs, I love Masquerade and Yesterday, Once More as well as of few of Karen's late solo tunes, such as I Know I Need to Be In Love.
Once in a generation? Name a singer in the generations since or before her who had a better voice?
My favorite: "Only Yesterday".
We’ve only just begun was the song we sang for our eighth grade graduation. Beautiful song.
I am 59 years old and to me Karen Carpenter is the best female vocalist ever.
Greatest female voice of all time!
Her voice to me is like a time machine...each time I hear her voice it immediately takes me to a time when the world is all fine...Fantastic!!
She suffered from anorexia and died of heart failure. Her story is deeply sad and speaks to the pressures heaped on her both as a woman and a performer. Her voice is beyond special. I’m so sorry she left this world too soon. 💔 She and KD Lang…two voices to cherish.
I have yet to see anyone who's not impressed with Karen Carpenter's voice. I've watched many reaction videos from every corner and it doesn't matter their background or musical preference, they love Karen. What gets me is her breath control. She can hold a note so long so effortlessly. Plus that warm, perfect vibrato.
She had the purest voice and you could always understand her. She brought comfort to your ears.
As a musical instrument, Karen's voice is amazing. Unfortunately, her handlers never let her stretch and sing some important songs. Just one sugary sweet song after another with terrible arrangements.
@@markmurphy558 Ummm...OK, you're not a fan of Richard, then. Got it. Fine. Check out, then, I Can Dream, Can't I, from the 1975 Horizon album. 1938 Sammy Fain big band ballad standard, orchestrated for Karen by 50s bandleader Billy May. It's celestial. There should have been, and had Karen lived doubtless would have been, at least one Carpenters standards album. That lady could sing a torch ballad like no one else, ever...
I've seen critics diss KC's singing, actually.
They're wrong.
tori holub comes very close
Nothing new to add. This woman's voice has held me captive for 54 years . . . No one comes close. I don't need to explain.
Barbara could go head to head and maybe come out on top!
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Nah
@@daseguin I guess you never listened to the long list of great tunes that Barbara Streisand has done. Her range was insanely great! I love Karen’s style and voice though clearly not the abilities that Barbara or even Whitney Houston had!
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Karen was also a very talented drummer.
She didn't do drugs she had an eating disorder that wore on her heart
When she died it was the first time many of us heard of anorexia
Yes. (Conversely Richard did develop an addiction...which, to his great credit, he kicked in 1979.)
No but she took a lot of laxatives as part of her eating disorder.
@@CheryworldI heard that eating disorders weren’t as well understood back then.
Granted I wasn’t born yet so correct me if I’m wrong
She did take numerous pills which did not do her any good. But the root problem was severe anorexia.
Karen's voice is haunting, melancholy, and bittersweet.
ULTIMATE vocalist (not just a singer) who sang to the listener NOT at us, and master storyteller, who knew her "job" was to interpret the lyrics for us... As her brother, Richard, said "her voice was PHONO-GENIC" and it felt like she was singing to you and sitting in your lap...The most pure, rich, warm, intimate, movingly beautiful voice....
What always gets me is she's singing perfectly WHILE PLAYING THE DRUMS! I don't even know how to measure that level of talent.
That’s a very simple drum track, she isn’t playing Dream Theater.
@@headlibrarian1996But she could definitely do it if the music called for it.
@@headlibrarian1996 I saw them in concert in 1970 while she still played drums for the entire set. It was all live.
That is true on this selection the only live mic is for Karens singing. BUT it is not true on
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It was part of the Ed Sullivan show filmed outside for the Nov. 8 1970 episode, which was taped at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center most audience were army wounded from Vietnam. She is also playing on their tour tapes see
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Their 1971 BBC tour.
Thanks for those links! First time seeing them@@A-whiter-shade-of-pale
All the background vocals are Karen and Richard. Richard was and is a musical genius. He did all the arrangements and wrote all the scores for every instrument. He is responsible for the entire sound that lifted Karen's incredible voice. He knew exactly how to write and arrange the songs perfectly for her.
But there is one song she did as Carpenters and on her solo album "Make believe it's your first time". On the solo it was done with just a piano, bass, and drums.
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the other had Richards touch and instruments.
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I much prefer Karens version.
I sometimes feel Richard is underappreciated.... or at least overshadowed by Karen so often. He had a great voice, too and deserves a LOT of credit.
She had the most pleasant female voice I’ve ever heard. Smooth and effortless. Love the deep tones.
Karen was always humble when complimented on her voice...sheepish when complimented on her beauty....and delighted when complimented on her drumming! Karen was once in a creation. Karen Carpenter was just a singularly amazing singer. There was just not anybody like her. Superstar and Rainy Days hit #2 on the Billboard 100 and Both were #1 on the Billboard adult contemporary charts. Top Of The World, Solitaire, Goodbye To Love and any other song by Carpenters. Not 1 bad song.
"Close To You" is probably their most famous song. "We've Only Just Begun" "For All We Know" "Yesterday Once More" "Top Of The World" "Sing" 'Hurting Each Other" "This Masquerade" "Solitaire" "Goodbye To Love"....
All amazing! ❤
Also "Ticket to ride"
No competition Karen Carpenter is the greatest singer of all time.
Beyonce who. Taylor sweet, Taylor sweat, Taylor Fast or something like that. I can't name a single song from either of them. VS. someone I've listened to since High school in the very early 70's. .
It's always been said about Karen Carpenter, that her true passion was playing the drums... and she enjoyed them far more, than she did singing.
The voice of a Angel and the soul of a Unicorn, Rest in Peace Karen, your never gone when your in a persons memory.
Yes, Karen started as a drummer and never wanted to be a singer. But her brother Richard, had heard her sing, and when he started his band, he asked Karen to join his band, when she was 16-years old, and later on, when he wanted to send out demos to the recording companies, he had Karen to be the band's singer. Fortunately, A&M Records got a demo, and when Herb Alpert heard her voice, he signed them up on the spot. Herb tells some great stories about Karen, and how her singing effected him, calling Karen "the voice of angel." 50 Years later, Herb will tear up, and get very emotional when he talks about Karen.
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Karen and Richard sang their own backing vocals…they were some of the earliest to do that. So we always get perfectly harmonized backup vocals from them.
Yes they overdubbed their voices multiple times to sound like they had a large group of backup singers
@@pjg58x Yes Richard learned to do that from Les Paul and Mary Ford who were doing it when Richard was born.
@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee BUT 6 more people could not have added a thing to the music. There is no one who could = their singing and it was not the Carpenters job to give others a job, it was their job to turn out the best music they could.
Never forget Richard, they were a brother and sister TEAM, one couldn't have done it without the other
"What I've got they used to call the blues..." whoever wrote that line deserved an extra day off. Beyond perfection...
Karen is singing a sad song but her voice is warm and comforting like a hug!
My girlfriend and I saw The Carpenters back in 1972. They were just as fantastic live!
I also saw them in concert back in the 70s such a long, long time ago...sigh. Neil Sedaka opened for them.
I am envious, Bob Thomas! Can't even imagine how wonderful they were at a LIVE show!
I saw them in ‘72 also, they were fabulous.
I snuck backstage in 1975 and got to meet them both. It was such a thrill for my 17 yr old self and a memory I will always treasure.
Karen always said she was a drummer who sang
Karen Carpenter was actually an incredible drummer. Early in their career Karen sang from behind a drum kit. As the Carpenters gained popularity she stepped out to be up front and they used a touring drummer
This was basically a song about depression and Karen's voice is one of the best ever. It's especially sad knowing what happened to her.
I see so many people thinking this is about being sad. I don't think they get the line "What I've got they used to call the blues". You don't hear that term anymore and it's the real clue to it being depression.
There's Karen Carpenter and then there's everyone else,,
Karen was the drummer for the group before they pushed her up front to sing. She loved the drums and she was happiest when she was behind her kit. Of course, as a group they weren't going anywhere until after they pushed her up front, so there's that....
I often wonder if she would've been overall happier and less self-conscious if they would've allowed her to stay behind the drums... I'm "old" and lived through their popularity, dip, and her death - it still makes me so sad.
The Eagles. Don Henley often stayed behind the drums and sang. Look at their old concert videos of Hotel California. Why did she have to be pushed to the front? It's so sad.
Me too, every reaction I see to her makes me happy but with a touch of sadness, knowing what happened.
Their mother didn't help...Richard could do no wrong...Karen could do no right.
Karen just had an amazing voice you could also do "We Have Only Just Begun "
Should watch the video of Karen's drums solo.
Paul McCartney has said that Karen Carpenter had "the best female voice in the world: melodic, tuneful and distinctive". Karen has been called "one of the greatest voices of our lifetime" by Elton John. To me, she is the singer I'll picture in my mind if asked "the perfect 'American' voice".
Her older brother, Richard Carpenter has said to be influenced by the "three B's"; the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Burt Bacharach.
Karen struggled with anorexia. She had the voice of an angel.
They also have one of the greatest Christmas songs of all time, "Merry Christmas Darling".
Lyric of that one was written by their university choirmaster, Frank Pooler, when he was in the army in 1946. Richard set it to music around 1968 and the song was a hit Christmas single in 1970, later reappearing on the 1978 Christmas Portrait album.
Close to You and We’ve Only Just Begun are very good popular songs from the Carpenters
The background vocals can't be anything else but amazing because they're doing them themselves 😉
The background vocals are Karen and Richard layered onto the track!
Like Elton John EVERYTHING The Carpenters did was SOLID GOLD!
I'm sure others have mentioned this, but "We've Only Just Begun" was the theme of countless weddings back in the day.
Along with, and perhaps because of, her incredible voice, one other thing that gets overshadowed and does not get mentioned enough is how incredible of a drummer she was. Probably because she did not do a lot of videos of her doing solos on them. She was considered one of the great drummers of her time, perhaps the best among female drummers.
Hey guys. It was an eating disorder that took Karen from us. I believe it was Anorexia. She struggled with eating disorders all her life. It was almost like losing a sister when she passed.
Love your channel! I'd like to vote for "We've only just Begun" for your next Carpenters tune.
Actually partially actuate. The really sad part is Richard has said that she had beaten anorexia; however, her heart had already been too damaged, and that's how she passed. Her heart just gave out.
@@brucethrasher8551 ah... that part i didn't know. Thank you for the info. It seems so often to be the most amazing people who cant see what the whole world sees... just what amazing treasures they are to man kind.
Monday takes on a new meaning when you are retired. Less neighborhood noise and the stores are less busy. I look forward to weekdays. Weekends don't seem the same. Now get to work all you youngsters, earn your keep! 😄
Well said 😂🙃
Karen Carpenter sang her soul, and that haunting truth had the ability to resonate with the people who had the good fortune to hear her then or now. It is our hearts and souls that resonate to her voice, the emotions, the sadness, the depth, the openness and vulnerability. All of that wrapped up in an amazing contralto/alto 3 octave voice. Of course, the poignancy is so evident given her sad life story - the fact that she dies so young from Anorexia Nervosa. One of the most beautiful natural voices ever!
Like the fact that everyone calls Steve Perry, "The Voice", Karen was called, "One-Take Karen" because that's how she did pretty much everything !!!
EASY my top 10 favorite female singers. Considered herself a drummer that sings so YOU GOTS TO check out KAREN CARPENTER DRUM SOLO!! Also THIS MASQUERADE a favorite song as well as; CLOSE TO YOU, THERE'S A KIND OF HUSH, WE'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN, and tons more!!! Fun fact (?) In 1975 Playboy magazine named Karen as #5 top drummer in the World and John Bonham #6!! A cause of controversy! Great GREAT CHANNEL Y'ALL!! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
Her ability to tell a story and take you to a place and feeling is incomparable. Her singing showed a maturity well beyond her years - a true old soul.
Karen Carpenter died from the effects of years struggling with anorexia nervosa. Her heart finally gave out.
"Only Yesterday", "Solitaire", and "This Masquerade" are favorites of mine, although I could list several more.
You have not lived until you have heard Karen sing the cover "Song For You" by the incomparable Leon Russell.
Karen had very strict demanding parents who put inordinate pressure on Karen and her brother Richard to excel. On top of that pressure to be "perfect", she had body issues which led to anorexia, even though she was always a thin woman. She started taking too many pills etc. Her last few years were just brutal the way she went. The most beautiful pure perfect female voice of the last 55 years or so. She had perfect diction and phrasing just like Sinatra did in his prime. And yes, her voice has that haunting natural sadness. But she also sings classic Christmas Carols perfectly too.
Richard and Karen overdubbed the background vocals.
1. Superstar
2. Yesterday Once More
3. We've Only Just Begun
4. Close to You
5. Top of the World
6. Only Yesterday
7. Say Goodbye to Love
8. For All We Know
9. I Won't Last a Day Without You.
10. The entire Carpenters Christmas album.
Try Goodbye to Love. Fantastic guitar solo in that one too.
I'm not a drummer, but I've had drummers tell me (stunning vocals aside!), that she was a fantastic drummer. How can someone multitask that well?? World class talent.
Her voice is considered are rare voice in the vocal world.
People forget she was a drummer first and a singer second....She won Rock Drummer of the Year Award in '75, edging out Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, The Who's Keith Moon and The Beatles' Ringo Starr....
Such a beautiful lady, perfection, always loved the Carpenters they were amazing
They were really big when I was in Junior High, and I would see her on TV all the time. I had a huge crush on her.
a superb drum artist too ! A pure voice before any enhancements of tech.
The Carpenter's influences were described by Richard as the four "B's." The Beatles, the Bee Gees, the Beach Boys, and Burt Bacharach.
I'm so glad you reacted to that song... I'm 67 years old right now but I remember the carpenters when I was 14 or 15 years old... I became a fan of their songs and Karen's beautiful voice early on... She ended up dying of anorexia nervosa... She got to the point where she was denying her demons and eventually we lost this beautiful soul to that horrible disease... I still play her music a lot... The carpenters had some of the best music during that time and I still enjoy it today... Great reaction again , guys... See you on the next one... Keep Being Awesome !!!...
She was also one of the best drummers out there!
and a top rate drummer. we lost her too soon.
A TRUE ANGEL SENT TO EARTH!!!!! I LOVED HER WHEN I WAS 6 IM 60 NOW AND STILL LOVE HER!!!
Her voice always gives my soul a hug it didn't know it needed!
Very well said.
Karen was also an AMAZING drummer. She often played while she performed. You need to look up one of the videos of her playing drugs.
The way Karen could sing and play the drums was fantastic. If you watch her, she has a lot of unique fills and she is hardly even watching her hands, she just has a natural instinct.
Beautiful voice and drumming at the same time.
She's also a fantastic drummer...she has a video playing the drums...PERFECTION!!
There is a video of her doing a drum solo which will blow you away and show just how talented she was.
No one ever reacts to their song, “Sing,” much more upbeat in lyrics and still one of their best.
Karen's voice is just perfection. The arrangements of any Carpenters song are also spectactular. Richard is a master musician.
The Carpenters "This Masquerade" is incredibly beautiful.
The film on her life story was heartbreaking too 😢😢
Another great Paul Williams tune. R I.P. Karen Carpenter ✌️❤️🙏🙏🙏
No singer I have ever heard in my sixty-one years created so much emotion with their voice alone.
Knowing Karen's life & her struggles,, Although a beautiful song,, This one also holds some truth for Karen which also makes me sad..R.I.P. Karen 🙏❤️
She was also a very good jazz drummer.
The best female voice of all time, always in the top 10 of many polls done over the years, but for me she is number one, great arrangement's by Richard & as she said always felt secure behind the drums.
A fantastic voice and she sings effortlessly.
Richard and Karen had a saying:"The Gold is in the basement." that meant when Karen sang in her low range so smooth, that's what really sold the song and the records. While other female singers were screaming in the high range, Karen did that "thang" she did so well in the lower range.
No auto tune, just amazing talent
Karen Carpenter was an Angel 😇 sent from Heaven and left us way too soon! One of the most beautiful voices ever heard! The compositions are the direct result of her brother Richard Carpenter who really played to Karen’s strengths as a singer! I LOVE ❤️ the music of The Carpenters! RIP Karen!
I’m a drummer and I tell you Karen was right in there with all the great jazz and rock drummers of her day! I loved that she played traditional grip with the left stick on the snare and the hand speed she demonstrated around the kit! Of course most know her for her outstanding alto vocals but don’t be fooled because Karen was also a marvelous drummer! I learned a lot by watching her performances! Hats off to Karen Carpenter: drummer and singer 🎤🥁extraordinaire!
There's no voice like Karen Carpenter's. It's like emotional velvet. I miss her every time I hear one of her songs.
RIP KAREN !!! You Were and are LOVED😊
Possibly my fav Carpenters song, along with This Masquerade
Please listen to Karen's last song she recorded called "Now". She passed very shortly after it was recorded. You can also see the fact that she was ailing from anorexia. Thanks for all your reactions.
She was looking horrible for years before that, it was obvious in late 1970s videos.
"Now" was supposed to be a practice track that she and Richard recorded for the rest of the band and the engineers. She didn't think it was good, but Richard said it was fine for the rest to work with. She passed away shortly after. A bit later Richard went back into the studio and finished her "one take".
I’m 59yo, I grew up listening to these great songs of the late 60’s and early 70’s on an old AM radio that my grandmother gave me. I had it on my head board of my bed and listened to them at bed time. I was 6,7,8 yo. I became a rocker/metal head but got a great base with these beautiful songs.
A common practice in the 60's and 70's was lip syncing on TV broadcasts. You can always tell with the Carpenters because of the harmonies. All those beautiful studio harmonies are done by just Richard and Karen. They used a process where they multi-layered or overdubbed their vocals.
Karen is truly missed. a once in a lifetime talent.
My favorite real live performance is the one at Walter Reed hospital, where they are playing the medley of Burt Bacharach songs.
My parents took us to see them at a dinner show at Harveys casino, Lake Tahoe in 1974.
Lovely Reaction. Her voice was something truly magical and beautiful. I think you all were right on with her voice. Almost haunting but angelic!
Our Karen. Gifted. Shy. Fragile.
This is a Paul Williams song with simple, but pretty lyrics.
Karen could take those words, and rip your heart out with them, in the best way possible.
Godspeed for a voice that will never come again.
Saw her sing and drum in 1972 . One of the best singers/drummers ever ....and she broke the glass ceiling
I've never heard anyone with a better voice.
Karen was simply the greatest! And Richard was s musical genius. His production and arrangements perfectly accentuated Karen's voice.
One of the most beautiful sounds in the musical universe: Karen Carpenter singing a song. Any song.
Karen was a talent who didn't need any of today's electronic devices to make her sound great. No pitch correction, no harmonizer; just pure smooth vocals. And she was also a tremendous drummer. Just a talent that we lost way too early.
Such a thrill to see her on drums. Many Carpenters fans weren't aware of this talent unless you saw her on TV or at a conert in their early days.
Perfect pitch, karen was special with her singing ability
We’ve only just begun. Next.
Carpenters forever!!!! 🌟✌️