The Carpenters will be remembered for generations to come. The harmony is perfect and Karen's knowledge of playing the drums and Richards vocals and piano playing makes the Carpenters unforgettable!
We are listening to an actual Work-Lead; her first take thru the song to test the sound equipment & get a feel for the song.. Nobody was expecting this & it wasn't supposed 2B this good. As you said, she was absolute Magic! 💖🎶🎵💯
"Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again" is a song written by David Pomeranz that became a top 10 hit for Barry Manilow in 1976. It was first recorded by The Carpenters in 1975, but their version was not released until 1994 on their 25th anniversary CD, Interpretations: A 25th Anniversary Celebration. The Carpenters' version of "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again" was recorded during the Horizon sessions in 1975, but it had been shelved as being "one too many ballads". Years later, Richard was looking for the master backing track for "Only Yesterday" and discovered on that same tape the lost, earlier attempt at "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again" with Karen's "work lead." (A work lead can easily be identified by such anomalies as Karen flipping a sheet of paper over at about 1:50 into the play time of the song as she sight reads and sings.) Richard felt that the vocal was good enough to finish production of the song and release it, as he did in 1994, almost 20 years after it was recorded.
Karen never realized how much she helped so many people but we failed to realize back then what she was going through! Rest in Peace Karen Carpenter! You will NEVER be FORGOTTEN!
Love your enthusiastic reactions. Richard and Karen are incredibly talented. I love to listen to Karen’s voice on headphones. Her voice is so clear and soothing. Love their arrangement of this song, just beautiful
When I saw the Carpenters back in 1972 --they did a medley of Burt Bacharach that floored me . There are 2 versions one is in black and white from Australia ,the other one is in color on the lawn of Walter Reed Hospital for veterans.
This is such a gem - unreleased for many years (long after she died) - and it's gorgeous! Thanks for this reaction video - How about a Carpenters reaction once a week!!
This song is an outtake from HORIZON. This song got “lost” but was found in 1993. Karens voice was recorded as a reference take, for the musicians to familiarize with the song. It’s a WORK LEAD, that means a First and only take… she was amazing…
Dereck, you gorgeous hunk of a man! Kudos for reacting to this hidden gem, one of my absolute favourite Carpenters songs. Well done, young sir. Frankly, I find it mystifying that so many people describe Karen's voice as soothing. I hear sadness that is close to unbearable to witness at times. But I guess sadness can also soothe. This is not chill-out music, though. This is stare-into-the-abyss-of-inevitable-heartbreak-and-despair-that-is-human-life music. Deathless stuff.
It was a track for the horizon album in 1975 got lost till recovered in 1994 for iterpretations album and was a top 50 hit single in uk one of there over looked gems
The song was recorded during what would become the 1975 HORIZON album and was lost and not put out as there was too many ballads on that album....in 1994, Richard re-found it and decided to record it. At the end of the first chorus segueing into the second verse , she flips the page over and you can hear it, and would have been re-recorded for that, but of course she passed and Richard thought her vocals sublime and wonderful and despite the page turn, he released it and did not edit it out....
She did this in just one take. Great reaction Dereck love it! Kindly react also from the same album Horizon " Love Me for What I Am". You will love this...
Moreover it wasn't intended even as an actual lead vocal take. This was a work lead, to show the studio band how the song went. Another such was Karen's lead vocal on Superstar, which was the first time she sang the song. Not the first take...the first TIME. That's how good she was.
Hi Dereck. Welp, you did it again; you found the word I was thinking of when Karen was doing glissandos all over the place in the first few seconds: Caressing. I actually like Barry Manilow's version, but I hadn't heard this cover by Karen. A lot of people are reluctant to go beyond PG in describing Karen's singing, maybe because she's never been seen gyrating on stage with thigh boots and a dance troupe gyrating behind her. Honestly, though, Karen's singing is sultry, sexy, vivacious, and soulful; which belies her appearance. With Karen, no appearance or accouterments were needed...just her incredible, overtone-stuffed voice. Overtone-city, but not shrill like a lot of loud, nasal-city competition-show singers who I can't listen to for more than five seconds. Thanks for this one. Didn't know it existed. Caressing...exactly. By the way, if you're amenable, sometime down the road, to other Capenters covers I actually think are BETTER than the originals, "Desperado" (Eagles), "Solitaire" (Neil Sedaka), and "Ticket to Ride" (Beatles). You may never have heard of this last one, but there was a very out-there group, called Klaatu, who did avery unusual-sounding piece (not the usual 18th-century harmony with I, IV, and V chords): "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft." Yes, the Carpenters covered it. I promise you'll be listening with wide eyes on that one...your cap may fly off your head in disbelief! Love you!!!
My favorite artist is Mylène Farmer because she is unique but even though I was very young at the time of the Carpenters, I appreciate them a lot because they too are unique and no one can replace them. These people are good for the soul and our moods. The more time goes by, the more most current artists resemble each other and lack personality, so let's savor the truly unique and inventive people who are real artists ...
This was a lost track, unfinished until after Karen's passing. Like "Superstar", the vocal was a work lead and probably the first time Karen sang the song. It's the original (and in places really clunky) version of the Pomerantz lyric; Barry Manilow recorded the song too but made lyrical changes...I love KC's version, lyrical warts and all, and the cherry on the sundae is yet another Tony Peluso guitar solo (seems like the "feeling" Richard was trying to recapture was often the one from "Goodbye To Love"!)... 😁
...This song's melody is complex enough, with some of those intervals, to be by Hoagy Carmichael or some other such big band era jeweler of torch song melodies. Of course, that makes the song perfect for Karen, who could sing a melody like that better than anyone, anywhere, ever...
It's the other way round... Manilow changed it. And no wonder, as there are some really clunky bits in the original lyric Karen sings so beautifully here...
The Carpenters were offered it first and did this one take but felt they had too many ballads already for their 1975 HORIZON album. So in 1976 Barry Manilow recorded it having a few of the words and phrases changed for him. Both versions are great, but considering this is a first-take work lead done to give Richard something to work with as he built the orchestration around it, stunning! Especially given he thought the one-take had been lost, then found it decades later after her passing and created this finished product. Just stunning!
@@StudeSteve62 it's funny because I can almost hear a slight hesitation on Karen's part as she's reading through then turns the page, singing through this work lead for the very first and only time of her life. Wow! She was a professional, a thousand times over. Just amazing that this is the one and only time she ever sang the song! It's one of my favorites by them, but I've yet to be able to narrow down just one song by the Carpenters as my fav. This one comes close though. In my Top 5 if not Top 3. And it's the delivery. Her delivery here is spot on for the subject matter of the song.
What floors me is that Karen was singing Lead -so there were a few instruments (Piano, maybe.) Everything else was added and mixed by Richard, long after Karen died.So when you hear the passion Karen is singing with, just think she is singing alone for the most part.
I've been a carpenters fan since 1997, but I only discovered this version in 2020 in the lonely dawns on youtube. I already liked Barry Manilow's version a lot, but when I heard Karen perform, wowwww, it was love the first time I heard it. (sorry Barry, but Karen is Karen) Where have I been that I haven't met before???? It has since become one of my favorite songs. Karen and Richard are wonderful!!!!!!!!!! Karen is my crush singer. hahahahahha
Wow! I've never heard this version before! She could sing anything! I loved Barry Manilow's version of this song. He probably wrote it as he was actually a song writer first.
The song was written by David Pomeranz. The Carpenters actually sang it first before Barry Manilow, but their version wasn't released until years later. Both were great versions. :)
This was written and first performed by Barry Manilow. First time I've heard this cover! You should check out Barry singing "Could It Be Magic" which is a cracking song.
"Could It Be Magic" is incredible, because of its Chopin Prelude in C Minor derivation. The only other song like it is Eric Carmen's "All By Myself," derived froma Rachmaninoff piano concerto. Cracking? Oh I love that! Cracking?!! That is such a NEAT adjective! :) It's a great suggestion too because nobody ever suggests it...it's a "cracking" suggestion!
2 songs you should try on youtube--Eric Clapton -Layla,Albert Canta .Great version of Layla done at a concert .He takes one of the members of his band by surprise .2nd song on youtube is Knocking on Heavens Door Bob Dylan original version 1973 George _P.,from the brilliant western directed Sam Peckinpah. Pat Garretis played by James Coburn ,Slim Pickens plays a mortally wounded ,dying Lawman (Pickens rode an Atomic bomb in Doctor Strangelove ).His wife and Law Parnter is played by Katy Jurado(I think).She is helpless and watches him die.I cried when I saw this scene in a theater
Linda... one of the other greatest female voices that have graced our lives. If you do try out Linda, then listen to "Desperado." If you are a fan of the Eagles, you should really look at that one. The Eagles wrote and recorded it, but even Glenn Frey acknowledged that her recording of it is what made it a hit song!
Would like a reaction to a Carpenters song that no one as yet has reacted to. 'SAILING ON THE TIDE' ua-cam.com/video/rANdUuFOTf0/v-deo.html This is a more upbeat happy song that makes you feel like you're in a tropical paradise.
You need to check out the original Tryin to get the Feeling by Barry Manilow! I love the Carpenters & Karen’s voice but their version doesn’t hold a candle to Manilow’s which was a top 25 chart hit!!
You're right. I listen to Karen, eyes closed, through my Stax electrostatics; and tears roll down my face. But the Barry Manilow version is, I think, better. Just as an aside, ever hear Bruce Johnston's version of "I Write the Songs." A lot of people don't know a Beach Boy wrote Manilow's big hit. Johnston's version is, well, Johnston's version. Cheers!
Great reaction ! Karen is my favorite vocalist and your Carpenter reactions are my favorites. If you want to hear another side of Karen you should try I Can Dream, Can't I? It is a cover of a 1940's song. It proves Karen could sing anything! ua-cam.com/video/UeTXNAyCQAQ/v-deo.html
The Carpenters will be remembered for generations to come. The harmony is perfect and Karen's knowledge of playing the drums and Richards vocals and piano playing makes the Carpenters unforgettable!
We are listening to an actual Work-Lead; her first take thru the song to test the sound equipment & get a feel for the song.. Nobody was expecting this & it wasn't supposed 2B this good. As you said, she was absolute Magic! 💖🎶🎵💯
"Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again" is a song written by David Pomeranz that became a top 10 hit for Barry Manilow in 1976. It was first recorded by The Carpenters in 1975, but their version was not released until 1994 on their 25th anniversary CD, Interpretations: A 25th Anniversary Celebration. The Carpenters' version of "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again" was recorded during the Horizon sessions in 1975, but it had been shelved as being "one too many ballads". Years later, Richard was looking for the master backing track for "Only Yesterday" and discovered on that same tape the lost, earlier attempt at "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again" with Karen's "work lead." (A work lead can easily be identified by such anomalies as Karen flipping a sheet of paper over at about 1:50 into the play time of the song as she sight reads and sings.) Richard felt that the vocal was good enough to finish production of the song and release it, as he did in 1994, almost 20 years after it was recorded.
Karen never realized how much she helped so many people but we failed to realize back then what she was going through! Rest in Peace Karen Carpenter! You will NEVER be FORGOTTEN!
Love your enthusiastic reactions. Richard and Karen are incredibly talented. I love to listen to Karen’s voice on headphones. Her voice is so clear and soothing. Love their arrangement of this song, just beautiful
A voice like Karen Carpenter comes once in a lifetime, so smooooooth !
I grew up with her heavenly voice. Her voice touches my soul.
I know how you feel!
When I saw the Carpenters back in 1972 --they did a medley of Burt Bacharach that floored me . There are 2 versions one is in black and white from Australia ,the other one is in color on the lawn of Walter Reed Hospital for veterans.
Such a treasured, pure alto. RIP to Karen.
(The strings are just amazing in this song. Perfect addition to the build.)
This is such a gem - unreleased for many years (long after she died) - and it's gorgeous! Thanks for this reaction video - How about a Carpenters reaction once a week!!
Never heard this before other than Barry Manilow's original of course. Wow, so beautifully done.
and to find out now... they recorded it first for the Horizon album, which is my favorite of theirs.
Karen Carpenter is no doubt, the number one female vocalist ever!
Please do Carpenters more often than every few months!
Yes I totally agree.
Yes please
Hi Dereck,oh her voice brings me to cry.I dont no why.SHE can sing!😘
There is no voice like Karen Carpenter. Simply amazing, period!!
Karen's voice is like honey.
This song is an outtake from HORIZON. This song got “lost” but was found in 1993. Karens voice was recorded as a reference take, for the musicians to familiarize with the song. It’s a WORK LEAD, that means a First and only take… she was amazing…
Dereck, you gorgeous hunk of a man! Kudos for reacting to this hidden gem, one of my absolute favourite Carpenters songs. Well done, young sir.
Frankly, I find it mystifying that so many people describe Karen's voice as soothing. I hear sadness that is close to unbearable to witness at times. But I guess sadness can also soothe.
This is not chill-out music, though. This is stare-into-the-abyss-of-inevitable-heartbreak-and-despair-that-is-human-life music. Deathless stuff.
Thank you
Ever hear "Eve" from their 1969 debut album? If not...do.
RIP ...Karen :) You are truly missed :) Beautiful singer :)
Karen was a big influence for Shania Twain, as well as many other vocalists.
Dereck keep doing Carpenters reactions. You are awesome. Keep up the great work.
1975 my year.
J'adore The Carpenters.
Rest In Peace, Dear Karen. 💐💐💐🌈
Stay Alive, Dear Dereck lol ! 🍀🍀🍀🌠
It was a track for the horizon album in 1975 got lost till recovered in 1994 for iterpretations album and was a top 50 hit single in uk one of there over looked gems
The song was recorded during what would become the 1975 HORIZON album and was lost and not put out as there was too many ballads on that album....in 1994, Richard re-found it and decided to record it. At the end of the first chorus segueing into the second verse , she flips the page over and you can hear it, and would have been re-recorded for that, but of course she passed and Richard thought her vocals sublime and wonderful and despite the page turn, he released it and did not edit it out....
Karen was born an angel and just went back home too soon...
She did this in just one take. Great reaction Dereck love it! Kindly react also from the same album Horizon " Love Me for What I Am". You will love this...
Moreover it wasn't intended even as an actual lead vocal take. This was a work lead, to show the studio band how the song went. Another such was Karen's lead vocal on Superstar, which was the first time she sang the song. Not the first take...the first TIME. That's how good she was.
Karen brings men to tears so that tells you how awesome Karen is.
Hi Dereck. Welp, you did it again; you found the word I was thinking of when Karen was doing glissandos all over the place in the first few seconds: Caressing. I actually like Barry Manilow's version, but I hadn't heard this cover by Karen. A lot of people are reluctant to go beyond PG in describing Karen's singing, maybe because she's never been seen gyrating on stage with thigh boots and a dance troupe gyrating behind her. Honestly, though, Karen's singing is sultry, sexy, vivacious, and soulful; which belies her appearance. With Karen, no appearance or accouterments were needed...just her incredible, overtone-stuffed voice. Overtone-city, but not shrill like a lot of loud, nasal-city competition-show singers who I can't listen to for more than five seconds.
Thanks for this one. Didn't know it existed. Caressing...exactly. By the way, if you're amenable, sometime down the road, to other Capenters covers I actually think are BETTER than the originals, "Desperado" (Eagles), "Solitaire" (Neil Sedaka), and "Ticket to Ride" (Beatles). You may never have heard of this last one, but there was a very out-there group, called Klaatu, who did avery unusual-sounding piece (not the usual 18th-century harmony with I, IV, and V chords): "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft." Yes, the Carpenters covered it. I promise you'll be listening with wide eyes on that one...your cap may fly off your head in disbelief! Love you!!!
Best Carpenter reaction for this song.
Hey Dereck...check out "Eve" from Carpenters' 1969 debut album...
She kills me every time.
My favorite artist is Mylène Farmer because she is unique but even though I was very young at the time of the Carpenters, I appreciate them a lot because they too are unique and no one can replace them.
These people are good for the soul and our moods.
The more time goes by, the more most current artists resemble each other and lack personality, so let's savor the truly unique and inventive people who are real artists ...
thanks! i love the carpenters! on the same album you have "masquerade", very good too
Karen The best Singer of the world
The best⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I really enjoy your reactions. Did you know Karen was an expert drummer also? You need to react to her drum solo.
Thank you so much for this song Derek. You're fantastic
I have to add what Joy you add to your broadcast
What a delight you are..
Dereck, keep up the great work!
This was a lost track, unfinished until after Karen's passing. Like "Superstar", the vocal was a work lead and probably the first time Karen sang the song. It's the original (and in places really clunky) version of the Pomerantz lyric; Barry Manilow recorded the song too but made lyrical changes...I love KC's version, lyrical warts and all, and the cherry on the sundae is yet another Tony Peluso guitar solo (seems like the "feeling" Richard was trying to recapture was often the one from "Goodbye To Love"!)... 😁
Karen is number one female vocalist
Love When You Play Karen Carpenter 👍✌️
Did you ever react to Karen's favorite recording of hers -"I Need to be in Love?"
...This song's melody is complex enough, with some of those intervals, to be by Hoagy Carmichael or some other such big band era jeweler of torch song melodies. Of course, that makes the song perfect for Karen, who could sing a melody like that better than anyone, anywhere, ever...
This was a huge hit by Barry Manilow, but many of the lyrics have been changed here.
It's the other way round... Manilow changed it. And no wonder, as there are some really clunky bits in the original lyric Karen sings so beautifully here...
The Carpenters were offered it first and did this one take but felt they had too many ballads already for their 1975 HORIZON album. So in 1976 Barry Manilow recorded it having a few of the words and phrases changed for him. Both versions are great, but considering this is a first-take work lead done to give Richard something to work with as he built the orchestration around it, stunning! Especially given he thought the one-take had been lost, then found it decades later after her passing and created this finished product. Just stunning!
@@StudeSteve62 it's funny because I can almost hear a slight hesitation on Karen's part as she's reading through then turns the page, singing through this work lead for the very first and only time of her life. Wow! She was a professional, a thousand times over. Just amazing that this is the one and only time she ever sang the song! It's one of my favorites by them, but I've yet to be able to narrow down just one song by the Carpenters as my fav. This one comes close though. In my Top 5 if not Top 3. And it's the delivery. Her delivery here is spot on for the subject matter of the song.
It’s like your left arm and hand have a mind of their own.
What floors me is that Karen was singing Lead -so there were a few instruments (Piano, maybe.) Everything else was added and mixed by Richard, long after Karen died.So when you hear the passion Karen is singing with, just think she is singing alone for the most part.
This song was lost for years . Recorded in 1975, Richard released it in 1994 19 years after it was recorded .11 years after Karen died.
Love this song in Karaoke. Yesss! Filipino loves ka-ri-yow-kee 😂
I've been a carpenters fan since 1997, but I only discovered this version in 2020 in the lonely dawns on youtube. I already liked Barry Manilow's version a lot, but when I heard Karen perform, wowwww, it was love the first time I heard it. (sorry Barry, but Karen is Karen) Where have I been that I haven't met before???? It has since become one of my favorite songs. Karen and Richard are wonderful!!!!!!!!!! Karen is my crush singer. hahahahahha
Love your Carpenters reactions. If you want to react to a different "style" from them, try Ordinary Fool from the Voice of the Heart LP.
Wow! I've never heard this version before! She could sing anything! I loved Barry Manilow's version of this song. He probably wrote it as he was actually a song writer first.
The song was written by David Pomeranz. The Carpenters actually sang it first before Barry Manilow, but their version wasn't released until years later. Both were great versions. :)
This was her first read through . You can hear her turn the page on the sheets at least one time . She was called one take Karen.
Saw her sing and drum in 1972 . Check out the Burt Bacharach medley from 1972, Australia in black and white
This was written and first performed by Barry Manilow. First time I've heard this cover! You should check out Barry singing "Could It Be Magic" which is a cracking song.
"Could It Be Magic" is incredible, because of its Chopin Prelude in C Minor derivation. The only other song like it is Eric Carmen's "All By Myself," derived froma Rachmaninoff piano concerto. Cracking? Oh I love that! Cracking?!! That is such a NEAT adjective! :) It's a great suggestion too because nobody ever suggests it...it's a "cracking" suggestion!
The song was written by David Pomeranz.
Actually, the Carpenters sang it first before Barry Manilow, but the Carpenters version wasn't released until years later.
2 songs you should try on youtube--Eric Clapton -Layla,Albert Canta .Great version of Layla done at a concert .He takes one of the members of his band by surprise .2nd song on youtube is Knocking on Heavens Door Bob Dylan original version 1973 George _P.,from the brilliant western directed Sam Peckinpah. Pat Garretis played by James Coburn ,Slim Pickens plays a mortally wounded ,dying Lawman (Pickens rode an Atomic bomb in Doctor Strangelove ).His wife and Law Parnter is played by Katy Jurado(I think).She is helpless and watches him die.I cried when I saw this scene in a theater
Two songs I’d love for you to check out are “Desperados” and “From This Moment On”.. so glad you discovered Karen.
Rainy days and mondays, please
Hello sir...when will you do Linda Rondstat?.
Yes, track of your choice from "Lush Life".
Also, Someone to Lay Down Beside Me or Tracks of My Tears
Linda... one of the other greatest female voices that have graced our lives. If you do try out Linda, then listen to "Desperado." If you are a fan of the Eagles, you should really look at that one. The Eagles wrote and recorded it, but even Glenn Frey acknowledged that her recording of it is what made it a hit song!
Would like a reaction to a Carpenters song that no one as yet has reacted to. 'SAILING ON THE TIDE' ua-cam.com/video/rANdUuFOTf0/v-deo.html
This is a more upbeat happy song that makes you feel like you're in a tropical paradise.
Check out her cover of Don't Cry for me Argentina
You need to check out the original Tryin to get the Feeling by Barry Manilow! I love the Carpenters & Karen’s voice but their version doesn’t hold a candle to Manilow’s which was a top 25 chart hit!!
Derek..... Please listen to this song by Barry Manilow. I love Karen with a passion. But..... Barry Manilow does this sooooooo good.
You're right. I listen to Karen, eyes closed, through my Stax electrostatics; and tears roll down my face. But the Barry Manilow version is, I think, better. Just as an aside, ever hear Bruce Johnston's version of "I Write the Songs." A lot of people don't know a Beach Boy wrote Manilow's big hit. Johnston's version is, well, Johnston's version. Cheers!
could you react to cristina ramos thank you very much😀
If anyone can do justice to Barry Manilow
It's Karen for sure❤️
I Can Dream Can't I from Horizon. Do that one...
Great reaction ! Karen is my favorite vocalist and your Carpenter reactions are my favorites. If you want to hear another side of Karen you should try I Can Dream, Can't I? It is a cover of a 1940's song. It proves Karen could sing anything!
ua-cam.com/video/UeTXNAyCQAQ/v-deo.html
try the song eve if you like this
Trying to get the Feeling Again was never a hit .Released in 1994 --11 years after Karen's death .
Its better by Barry Manilow.