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April 2024 anyone still listening to the Carpenters? She passed when I was a small child, so happy my family had great taste in music 🎶
The best❤
🙋💗
Fantastic singer and wonderful voice😊😊
I just searched this song today, 6th May 2024
ABSOLUTELY!
I'm a 70-year-old Japanese man. I heard their songs 52 years ago at their first concert in Japan. It was one of the happiest events in my life. 😍😍😍
The 70s have rolled around for you once more. Congratulations!
te envidio tio , saludos
Lucky guy
I was a little US navy brat in Kamiseya then
WOW !!!! lucky you Sir !!.. I could only dream and do being 61 now and never seen the greatest female voice of all time ! ... please share more
“Hanging around”. 64 years old and I’m STILL “hanging around” listening to Karen. RIP, Baby Girl..
Yeah... me too! Forgive any typos... my screen seems to have gone misty again! 🥴
In 2024, her voice still brings tears to my eyes. I was a little boy listening to her on cassette tape. When I heard she died, I was a teen. I cried all evening. We miss you Karen. :(
I was a teen like you. I cried as well. Loved her so!
I think of my mom when i hear Carpenters songs my mom was a extremely good singer and she sang all the time in the house when I was a young kid she died when I was 12
Same for me.
I was 20 years old. old when Karen passed. I read when she was anorexic, the damage that it caused to her heart was irreparable. It was all so very sad.
So, I'm a 65 year old with no religion, but if you want to convince me in the existence of a gift from God,I'm all in!
2024 March, my eyes still get moist whenever I hear Karen Carpenter singing.
The voice and drumming also.. SIK
April 2024 Me Too
A lot of people get teary eyed listening to Carpenters. I see it in the comments often. Me too. Karen completely melts my heart!!!
Lovely Who's playing the saxophone 🎷 Anyone know
@johnbennett948 Jim Horn plays saxophone on "Rainy Days and Mondays." ... And the infamous "Wrecking Crew" (of which Jim Horn was a part) also plays.
I know it's a simple question, but who's still listening to Karen's beautiful voice in 2021, like me?
me!
Imagine this song being added to mafia 4
Bought their album in 71, and fell in love with her beautiful voice, I can't believe 50 years has gone by, but here I am 2021 and still welling up when she sings.
Meeeeeee
Me😊❤❤❤
Karen was born four months before me. After all these years (today is April 29, 2024) I still listen to The Carpenters every single day.
I listen to her every day. She's my therapy.
Karen Carpenter had one of the most beautiful voices ever. Truely one of a kind. RIP Karen...the world misses you.
Amen 🙏
Like a mother singing to us as child.
True statement maybe she didn't think so and the end was sad 😢
Stop asking "whose still listening to The Carpenters in 20XX"! We never stopped listening.
I started all their songs on 8 Track for my daughter to go to sleep . She is now 45 and I still listen to their albums and I love it then … still love it now! ❤️❤️❤️Millie in England now reside in Long Beach.
Exactly.
Correct 💗
I was 10...1974ish..my dad with the best of the carpenter's 8 track in his olds 88...i grew up metal...but never forgot her voice...im approaching 60....and just love it
Exactly again. 💯
It’s 2024 and this still holds up so amazingly! What is it about older music that makes it so timeless and amazing no matter when you listen to it?! Karen’s voice is so uniquely her but so widely loved and appreciated and I think that is the mark of a true legend!
Yes. Good music never gets old.
l have CD's and still play it today in 2024. I love Karen Carpenter
Real music
This came from a time when there still seemed to be a little magic in the air...
It's the poetry behind it. The love.. There is love in older music that is rare in this generation.
The best female singer of all time. And also one of the best tracks from the Carpenters. Enjoy folks!
Happy 74th birthday Karen. Your beautiful smile and voice will never be forgotten. Miss you always.
If you notice, she didn't smile much. Sad.
This song brings me back to the 70s when I was just a young boy. All of my sisters and I were still living at home with my mom and dad. My dad worked in a refinery and my mom was a housewife. Dinner was always ready at 4:30pm. We’d watch “I Love Lucy” reruns on our small TV while we ate. Everyone I loved and cared about was still alive and healthy. Now, so many of the people in my life that meant so very much to me are gone. How I wish I could go back in time...but when I hear great music like this, I close my eyes, and all of those wonderful memories come rushing back into my mind.
Tears just filled my eyes reading that. My dads died Mum much older and don’t speak to one of my sisters anymore who I loved more than anything
same here i feel your pain. Those were the days way back then
TheManorBeast Thank you.
im 20, but reading your story makes me teary, i can even imagine and feel the time when you were young. Ohh it makes me so sad, i hope you are still happy now, you must be old grandpa. we love you
Bella Sintia Thank you...I'm actually 56, but I feel young. All through life, people tell you how fast time flies, but I honestly didn't start feeling it until I turned 50. Now it seems like the years are just flying by!! Enjoy life with every fiber of your being!!
It's 2023 and I'm still listening to this angel sing I've loved her voice for 50 years
Perfect voice
Homesick for Cape Town right now.
Yes. Love her so much
I listen always, forever....
Me too! This is a classic always was and will be. Back in the 70’s we all listened to the same music!
Some songs never get old. They just age like a fine wine. This is one of those songs. Thank you, Karen, for such a lovely masterpiece.
It's sad that she didn't realize how much she was loved. ❤
Amen!✌️
True dat
She's been gone 37 years, yesterday. She surely is missed. The world truly lost a treasure.
Huge news back then. Sad story.
I lived in Downey California then. I sat across the street from the church when they had her funeral.
Like JFK, MLK and Bobby, I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news of her passing. Sad
I just wish she could have gotten the help she needed. Now? We will never know what really happened. All we can do now is just appreciate the music she left to us, and she left much too soon.
Mrsandmom5 no way, I bet a million people showed
She has the greatest pure voice I've ever heard. Her perfect pitch and tone can never be equalized. RIP Karen
There is no mistaking that you know it's Karen Carpenter on the first few words she sings. Amazing voice
She's resting in peace in heaven at the Great Gulf it states in Luke 16:26 nobody's dead yet Lazarus is on the right side of the gulf in the rich man is on the left side of the white great white Throne judgement. We Can't Judge Karen Only God can judge which side she went to but we certainly know that she was one dear soul that touched many many people in such a positive way ❤️ 💙 ♥️ ✨️ 💕 💖 ❤️ 💙 ♥️
Her voice is vocal velvet.
Born to sing..I gather she played good drums as well. I still can't believe how she carried a note further than anyone - and started the next so soon after. Easily the greatest singer I could ever hear. RIP Karen ❤
Absolutely
Videos of them performing is priceless. Just watching Karen sing anything is precious.
I'm listening to this beautiful songbird in 2024... never get tired of listening to this treasure we lost when I was a child..I'm now 58.. Thankyou Karen.. Love you always ❤❤❤
She had the coolest tone ever, and enunciated every word, her death was a loss to music lovers.
right
Only comparable to the Gibb Brothers death
In my humble opinion the best female vocalist of all time! her enunciation, her clarity, just outstanding!
@@martcichocki5571 Absolutely, I totally agree, but Whitney Houston had magnificent vocals as well. I didn't care for the music but her voice was powerful. RIP Karen and Whitney.
Yes, that tone. Vibrato and exaggeration in the right places. The weeping, sliding up on the notes quality
Paul McCartney said she had "the best female voice in the world: melodic, tuneful, distinctive." Have to agree.
John Lennon was also a fan of her voice.
The Bee Gees were impressed by the Carpenters' harmonies too...@@denisej4813
She had a lovely voice, only singer ever know to have had a "Pitch Perfect" voice. Gone to soon, like so many others.
here was right!!!!
I wish Paul sang a duet with her...Back when...
Very few people achieve the feat of being lead singer and drummer. Thank you Karen, you were an inspiration.
When your body eventually gives up, your spirit, your soul will come to the fore, you will go towards the light and you will hear Karen Carpenter's voice giving you comfort, peace and love.
No one who has ever heard Karen Carpenter could ever forget her, something eternal about her voice, you can feel her soul right in it. What an incredible gift.
She truly is an angel always will be remembered❤
@@stargazer1313 é isso! Um anjo desceu à Terra e resolveu cantar... e o seu nome era Karen....
Em termos musicais, acho que é a experiência mais absolutamente incrível que vc pode chegar....
I Agree 💯 RIP Beautiful Lady 🕊️❤️🕊️
Very well put!
Some people don’t understand how amazing she is. Talk about perfect pitch. She’s like her own instrument that can’t be replicated
I think it's a gift, it can't be learned.
I just love listening 🎶 to her,💖❤
Van Hendriks you are so right She is amazing
Some people like you don't understand how amazing are people who write and compose, not those who sing it.
I wish we could all go back and tell her!
I still am listening in 2024. Karen’s voice was a timeless treasure. We were lucky to hear it!!
Absolutely!
Me too ❤
Give Tori Holub a listen. You'll be shocked.
Now it's 2024 and I still listen to her beautiful voice. I'm 65.
Her songs are immortal, she lives in our hearts
Ich bin 40 und ja❤ich liebe diese Band für mein Leben 😊
I met Karen here in Nashville in 1972 at the Ramada Inn my mother was a receptionist. I was spellbound,as I was only 14 it was easy to kiss her hand and say,I adore you! So she kissed my cheek and said keep playing you are cute. I was so upset as I watched words take her from us,a reporter wrote she sounded great,but looked a little chubby! That stuck,she developed anorexia nervosa and even though she was thinking she was fat,she was starving to death,I cried a week when she died and I always said if that reporter had of been truthful he'd written " Stunning" instead and maybe we would still have her! 4-ever Yours,Larry Dean
Larry, so sad, I felt the same, none of us could imagine what those with Anorexia nervosa go through. It would be a better word if some people put their brain into gear before speaking out horrible hurting words. RIP Karen, now singing with God.
Carl Beauchamp I agree some purple so judgpental
Larry Napier your story made me cry Karen was so vulnerable and was pushed over the edge by that stupid reporter, her voice her talent and her angelic looks helped me recover from the death of my mother when I was a very young man I think we're the same age my friend, a strange thing to say but it's the truth. I am now a priest and look elsewhere for comfort but I will never forget my little Angel Karen Carpenter and I'm not alone she has helped millions!!
I very much doubt a single comment from a single individual is to blame for the whole thing, even if that m-fucker certainly should go to hell as the one to trigger the tragedy. Obviously, there must have been predisposition, and quite probably the sad story would have taken place anyway, only starting on a different moment.
Reminds me of the days when we used to go camping
Lead singer and playing the drums at the same time. She was brilliant.
❤️😇 1/20/20
Unfortunately, the record label and her brother Richard forced her to come out from behind the drums in later years because they felt that she needed to be seen as the female lead singer of the group. She was so uncomfortable at the front of the stage and it contributed to her self doubt and poor self image (combined with a plethora of other things like the pressure to maintain a certain unhealthy weight, rumours of an incestuous relationship between her and her brother, not to mention constant putdowns from her mother, and her brother being the golden child, etc.). Poor Karen dealt with a lot of demons throughout her life and it's so tragic what happened to her. Like many artists, the world just chewed her up and spit her back out.
Even though she is seen playing the drums here, almost all of their recordings, including this one, are actually Hal Blaine playing. She was a good drummer, but Blaine was the go-to drummer for studio recordings at that time.
@Dbo83 Grand Funks lead singer plays the drums Also.
Richard did not force her out front. He was fine with her behind the drums and preferred here there. It was the record label. The lifetime movie was not 100% accurate.
I do. I am 74 years old and every now and then I still listen to her and it still fills me up with joy.
Her voice: Liquid Gold.
Her voice is timeless. No-one has matched her voice since.
i totally agree!!!
And nobody ever Will imo
Agreed. No one has rivalled the crystal - clear purity and heavenly melody in Karen's voice.
Her voice is like honey; so pure, sweet and smooth.
Sent from heaven.. Rach!
Accurately described.
Rachel Harless Too true...
Jeez, she just rips your heart out. What an incredibly emotive voice. Mature beyond her years (she was about 21 when this came out). I could listen to her all day long, but I'd probably be an emotional wreck...
Karen Carpenter, I am 61 years old today and listening to your wonderful voice. She was a fantastic singer. Wish she lived to old age. Unfortunately she died far too young. Rest in peace Karen.
It’s 2021. I’m 6’5” 250 pounds. Long hair, hard rock singer, beer, USA motorcycle fan, Tatoos. Currently wearing a fanged skull in flames shirt. Karen’s beautiful singing makes me tear up every time. She had the perfect voice. Flawless. There was only one. Brilliant. Great drummer, one of the best vocalists of all time. Completely trained by her own ear alone. Such a catastrophic loss all these years later. Innocent & fragile, destroyed by the press at such a young age. A single article drove her insecurities, and she ended up anorexic. So damn sad. I love and miss her so much.
I'm the same way tall big and strong, but this song just breaks my heart, when you are going through something you can't hide it, I struggle every day, hang in there big guy
And I thought I was the only one...
Amen brother...
I agree.. In a league of her own🎶🎶💯
She had no self love thought she was ugly couldnt get a boyfriend she was as sad as most of her songs that's what killed her so sad with a voice like that but yu can hear her sadness when she sang these songs
She had what I consider the best female singing voice of all time. So clear and pure sounding. I've loved her voice since I was a kid when these songs came out. Absolutely beautiful.
And those were the days before computer assisted dubbing. Absolutely stunning voice.
Sou português, nasci em 1960, entendo pouco da língua inglesa... Mas sempre que ouço a karen, o meu coração fica maravilhado... Fascínios da alma.
No more voice like this😢
Her, Bonnie Raitt, and Linda Ronstadt. ❤❤❤
Karen was without doubt one of the greatest however I have to put Linda Ronstadt on top as the dreamiest female voice 🙂
I'm 60...and as a kid, I remember Karen's sweet TRUE voice.......she is truly missed.....what a beautiful little bird she was......
Same age here. Growing up in Texas in the early 70's her voice was so different than anything I'd ever heard before.
She will never pass away. Seasons change, people change but her voice is eternal.
Well said!!
Truer words were never spoken. Love is immortal, and Karen truly was an emissary from the divine!
Love the reference to the Expose song in your comment...I believe I read Jeanette Jurado (lead on the record) said the Carpenters were one of her two favorites, which makes it and them even cooler.
Very sensitive person in society that failed to protect her🙁
Definately xx
67 years old and still singing with my girl. She filled in the empty spaces of my heart as a heart broken teenager.
Hi Sandra 💐💐💐
Me too
@@lindadees3887 And me, I've got a couple of years on you but I can only take a few minutes of listening to this beautiful lady, before there's a full scale fold up. RIP Karen your voice just echoes through eternity.
Sandra, igual yo. A mis 66 años la sigo. Desde el cielo ella nos canta
Yes Sandra she such a beautiful voice listening to her always brings back good memories.
ME A 74 YEAR OLD MEN WHO STILL REMEMBERS THE GOOD ALL DAYS, MISSTHEM SOOOOO MUCH 🏴
She had the most beloved voice in music history. how did the little singers like her get so much resonance in their voices? her range and modulation were amazing. I miss her
So sad, Karen is gone. THE VOICE OF AN ANGEL
+Terry S. Smith The voice of angel
+Terry S. Smith , her angel voice is in all times ever ever ever ....
+MIKE C Who cares?
+Terry S. Smith Karen is loved in a space where there is no place and time. So she isn't really gone.
+Jamil Gotcher No, she's not really gone.
Guess it’s a good thing to live 69 years and still be able to cry that this crazy world hasn’t hardened your heart
No. I've been paging thru utube carpenter songs, and I could do without the feelings her voice, and their songs, pull up. Yeah, it feels good to feel....not, and I ain't being sarcastic or trolling. Her voice and emoting has hurt for too long.
Michael Appelberg Your still a youngster!
Miss You Karen. Nobody like You! 2-4-83 now 2-4-24.😢 Love You until Forever! Your Fan since 1970.❤
Same here ❤
@@sylvialawrence4431❤
I was obsessed with The Carpenters in 1974-75, and still love them ❤❤❤
I'm almost in tears & it's 2021. This woman's voice is TIMELESS!
feeling incredibly blessed to have grown up to this music....
@@53orion81 Indeed!
Yes it is! I still love listening to her!
always was and always will be , even my dog loves it
I know that he does love her voice because whenever she is on , he will come lay down by my feet
I think it's just fantastic that she (Karen C.) played the drums, she did'nt follow the traditional or rule almost,that girls did'nt play drums.
And she was damn good on drums !
some of the best dummers are girls
Hank Andrews like who ?
The Who ? Keith Moon ?
That made me chuckle :D
Rest In Peace Karen. March 2nd, 1950 - February 4th, 1983
02/04/83 - 02/04/24 on the 41st anniversary of Karen Anne Carpenters untimely passing. Shes one of the few singers i deeply love, i was born in 1997 way beyond my time but my soulmate sent me this song & it took my breath away & sent chills down my spine. One of my favourites her silky sounding voice shines.Others I've enjoyed arev we've only just begun, merry Christmas darling superstar, top of the world Karen & Richard you're an irreplaceable duo in music history. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎💖💗 Thank you God for lending us Karen just enough to have her voice in our lives.
The most stunning, haunting female voice in human history..
Bill Baldwin. agree
Talcum I stand by my statement.
@@BBaldwin There are certain people in history that will always have a special place in my heart and Karen is one of them. She had a one in a million voice.
Judy Garland?
She was the GREATEST singer ever I'll never forget the day she died I took that day off work unbelievable and still the GREATEST ever God bless to Karen forever xxxxxxx
Beautiful voice !
Thanks
Your voice is overrated...
So bad! Why make negative comments? Karen Carpenter was an amazing talent, and a lovely young lady who died way too soon due to anorexia.
rkyobo I wasn't talking about Karen
+rkyobo yes she did her voice is one of a kind she went as long as she could bless her heart I wish they just had more help but that sickness was new now to day I hope all of anyone that can get help will do so that's all
Dam that first minute is so pure 😢
There was none of that high pitched screeching back in the day and that's one of the reasons songs like this will forever be timeless.
This woman definitely had the face and the voice of an angel. She was definitely one of a kind. She is dearly loved and sadly missed
everything about her is angel
I concur what an angel both living and now
I can't help but cry when I listen to her beautiful voice and her beautiful songs. So many memories.
TRUTH INDEED AMEN SIP Karen Carpenter
My mom use to listen to this and light and classic rock she was about 26 when I notice so I love it
Brings tears to my eyes, so beautiful, so talented, so fragile. A flower that bloomed and died too soon.
I love you karen. You are so talented and beautiful.
Very true 🙏🏼
Wow. Reading your comment brought a tear to my eyes. Such an accurate and beautiful statement.
So true,gone too soon
Leah, you have a heart of gold.
😢🎉 i Love the Carpenters, Karen's passing was always a heartache for me that make me tears..... still missing her very much 😢😢😢
Her voice was so smooth and solid! Plus she had a great vocal range!! Plus she was a drummer......
At age 72, I listen to the Carpenters every single day.
I’m 72 also my friend and I can only listen to the Carpenters occasionally because Karen makes me very emotional.
Igual yo a los 70 años recuerdos vienen a mi mente que me ponen muy nostálgico.
Well done, Mike. You're a member of a mighty army. Be well.
Best music out mate
I’m so honored to look like her.
Her voice reaches into your soul, like no other.
John, checkout Eva Cassidy sometime. Her video are on here.
I still listen to her songs. I'm 51 years old living Taiwan. When I was a child about 6 years old, My Mother was Carpenters Big fans, we don't know anything English words. My mother and I were fascinated by the sound of her singing song. At that time, English music in Taiwan rarely appeared on TV stations. Even though she has passed away from this world, we still miss her music and her.😊😊 Wish Merry Christmas to everyone. 🎅🎉❤😊😊
Damn, my parents are also their big fans and we live in TW as well., but I'm 23. Time flies but our memories won't. BTW today is rainy day and Monday in Taipei, which reminds me of this song. 最後也祝你身體健康，聖誕跟新年快樂，明年初的台灣又將是紛紛擾擾的，挺無奈的。
Probably the greatest pop Mezzo voice ever. So darn good!
Maybe the purest singing voice of all time. It was such a tragedy to lose her.
No show-offiness; no gimmicks; great communicator
A haunting voice that was almost disarming when injected into such a schmaltzy, over produced pop formula. Her brother didn't do her any favors and I think she would have been better off on her own.
No maybe about it . . she was the best!
I still miss her
Such a sad lose. Totally agree with you.
She never took a singing lesson. When recording she never missed a note. And she played the drums. She was amazing.
Sad that her mother was a monster and her father never defended her.
@@renaniidepinheiroepereira4104 Yes, that was what i was thinking. I believe, one can say that her mother killed her.
@@risumotus , she ever refused to say that she loved her, as her therapist asked in a session.
She did have voice lessons from a choir director who helped her develop her three octave range but no formal training other than that
Female Phil Collins.
This song is so nostalgia for me, I remember driving with my mom together listening to this song when it WAS raining on a Monday, driving in traffic as she dropped me off for dance class and kiss me bye. It was ALWAYS on the radio back then, lol I miss her so much, RIP 2017
Only angels sing like that. She was an angel.
🙏🙏☯️
A beautiful lady and talent.
She became an angel far too early...
Am thinking she still is . . .
@@Moebiusjbb Angels don't become angels James, but she sang as close to an angel as we could imagine.
2023... Still listening... My mom LOVED The Carpenters... I live and breathe to hear them... They bring my mom back to me! She passed away in Jan of 2021. I will NEVER be the same!
No, but your mom lives in you. I know the pain. 😢
So sorry for the loss of your mom…. I lost my mom years back on December 22….. I miss her terribly. My mom loved the Carpenters, too!
My Mom's gone too ...One day back in 1970-71 around there I was 8-9 in the ladies department at JCPENNEY in Stonewood Shopping center all of a sudden Mom got this huge smile on her face...look Eric there's Karen Carpenter! I'll never forget that, my Mom's smile! I remember Richard and Karen driving by my house in their Carpenters Van .... Richard always drove and Karen would always have her feet up on the dash and wave at us on our bicycles! She had really big hands for such a small person. They obviously knew someone in my neighborhood...but I don't know who! In Downey... Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school California USA ♥️🇺🇲@@likescountry114
My mom too :( that's why I'm here, planning her funeral and making sure I'm adding all their songs
So very sorry…..
Such a treasure. Nobody sings like Karen Carpenter.
Still beautiful in 2024!
Karen’s voice brings tears to my eyes, partly because of the absolutely perfect pitch of her contralto, but also because she left this world a month short of her 33rd birthday. Gone too soon and undoubtedly robbed us of some more beautiful music that would have been created between her and brother Richard. Reminds us that we take people in our lives too much for granted. RIP Karen!
She was a beautiful woman
Karen is awesome
Karen, her voice is unique
If course she does - that voice has beauty and depth !
It's not just the clarity and trueness of her voice. Her voice often catches in her throat, when you hear it, you feel like it tears at your very soul. You really can hear her suffering when she sings.
Oh karen, here we are on Christmas Day 2014 and after seeing a late night tribute to you and your brother on BBC Four all I can do is once again marvel at that unmistakably beautiful voice of yours. You left us all way too soon, thinking of what could have been had you been able to stay around a little longer. Hope you're sleeping well. RIP.
would love to see that bb4 tribute on youtube.... any possibility ??
No one ever sang Christmas songs as beautifully she... "Do You Hear What I Hear"?....
Patrick martin, you couldn't have said it better
KLR Communications Still one of my favorite Christmas Albums. Play it every year during the holidays.
She was the best! She is truly missed, we are fortunate to have sites like youtube to enjoy music by those no longer with us. Rest In Peace to the girl with the golden voice.
Simply the BEST.
I'm 17 years old and I loved this song ❤
Welcome to Old School! I'm 61 and my 2 sons listen to the same songs I grew up with!
You have great taste! 👏🤙💪
How can you not love this woman? The unassuming musical phenomenon with the voice of an angel...playing the drums.❤
Oh ya
You take mine I am taking yours you will see
You have posted the exact sentiment I was about to say!! We love you Karen Carpenter❤️... still 😇🥰
She brought me joy!!
She was talented on the drums as well. She also seemed like a genuinely nice woman. She never deserved what happened to her.
I grew up listening to the Carpenters and no one sounds as clean and pure as they do. Now we have garbage that passes for music.
totally agree!!
No talent bums out there know.
Adele has a lot of the same natural gifts.
You have to stumble on an artist now, or have someone tell you about them to find someone good anymore (example: Hania Zdunek). The rest is all mass produced, technologically covered/altered, starbucks style noise.
Crank out some Metallica, that'll cure your Rainy Days and Mondays! ;)
On this rainy day in So Cal....Simply the greatest female singing voice of all-time....So pure & clear with perfect pitch & tone on both the Soprano & Alto.
Doesn't matter what year it is, we will always be listening to Karen, Richard and the band.
Who is still listening to and Loving the Carpenters in 2012? I am and it’s April 26, 2021. Karen’s voice was so CRYSTAL CLEAR, FLAWLESS. You Never hear her take breaths, her voice stays just on each note and letter, no vibrato or influxes. Just Pure straight CLEAR & CLEAN notes and tones. I have ALWAYS WANTED HER CLEAN, CLEAR VOICE. MS. DION WARWICK even states her voice was Flawless. I so concur with her. Even Miriah Carey is sometimes breathy and it doesn’t sound good, but to each is own.
I am one day later April 27 i still remember hearing this song on a rainy night in 1971 i was 13 years old
OH I DO..AND I JUST SHARED WITH MY SISTER..SHE MET THIS ANGELIC KAREN C N AUSTIN TX COMING OUT OF HER DRESSING ROOM UNEXPECTED N I WILL NEVER FOR GET HER TELLING HOW IT HAPPENED. WOW SUCH BEAUTIFUL TALENT. 💖
Still listening 👂 and LOVING 🥰
I Will always listen Karen Carpenter music
@@angelvallescastellanos8799 So will I
I will never get over how utterly phenomenal this woman’s voice was.
You so realise how great she was as you get older, I'm 57.take care. Let us all get a hols next year. 🤔😁
Her voice is incredible, I love her voice. She was beautiful in many Ways but was aware of the media’s words & that killed her. It’s sad
I love Carpenters from Japan Fukuoka.
2024- her voice is so beautiful.. I listen to her all the time.. along with many different genres- from Sinatra to the Stones to Taylor Swift..but she is a timeless beautiful classic ❤ 🎵
The older I get....the more I appreciate the simple life of music ❣️
Amen
What we might think as simple is far from. Richard's arrangements and the overdubbing or stacked harmonies and Karen' amazing voice make this so the complete and wholesome experience. It is both Richard and Karen making this come together. I miss her everyday I think of great music and times where there were no vulgar words and no one was trying to hurt the other. Yes the 70s and The Carpenters where that time made no sense, and thank God their music so much did. We needed The Carpenters.
You are so right .. God-bless you, happy Thanksgiving, God-bless Karen. I listen to her all the time.💖🤘❤💚💗🧡
I heard this on the radio the other day and I broke down and cried. I just couldn't handle this.
at my job at a super market they play allot of Carpenter's songs. It feels good at work to hear them.
+Carey Coleman You're a sweet guy.
Just a voice from heaven
Just a voice from heaven
+Carey Coleman your not the only one Carey we have to somehow. . .
Got to be the most angelic voice I've ever heard.
Only voice that been bringing me to tears forever .As a teenager it was a crush on her voice ...50 years later I have found the only voice that I would ever even consider doing a cover with. A country woman that looks like a Viking goddess and plays the guitar as smooth as Robbie Robertson.
Amazing how all these years that she has passed away the year of 2020 people still listening to her beautiful voice I am 58 years old miss misic like this.
Indeed!!!
try weyes blood. eerily the same voice.
I'm 59 she was so talented.that beautiful voice!!!
My sentiment exactly, and age!
Me too. Our generations music was the best sixties and seventies
Her voice is like a beautiful sunset on the last day of a perfect vacation.
Totally
thank you for saying that . ❤️
That beautiful girl with an angelic voice, was never happy with how beautiful she was. I am 66 and she was such a part of my life as I was a pianist and a drummer. What a tragic loss to the world. Her songs sang of her pain.
One word for all of this: Timeless. I will never ever get tired of listening to her voice.
Losing a lot of the great ones. Some way too early.
An Angel on Earth....
ME TOO!...RIP KAREN!...GOD BLESS!
Karen Carpenter is underrated. She’s one of the best female vocalists to me. She’s a perfect contralto with a beautiful, soulful, and warm tone. Her low notes & control are divine.
She is the best!
To demonstrate Chase's versatility (and the group's,) here is her lead on Elton John's classic: kzhead.info/sun/lNqCqJl7oWpja40/bejne.html
Well said!!!!
I grew up with my mom preaching this. Couldn’t agree more!
Yes, divine. Although Diana Krall comes close today.
Sad soul with a precious gift💔
Feb 19 2024 anyone still listening to this song? 🙋🏻♀️
Am still listening, one of my fav in my playlist
February 26 2024..its raining here in cali & its Monday 😢
Feb 27... and no need to talk it out
지금도~^^
Mar 2, 2024. Today is her heavenly birthday 🎈🎂
I was a child in the 70's. We took the Carpenters for granted. This was just everyday music on the radio. Only now in my mid 50's do I truly appreciate the beauty and rarity of Karen's voice.
They certainly don't sing like this, or play music like this anymore. WHY? Doesn't anyone in the recording industry realize the Emperor has no threads?
Marry Ann Syers, I was just thinking the same thing in my late forties. These songs, (in particular Karen's voice) magically transports me back to such a wonderful time in my childhood. Memories of lazy afternoons spent in company of family, that I probably took for granted back then. That warm soothing sound of Karen's voice is like a golden ray of sunshine chasing all the clouds away.
Amen
You have PERFECTLY put into words how I feel. Karen was my first crush as a child and I didn't even realise it for forty years
I too am a product of the 70s, I liked the carpenters, but it wasn't cool amongst my friends to admit.
Karen Carpenter was a rare talent whose live performances was exactly like what you hear on records. She was also known as the 1 take queen in studio because her 1st take would normally be perfect in a recording session.
clarity. 🌏🌨🌨💧💧💧👣thank. you. Karen. beyond. words. raining🌧 days. and. Mondays🍃🍃🍃🌌✨️✨️♒️
@@robertmacmillan2303 i feel the same
I so wish I could have heard her live. She started singing without any formal training, the voice of an angel and the skills of a master. RIP Karen, miss you very much.
Wow! Thanks for sharing… and it makes sense. Any sounds she could possibly make while singing would still be beautiful! 😪
The number 1 female vocalist in my lifetime. I am not especially a fan but I know her talent.. I am 65. The best female voice in my lifetime.
The voice of an angel. Her talent is greatly missed.
Walsh...I was just thinking to myself...She had the voice of an Angel... So unmistakable....she is surely missed! Eric Underwood class of 81 Downey High School California
After 50 years still the carpenters touches a special place in my heart with her iconic voice!
Timeless
Listening to Karen Carpenter's amazing voice transports me to a time when I was much younger with not a care in the world. Thank you, Karen, for your amazing and awesome gift to us.
I think what draws me to Karen’s voice the most is not the bone chilling low notes her contralto voice could hit, nor the tragic legacy she left behind, but the effortlessness of it all. There’s this slight, lispy flippancy to her voice in the way she enunciates the lyrics- as if she’s not even trying at all. It’s natural and very pure. It never feels put on or contrived. It’s almost fuzzy, if it had a physical feeling. It’s warm and welcoming like a hug, soft like velvet and mysterious and powerful like the wind. It’s deeply poignant and sad like a hug goodbye or the ending of a really good book. It’s so many things at once. A duality of melancholy and pure joy that draws me back over and over again. Karen Carpenter is the only musician who has ripped my heart out and broke it, only to heal it once again with her songs. I’ll always come back for more.
Well put. You have a gift for words friend.
I feel the same . I start almost every day listening to karen sing . She keep me calm in this insane world
@@clayton.harmer8399 I love Karen's voice too and I love many Carpenters songs, but there's love and then there is to die for love. My theory has more to when in your life a particular song impacted you like the first music not influenced directly by your parents. The Carpenters were designed to be commercial ie inoffensive and the only reason we still listen is Karen's s voice
What a poetic way of describing Karen Carpenter's talent👍👍👍Ditto👍😀👍🥰
Nicholas Hilton very well put friend