Amazing!! Carpenters "Burt Bacharach & Hal David Medley" Ed Sullivan Show (Reaction) 

This was actually a performance for wounded Vietnam veterans at Walter Reed Army Hospital.

This is live and outside in a field. No tricks or autotune. Just pure talent!

Great songs and an amazing arrangement. Karen's voice is on point and the drumming!

I'm so familiar with all these songs. When I was a kid in the sixties, I used to sing them to myself all the time! But I have never heard them performed by The Carpenters before! This performance was nothing short of spectacular! You two have done such a wonderful thing by sharing it with us tonight. 💖💖💖

And she is only 21 here!!!! Amazing drummer and singer… sooo missed

I was about 12 when this was done . I've never seen this particular performance before ❗🤔🙂👍

African American singer Dionne Warwick sang most of these, many were big hits. She was buddies with Karen and Richard...they were on the same record label, A & M records. And buddies with Burt Bacharach and Hal David who often wrote songs for A & M.

I always enjoy the look on these young vets faces as they watch this beautiful young 19 year old woman with an ANGELIC voice, PLAY THE DRUMS, AND SING, AT THE SAME TIME! Very unique at the time. Tip of the hat to Karen and Richard! Extremely talented sibling duo. RIP KAREN.

Gorgeous and moving ...the Standard for these all timers !

Karen started playing drums in the high school marching band, Downey High School, Downey CA. She played drums with her brothers (Richard) group a jazz trio and they won a battle of the bands in 1969. Then formed The Carpenters in 1970 and released their first album in 1970, Close to You. She preferred to continue to play drums but producers, managers, etc preferred she was in front of the band and just sing.

Makes me cry. She was one in a million and her parents and our culture’s obsession with thinness killed a genius talent. She’s singing to sounded Vietnam vets here. ❤

A great medley by The Carpenters timeless music rip Karen Carpenter

Karen is #1 on my top 10 female singers list, 💚🎶🎵

Absolutely beautiful.

Voice of an angel....one of a kind. RIP Karen. This was when you had to be real musicians....to be able to sing an play live without any gimmicks or electronic crutches. No Autotune, no signing to a track, just pure raw talent.

The crowd was still so they could listen to the music.

This was at a veterans hospital.

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they are wounded veterans at the military hospital, there is onother compilation like this but another television special indoors and it is even more brilliant includes the song someday simply astonishing and her voice in that one is unbelievable.

All I can say is Karen is awesome. Karen was an incredible human being who gave herself completely to the people around her.

They have another medley that kills this.

1970 in a field, no autotune, 70's sound equipment, karen and Richard only 20 and 23...the performance was done for Vietnam vets, hence their mood/emotions.....

Karen was a Unicorn! A singular talent!

MAGICAL STUFFFF GUYS! 😊RIP KAREN!☹

The soldiers sitting down, were ALL WOUNDED VETERANS coming back from Vietnam. I'm sure if they could, they would have been jumping up and down, if they were fully recovered from their combat wounds.

Karen was only about 20 here, my God! Proves that Karen was a bad ass on drums and singing at the same time. She could play the crap out of the drums. She was really a jazz drummer. These harmonies by the Carpenters and the band are extremely tight and great! BTW that was Ed Sullivan announcing at the beginning, but us baby boomers MUST tell you, NEVER EVER rely on Ed Sullivan for a correct pronunciation...he screwed up everything HAHAHAHAHA

Hi Shawn and Mel! A little background on The Medley. It was live to tape on The Ed Sullivan Show 11/8/70. A Veteran’s Day special. It was filmed live to tape at Walter Reed Hospital in D.C. in front of Viet Nam era vets and patients. They were probably expecting The Doors! The Carpenters were just off their Close To You hit that summer so, just getting started. I spotted something on the freeze frame your monitor sat on for a while. The lower left was Tori Holub and her video of her first live performance! So you had a subliminal hint happening! You know why? Who was the ONLY PERSON IN 53 YEARS to accurately cover The Bacharach/David Medley? How about Tori Holub!! Last October Tori, after covering a small piece of the Medley as a Short video, was challenged to cover the ENTIRE Medley! She accepted the challenge and did it. Now she did not play drums. So instead she self produced The Medley singing ALL THE VOCALS including Richards parts. Edited, mixed, everything. For music she used a Richard Carpenter produced Karaoke track for the Japanese market. It was at the correct tempo. That happened last October right after RU-vid introduced me to her. This past February, Jim Wilkas saw the Medley video and thought it needed “More Richard.” So he added himself doing the harmonies and showed the resulting video to Tori. She loved it, he released it and a collaboration was born. We’ve Only Just Begun was the first result! You saw that and were duly blown away! Now you know the rest of the story. Joe

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The video looks like it was shot on a college campus but the audience looked like a bunch of inmates lol...i don't think i saw one woman in the crowd

19 years old ❤

Karen had a wonderful voice, but their music is coma inducing. Musical ambien. 🥱😴