Having loved the Carpenter´s version for over 40 years, today I heard this for the first time and am blown away. She has so much more hurt in her restrained vocals. It´s a very different and much sadder song. I really love it.
I’m 71 and heard the Carpenters hit version on the radio for the first time in probably 45+ years. I also had no idea this was a Carole King original. Learn something new every day!
I love learning new things. I, of course, love The Carpenters version of this song. Didn't know or didn't remember that Carole King wrote it until a while back. Karen's awesomely smooth vocals, Richard's great arrangement, made their version uniquely their own. Well, Carole has done the same thing. It's as if she is sitting at her home piano and singing to relax and chill after a long day. Both verions warrant a listen---- once or more times!!!!
King’s version came first and then unfortunately Richard needed another hit,,,,,I say unfortunately because his over the top production ruined this for me,,,but I do always prefer kings over the covers.
Loved the Carpenters' version of this. Didn't even discover this version till some 20 years later after hearing Karen's voice. Their version has a very nice, easygoing and carefree feel to it, which reflects the 70's perfectly. But there's something about Carole's plaintive vocal that just stays with you long after the song fades. I concede this version to be the slightly better of the two. Or better yet if I say it's No.1 then the Carpenters' version is 1a.
Karen Carpenter had a more mellifluous singing voice than Carole King, although Carol King had an excellent singing voice, too. However, as far as this song is concerned, Carole's interpretation and arrangement are much better than the Carpenters' over-produced rendition. Carole really brings out the emotion and intensely plaintive regrets conveyed by the lyrics in a way that the listener can really feel deep down inside, whereas the Carpenter's version sounds like a sugary-sweet pop song, out of phase with the true meaning of the lyrics
I had no idea that Carole composed this song. I absolutely love the Carpenters' version. I didn't like Carole's as much. But the more I listened to this, it just really grew on me. I love Carole's soulful and as you say, plaintive quality. It's beautifully heart felt and uncomplicated.
I really like this version, but even Carole King reportedly said that the Carpenter's version made hers sound like a demo. I agree. If this was the only version of this song, it would be a perfectly fine song, and it is, but there is the Carpenter's version and they take it to another level...
@@puldspulds5798 It is in a book that Richard Carpenter recently put out or endorsed. Carpenter also said the song was weak and he shouldn't have chosen it as a single. I think he pretty much ruined it with his over-production and rather flippant interpretation of the song.
Wow!!!...What pleasant moments I remember with this delicate song .... excellent recording I still hear when playing the LP ... as if it were yesterday ...👏👏👏🎹🎙♩💯✔💜💛💚💙💟💓💗💖❤⚘🌹🌷💐🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Yet again, singing this, makes me want to reach out and connect with another beautiful friend I would just love to be able to hug right now! We bonded with this music so much❣️ She let me take her entire songbook of Tapestry home for almost a whole semester in high school to just play and play and soak in. It was gorgeous and just so relatable to everything we felt. ❤️
It’s Going to Take Some Time Carole King Produced by Lou Adler Album Music It's going to take some time this time To get myself in shape I really fell out of line this time I really missed the gate The birds on the telephone line, (next time) Are cryin' out to me, (next time) And I won't be so blind next time And I'll find some harmony But it's going to take some time this time And I can't make demands But, like the young trees in the winter time I'll learn how to bend After all the tears we've spent How could we make amends? So, it's one more round for experience And I'm on the road again And it's going to take some time this time It's going to take some time this time No matter what I've planned And,
This was written by king/stern for her music album. At one point the album music and tapestry where both on the charts,…soon after the carpenters found this and unfortunately recorded it,and you are correct made a radio hit with it.
Hello, King her overdubs one piano over another and then uses and electric celeste and maybe a Wurlitzer electric piano, so you have to pick and choose what you want to include and leave out while playing. Also, the sheet music for the song is trash. Sad-but I love the song and King's playing beyond belief.
@@jamespeyton7312 50+ years ago I played on a hundred grand and the difference was amazing. Later I found a $100k grand in the French Q I wanted. (if only). It didn't have 'great' sound, even good for that matter, but it was made out of matchsticks and was none the less 'Striking', excuse the pun. I wanted it! 25+ years ago, I had access to a keyboard with amazing ability to add in. It didn't even have a simple recording memory chip or stick but it was fun. I loved adding in everything, strings. It was a home player @ $10k. Studios must be fantastic now yet somehow don't sound better. Must be my ears. lol (I used to buy the latest sheet music when I was a kid, but it was always awful. I've had a few arrangements that were decent but most of the commercial sheets are less than truth.) Van Cliburn was my hero in the 60's; guild repertoire. For a period of time senior year, after school we met at a music store and practiced a duet on 17 baby grands. It was an awesome sound. A lot of staccato. But that's what 34 kids are all about! Carole is awesome!
@@jamespeyton7312 No, I played in the Guild Repertoire every year, but got to go watch the finals where he judged. We were Symphony Debutantes (passed out programs, raised money lol). A lot of good friends played the piano. When they dropped by we'd pound in the piano. I wish I'd had the last piano teacher the entire time. I learned more from her than all the other years combined. Later I figured out more by myself.
@@jamespeyton7312 A guy at work gave me two poems he had written and wanted to see what could be done with them. I gave one to a childhood friend who had gotten a degree in music and we each came up with something. He liked my friends. I am really shy so I wasn't going to give it to him to embarrass me later. So I sent it to my work answering machine and called him down to listen to it. He frowned and said, " was thinking of more of a country tune. This sounds more like something Celine Dion would sing to". As disappointed as I was could I really be? 😇. He and a different friend and I would meet at Antoine's down on 7th Street? in Austin. The first hour budding artists brought their recordings to be judged by everyone. Then it switched into the real songwriters behind the popular music. They had some good music. It was funny, entertaining. They were hilarious.
Well, big kudos to King for writing it but as for a vocal comparison?? Karen would be tough to beat. If I had to listen to just one of the two for the rest of my life, unlike King, I would never tire of Karen Carpenter.
@@ThePianoMan1953respectfully disagree, my choice would always be king. No one has EVER delivered what king does and I truly believe it’s the source of a creation and only she can interpret the true essence of the song, I find her vocal so much more nuanced with this gritty Brooklyn sound,,,I just love it. I have always thought that Richard over produced this and ruined it with over the top production
I read an article in which Carole King was asked her opinion of The Carpenters' cover of this song. Her reply was that she thought their recording made her recording sound like a demo tape. She was obviously impressed with it, and remember that the more The Carpenters version was played and sold, the more money she made as the composer.
This is actually made up by someone on another platform. This never happened and it pops up occasionally. King in interviews has never really commented on covers of her music. When ever I ask to produce such article nobody can they say they read it somewhere,lol
A song written by king/stern and recorded on her music album, that was the “original “….not long after Richard carpenter and Karen recorded this hoping for another radio hit. I said unfortunately because I think he over produced this and ruined the melody,my opinion, but just for music history king had the original.
