Carpenters - Only Yesterday 

Absolutely. Happy heavenly birthday Karen

없긴 왜 없슈~ 한국가수 태연이라고 들으면 뿅갑니다.

Truth!! 🙌

And NEVER needed to rely on electronics to improve, or modify her angel voice! Oh, the days!

And Dolores O'riordan💜

Thank you friend She was amazing wasnt she

I hope a year later that YOU are having an amazing day 😃

Lucy Thomas?...🤔

It's so hard to know, almost everyone's voice is modified in the studio or even onstage. When you put Karen's voice through the diagnostics, she basically had perfect pitch. In fact, she often was better live versus the recording. Definitely the most beautiful lyric contralto voices.

I agree

There could be; however, though we thought the studio stranglehold was bad, seems the new reality is worse, at least for big stuff. I wager there are truly fine voices and acts out there that rival this outfit, but we are only likely to find them at a very local, personal level. If you are searching, good luck to you.

Right on!

Ditto! 💖

You read my mind! ❤️

Best drummer I've ever seen

Celine dion... hold my beer.... jk beautiful song

And you know what produces that? A COMPLETELY relaxed throat?

So sorry for your loss!!!!

❤🌻

God Bless x

Take care ...rip

My mom loved Ms Caroenter also. She passed in 2014. God be with you ffriend ❤

Amazing voice

Weyes Blood enters the chat- very similar but she has her own personal and haunting flair.

@@brigidboyle8426 I had never heard of her before. I took a look at some of her videos & there are some similarities.

She had a very beautiful voice. It is a shame she died so young.

It is her birthday today. Her voice is bringing the tears and tugging the heartstrings. One in googooplex!!!😇🕊🎶🎶🎤🎙🥁

That indeed is a moment of a lifetime to always remember. Such a cool story.

Wow lucky!

Yes! 1975 at the Valley Forge Music Fair in PA. I was there, too. Huge fan of Karen and Richard.

Wonderful. I love how RU-vid allows cherished personal memories like yours to be shared with people across the world. It is these memories that reveal the true personalities of the great stars rather than anything we might ever read in the media.

helenaville, what a beautiful way of describing.

You really think she is better than Julie Andrews? Or Celine Dion? Or Adel? Or Lady Gaga? I agree that Karen Carpenter’s voice is spectacular. But I think that there are dozens of other singers with similar skills.

​​@Engineering Oyster Karen's voice was also wide-ranging c.f the best of the rest. Edit add'n.. Not even a hint of any 'put on' throughout.

@@roystonboodoo7525 Sure. But didn't other singers have similar skills? Of course, when comparing the voices of singers at this level, one must be careful to compare at similar ages. For example, it isn't fair to compare the current Barbra Streisand with the late Karen Carpenter. Carpenter was at her peak while Streisand is decades past it. Even though she still has a spectacular voice.

​@@engineeringoyster6243It's always a matter of choice but for me Karen was and is the best female singing voice in English. Thank you.

I'm with you 😊

Winston Leighton hello my main man, Everyone love her till we all die. Sooner or later we both see her again

Winston Leighton I love Karen too..she was about 8 years older than me but if I had met her I would have begged her to marry me and have my children. Maybe then I would have made her happy and she would have not killed herself by starving herself.

I loved her too. After all these years, I still crush on her and her voice gets to me way down deep in my soul. She was truly an angel.

Winston Leighton , I'm a dead man and I still cried every time I listened to her.

Winston Leighton she was special but you need to dig deeper my friend, Carol King ( wrote almost of her music, her husband wrote about 5 songs because in that day they wouldn’t look at Carols talent) anyway of course I’m a woman ha ha ) so check out Carol, Joni Mitchell, gee bud just google best 10 female artist of early 70’s 👍👍👍

Agreed. No one could deliver a melancholy love song like KC.

I simply love Karen I'm into all music no hardcore rap sorry

It reminds me of happier times as a young boy in the early 70s when my parents and my younger sister were still alive. By 1980, everything had turned to shit due to dad's cheating and mom hitting the bottle.

@@deepsix1827 that's really sad

@@janHgat yeh, shit happens

@@jamestorres9464 pity she was so skinny

Personally, I will often cry during "Can't Smile Without You" during the line "Into the new, leaving the old behind"

Agree

Agreed so sad

Yea crushing

The whole part with her singing in the studio alone with those lyrics is so emotional. The tragedy just gets magnified. She was so special.

agree and me too!

hands down.

I grew up listening to her , she's my forever favourite and Richard and the guys , I go to the tribute carpenters act in Ireland , some friends thinks it's weird as I'm only 35 😂

There is not and never will be in my lifetime anybody with a voice to match Karen carpenter x

My top 3 female singers are 1. Karen Carpenter 2. Marilyn McCoo 3.Judith Durham (Seekers)

Chosen by God

Absolutely true!

HAS MY VOTE

Ronnel Echavez she has no doubt ♥️

Heavenly voice of a angel!

good words....

Amen ✌️❤

Not all humans are miracles. Karen & Richard, yes. Despicable, psychotic killers are mistakes.

Psychotic killers made the choice to reject the miracle of life and brought death upon themselves@@rgrndu

Lets not forget Richard Carpenter , He was a genius at mixing and creating the Carpenters sound ........ Yes they was great singers , he just enhanced to make their sound even better !

How has it's been 😢 RIP ❤

She is one of my favorites, together with Selena!

Amen!

Her brother is an Asshole! He could have saved her life!! Complacency and willful denial is a form of culpability! The same thing happened to Whitney Houston. Not the anorexia part, but the family and friends not intervening to save her part.

A true angel on Earth and now in Heaven. I still barely can listen to her magical tender voice without crying. It’s brings up everything sweet and hopeful ... I grew up listening to her loving voice Ever grateful.

@Sandra Kenny Karen was not that good of a drummer. Her drumming was very basic. Her desire to drum was probably an act of condescension, because I am certain that she knew what a great singer she was. How could she not? And if I am right, why would she want to keep that beautiful voice from the rest of the world? Was she doing us a favor? If that was the case why did she take singing lessons? Was she a prisoner to the will of her brother? I don't buy into that. But I agree with everything else you said. Nice post. RIP Karen.

Richard is a genius. We can hear her perfection because of his efforts.

I knew then , I still think your right , being a lifelong fan, will tell you this , when I cross over , to the other side she, s the first one Im looking for, , loved her then , love her still, it will never end , . . .

Yes 😊

Totally agree, for me the two most beautiful voices, Karen Carpenter and Nat King Cole.

agreed! oh to have been in the studio closing my eyes and hearing not only THAT voice, but THEE voice sing anything! while i love countless female and male singers and groups and eras of music and genres of music for me? karen carpenter and nat king cole are "it" even a great singer like k.d. lang called karen like and on the par with nat king cole...

mbblover​ I concur my friend! Nat King Cole had the most beautiful tone to his voice. Nat's voice was as colourful as a rainbow - dipped in golddust. Karen, I could describe forever and a day, whilst at the same time, she was totally indescribable. Both said artists were sheer magic. Regards to you mbblover and thankyou for your wonderful comment mate! Chris (UK).

So well said and I couldn't agree more. Not only did you hear her sing, you felt her sing. My God, I miss her still today. As a young teenager, The Carpenters were some of the first albums I bought with babysitting earnings. I would sit and listen to her perfect vocals, trying in vain to duplicate them, having to be satisfied with harmonizing with her instead. She was wonderful, absolutely.

No one says it better than you, Chris. There are hundreds and maybe thousands of talented female singers in the last century, but if I had to, Karen is the only one that rises above them all.

Agreed...except for the god part.A gift from her parents,actually(unless of course,god came down from the upper troposphere and fucked Karen's mother.)

It’s very soothing, very easy on the ears.

At the time, Paul McCartney said that "she has the best female voice in the world: melodic, tuneful and distinctive." Elton John said "she has one of the greatest voices of our lifetime."

Voz suave e doce......

❤

@@ЖаннаЖелуницына I heard your music, killer stuff! Cheers from an old Las Vegas drummer!!

Same!

I grew up in a pub and I used to fall asleep upstairs in my bedroom to the sound of her incredible soothing angelic like voice on the Jukebox, Yesterday Once More, Top of the World! I was around 10 years old and listening to her voice made the World seem like a happy place then. Such a shame she died so young as I’m sure she would still be performing today!

Great choice! Carpenters songs, Depeche Mode, Crowded House, The Verve, and music by JS Bach got me through my late teens and early 20's!😉🎼🎵🎶👌🏻

I believe you...I play this song over n over when I'm sad n even more when in happy mood...let's keep listening to her...

You're 19, don't ever be sad...

I was 12 years old when I discovered The Carpenters, they have surely helped me get through some of the toughest times..I am turning 50 next year, and I still enjoy listening to their music. I love all 70s soft and classic rock..simply the best ❤️

35 years old metalhead here! Good music is timeless!

Same here

Totally agree

million bucks? no priceless

It's terrible

The most beautiful female voice ever!!! Not taking away from others, but she doesn’t even have to try to sing 🎶 she opens her mouth & the angelic voice penetrates your heart ❤️

There is no other female vocals that come close to Karen's..Here sound is so unique. I love all the songs she created and just think of what we missed out on of what she would of put out had things been different. I am a huge KISS fan and loved the 80's hair metal bands. So this just tells ya how good her vocals are, I think shes the best.

I so agree, I was just playing the carpenters today, and her voice takes your breath away!!

Yes, she's the best who's ever lived, in any genre. I think she looks absolutely beautiful in this video. And the lyrics around 00:24 are so haunting now, in light of what happened.

Yea, her vocals are so unique. There has not and will not be another sound like hers.

Richard White agreed.

Para França Lima bjos

Absolutely

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Yes"

So true

agreed!

agree

KAREN WAS THE SINATRA OF HER TIME, VELVET VOICE AND A EXCELLENT DRUMMER, R.I.P. KAREN YOUR MISSED EVERYDAY GOD BLESS YOU. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

❤

technology are things that you use even though they're not electrical devices, they're still things that you use. are you saying that what she is using in this vid aren't technology?

It isn't perfect be careful how you apply that anachronism. Nothing's perfect, maybe to your senses it is. Music isn't supposed to be perfect.

Ever...

2022 still listening.. i really love karen carpenter.

Same October 2022. ❤

Yes 2022 karan had really great voice all time

By the way I m 30 year old and listen her song, her voice is never feel like, she was belong before my birth, Karan had really great voice

😊

Yoko Ono

What a voice 😢

Paul mccartney ranked her as the best female singer.

I prefer drake and auto tune thanks.. jk :p

Yes indeed...when the INSIDE doesn't match the OUTSIDE...God bless her..

I agree, 100%.

I agree. Babs and Patsy come close, but Karen’s voice still takes it.

Ecclia#tics 1 25 et33 Dios bendiga pasalo 33 9 San Gerónimo presbítero amén

@@raimundopachecogarcia5534 Please translate for me!

Yes!

Amen. Loved Karen’s voice. Wished she stay alive to make a few more hits.

Nobody will ever have a voice like hers!

@@marthamagruder3698 that's so true

What about Olivia Newton John ?

@@alfonsosaenz6542 she's a really great singer aswell

I sincerely hope wherever she is, she has found happiness

She did to her anyway but he was a narcissis prick .

yes sir

Absolutely!

your exactly right!!!!!!!!!!!!

So True!.

No, humans are idiots, this era and it’s music will soon be less popular than indie rock is today. I’m just saying, people are stupid enough to forget all of this good stuff.

The garbage on today makes me sick

Zero.

well said.

It is a great song. Amazing that Richard didn't really believe in it and that when it took a turn towards the upbeat Richard thought it also took a turn towards "fluff." This is in their top 5 songs, and given that Richard wrote it, that's a big credential.

I loved this music

素晴らしいですね❗️私も15歳の時に聞いていました。

Totally agree. I turned 60 recently and their music brings back so many wonderful memories.

@@namomme5008 I will be turning 60 in April and cannot believe how fast time fly's. I was a kid when she sung On top of the world which made me interested in them and looking forward to the song being played on the radio. Then for 8th grade graduation the graduates sung the song "We've only just begun" not even knowing she was having eating disorder that was in 1978. I don't know if the song came out that year for sure but we did a great job wowing the parents & grandparents.

I'm crying now, this era was the happiest time of my childhood I miss her

Hello 🌹

Try Lana del rey

her voice pulls at the heartstrings

Allison Krauss?

QUE NOS DEJO KAREN TEMAS INOLVIDABLES . Y MUY HERMOSA KAREN LOS HERMANOS CARPENTEN .

I love how you have heard every voice in the world!

August 26 2024

Lori L Bless your heart! Please fight for YOU! You are so worth it! Hugs! .💜.💞.💘.💝.💖.💜.❣️.❤️.

@@MusicLover-ij7vf - thanks. after 15 years of a severe eating disorder I no longer have eating disorder thoughts or behaviors. I do suffer physical consequences though of seizures , loss of gallbladder, digestive issues and multiple sclerosis. many people with severe long-term eating disorders have developed autoimmune disorders. I used to tell myself my eating disorder wasn't that bad but I just couldn't see clearly. Please don't fall for that trap. Eating disorders kill and have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness including depression

@Lori L Karen was a wonderful person and talented artist. It was so sad to lose her, but you have a happier ending.....you are HERE! Make the ending to your story a happier one - try to encourage one person to succeed also! 🌺💞💝💖

@@MusicLover-ij7vf - thanks. I try. I've worked with thousands of people who said they have received help and hope. I'm in tears now though because I just found out yesterday the sister of an old college friend just died. I knew her well but it has been so long since I have seen her sister. not to sound religious oh, but it reminds me of the one lamb that was lost that Jesus went after. unfortunately it's one more that died from this horrific disease. If anyone reading this has even with they think are eating "issues", please get help. don't ever give up. Please. Recovery is possible. I have done it and so have many others. You can do it too

@Lori L I rec’d a very rare stage 4 cancer diagnosis in Oct, 2018. I do not have an eating disorder, but you have inspired me! I am so sorry for the loss of your friend. Are you able to pass on condolences to the family? You have such a loving & caring spirit, use it to help others! (Pull out that bible too!!) Hugs...

Solo Rogue Right On !

Yeah you can say that again! Excellent

They are idiots with no class....

I doubt that had anything to do with why people give songs a "thumbs down".

Yes, all true - however, real life is not this saccharin. In fact it’s almost Darwinian. I’m glad you like it - I do too.

Or memers.

A true gift and extraordinary talent. ... Please don't take the Lords name in vain.

One of God’s Earthly Angels!

okay but everyone is talking about Karen, whose voice I adore, goodness, it is gorgeous, but Richard's is also a perfect complement to hers and it's beautiful and unique as well!

Karen !

@KevinClinton-tk3if I hope you're also having a great day and staying warm.

philaman1972 I miss her so!

untouchable karen.

I agree but she did love her cars bless her

I loved Karen. Her voice was the best. The real emotions. No flash. No hype. No damn computer enhanced sound manipulation. Just Karen herself. I wish I could have met her, told her she was the best, she was real, she was really pretty, really special. She was only 8 years older than me. I would have married her if she said yes, we could have had children, and she would still be alive, and happy today. I truly regret that I never saw her perform live. I still vividly remember sitting at my work desk in 1983, hearing about her death. I was shocked. Thirty seven years later, today, I play Superstar and Rainy Days incessantly. RIP, lovely Karen.

0% food sadly. Best singer, I went to the house she was born in and i couldnt even see a sign on the wall. so sad

Except for Richard's addiction to Quaaludes.

You forgot 99% Gardens

That is correct. The albums and the live shows too---talent explosions of which today are no more.

Don't know who all of the musicians were on this recording but was Joe Osborn on Bass, Jim Gordon on Drums.

100% agree.

Agree too. Still miss her in December 2019

I love this song they were very successful here in Brazil. At the time I was a teenager, good memories. Very sad when she died

There's a singer called rumer u wud swear it was Karen carpenter have a listen she's awesome 😁

Saw it on the front page of the Stars and Stripes at Camp Fuiji Japan Feb 1983

I remember crying like a baby when word came that she'd died. I was a teen, and I was absolutely mesmerized by her voice.

Luck has nothing to do with it - it's faith in Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross for our sins, but I won't grind my axe for too long. As to "your time coming", don't you feel it's accelerating exponentially? I sure do. When I was in my teens and twenties, things seemed to stay the same, for the most part. People I loved were always there. Now everything seems to change at a rapid pace, and many that I have loved are gone, and each day seems to be waiting for the shoe to drop, as opposed to optimism.

A Scott I cry every time I hear this.... sad for a man my age but she was so beautiful

1-15-2020

Me too from France

I am. Beautiful voice. Left us way too early

fully agree amazing voice

I am agree

Yoser Anaiis You're a smart young woman Yoser, Much love.

Thanks Gary, XOXO from Venezuela!

Yoser Anaiis I was so lucky to see them perform in 1972 & 1974 as a teenager - such treasured memories. It's wonderful that you appreciate the Carpenters at your age :)

+Yoser Anaiis Nice to know today's young people like the duo's music.

It is simple and amazingly complex at the same time… Truly great music crosses times and genres…

A trip down beautiful memory lane.

Being a child of the 70s, all 70s music takes me back to the 70s, but I wonder how younger people react to this song. Lots of music from the 60s and 50s, and certainly before, can sound "oldies" to me, but since 1964 and The Beatles, music has evolved less. We went through disco, new wave, grunge, anthem rock, and hip-hop, but ultimately we are still in the "rock" era and romantic ballads never go out of style. So does this sound like oldies to a young person? I sometimes listen to the 50s channel on Sirius XM radio and I am delighted to be transported back to that optimistic era, but I wonder if 70s music does the same to the younger listener.

@@TheLarryBrown I'm from the year 2000, and songs like that bring me that feeling of old music. I particularly like music from the 60s to 2000s. At least where I live, the quality of the songs has dropped a lot since 2000. Greetings from Brazil

Beautifully put! I'm back in the 70's at an instant! 💖💖💖💖💋💋

People don't understand what headphones do for music.

I agree. I watched a programme last night about Adele: the modern Goddess. I can admire her voice and its strength but I so don't like it. She strangles her vowels and, although her lyrics are vulnerable, and that is unusual in this age of female empowerment and overt sexuality, I don't feel it in her voice. I do in Karen's. OK, she does not write her own songs but her voice expresses every nuance of every song she sings. I think it is difficult. Adele is lauded because she stands still and sings. Well, actually, most singers did that in the not-too-distant past: Carole, Dusty, Sandy, Cilla, Lulu, Karen, Linda, Olivia, Esther, Joni, Judy, Dionne, Janis, Bonny and others. They stood there in a dress or little top and trousers they might have bought from Dottie P and sang because they were singers. We seem to have lost that concept. To give Adele credit she has resurrected it but she can't touch Karen when it comes to nuanced emotion..

una mckillen Adele is not a good singer, her technique and tone is horrible even Ariana Grande sings better than her

I can. In male voice version.

True

No one ever will! Just a purely beautiful voice and woman!!

You are right Anita Prasad. Her songs, we can listen all day and not get sick.

eu nao nasci nesse tempo mas é maravilhosa a voz dela,amo musica linda lindaaaa

Bruce C

Tiger J a a hi

@Cajoboy California And voice over for - Japanese fizzy lemonade - chocolate - etc

Aural caviar

@@paj2184 ha, that's good!

Oh, i love this comment!❤

So it's like torture?? I tried it to see what was so amazing about it. Turns out pouring warm honey into your ears is the worst experience one can endure. It was awful. DO NOT pour warm honey into your ears.

@coachmcguirk6297 Your not very bright. It's an anology.

Sim.a voz dela é espetacular.

Her voice was a heaven portal

Carl Beauchamp that's true .we miss her And her beauty voice....

Jisela's LiFe nope, her voice holds a beauty rarely heard, especially with today’s so called artists.

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!❤️

No you are not the only one I understand what she went through health wise although every person's different

Jisela's LiFe You're not alone.

You most definitely are not alone!

❤️

I miss my dad