No copyright infringement intended. If felt, please comment below and I will remove this video. My extended version of this most beautiful and poignant song...and Karen's amazing voice.
The Carpenters were ahead of their time. They wrote songs about aliens, thought energy, animal rights, and personal things that weren’t really expressed in the 70’s, like ending relationships if that human doesn’t accept you for your differences and originality. RIP Karen wherever you are and for lighting the way when darkness may feel like it surrounds us. ❤🐾🍏🦌💚🦌🌎🐾❤
This song and the movie came out when I was a teen and they both had a profound effect on me. I think everyone should see the film but it's a real tearjerker.
One of the most emotional movies I've ever seen. As a young teenager I saw this in a double feature with "Easy Rider" of all films. It made quite an impression on me and I've loved this song ever since.
Same. Maybe age 15. It evokes feelings very specific of that time, also not knowing others that age who cared for their music. This song and award was big recognition for them. So two of our biggest celebrity animal rights activists now gone-Doris Day and Betty White. I'd like to think that they're in a place where animals are never hungry, never abused and always healthy. So that would leave the ladies nothing to do- perhaps they run a placement agency together, along w my little brother and my much missed pup. Would be great to hear Olivia NJ sing this.
What it was to be a child, the innocence, no hate, no prejudices, just having fun. I remember the movie with the same title and of course Karen Carpenter. Her voice, she was a gift that will forever be missed. I have their Christmas cd which my mother and I listen to every year! Man if only I could go back to that time the 70s 80s. My father would still be alive, price was living was good, the movies, the music, you name it. I feel sorry for the kids today, what they have to look back upon and remember!
Thanks for extending it with the actual music. The best songs are always too short! This song brings back so many emotions. No specific memories. Just the emotions of being a teenager in the 70s.
Darlin, I can't get past the first bar of this song w/o cracking. A sentimental sap am I. I champion animals, kids and seniors.....so this song is a hard knock for me. I love it...always have. Thank You for posting. I own several versions of this, but it's nice to hear from else-place, if you catch my meaning. ♥
I start tearing up as soon as she sings: "...for in this world they have no voice, they have no choice..." Isn't that a hard fact?? Gets me every time.
Wow sounds like Angel singing God s instructions.for.this.World. Needed for the.little ones. Both.beasts and children. In this world no voice no choice...how true
~siGh damn not only does her memory make me cry as does her voice, but this version, I totally lost it. I Finally found my Xmas song to share for 2014. TY for the time to put the visuals together. and the ending was superb.
I remember walking Karen to school in 1963. She had a big crush on me. I was 2yrs. older than she was. Her mother knew Karen had a crush on me , but she knew I didn't feel the same way .Her mother was very overprotective of her. Karen finally went to Downey High School. She would wait by her door, until she'd see me, than run to me. She started playing the drums so she wouldn't have to go to gym class.I joined the Marines .Before I left Karen pulled off one of my dog tags and told me " I'll keep it with me and give it back when you come home , you will come home ." I was hit up in I corps east along the DMZ, in some little French cemetery. I lost 2 fingers and had a limp, the rest of my life. 14 months in Balboa Naval Hospital in SanDiego. Came home , Karen was at the Airport , holding my dog tag up in the air. She loved animals , had a ton of them in her bedroom .Karen and her brother had bought Corvettes. Last time we ever spent time together, I drove her Corvette to the SanDiego Zoo. She insisted on going when I told her , my hospital was right across the street .If it would've been up to her , she would take them " all " home. In 1971 she called and said remember when we went to the zoo and felt so bad they had to be caged. ( all in 1 breath. ).She told me she did a song about HER animals. " Bless the Beasts and the Children ". I wish you knew how much that song meant to her.That was the Karen I knew . In 1983 I got the call from her mom. I went to Forest Lawn Cal. for the Funeral.I had been through alot in my life , but I'm not embarrassed to say there was know was I could hold back the tears. Neither could the 1,000 plus people who came .My dog tag went with her...... Amour Karen , God got another Angel. Your Nicky..
with psychos like Walter Palmer killing everything he gets near, we need to hear this song a lot more. It should be dedicated to Cecil the murdered lion.
This movie had such a HUGE impact on me as a young teen girl. I lived in AZ at the time, where they actually do shoot the buffalo there. All the teen boys I knew in real life were cowboys and were awful to animals and regarded torturing and killing innocent creatures as a passage, albeit a very twisted passage, into manhood. This movie made me feel some hope that not all males were like that, although I know most males still, sadly, are like that to this day. I loved the young male characters in this film for having the courage to at least try to do the right thing and stand up for innocence. In fact, in my life, before I would ever date a guy, my first question would be: how do you treat the powerless in our world, like animals and children? To me, the answer to that question, hopefully truthful, reveals a person's true self.
Love it. Let's see if I can help spread it. Suggestion: perhaps do an identical version w/lyrics (without errors!)...even though her voice is crystal clear...some crave to read the lyrics. Kudos.
This may have happened and I wasnt aware as a child, why one of the larger animal welfare agencies hasn't adopted this song as a theme. I'm sure it would be jumping hurdles of rights and royalties and ownership etc. I know Sarah McLachlan's "Angel" made millions for ASPCA but I had to turn it off every time it played. Maybe imagery that's more hopeful than hopeless. Obviously you show what tugs at the heart (and causes guilt) generates more donations.
