THIS BROKE OUR HEARTS COMPLETELY!!! CARPENTERS - NOW (KAREN CARPENTER'S LAST RECORDING) REACTION 

Don't care what anybody thinks Karen Carpenter is the greatest singer of all time.

I’m so happy a new generation is discovering Karen’s angelic voice. I was 23 when she died. The saddest February of 1983.

Her final farewell to humanity before she left us ..I think that she knew it too. God willing, she is with the Lord now. RIP Karen! 🙋🌹

I adored the Carpenters music. Karen’s voice will never be matched. Such an angelic voice, definitely God given. She gave so much to this world in music. We are all blessed by her having been here. I survived Anorexia. So thankful that I did. RIP Karen.

It was a working track - not even the final recording. It proves what raw talent she had when the first time she sang a song it was this perfect.

Can you imagine how sick and weak she had to have feeling while recording this? Her heart and the rest of her system was already damaged from her eating disorder, anorexia nervosa. Yet, as usual she did it in one take. Her voice still chokes me up at times. At the time it seemed impossible to have a world without her in it. But she still lives on in her music.

Any song ever going to bring me to tears, this is it, beautiful, heartfelt, and sung by the best female vocalist ever,

Karen reached deep inside of me and touches my pain with hers and it is a beautiful blessing. Thank you Karen, ♥

Her quality voice always makes me cry. There is no one like her.

She sang this in one take perfectly. Sad that she really never did find true love. Karen and Olivia Newton John were best friends. Olivia passed away today at age 73. Hope you do a tribute.

Karen was the kind of singer who could slow your racing heart down and put you in a calm place. One of the most beautiful voices ever.

The Voice of an Angel. RIP, Karen.

My very favorite singer of all time. I still remember sitting at the kitchen table for breakfast before school that morning, when the news came over the radio that Karen had passed away. I absolutely could not believe it, I felt so cheated being so young and knowing that she would never record again. No one has ever come close to that voice.

Apparently she recorded this weeks after coming out of hospital and in one take. she is so missed x

I love that saying ‘She is an experience’. Recorded 10 months before she passed…stunningly magical ❤️

Karen is now the lead singer in heaven's angelic choir!

LOVELY Karen was a beautiful gift from God to the world! That's the reason men & women who attended Carpenter concerts would get misty-eyed & even cry! And, all these many years after her death, Karen's voice & her love to the world still lives on! Richard & Karen added goodness, kindness & much LOVE to the world! RIP with God beautiful Karen!!

I always get chills when she sings the line “Now when it rains I don’t feel cold” As if she’s speaking beyond the grave. Please react to Solitaire next. That song always gets to me. Karen channels the sadness of that song perfectly.

That Voice!! How could anyone not be mesmerized by her voice? Richard wrote such beautiful songs, & Karen performed them perfectly. Such a loss Gone way too soon.

Karen Anne was an angel sent straight from heaven 💞 🌹 💖

And now another giant in the industry passed away to soon. Olivia Newton John died today. Such a sweet lady and great talent. You did 2 of her songs. RIP Olivia you will never be forgotten 🌹🌹🌹 🕯🕯🕯

"Now" was a work lead, recorded in one take, and was intended to familiarize the musicians with the song as well as Richard's arrangement of it. After a complete music track had been recorded, Karen would have then returned to the studio and recorded new vocals for the song. But as it was, the work lead turned out to be the last song Karen ever recorded. In the bio-pic made-for-TV movie, the way this was depicted is that Karen said she wanted to do another take, but Richard and the engineer both said no way because could not be improved upon.

You know she started out as a drummer with her brother Richard Carpenter. He played piano and did some singing as well. She died from anorexia…well it was the side effects from it that caused other complications and eventually her heart just gave out. This eating disorder that took her when she still had so much to share with us started from ONE article saying she was “chubby” and that caused a snowball effect in the media when she was nowhere near overweight. She never liked being in the spotlight and preferred to sit at the drums playing and singing but her management team essentially made her be front and center. My momma cried the day she passed away and my older sister walked down the aisle after their vows to “We’ve Only Just Begun” She was a very cute girl before the images of her used in this video. By this time she was so sunken in and fragile. It messed up her teeth from all the vomiting and she lost most of her hair-cheekbones completely caved in. Thank you for covering this song. And yes. She was an angel who only wanted to love and be loved and never got it.. 😔

So sad she never found true love....but we all truly loved her..

Karen Carpenter great voice, range, perfect pitch as an alto singing with such effortlessness

Beautiful, perfect unmatched singing. Her Glorious Gift was with her till the end. Heartbreaking 😭

Her good friend Olivia Newton John passed on today. RIP both of them.

Sweet Karen and the amazing Olivia Newton John ....reunited in heaven ...another singing angel....such a sad day and yes so very sad to see Karen's last song

This was hard to watch her being so thin. But still sounded like an angel. She will always be my favorite singer.

That beautiful lady always gives me goosebumps and makes me want to cry, her voice is just the most beautiful, pure voice that you will ever hear. ❤️❤️

I had never heard of eating disorders before she died. So true that words not only hurt but can kill.

I still remember where I was when she died. What a sad time in soft rock history.

And now another beautiful voice joins her in otherworldly song....her friend Oliva Newton John has passed away. RIP to another angelic voice.

One of her last great songs, & we have just learned today that her best friend Olivia Newton John has passed away after a long battle with breast cancer, Olivia dies surrounded by her family & friends at her Southern California ranch, a legend of Australian Music.

All i can say about this beautiful song from the late great Karen Carpenter is: The Tears Never Stop Falling

Karen Carpenter was so easy to listen too. God blessed her with a wonderful voice. She was really weak when she did this last song. Richard probably wondered if she would get through it I'm sure, but she did. Like you said Mel she was ready to go be with the Lord. She did everything on this earth with her beautiful voice. Now Olivia Newton-John her best friend is with her now. I miss them both.

This recording is so beautiful but it breaks my heart. I wish she could have found her true love and had the children she so badly longed for. We love you Karen and always will. ❤❤❤

RIP Olivia Newton-John.Karen and Olivia were close friends.They can sing together again in heaven.Miss them both.

Ever since I first heard her sing in the 70s when I was younger, She is still my favorite Female singer of all time !! Voice is beautiful !! R.I.P Miss Carpenter 🙏

Quite a contrast to today's music, huh? This is the way music should sound and we can thank the Carpenters for their extraordinary gifts! So much talent! My husband and I fell in love to their music in the 1970s and were blessed to see them in concert twice. Still get goosebumps when I hear Karen sing.

Shawn and Mel, you'll love her "Yesterday Once More", "For All We Know" and "Song"!!!

RIP to Karen Carpenter. In case you believe words can't hurt then they need to pay attention. That poor woman believed what so-called people would say and request of her regarding her weight or looks in the music business and that beautiful soul took it to heart and eventually died from the damage she did due to anorexia. You can see how thin she is in this very video.

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!

She lived such a sad life in the end. I remember exactly where I was when I heard on the radio that she had passed. I simply could not believe it!!

Such a beautiful voice and lady. The sadness in her voice always gets to me. Please react to We’ve Only Just Begun. The go to wedding song of the’70’s…

If only Karen Carpenter had been born 30 years later, there would have been so much more knowledge, education, and professional help available for her to treat her multiple eating disorders. The Carpenters' music is timeless, especially Karen Carpenters' gorgeous, velvety, buttery, beautiful perfect-pitch voice that will live on from generation to generation. She was absolutely one of a kind indeed.

Military guy. Not a super religious guy, but it seems she making peace with God in the end. Letting things go and fall away.

Her voice was angelic for sure

You two are very authentic. This reaction is proof. Very moving performance given the history.

Much, much better, Shawn. And a great reaction by both of you. Love Karen so much! Please react to their hit, *"Yesterday Once More",* it is so nostalgic, you'll love it!!

It’s only because of U tube that we see the Brilliance of Karen & the world can explore her amazing Talent, this is the platform for the MILLENNIUM Kids to endure

I feel really sad today one my high school crushes Olivia Newton John died today. Then hearing Karen's last song. She was married in 1980 to Thomas Burris a real estate investor. But they divorced in 1982. Poor thing she couldn't catch a break in being loved. She was a professional and dedicated that even when she wanted to really wanted to play drums and sing backup. She even took to heart her allegded weight problem. R.I.P God's angels.

She had the most beautiful angelic voice ❤️

The voice of an angel. Absolutely beautiful

A little known song by Karen Carpenter is Crescent Noon. I know you'd both enjoy it!

You two keep it real! Think of all races could accomplish if we could communicate through music.

Truly angelic voice, without a doubt! Another song she recorded, also in one take, is "Solitaire". When she finished it, the studio fell quiet for a full five minutes, they were so blown away. Mind you, it's the one song Karen never liked, and said so. (iknow!)😳

It makes you believe in God when you hear and experience beauty like this

It’s amazing, I read the book Little Girl Blue. In it, it said that Karen did not feel the need to warm up her vocals before she was about to perform. She (Karen) would say she would just walk out on stage and sing. Pure magic!!! Also the Karen Carpenter Story referred to her as having a one in a million voice. There are a great deal of talented artists living and not living. To me Karen’s voice and talent , penetrates to my very soul and simply takes my breath away. I may have heard Carpenters’ songs a hundred times and every time chills run right through me. The legacy she left behind I hope continues to enlighten generations to come. Thank you for the review.

Well you finally made me cry. I just lost the love of my life on the 23rd of July. We were together for 27 years and she was everything to me. I've heard this song probably a hundred times but I never heard it this way before.

just so Beautiful

Bless The Beasts And The Children by The Carpenters

Thank you both for all your kind words and reaction to Karen..she was one of a kind God Bless

Thanks for sharing, I never heard this before and she had such a beautiful voice

I’m reading s biography of her life now and it’s Interesting. Honestly not too thrilled with her mother. Very sad the pressure she lived under. RIP Karen Carpenter.

Her voice never gave her away. She was struggling for a while and you never noticed when she sang. I miss her music. Sadly, like other soft rock artists, she would have faded into oblivion like the rest as we moved into a new genre of music that wasn't as good as the previous.

I bought their album Close To You in 1970 when I was ten with my allowance. For all of the albums after, they changed me.

I so agree that Karen Carpenter is an angel 💛💛💐💐!! It makes me feel great joy that people who are little bit younger than me enjoy her music so much and see the good in her. Karen Carpenter was popular before I was born and when I was a child. Karen Carpenter had such a beautiful voice💐💐, she was an outstanding drummer🥁, she had to send great sense of humor, Karen Carpenter collected teddy bears, she loved Children, and she was very good friends with Olivia Newton-John. I pray 🙏🙏 that Olivia Newton John 💐💐💛💛🌻🌻🌹🌹 and Karen Carpenter 💐💐💛💛🌻🌻🌹🌹in Heaven are performing together🙏🙏.

When you think of how many talented artists we have lost over the years at early ages it's mind blowing. What kind of demons are thrown into their lives with success and stardom? The physical and mental tear down from the constant demands of the industry. Tour, record, repeat, knowing that to the powerful labels you are but a disposable commodity. How many smiles and photo shots at award shows get turned into tears shortly after the studios move on from you? To be blunt, Karen was neglected by her family and her label. Her needs as an individual never satiated. Call it what you will, her loss was needless and tragic.

Not only was this her last recording, it technically wasn't an 'official' recording in that what you're hearing is her 'scratch track' 'throw away vocal' intended only as a guide for the musicians laying down the backing track. Then she would go back and do the 'real' final vocal. She never did. This is portrayed by Cynthia Gibb at the end of the made for TV movie "The Karen Carpenter Story".

We lost an absolute angel when she passed. She was one of my mother’s all-time favorites along with Anne Murray.

As desperately ill as she was---------Karen never lost her voice---------may of '82-------her final time in a recording studio. -----------breaks my heart every time. ----------------------MJL< 76 y/o

I love both of yours insights into Karen's pain and Beauty in her talent

It's so deja vu for me to watch these reaction videos. This is exactly the reaction my family and I had when we first heard the Carpenters back in 1970 !!

Done in one take. Perfection.

A truly wondrous talent. I so love your appreciation of her. (I happened by her gravesite coincidentally this year.) God bless you two... & everyone out there. 🙂💕

I think this was one of her best songs and ironic it was her last; simply superb !

Just one of the best women EVER!

Beauty inside pain.....nailed it

Sua voz sempre sera lembrada 💟 nunca será esquecida

Judith Durham of the Seekers, and Olivia Newton John have just joined the choir above in the heavens, and with open arms I hope Karen has insisted they stand next to her. Olivia was Karen's big friend in the business. They both had astronomical hits in the 1970's...

Thanks for sharing this one. I'd never heard it before tonight.

Her voice is so smooth and warm💓

Sadly, some of the Greatest Gifts to Music were also the Last Songs Legends Recorded. This one From Karen, "Grow old along with me" by John Lennon, "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding and "I got a Name" by Jim Croce. Today, we're thinking about them because Olivia Newton-John Passed away. Another Angel has joined the Heavenly Choir and the World is all the Lesser for it. RIP to all of them.

The song broke my heart then and still does today. Thanks for this reaction.

I listen to Karen Carpenters song , “Merry Christmas Darling “ every Christmas. My Mom played it when my Dad was in Vietnam in 1970. It is a sad but one of the most beautiful songs. You will love it.❤️

Olivia Newton-John has done a few duets. There's a live one with John Denver - "Fly Away" - that's 3 min long, and the studio recording of it which is about 4 min long.

I adore this song. Her voice is so very special.

Love HER ♥️

They say she was as sweet as an angel too.😢

I cried for a week when she died. I was 17 at that time & When I hear her singing it’s like I’m back in time

There is Michael Jordan and there isKaren Carpenter. Two talents we will never see enen closely matched.. R.I.P❤❤❤❤.....love you Shawn and Mel, you guys are the best.

An Angel sent from above to bless us All with her angelic voice.. Karen recorded this song in 1 take, she is 1 of a kind no other like her.. Sending my sincere sympathy to the family and fans of OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN.. May they both RIP 🙏

Beautiful reaction.

YEAH YOU GUYS, SHE JUST PIERCES THROUGH YOU, YOU CAN FEEL IT. 😊AND IT WAS JUST SO TRAGIC WHAT HAPPENED WITH HER 🙃

I love her so much. This is one of my favorite songs

Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft is my favourite carpenters song musically and Karen's Voice singing it is amazing

RIP Karen. I hope you found peace. I cried all through this video, to see her so thin and frail, and in the middle of the video it looked almost like she was too weak to hold her head up as she sang. She and Richard had such an amazing talent together.

What an incredible talent.. what a loss to the world....

The " work lead ", meaning just Richard on piano, & Karen singing, was done in May of '82. Karen was deeply anorexia , as well as doing Binge-Purge eating, & using Ipecac syrup to force vomiting. Using Ipecac every day is what killed her , as it destroued her heart muscles. After her death, Richard went back into the studio, & with the " OK Chorale " from Long Beach State University, e completed this song for the Posthumous album, " Voice Of The Heart", which came out in the Fall of '83. Karen died on 2/10/83, at 0750 hrs. That's when paramedics got to her & found her heart already dead. -------A friend of mine who was an RN like I was, took the paramedic call in the ED at Downey Regional medical Center, where Karen was transported & pronounced on arrival. -----That work-lead was THE final time Karen ever sang-----tragically.-----WolfSky9, 75 y/o