06 Jul 14
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Don't know if we have enough folks over age fifty to get any voting in on this topic, but I'll put it out there. 😛
I was reading the comments generated by Karen Carpenter's version of 'Johnny Angel' and noticed roughly a 50/50 split on whether she did it better or worse than the years-earlier version by Shelley Fabares.
The upper link goes to Karen C, the lower to Shelley F.
I will withhold my opinion for a time.
07 Jul 14
Originally posted by Paul Dirac II50/50 split Karens a better singer but it sounds overproduced Shelley's version just seems to fit.
Don't know if we have enough folks over age fifty to get any voting in on this topic, but I'll put it out there. 😛
I was reading the comments generated by Karen Carpenter's version of 'Johnny Angel' and noticed roughly a 50/50 split on whether she did it better or worse than the years-earlier version by Shelley Fabares.
http://www.youtube.com/w ...[text shortened]... he upper link goes to Karen C, the lower to Shelley F.
I will withhold my opinion for a time.
07 Jul 14
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Originally posted by Paul Dirac III see what you mean about KC, but Shelly's version has some kind of weird audio problem, I went to it twice and it came out the same both times, could not hear much of anything, just like 99% of the signal was distorted almost out of recognition. Will try backing out, closing everything, coming back in, see if that changes.
Don't know if we have enough folks over age fifty to get any voting in on this topic, but I'll put it out there. 😛
I was reading the comments generated by Karen Carpenter's version of 'Johnny Angel' and noticed roughly a 50/50 split on whether she did it better or worse than the years-earlier version by Shelley Fabares.
http://www.youtube.com/w ...[text shortened]... he upper link goes to Karen C, the lower to Shelley F.
I will withhold my opinion for a time.
I found this, an actual video from 1961:
Audio is perfect, black and white video.
09 Jul 14
Originally posted by Paul Dirac IIOne of the YouTube comments is, "I had a friend who told me he had heard some expert say that the two most distinctive female singing voices of the 20th century were Ella Fitzgerald and Karen Carpenter."
I will withhold my opinion for a time.
That may well be, but my opinion is that 'Johnny Angel' is a song centered on youthful longing, and Shelley Fabares at eighteen had a voice that could put that across. Karen Carpenter did not at twenty-three. Heck, she probably didn't even at fourteen, her voice matured so early.
13 Jul 14
Originally posted by Paul Dirac IIStreisand doesn't fit into a 20th century distinctive voice?
One of the YouTube comments is, "I had a friend who told me he had heard some expert say that the two most distinctive female singing voices of the 20th century were Ella Fitzgerald and Karen Carpenter."
That may well be, but my opinion is that 'Johnny Angel' is a song centered on youthful longing, and Shelley Fabares at eighteen had a voice that ...[text shortened]... did not at twenty-three. Heck, she probably didn't even at fourteen, her voice matured so early.
16 Aug 14
Originally posted by Paul Dirac III'm 59 and think Karen did a pretty good job on this one. Was it better than the earlier one? Who knows. I liked the Carperters, my only complaint was they depended too much on the music of others, rather than writing their own songs. The Carpenters music was a bit too stickey sweet for me, but I'll have to admit...Karen had the voice of angels!🙂
Don't know if we have enough folks over age fifty to get any voting in on this topic, but I'll put it out there. 😛
I was reading the comments generated by Karen Carpenter's version of 'Johnny Angel' and noticed roughly a 50/50 split on whether she did it better or worse than the years-earlier version by Shelley Fabares.
http://www.youtube.com/w ...[text shortened]... he upper link goes to Karen C, the lower to Shelley F.
I will withhold my opinion for a time.