Rainy Days and Mondays (The Carpenters) reaction

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Күн бұрын

Violins, the sax, the harmonica, soaring choral backup and Karen's divine contralto make what could be a doldrum song into a hopeful piece of mastery. Simply lovely!

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@bonnefraher1709 2 жыл бұрын

No one can bring a tear to my eye like Karen. She is to me the best female vocalist in pop history. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame needs to stop ignoring them.

@willarth9186 7 ай бұрын

Karen was incredible and for 40 years I thought I'd never hear that pure voice again but then I heard Tori Holub on KZbin singing The Carpenters' hit Merry Christmas, Darling and you would swear that Karen has been reincarnated as a blonde!!!

@brucemorrow5271 2 жыл бұрын

No theatrics needed with KC, just pure magic ❤️

@mikebowman8680 2 жыл бұрын

Sheer perfection is the only way I know to describe her voice. No autotune in those days and nobody now can compare even with it. What a voice!

@willarth9186 7 ай бұрын

@dixiehuston4869 Жыл бұрын

Great analysis..your respect and appreciation of Karen and Richard's work is so heart felt.

@willarth9186 7 ай бұрын

@scottyh8494 2 жыл бұрын

If only she knew what an amazing talent she actually was. The best voice in music history for this style of music.

@joemacinnis1972 Жыл бұрын

To me, she was simply the best female singer I've ever heard period!

@sammy2840 2 жыл бұрын

Her vibrato is in perfect time! Amazing!

@BO_Riddle 2 жыл бұрын

The best female singer that ever lived. God given voice. She just has to open her mouth.

@pauldrew3696 Жыл бұрын

I disagree. I just think she was the best singer that ever lived.

@cocoboobenstein 2 жыл бұрын

There will never been another voice like that. Tears your heart out

@willarth9186 7 ай бұрын

@zigman8550 Жыл бұрын

That picture at 2:39 of her sitting behind her drum set gets me everytime.❤

@larrymead151 2 жыл бұрын

Most beautiful female voice I ever heard and she was a total babe.

@jodyharmon9369 6 ай бұрын

So much talent and emotion wrapped into a 21 year old-its mind boggling!

@LillyMarz777 2 жыл бұрын

We are the same age. I was 7 when I heard the Bee Gees on the radio and became a life long fan. Karen was so beautiful. The voice of an angel. Damn those people that made her feel ugly and less than.

@daxmusix 2 жыл бұрын

I always thought she had that sort of cute and sweet girl next-door prettiness about her. Always loved her. 😉

@paulk9985 2 жыл бұрын

Sadly, Karen's mother played a role in her feelings.

@kennethward4985 Жыл бұрын

The juice media attacked her, and her brother was always wasted on Quaaludes and didnt notice she weighed 83 lbs.

@patcurrie9888 Жыл бұрын

@@paulk9985 Agnes is rotting in hell.

@lindaaumiller7592 2 жыл бұрын

I loved hearing Karen sing the voice of an angel.

@abevillanueva1974 2 жыл бұрын

How lucky to have grown up in the 70s...the GREATEST decade of music!

@paulk9985 2 жыл бұрын

I was there, too. It was absolutely the GREATEST. I can still remember when I first heard Carpenters music on the radio. Fifty+ years later and I am still mesmerized. Classics always live on.

@tintinquirit8732 Жыл бұрын

This women was a human butterfly

@parsifal40002 Жыл бұрын

Karen had beautiful expressive eyes. Her vocal technique was flawless. Beautiful phrasing a voice teacher's dream! I earned a degree in voice.

@JamesAnderson-gw9ez 2 жыл бұрын

Karen carpenter was so beautiful to listen to

@Jockstrap61 Жыл бұрын

My dear Karen... you passed away 40 years ago, but I still love you, as I did in Grade School. We would skate while they played "Top Of The World," as I marched up the steps, after Mass at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Jackson, Michigan, into our school building next door, "Close To You," was playing in my head. No words can express your unique voice! You've given comfort to everyone who has heard your angelic voice!

@maryannarep Жыл бұрын

Played Carpenters and Carol King all the time in highschool. It's 2022 now and bawling my eyes out. She left us way too soon. And I can't say enough about Paul Williams. Google him sometime.

@MikoManII 2 жыл бұрын

Let's not forget that she was also one of the best drummers of the time, (possibly all time)!

@bruschmidt9943 2 жыл бұрын

Unbelievably gifted, beautiful & talented!

@johnb.2518 2 жыл бұрын

A really, really good drummer - but maybe not the best of all time - but as good as most, and better than many...

@kennethward4985 Жыл бұрын

Puuuuleeeese, she was one of the greatest singers ever, but her drums were minimal and nothing special. LOL

@Timoeltejano 2 жыл бұрын

This was for sure one of the very few songs by the Carpenters that I would own up to liking back in the day. Love her voice and the music. Still gets to me when I listen to it Thanks for reminding me that I do have heart strings which occasionally do need tugging.

@mlondon4523 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for finding the words. Karen so effortlessly reaches into our crevices, into the places and spaces of which may be unaware until we hear her. I have been on a two-day aural journey with The Carpenters. Even though I was a child of the 60s and 70s and loved them then, it is only as an adult that I have an appreciation for what magical combination of their talents drew me in at that time, and continue to hold me, spellbound.

@Perfect_Blend 2 жыл бұрын

Love, love, love, Karen!!! Always.

@Wass_85 2 жыл бұрын

As easy listening as you'll ever get. I always get a bittersweet feeling listening to her sing as her story is tragic to say the least.

@daxmusix 2 жыл бұрын

Yes it is!

@johnb.2518 2 жыл бұрын

Talent "off the charts" - as good as it ever got...

@kangaroojack7678 7 ай бұрын

This song makes me cry often because we can all relate to sadness loneliness Karen was suffering from it to she sang this live and playing the drums at the same time Karen is for me 1 of the greatest female singers if not the best singer in female history the carpenters a were the best group of the 70 s generation love Karen tell the day I die she touched my Mexican heart

@pauldhoff 2 жыл бұрын

My late wife Lorraine was so upset when Karen Carpenter died.

@pureheaven8647 2 жыл бұрын

I was three when they started and saw them in concert when I was nine. I have been and remain a life long fan of the late Karen Carpenter and the Carpenter’s wonderful music

@F16_viper_pilot 8 ай бұрын

This is one of a number of her songs that I can’t listen to without shedding more than a few tears.😢❤

@craigpaske9351 2 жыл бұрын

Sublime! Absolutely sublime!

@raydelrosario2366 7 ай бұрын

I can't imagine a music world without the Carpenters coming along....like a fresh breeze.

@andrewbird57 2 жыл бұрын

I hadn't heard a Karen Carpenter song for decades, then a few years ago I included a couple of her songs in a holiday mix I put together. Hearing her voice again after so long, it felt like an old friend reaching out to me from our shared youth. I was 13 when Karen and Richard hit the scene in 1970 with Close To You, I loved that song. They followed that up with another hit, We've Only Just Begun, which, growing up in Nor Cal, I had previously heard, with a guy singing it, in commercials for our corner bank (Crocker). As I got older my tastes in music changed and I didn't follow the Carpenters as much, though I always watched their TV specials. Then in 1983 we lost Karen. It came on the heels of losing my own beloved and talented little sis, who died young and suddenly a few months before. I always associate Karen with my sister Mary.

@willarth9186 7 ай бұрын

@bishonen2pm 2 жыл бұрын

You basically voiced my feelings. Absolutely agreed. Do more carpenters reactions please.

@FoxSpookyMulder 11 ай бұрын

It means a lot to me to know that other people can hear and feel the unique talent and immense beauty that was Karen Carpenter. I first heard her in 1970 when I was a12 year old inpatient in a clinic for severe asthmatics. My dad and brother had died of asthma in the years before. I used to stay awake at night with the radio under my pillow waiting for Close to You to be played. Ever since, the sound of her voice has been the warm blanket over my life through the best and worst of times. I'm still broken hearted for her passing, but I know that I share this with her many thousands of fans around the world, who like me, are comforted by her legacy.

@lindasmith7814 2 жыл бұрын

I also was a rock and pop listener in the 70’s. My folks belonged to the Columbia record club and chose to keep this album. I’m so happy they did !

@willarth9186 7 ай бұрын

@haroldwilson950 2 жыл бұрын

Rainy Days and Mondays; all to be tolerated by listening to that wonderful voice! (all the while, gently forgetting her tragic fate) ooooh, the backround chorals indeed, smoooth, and i love the sax' when done proper...thanX daX. 💖

@jackteppo9633 Жыл бұрын

She.plays the drums too😊❤

@EconAdviser 2 жыл бұрын

Paul Williams ALSO wrote their first big hit: We've Only Just Begun, which they heard first as a savings bank commercial in L.A., where used to always seen their ads. Paul also added a middle part (it had none) for them, and the rest is history.

@brucemorrow5271 Жыл бұрын

2nd biggest hit, Close To You went to #1 in 1970.

@jbs256 8 ай бұрын

It was The Crocker Bank, a commercial bank. Can you imagine Richard just watching TV and boom! Same thing happened with Superstar, he saw Bette Middler singing Groupie (Superstar) on The Tonight Show and the rest is musical history.

@sirsuse 2 жыл бұрын

I think I was 8 years old or so when I feel in love with Karen's voice.

@janroberts8238 2 жыл бұрын

Intelligent emotion and the brilliant Carpenters. Thanks.

@steveberry1826 Жыл бұрын

U nailed it mate. 🇦🇺🤗

@mr.x5458 Жыл бұрын

I was so in love with Karen back in the day

@stevetournay6103 Жыл бұрын

Quite a lot of the songs Carpenters recorded were covers. Richard was a gifted composer and arranger, but also a genius at song selection. They had notable success with songs by Bacharach/David, Williams/Nichols, and Leon Russell, among others... Richard did invent a significant pop subgenre: the power ballad. Goodbye To Love, from 1972, with its ballad lead and fuzz-guitar solos, was something truly new, and you can draw a straight line from that song to Amy Lee and Evanescence. Richard solo? Not often, but yes. He tried to carry on solo after Karen's passing in 1983. His solo album Time, from 1987, though rather uneven, is interesting and worth a listen. Something In Your Eyes (Dusty Springfield singing lead) was a modest radio hit in Canada and Australia, and for When Time Was All We Had, an overt tribute to Karen, Richard revisits the early multitrack Carpenters harmonies on his own...

@fabricioalves928 2 жыл бұрын

Karen foi a voz mais doce e pura que já ouvi. Ela foi a voz de um anjo na Terra

@jameswaters8774 Жыл бұрын

She’s simply the best ❤. Thanks for the review.

@jeanmariezeyen111 6 ай бұрын

the more often i listen to this song, the more subtilities i hear...and the sadder i get, that i never was at a concert (missed the ONE, they gave in luxembourg), and that i will never be able to see her...most of her songs make you want to take her in your arms and comfort her, or give her the love she obviously was missing.. 🥲

@JamesAnderson-gw9ez 2 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful song

@lanceburris7850 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing today can compare. That is not just an old man speaking. I live a block from BottleRock in Napa which serves up nothing but repetitive noise amplified to the threshold of pain. It is the product of a soulless/mindless, commercial culture.

@wileycousins9209 2 жыл бұрын

Ha! You're just a spring chicken, Dax. I have you beat by a couple of years! My Nana died in 1971 and left me with enough money to buy my first stereo and headphones. With my Summer job money I began buying records. I bought the typical "cool" records at the time, but also bought some "Uncool" records as well. As much as I wore out Led Zeppelin or Rolling Stones records, I also played The Carpenters or The Tijuana Brass. My friends thought I was nuts. I'm with you, though.....Karen Carpenter's voice rattled my rafters. I thought it then - and still think of it now - as one of the greatest sounds a human voice has ever made. The world seemed to stop whenever she sang.

@johnb.2518 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the girl with the golden voice - incomparable - One cannot not listen to her sing - whatever one is doing one must stop and hang on her every word, every note - compelling to the point of no power to resist - awesomely gorgeous...

@daxmusix 2 жыл бұрын

Ha! Moi aussi, Wiley. I would go from Zeppelin to the Carpenters to CCR to Don McLean to the Stones to the Supremes, all in a two hour stretch. My mom would just give me a smirky look. 🤓 Truly, Karen had one of those voices in which you feel like her entire being, her entire soul, comes out in every syllable and sweeps over you like the morning tide. The way she says, in a low rumbly contralto, the word “after” at the start of “Only Yesterday” … Stops me in my tracks, even if I’m at a grocery store and hear it come on. Maybe it’s not right of me, but I tend to measure people by how they respond to the Carpenters and to Grace.

@bruschmidt9943 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Wiley, was "The Guess Who" with Burton Cummings & Randy Bachman in your collection back then?

@wileycousins9209 2 жыл бұрын

@@bruschmidt9943 - I cheated a lot because my cousin left her entire record collection at our house when she moved to the East Coast for a teaching job. She had The Guess Who....and yes....I played it a lot.

@wileycousins9209 2 жыл бұрын

The very first LPs I bought were Sergeant Peppers and Bridge Over Troubled Water. I was 13 years old and had a Summer job. I thought I was rich. From there, it was Three Dog Night, Rod Stewart's "Every Picture Tells a Story", and then The Carpenters. The Rolling Stones were next....along with Led Zeppelin. Then I got deep into The Beatles and buying 45s of CCR. The Stones and Beatles and CCR triggered my love of old R & B and 50s Rock & Roll, so I went all the way back into the 1920s with the old Blues players. I must have spent a couple thousand dollars on LPs by the time I was 15 years old. Savoy Brown, The Faces, Pete Johnson and Joe Turner, Jimmy Yancey and Blind Lemon Jefferson.....Finally Aerosmith and The Fabulous T-Birds.....and into Sinatra and Ella..... Whew! I still have cassette tapes in boxes and drawers. LPs from the time people livied in caves.....and CDs everywhere. Music has been my life. I sometimes feel like the richest man in the world.

@bruschmidt9943 Жыл бұрын

Hi Dax, well done, you could feel every word she sang. I wouldn't have called Karen a woman then, as she was just 21 when this was recorded. We're the same age now & I refer to ladies that age as "girls."

@paulk9985 2 жыл бұрын

I read that, on order to enhance the feeling, Karen recorded this lying down on the floor of the studio. Maybe it was the studio attached to their home in Downey, CA.

@jlsc4125 Жыл бұрын

I always think she's singing this about her own life and what she was going through.

@jackteppo9633 Жыл бұрын

An Angel's messenger 😊

@buukkreider544 Жыл бұрын

You talked about being young and in love, I started to hear of Olivia Newton John and fell in love with her - but I secretly had an ear for The Carpenters and Karen. She is my number 01, Linda Ronstadt is number 02, and Olivia is number 03. Karen's voice seems to go DEEPER inside of me than anyone else. I hope you would do a reaction to "Bless the Beasts and the Children" and/or "Top of The World" -- thank you again for your insight.

@jbs256 8 ай бұрын

No worries about jealousy. Karen and Olivia were the best of friends. So missed but now singing together in heaven.

@michaelbeerbados3291 2 жыл бұрын

Nice to see the star of BABE pig in the city reviewing music !!!

@davidjohnson8818 Жыл бұрын

I love Rainy days and Mondays my favorite Carpenters song because I have depression and can relate and she sings the song with great feeling

@dinodasbunce6224 Жыл бұрын

I wish people would stop saying that this is a sad song, it is a song about life. To paraphrase, in the beginning of the song she is telling us that there is nothing really wrong, life just sucks at the moment, its normal, nothing to see here, move along. When the song gets to the bridge she tell us that she has this beat with the lyrics: Funny, but it seems I always wind up here with you Nice to know somebody loves me Funny, but it seems that it's the only thing to do Run and find the one who loves me (the one who loves me) She is loved and she knows it and all she has to do is go to this person and everything is fine. That is the important message in the song. Life my get you down now and then but if you have people around you who love you then all will be well.

@itsonlyme4265 2 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@maryebird4966 Жыл бұрын

No one has ever been as wonderful to listen to as Karen. Even the way she pronounced words in her songs was remarkable! Try listening to the words of a song by Karen Carpenter and imagine an artist who can perform it better. I dare you!! I've been loving her music for more than 50 years! I never would have believed that simple pronunciation of words in a song could make you enamored to an artist, but here I am, enamored!!! I hate being in love with dead people!!!!

@bruschmidt9943 Жыл бұрын

It's perfectly okay. Many are still in love with Mozart, Bach & Haydn of the Baroque Era.

@willarth9186 7 ай бұрын

@Alcagaur1 4 ай бұрын

Despite the incomparable vocals, Karen was always a drummer who had to be coaxed to sing, and did so only because she adored her big brother. In a world where she felt greater self-worth, who knows what might have been, for good or ill.

@elizabethdumas4147 Жыл бұрын

I always think of Karen when it's a rainy day and Monday. Anyone who has experienced depression understand her music. People often think that depressed people need to listen to peppy happy music, but it's not true. That peppy and happy music can make things worse.