Yesterday Once More (The Carpenters) reaction

This 1973 gem was the biggest hit worldwide for The Carpenters -- a gorgeous, flowing "sad" song, replete with emotional depth: Karen's divine vocals, Richard's piano work, violins, horns, drums. Grab some wine and enjoy!

[@joemacinnis1972]

Simply the best female singer I've ever heard, period

[@dixiehuston4869]

Agree 100%. So true

[@johnb.2518]

Ok, just go ahead and say it : "Greatest voice of all time!"

[@ChuckHackney]

Couldn't agree more...greatest.

[@gh9111]

There just aren't enough adjectives to explain Karen's voice. Instantly recognizable on the first note. I was 16 in 1973 and the Carpenters were all over the radio and television back then. A devastating loss for mankind when she passed.

[@Perfect_Blend]

Yep, no mistaking Karen's drumming style on this. Joe Osborn on bass, Tony Peluso on guitar. Takes me back to a simpler time.

[@billwoodruff9100]

John Bettis co-wrote this song with Richard. Karen made it a masterpiece

[@Coupydog]

I was in 7th Grade back then. Each Friday our teacher would play a song that one of the students brought in. She had an old turntable. When she played this, you could've heard a pin drop. Everyone wanted to listen & that was unusual for my class of goofball students LoL

[@daxmusix]

Pretty damn amazing that Karen could stop a class of goofball students, huh?! I was also in seventh grade 🤓

[@johnmckee1082]

Karen’s voice is perfection!

[@jillsample1846]

I'd always put her music in when I hit the road. Just takes you into a different world!!!

[@bjsteinhoff9810]

I've recently watched several KZbin reviews of The Carpenters, in which the reviewers had never heard of them, much less any of their songs. So hard to believe but sadly true. 😢

[@themelodicmariner3323]

Love her voice. Have to say this isn’t my favorite Carpenter song but it does highlight her vocal quality very well. Thanks for sharing : )

[@stevetournay6103]

This song was a commentary on the vogue in the early 70s for jukebox era songs. On the same album (Now & Then, 1973) is an oldies medley; one of the songs rendered in part in the medley is End Of The World, which Karen concludes on a baritone note... No one, ever, could sing a big band era torch song like Karen. Check out, especially, I Can Dream, Can't I, from the 1975 Horizon album. 1938 Sammy Fain ballad standard. Orchestration by 1950s bandleader Billy May. It is celestial...

[@buukkreider544]

Thank you for your reaction, sir. Could you also do one on their song "A Place to Hideaway"? You and I might be the same age; and I also have a very deep appreciation of her voice and Richard's work. Peace.

[@Coupydog]

"Hideaway" is one of her most beautiful songs they were justly proud of, released in c1971. My absolute fav of their repertoire!! 💖

[@dixiehuston4869]

I so enjoy watching you listen, along with your speaking of your knowledge of the Carpenter's work

[@robinmcpherson7981]

Love that song and my music way back then. Best Time Travel ever is Music.

[@lindaaumiller7592]

I loved this song. I was up in RI at my uncle's for 2 weeks.

[@eggy1962]

i call Karen the Queen of Diction purely because she makes you hear and feel EVERY word, a wonderful example for any budding female singer on how it should be done

[@Coupydog]

Agreed 120%. I still don't understand how Rolling Stone Magazine rated her #94 out of 100 Greatest SINGERS of All time? Even harder to fathom was Bruce Springsteen rated at #37 or .. based on that, supposedly a far better than Karen? What's wrong here?

[@michaelmosier5627]

Great description. She was one of a kind for all the right reasons.

[@michaelasay8587]

Hey buddy ...saw her in 73 when I was 10. The only good thing my parents did for me and my sister.

[@brucemorrow5271]

The magic of Karen Carpenter ❤️

[@festidious2644]

Are you THE Bruce Morrow AKA Cousin Brucie from WABC New York?

[@brucemorrow5271]

@@festidious2644 Lol no, but you aren’t the first and only one who has asked that. Just a 🇨🇦 dude loving KC! What can I play for you? 🤣 I actually flew down from Victoria in June to pay my respects to her at her final resting place and visited Downey to see where the magic began 😘

[@festidious2644]

@@brucemorrow5271 Thanks for clearing that up. It's nice to hear that you are so into The Carpenters. My brother and I used to listen to WABC every night from 120 miles north of Toronto. It's amazing how far AM radio can travel at night (we couldn't get it during the day). Cousin Brucie was groovy but then most of their DJs were back in the 60s and 70s.

[@brucemorrow5271]

@@festidious2644 Cool! I don’t know if you are familiar with the book ‘Carpenters The Musical Legacy’ that came out last year. It’s crazy but one of the authors heard that I was going to visit ‘my Graceland’ as I called it. He wanted to meet up, we did, had lunch together and he gave me some stuff from his personal collection. A big pic of Karen and Richard with Richards autograph….very cool!

[@festidious2644]

@@brucemorrow5271 That must have been very special; thanks for sharing.

[@juliebergmann2890]

Money was in the basement....Karen was a pure alto.

[@dixiehuston4869]

I Love your deep appreciation of Karen's voice and talent..

[@pauldrew3696]

In her day her voice was just taken for granted, too perfect was the theme from the critics. Someone that comes along once in a hundred years and that’s all they could say.

[@johnb.2518]

There are far too many great examples of Karen "cruising in the basement" to even start mentioning, but perhaps the best example of her beautiful, low, resonant contralto can be heard to awesome perfection in the verses of the song "Where Do I Go From Here?", in which she reaches some of the lowest notes she ever recorded, and sustains them thru these verses...just a simply mind blowing experience...

[@umbertocalvini7429]

Carpenters 55th anniversary celebration fanfest April 24-28, 2024 in Downey California 👏🎉🤗

[@pedrokass2973]

Karen had a wonderful taste to sing, she is exquisite in the way of phrasing, dinámics, exquisite in manage her vocal instrument, exquisite in comunícate emotions, she is the perfect voice, the perfect singer.

[@jerryhashow]

. * 🏆* . ＊＊ ＊＊＊ ＊＊ E T I Life Achievement Award ＊＊ ＊＊＊＊＊ . The Carpenters . 【 ET I 👽（ Extraterrestrial Intelligence Society ）Los Angeles 20 23 】

[@michaelasay8587]

Now u must know much of this wonderful woman.

[@Tessiefaye]

I remember those songs in the 60's where they sang Sha la la and Shing a ling a ling and whoa whoa whoa. Those were words in a song.

[@alghazali7889]

Good Song,Great Sound,Carpenters.

[@sunshineresujento2301]

karen carpenter is the greatest singer of all time one in a million ❤

[@hahatoldyouso]

The harmonies of both Karen and Richard together or where he comes in are my favourite....perfection!

[@khenley7100]

Top 5 of all time ! Period

[@thomastaylor9237]

Thanks for the mention daX! It was my pleasure to accidentally assist! Thanks for a Carpenters song too! Great reaction as always. This is one of my favorites. There are so many. The unreleased single of “I Just Fall in Love Again” (recorded before Anne Murray!) is a masterpiece. The RPO version from 2018 is even better IMHO. Your reaction to either Carpenter version someday would be wonderful to hear. Another favorite is the previously unreleased “Ordinary Fool” (finally in the Essential Collection from 1991) is phenomenal. Thanks again!

[@daxmusix]

I have been meaning for quite some time, Thomas, to jump in to Anne Murray. My mom and I both loved her very much. And that is a terrific song. I’ll be doing lots by her and more carpenters, including the ones you mentioned. Thanks my friend. And sure appreciate the help the other day. 😉

[@thomastaylor9237]

@@daxmusix Anne Murray is terrific. It was funny to hear “I Fall in Love Again” by Carpenters and I thought that they did a cover. Nope! It was Anne who did the cover. So did Dusty Springfield. Both are outstanding, but I am biased! Lol.

[@johnb.2518]

Agree on "I Just Fall in Love Again", especially the RPO enhanced version...Anne Murray's rendition is lovely, and the overall arrangement/orchestration is "lighter" than the Carpenter's, which has a tendency in parts to cover or drown out Karen's incomparable voice...another upgraded gem on the RPO album is their version of the Beatles' "Ticket to Ride", which is a spectacular recording...

[@reggiebryant253]

Dax, that was so good, you're gonna make me join Patreon. 🎧🎵

[@daxmusix]

Go ahead, Reggie, make my day! 😉

[@jamesdavies4004]

@daXmuaiX fan of carpenters, have biography on Karen Carpenter little girl blue curious about her vocal range you say she was a low contralto, I have read sources saying she was a Mezzo Soprano, think the biography mentioned above says she was an alto. What do you think her real vocal range was. I think Richard said the money was in basement.

[@katiegrundle9900]

richard said somewhere she had a 4 octave range. i think she is a mezzo, but can go down into that contralto range without sounding manly. the true contraltos cant belt it out in the upper range

[@fabricioalves928]

Nenhuma outra cantora transmite tanta sensibilidade e tanto sentimento. Nenhuma voz consegue ser tão pura e sentimental. Nenhuma outra possui uma pronúncia tão impecável das palavras

[@michaelasay8587]

Hey....u look younger!

[@daxmusix]

You’re too kind. 😉

[@michaelasay8587]

@@daxmusix you in that terrible US? Come live in paradise Puerto Vallarta! No problemas here....nuttin but beauty...it's cheap, clean, so friendly and non violent.