The Carpenters - Gold: Greatest Hits | Carpenters, Karen Carpenter

The Carpenters - Gold: Greatest Hits | Carpenters, Karen Carpenter | First VHS Movie I Ever Bought

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	The Carpenters - Gold: Greatest Hits Carpenters, Karen Carpenter A&M, 2002 average customer review:based on 37 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

It's a measure of the ongoing popularity of Karen and Richard Carpenter that the 2002 release of this video collection in DVD format comes nearly 20 years after Karen's death. The duo's heyday mostly preceded the MTV age, so this 15-song, 55-minute anthology is a bit of a visual hodgepodge, composed of still photos, footage from TV shows and concerts, promo clips, fleeting attempts at conceptual videos, and other weirdness (film of Carpenters albums being pressed on the assembly line? Hey, whatever). You'll see an array of bad haircuts and outfits and a whole lot of lip-syncing, but in the end, it's the music that counts. And the Carpenters' signature sound, with its brilliant arrangements, its lush harmonies, and Karen's exquisite alto voice, was easy-listening pop at its finest. If nothing else, Carpenters: Gold offers another chance to hear that music in all its glory. --Sam Graham

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The Carpenters - Gold: Greatest Hits

My name is Borovikov Alexandr
Hello from Arkhangelsk! (Russia)
I the professional musician.
To me 51 years also I know sense in good music!
Tune, clearness of performance(fulfillment) of group, sweetness of a voice Karen
And as with taste selected hits, good sound and good quality video
This disk, have forced to adhere to a sofa not only me, but also my friends
For want of survey of this command. I for a long time wanted to acquire the Carpenters, on video, but as it was not possible, and presently it is possible to see and to hear practically all!
The boys! - purchase this disk - not will regret(pity)!

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First VHS Movie I Ever Bought

A little more than five years after I first got into the Carpenters (January 2, 1985), we finally got a VCR. My first move was to go down to the same store where I bought my first Carpenters tape (Camelot Music, now FYE) and buy this video.

Excellent.

Admittedly, a 'dated' product. It was released on February 28, 1985, and features 13 of the Carpenters songs set to music video. Now you have to remember that MTV hit the air in August 1981 and Karen Carpenter died about 18 months later (to the day, in fact). So the Carpenters, who were by now a lounge act, did not have a lot of the old songs set to video. What they did do, however, was get a bunch of their old TV appearances and put them together. It opens with "We've Only Just Begun," a 1973 version from a Bob Hope special. It passes through "Those Good Old Dreams," a retrospective with childhood pictures of Karen and Rich. I don't remember the order beyond that, but I do recall a few facts about the videos.

"Top of the World" is from their 1976 TV special with John Denver. "Beechwood 4-5789" is a sophomoric video set to a decent version of an avant-garde song. "Ticket To Ride" was filmed on Karen's 20th birthday (March 2, 1970) in Squaw Valley, California. "Please Mr. Postman" is from Disneyland while "Only Yesterday" has Richard and Karen at Huntington Gardens in Pasadena. "There's A Kind of Hush" is from their 1976 Japanese tour. And "Close To You" is from their 1971 summer series, "Make Your Own Kind of Music."

If you are a Carpenters fan, you will enjoy the music, but some of the videos are incredibly cheap because videos just weren't done back then for the most part.

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The Greatest ...

The beautiful singing voice of Karen can enjoy itself to the all-songs last, also mixing a precious picture. It is covered by the hit song from the beginning to the last, probably song selection is also substantial, and it could be said also as a best album. Although there are [ an image ] oldness and indistinctness for a while, considering an age, since camera work is very good, it is beautiful.
Various scenes, such as a figure in Karen which sings "Please Mr.Postman" happily in Disneyland, and the stage in "There's A Kind Of Hush", are also seen.
The figure sung so that Richard may have the outstanding talent and it may look at Karen with love is wonderful. Just by there being older brother Richard with the outstanding talent, I hope that Karen could also be lively and was able to be sung.
I recommend to the direction referred to as liking to regard as their songs and the image like a material especially.

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Carpenter DVD Review

Being a Carpenter fan most of my life... I enjoy anything that has to do with them. This product was no exception. Thank you very much

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