Two wonderful voices. Ella the legend, Karen Carpenter, went way too young. Her voice is just so pure, she would have done so much more. So sad.
“On the evening of 14 January, US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance sent a cable to US embassies in Paris and Tehran: “We have decided that it is desirable to establish a direct American channel to Khomeini’s entourage.”
Scum begets scum
Ella and Karen Carpenter are beyond fantastic!
There’s a matchup I never expected!
“Music, Music, Music” was a Carpenters TV special in 1980. On the Carpenters website Richard explains the recording:
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Ella Fitzgerald, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra and many other great “old school” pop singers did not lip-sync; for that matter, they would not use headphones in the studio and sing to a pre-recorded track. Karen and I, being studio animals, were used to both. As a result, this medley, featuring two great female vocalists together, posed a conundrum for me: how to get live and pre-recorded vocalists together, in two places, and two different times, on one 24-track tape for posterity?
It turned out not to be much of a problem. On Sunday, March 2, 1980, her 30th birthday, Karen recorded her selections in Studio D, A&M Studios. They might as well have been live as she got them all in one take. Since Karen and I co-owned the ABC specials, we hired a remote recording service to record Ella at the ABC television studios at Prospect Avenue, where we were videotaping. I can only say the effort was more than worth it.
Which I find a little confusing. So Karen was lip-syncing with Ella live on videotape?
I’ve never heard Karen Carpenter sing that song though I know it well from the hit George Benson cover. Carpenter had a voice that in my opinion was only matched by Nat King Cole and Linda Ronstadt. On the other hand, Ella Fitzgerald is for me another story. Her diction is perfect and she hits every note perfectly but like Streisand, she sings from the head not from the heart.
That for me is a bridge too far. It leaves me uninvolved.
This video doesn’t show Ella to her advantage. One notices she’s not standing. She’s 63 and her career will be cut short in five years by health problems.
I went to this site for some examples of her younger work. The duet with Louis Armstrong is great. They trade scat singing bits, which always fascinates me.
This website does something I’ve noticed on other sites run by younger people — flipping gender pronouns around arbitrarily. Thus for Fitzgerald’s early life:
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At the age of 17 he made his debut, by chance, as a singer in the Harlem Apollo Theater in New York, winning the Amateur Night Shows contest. Her dream was to be a dancer but she went on stage and when she saw all the people she had a nervous breakdown and then she tried to sing.
On 1935 began singing with the Chick Webb band at Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom and rose to fame with his version of the lullaby “A Tisket a Tasket” in 1938. In 1941 he began his solo career and by 1946 he adopted the bebop musical style, approaching jazz.
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“The title and subtitle of the Tablet article linked there–
The ‘Nobel Lies’ of the New Race Politics:
Individual and group differences are real. So is inequality. The contrarian Black intellectual Thomas Sowell, who turns 91 today, showed us the way to understand and to remedy both.”
Sowell, putting his own spin on the nature-nurture dichotomy, invokes culture as a great determinant in group patterns in the face of diverse environments. Another theme finds Sowell charging intellectuals with harboring self-interest in falling for and advancing schemes that ultimately put them in roles directing society. He focuses on black behavior rather than white behavior to explain outcomes for African Americans. He rejects the demand for equality of results between disparate groups as an absurdity found between no two groups anywhere. The overarching macro theme uniting these and other micro themes centers on a general questioning of accepted knowledge within scholarly circles. …
Transcendental – such beautiful voices.
I saw Ella in concert in 1979 and she was lovely. She had a gorgeous voice. She was also standing.
Sorry, I’m trying to learn/do quickly everything on the fly (within the 5 minutes), rather than compose exactly, or elsewhere first.
Not that I have been, but won’t try correct everything in the future.
Happy 4th everyone!
In case some of you missed this.
From the Times Union (Albany)
The Congressional Budget Office says that the federal budget deficit will again hit $3 trillion this year, $745 billion more than its estimate five months ago, as it takes into account the cost of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue plan.
In an updated forecast Thursday, the CBO said the deficit for the current 2021 budget year, which ends Sept. 30, will be the second-largest in history, coming in shy of last year’s record shortfall of $3.13 trillion.
Images of hell and handbaskets spring to mind.
TommyJay, you astound me! I never thought the Times Union would make an appearance on this blog. 😀
Well, that was very nice!
I’ve been saving this for a BG’s post, but it’s been a long time since the last one.
Two wonderful voices. Ella the legend, Karen Carpenter, went way too young. Her voice is just so pure, she would have done so much more. So sad.
“On the evening of 14 January, US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance sent a cable to US embassies in Paris and Tehran: “We have decided that it is desirable to establish a direct American channel to Khomeini’s entourage.”
Scum begets scum
Ella and Karen Carpenter are beyond fantastic!
There’s a matchup I never expected!
“Music, Music, Music” was a Carpenters TV special in 1980. On the Carpenters website Richard explains the recording:
___________________________________________
Ella Fitzgerald, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra and many other great “old school” pop singers did not lip-sync; for that matter, they would not use headphones in the studio and sing to a pre-recorded track. Karen and I, being studio animals, were used to both. As a result, this medley, featuring two great female vocalists together, posed a conundrum for me: how to get live and pre-recorded vocalists together, in two places, and two different times, on one 24-track tape for posterity?
It turned out not to be much of a problem. On Sunday, March 2, 1980, her 30th birthday, Karen recorded her selections in Studio D, A&M Studios. They might as well have been live as she got them all in one take. Since Karen and I co-owned the ABC specials, we hired a remote recording service to record Ella at the ABC television studios at Prospect Avenue, where we were videotaping. I can only say the effort was more than worth it.
https://www.richardandkarencarpenter.com/SN_Karen-Ella%20Medley.htm
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Which I find a little confusing. So Karen was lip-syncing with Ella live on videotape?
I’ve never heard Karen Carpenter sing that song though I know it well from the hit George Benson cover. Carpenter had a voice that in my opinion was only matched by Nat King Cole and Linda Ronstadt. On the other hand, Ella Fitzgerald is for me another story. Her diction is perfect and she hits every note perfectly but like Streisand, she sings from the head not from the heart.
That for me is a bridge too far. It leaves me uninvolved.
This video doesn’t show Ella to her advantage. One notices she’s not standing. She’s 63 and her career will be cut short in five years by health problems.
I went to this site for some examples of her younger work. The duet with Louis Armstrong is great. They trade scat singing bits, which always fascinates me.
https://debatepost.com/music/2021/07/01/on-a-day-like-today-the-unmistakable-voice-of-jazz-was-born-ella-fitzgerald/
This website does something I’ve noticed on other sites run by younger people — flipping gender pronouns around arbitrarily. Thus for Fitzgerald’s early life:
_________________________________________
At the age of 17 he made his debut, by chance, as a singer in the Harlem Apollo Theater in New York, winning the Amateur Night Shows contest. Her dream was to be a dancer but she went on stage and when she saw all the people she had a nervous breakdown and then she tried to sing.
On 1935 began singing with the Chick Webb band at Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom and rose to fame with his version of the lullaby “A Tisket a Tasket” in 1938. In 1941 he began his solo career and by 1946 he adopted the bebop musical style, approaching jazz.
_________________________________________
Bizarre.
Online petition to stop extreme gun control bills:
https://jbs.org/alert/stop-extreme-gun-control-bills-2/
Thanks huxley, that certainly makes clear what a perfect singing voice Ella had and her fame/popularity was certainly deserved.
Two new posts today on Thomas Sowell:
A new Tablet article, via Scott Johnson at Powerline
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/07/the-soul-of-sowell.php
“The title and subtitle of the Tablet article linked there–
The ‘Nobel Lies’ of the New Race Politics:
Individual and group differences are real. So is inequality. The contrarian Black intellectual Thomas Sowell, who turns 91 today, showed us the way to understand and to remedy both.”
And from Daniel J. Flynn at American Spectator (an excerpt)
https://spectator.org/thomas-sowell-biography-jason-riley/
Transcendental – such beautiful voices.
I saw Ella in concert in 1979 and she was lovely. She had a gorgeous voice. She was also standing.
Ella singing a love song;
https://youtu.be/uUH7MLLMkL4
Thank you for the duet with Karen Carpenter.
* “The Noble …”
Sorry, I’m trying to learn/do quickly everything on the fly (within the 5 minutes), rather than compose exactly, or elsewhere first.
Not that I have been, but won’t try correct everything in the future.
Happy 4th everyone!
In case some of you missed this.
From the Times Union (Albany)
Images of hell and handbaskets spring to mind.
TommyJay, you astound me! I never thought the Times Union would make an appearance on this blog. 😀
Well, that was very nice!
I’ve been saving this for a BG’s post, but it’s been a long time since the last one.
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-07-at-11.07.19-AM.png?w=1012&ssl=1