Yesterday Once More: The Carpenters Reader - Softcover

Schmidt, Randy L.

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ISBN 10: 1613744145 ISBN 13: 9781613744147

Verlag: Chicago Review Press, 2012

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With a string of number-one hits, the Carpenters were responsible for some of the most popular music of the 1970s. Yesterday Once More collects more than fifty articles, interviews, essays, reviews, and reassessments that chronicle the lives and career of this brother-sister musical duo. Pop journalists and historians—such as Daniel J. Levitin, John Tobler, Digby Diehl, Ray Coleman, Robert Hilburn, and Lester Bangs—provide insights into the music and personalities of the Carpenters, as do Karen and Richard themselves. This new edition has been revised and expanded to include close to a dozen pieces that were not in the previous edition, some of them previously unpublished.

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Randy L. Schmidt teaches music in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He served as creative consultant for several television documentaries on the Carpenters, including the E! True Hollywood Story, A&E&;s Biography, and VH1&;s Behind the Music. He is the author of Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter. He lives in Denton, Texas.

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Yesterday Once More

The Carpenters Reader

By Randy L. Schmidt

Chicago Review Press Incorporated

Copyright © 2012 Randy L. Schmidt
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-61374-414-7

Contents

Foreword by Daniel J. Levitin, 
Introduction by Randy L. Schmidt, 
PART I WE'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN, 
"The Carpenters: They've Only Just Begun" DEAN GAUTSCHY, TV RADIO MIRROR, 
"Moondust and Starlight: The Close to You Album" JOHN TOBLER, 
"The Carpenters and the Creeps" LESTER BANGS, ROLLING STONE, 
"Karen in the Kitchen: Who Says a Young Female Superstar Can't Be a Top-Notch Cook?" A&M RECORDS PRESS RELEASE, 
"They Put Romance into Rock: On the Road with the Carpenters, Who Still Believe Mother Knows Best" DIGBY DIEHL, TV GUIDE, 
"The Carpenters: Nailing Down Success" FIONA MACDOUGALL, 'TEEN, 
Concert Review: Sands, Las Vegas, March 24, 1971 VARIETY, 
"'Superstar': The Carpenters' Surprisingly Dirty Ditty" JOHNNY BLACK, BLENDER, 
"Rainy Days and Carpenters Always Get Me Down" KEN MICHAELS, CHICAGO TRIBUNE MAGAZINE, 
"Why They're on Top?" DAN ARMSTRONG, SOUTHEAST NEWS, 
Concert Review: Riviera, Las Vegas, September 22, 1972 51 VARIETY, 
"Karen Carpenter: A Drummer Who Sang" ROD FOGARTY, MODERN DRUMMER, 
"The Choral Sound of the Carpenters" FRANK POOFER, THE CHORAL JOURNAL, 
PART II TOP OF THE WORLD, 
"It Happens in the Middle of the Road: Confessions of a Carpenters Fan" JOHN TOBLER, 
Concert Review: Sahara, Tahoe, August 24, 1973 VARIETY, 
"The Carpenters: Soft Rock and 14 Gold Records" FRANK H. LIEBERMAN, SATURDAY EVENING POST, 
"The Carpenters: The Singles 1969–1973" MARCELLO CARLIN, THEN PLAY LONG, 
"The Carpenters: Forbidden Fruit" TOM SMUCKER, VILLAGE VOICE, 
"Up from Downey" TOM NOLAN, ROLLING STONE, 
"The Carpenters: An Interview" A&M COMPENDIUM, 
"The Carpenters: An Appraisal" TOM NOLAN, A&M COMPENDIUM, 
Concert Review: Riviera, Las Vegas, August 24, 1975 VARIETY, 
"Like TV Dinner for the Ears" DAVE MCQUAY, COLUMBIA FLIER, 
"The Carpenters 'Nail' Neil Sedaka" RONA BARRETT'S HOLLYWOOD, 
"Carpenters — Good, Clean, All-American Aggro!" RAY COLEMAN, MELODY MAKER, 
PART III THERE'S A KIND OF HUSH, 
"It's an Overdose of Pretty" JOEL MCNALLY, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL, 
"Karen Carpenter: Nothing to Hide Behind" CHARLIE TUNA, 
"Carpenters Über Alles!" RAY COLEMAN, MELODY MAKER, 
Concert Review: London Palladium, November 25, 1976 VARIETY, 
"'Surprise' by the Carpenters" ED HARRISON, BILLBOARD, 
Concert Review: Harrah's, Tahoe, August 4, 1977 VARIETY, 
"The Unwholesome Carpenters" JOEL MCNALLY, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL, 
"The Carpenters Go Country?" NANCY NAGLIN, COUNTRY MUSIC, 
Concert Review: MGM Grand, Las Vegas, March 7, 1978 VARIETY, 
"'If Somebody Would Just Let Us Know What the Problem Is ...'" BILL MORAN, CLAUDE HALL'S INTERNATIONAL RADIO REPORT, 
"The Voice of Christmas: Karen Carpenter" TED NARON, A BLOG OF MY OWN, 
"Made in America" A&M RECORDS PRESS RELEASE, 
PART IV RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS, 
"Karen Carpenter Dies in Downey" PAT MCGREEVY, DOWNEY HERALD-AMERICAN, 
"Hundreds Attend Karen Carpenter Rites" SOUTHEAST NEWS, 
"A Lesson in Art of Emotion: Karen Carpenter's Intimate Vocals Disarm a Critic" ROBERT HILBURN, LOS ANGELES TIMES, 
"Thirty Minutes with Richard Carpenter" PAT MCGREEVY, SOUTHEAST NEWS, 
"She'd Only Just Begun: Fine CBS Movie Tells Sad Story of Karen Carpenter" RON MILLER, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 
"'Karen Was Wasting Away ... I Had a Drug Problem ... and We Couldn't Help Each Other'" RICHARD CARPENTER, TV GUIDE, 
"Carpenters Telepic Boosts Record Sales" VARIETY, 
"Becoming Karen and Richard: An Interview with Cynthia Gibb and Mitchell Anderson" RANDY L. SCHMIDT, 
"Getting to the Bare Bones of Todd Haynes' Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" SHERYL FARBER, FILM THREAT, 
PART V A SONG FOR YOU, 
"Yesterday, Once More" STEPHEN WHITTY, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 
"He's Only Just Begun: Loyal Brother Brings the Carpenters' Legacy into the '90s" JANET WISCOMBE, LONG BEACH PRESSTELEGRAM, 
"Yesterday Once More: An Exclusive HITS Interview with Richard Carpenter" DAVID KONJOYAN, HITS, 
"Pop Charts: How Richard Carpenter's Lush Arrangements Turned Hit Songs into Pop Classics" DANIEL J. LEVITIN, ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN, 
"Karen Carpenter's 'Lost' LP" JERRY CROWE, LOS ANGELES TIMES, 
Album Review: Karen Carpenter TIERNEY SMITH, GOLDMINE, 
"An Interview with Richard Carpenter" GREG RULE, KEYBOARD, 
"Richard Carpenter Shows Why He's Still on Top of the World" JOHN WOOLARD, LONG BEACH PRESSTELEGRAM, 
"Rainy Days for a Sunny Girl: New Book Explores Singer's Private Torment" SARA JORDAN, MIDWEST TODAY, 
Acknowledgments, 
Contributors, 
Selected Discography, 
Selected Television Appearances, 
Credits, 
Index, 

CHAPTER 1

THE CARPENTERS

THEY'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN

Dean Gautschy

TV Radio Mirror, 1971

What a super trip! Initially they took a "Ticket to Ride" (the Beatle classic), and the Carpenters, handsome six-foot Richard and his pretty brown-eyed sister Karen, rode nonstop to fame and fortune in the spinning of this 45-rpm disc on airwaves around the world. Their second record release, "Close to You," proved an even bigger hit and the new sound introduced by the pair was sweeping the music industry — the same industry that had previously rejected their talents.

"We were under contract to RCA Victor," recalls Richard with a catlike grin. "But they wanted us to do instrumentals. We cut two records although I told them they would never sell. They were never even released as it turned out.

"But we don't feel so badly. RCA once rejected Herb Alpert."

Actually, it was Alpert who later became aware of their commercial potential. He flipped when he heard a "homemade" tape of their blended voices, and immediately signed them to a lucrative contract to record for his A&M label. It turned out to be one of the best talent deals the trumpet-playing executive has ever made.

"We've Only Just Begun" was another hit single on their road to success. But the Carpenters are continually bettering their efforts. With the smash success of Oscar-winner "For All We Know," it looks as if they will be around for a very long time, much to everyone's delight. They've already proved they're no flash in the pan — they're loaded with talent ... talent that they have been nurturing for years, which has now blossomed into stardom.

This summer proved a lot cooler because the Carpenters are such a refreshing welcome to off-season weekly television. Their Tuesday night show on NBC is called Make Your Own [Kind of] Music. The popular Doodletown Pipers and Mark Lindsay, the hip songster, also are regulars on the one-hour musical.

Already the Carpenters' success has been chronicled by music journals such as Cashbox. Recently, they were honored by their peers, receiving Grammy Awards as the best new artists and vocal group of 1970. But behind the statistics of record charts and phenomenal sales is a beautiful, warm story of two beautiful and warm people.

The only children of Harold and Agnes Carpenter, Richard and Karen were born in New Haven, Connecticut. Richard on October 15, 1946, and Karen on March 2, 1950. Their father worked for a printing firm. The three-bedroom house in a middle-class...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Chicago Review Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1613744145
• ISBN 13: 9781613744147
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392
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