Carpenters Superstar
 

Wow! Just Wow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhWrggrJ20I

Such a waste, one in a million, like Whitney Houston, too bad.

The girl singing sounds so much like Karen Carpenter that I thought it was the real deal. Just an amazing voice.

On a side note I saw a utube video where a sound engineer took a Carpenter's song and isolated Karen's voice. He said he always heard how pitch perfect her voice was and wanted to see if it was true. He compared the album track to a live performance side by side and they were almost identical and were always in perfect pitch. Just a great talent lost.

I like her version better than Karen Carpenter's. This band- Leonid and Friends played at The Savannah Center maybe a year ago. They have taken the world by storm since people stared posting their note-for-note Chicago tribute songs. Many critics have said they do Chicago songs better than Chicago- and I agree.

Check out their amazing 25 or 6 to 4 cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_torOTK5qc

This is an interesting version of OP's post.
Same girl singing but alongside the Karen Carpenter track.
The left of screen is the Leonid and Friends version and on the the right side is the Carpenters track.
Shows how good the cover version is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXDtKdNmuP4

Yup...And don't forget Janice Joplin :) (kidding)

I hope they come back to TV! I want to ask Ksenia to marry me and have my babies. Hopefully she will at least slap me or better yet, mace me!

Hell, I can do that....:thumbup:

If you liked that try this:

https://youtu.be/ph1GU1qQ1zQ

That, is brilliant!

Magnificent! I would love to see them in person!

Thanks for sharing was great. Did you hear them doing Chicago Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is right below the Carpenter song. This band is good.

Karen Carpenter Special
 

Outstanding song. Really well done. I liked the oboe solo at the beginning.

Rita Coolidge came up with the idea for the song, which was originally called “Groupies (Superstar).” People tended to make fun of the groupies that would hang around music stars and hope to have sex with them. Coolidge got to thinking about how they felt, compared to our perceptions of them. She told Bonnie Bramlett and Leon Russell about it, and they wrote the song. Bonnie and her then husband Delaney, as Delaney and Bonnie, released it as the B side of a 45 in 1969, with Eric Clapton on guitar. The next year Leon Russell had Rita Coolidge sing it at the Fillmore East during Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour (organized and run by Russell). https://youtu.be/qpZ7BOSmO64?si=7X5_YL7I9Z03Xl00

Thank you for that history, very interesting. A while back I read a book, written by a groupie, it was a fascinating history of the 70s and 80s. It's called Rebel Heart and it was written by BeBe Buell.

I have been following Leonid and Friends for a couple of years. The amazing thing is that they are from Russia. When they sing, you do not hear their Russian accent. They are experts in the cover band genre. I will certainly look up their tour calendar and see if they will be in Florida in the future.

https://youtu.be/GpEEApTj7hw?si=wh5L55AHE79R0CCo

Another analysis.

Carpenters
 

I guess I never thought about how many musicians it took to make that recording. The orchestra was incredible. The singer has a very nice voice, but nobody can touch Karen. Karen's vocals aren't just pretty in this song--they are haunting and filled with emotion. When I was a kid and was having a bad day, I would lie down with my head by my stereo speaker and my bad mood was washed away by Karen's smooth, velvety voice. It was like listening to an angel on Earth.

Mad Dogs and Englishmen
 

"Delta Lady it is, my love."

I have a desire to be maced by a beautiful young woman whilst asking her to marry me...It's on my bucket list :)

Yes...Chicago (and Genesis) are my favorite bands and they play superbly.

I would love to hear them play Lotta Love, Nicolette Larsen version. That would be fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpFfjWdhROU

"Haunting"...Yes. Agreed.

Wow is right!
 

Flawless composition...so well done.

AN amazing band- they do Chicago great! Listen to 25-6-4.

Carpenters
 

Awesome Karen Carpenter! Saw them in 1979 at Oakdale Theater in Wallingford, CT. Front row seat and she shook my hand. So much great music and gone way too soon.

I forgot karen played drums as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hJCr9cq5co