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.