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  • Ha 36 anos sucesso inesquecivel ateh hj vc vai cantarolar....estalar os dedos rsss...bater o pezinho....ta rindo eh? Rsrs

  • Good voices.....

  • I have never heard a voice quality like this. SUPERB! I will miss her. She and Richard are part of music history! They are in my heart.

  • bella voz!!

  • I love you Karen !

  • There are people keep arguing Karen was lip syning. Ya, there are people argue astronomer walking on the moon was a fake one, as well. I appreciate skepticism in science definitely. But for music, please just fxck off.

  • the carpenters unvergesslich,simply the best for ever!!!

  • freddie mercury and her.....

    

  • Karen Carpenter and Whitney Houston,the purest voices ever

  • @captaincomputa

    wow brother I THINK THE SAME, YAAAAY!

    WHITNEY HOUSTON AND KAREN CARPENTER ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I even have pics of both in my studio! I'm glad somebody thinks like me! :D

    Blessings!

  • @Undefeated92 Thanks for that,i know they have different styles but they both seem to have that effortless quality about their voices and have you noticed how their inner beauty shines out of their eyes or is that just me?I also think the same of Stevie Nicks,how about you?Blessings to you too.

  • @captaincomputa

    Yes! People rarely mention what a CLEAR and PURE voice Whitney had at her peak. Her enunciation and diction were perfect, just like Karen. Beautiful, clear voices. Those two are amazing. There will never be another like KC or WH.

  • @Keezie27 Have you noticed how their inner beauty shines out of their eyes when they sing?Amazing.

  • To Randy Schmidt (Author of Little Girl Blue) Karma's a bitch!

  • très professionnelle Karen ......musique , rythme ....

  • lets just stop with all of the nasty comments directed ot one another here. This activity is accomplishing nothing. Lets preserve the integrity of YouTube. Enjoy the fine qualty music. If you have nothing positive to say, do not say it.  Have a great day everyone.

  • linda voz, linda canção, linda mulher...

  • She a looks a little chunky here.

  • @faffaflunkie, your name says it all. Idiots like you and your stupid, ignorant, thoughtless comments cause rare and precious gems like this woman to starve themselves to death because they care too much about the opinions of worthless pieces of shit like you.

  • @faffaflunkie

    I wish people like you would drop off the face of the Earth you peace of shit.

  • @skipper8257 Hey "Skipper". You're just waiting for Gilligan and Mary Ann to drop dead so you can have a threesome. Bitch.

  • @skipper8257 Lets just stop with all the nasty comments,i AM SICK OF THEM

  • @faffaflunkie Yes she died becouse of people ignorant of what deceases do to you, but when you listn to her voice you will feel..and when you felt something youre welcome back to post comments. mr faffaflunka.

  • Though she struggled with her battle of anorexia she was able to produce such wonderful and touching songs. R.I. P. Karen. Your songs give me inspiration and comfort.

  • Big loss!!! Angel voice!

  • Screw you!

  • Too bad Karen had to waste her enormous gifts on pap like this song. Brutally cheesy live show, as well.

  • @improvguru all due respect mate if you dont got anything good to say dont say anything!!

  • @tonyman2c too true, but that's cause we can distinguish good music from bad. I listened this while going to bed every single day for five years of my childhood :)

  • many good memories of my childhood

  • Asian people loved the Carpenters.

  • With each day that goes by, now going on 10 months, I'm still sickened by the fact that Karen's friends Carol, Debbie & Frank actually "ALLOWED" Randy Schmidt to bring both himself & his book to East Haven & even worse Nathan Hale Elementary School. I Love & Respect all three of you & I'm really glad that the most precious & private things about Karen Randy will NEVER have to know. The post reaction that Mr. Schmidt was there was Not well received by East Haven. Still isen't!

  • @vmuto1 Liar.

  • Karen would STILL be a superstar today, if only............can you imagine the songs she would have sung over the last 40 years?

  • Herrlich diese Alt-Simme !

  • I so took Karen for granted while growing up in the 60's and 70's. Now at 51 i have rediscovered her. WHAT A VOICE!

  • WOW!!! I bet I've heard this song ten-thousand times and I am looking forward to ten-thousand more!!!!!

  • Fine, fine good music. Her absence is very sad.

  • The sound seems so messed up on this video and then....Karen sings and its perfection!

  • angelic! brings joy to my soul. her music, her voice eternally beautiful.

  • Todo suena desafinado comparándolo con su voz. 

  • My daughter is 12 and just listened to this and her words 'Wow mum is Karen singing live' her voice so amazing not many artists can claim to be able to sing live like this and still sound PERFECT !

  • @missangie29 And no samplers.

  • Not many artists are able to sing live and still sound like their studio recordings, what a wonderful voice she had! Such a shame she was taken from the world at such a young age

  • it was the media and people makind comments about her appearance as a young girl calling her chubby or fat theat gave her a eating disorder which in the end killed her so i really hate people making stupid comments about other's they shouldent judge on appearence but personality

  • Silk is sandpaper compared to her voice

  • @manicmikey8854 that's THE GREATEST comment I've ever read about Karen's voice!! Awesome!

  • This is a live performance. That voice the same and as great as it is when it was recorded. Folks thats talent.. Taken from us way too soon.

  • Aw I love the Carpenters. Takes me way back. RIP Karen. xx

  • THANK YOU youtube for giving us the ability to view such great artist !!!!!

  • Mastery of the recording studio! Good song, voices, video performance, and musical artists!

  • karen had one of the best, more pure voices ever.

  • Herman's Hermit's had a hit with this in the UK.

  • The most unique and sophisticated voice of Karen!

    You been missed terribly..!

  • A fantastic voice, with superb timing, one of the best singers in music. Unfortunatelly she was trapped in that easy-listening-always-happy-ho­wsewife image. I can´t imagine the marvelous things Karen would give us if she was still here. I bet, sooner or later she would get rid of that kind of s***** e bring on some really classy stuff to us.

  • Karen Carpenter has got one of the best singing voices i have ever heard. Fantastic what a loss to all of us.....

  • What year was this?

    

  • @uofjim  1976

  • simply beautiful :'(

  • RIP Karen.  What a voice.

  • How beautiful is her voice!

  • Best female vocalist ever in that classical genre. Amazing control.

  • so soft.,, where to find a singer like that nowadays

  • Her voice is like laying on a cloud!

  • her voice is so angelically smooth!

  • How does she know which note to start off on? she's amazing

  • karens the best x

  • Cooooool this is really great :)

  • Hey, I had an outfit like that!

  • @sugarshula64 bend over

  • Carpenters need to be placed in the hall of Fame! 

  • Karen is lovely, as always, but they were being trained to be a high-priced Vegas Lounge Act at this point. Look at all the obviously scripted gestures Karen was forced to do. Sad to say, but their best days were behind them at this point.

  • @improvguru But still a million times better than the garbage that is being pumped out today.

  • @GaryNull I agree. I can't stand most of it, i am just sick of GaGa this and GaGa that.....

  • all the songs I sang as a kid and until now wanted to sing and listen to are sung by the carpenters wow its this time that I only realized this

  • i am a carpenters fan but i hv to admit that engelbert's version is better! :)

  • brianclough - Richard Carpenter agreed with you. He said he regretted redoing this song.

  • If we still had this angel, the world could live in peace forever !!

  • I prefer Herman's Hermits original better

  • Fourth floor, please. This is elevator music.

  • i love KAREN !! she is so beautiful and talented !! she is, was and always will be the best !!

  • karen had the very distressing and sometimes terminal illness anorexia nervosa, nothing to do with "worlds fetish for the superskinny in superstar women" as "turquoise770 phrased it, this was ( and still is) an horrific sickness and mental problem which was very difficult to treat in the early 80's because so little was known about this at that time, no real experts or treatment, nowadays it is still difficult but is far more treatable, so much more is known about anarexia. R.I.P. Karen.

  • @memyselfandeye3 no, it is EXACTLY because of the developed world's ability to standardize images and glorify them thru broadcasting(baywatch, oscars, mtv, ads,etc ad infinitum)that girls in these societies are affected. why do u think it is a recent phenomenon of the latter 20th century and not common in the undeveloped world where they are not conditioned by this message continuously?

  • this is karen singing live, and i challenge anyone to find one pitchy, unsupported, wrongly phrased note. she was vocally perfect, but sadly this perfectionism crossed into her self-image which was distorted by the world's fetish for the superskinny in superstar women.

  • @turquoise770 i think the real reason she became an anorexic is because her managers told her she had to lose weight. if they hadn't told her that i don't think she would have done it but of course if her weight was always in her mind she probably would have done it any ways even if they hadn't have told her to lose weight.

  • I agree.She is such a legendary Singer and Musician.

  • When Karen died, my Mom cried and every time we heard a Carpenter's song, she'd think of Karen. She sang so beautifully, and they had such wonderful music! All their songs are terrific!

  • Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • esta cancion me hace acordar cuando era niño. HOY ME GUSTA MAS TODAVIA . GRACIAS. POR SUBIRLA.

  • RIP Karen. All these years later and you and your golden voice are still sadly missed.

  • Tanto tiempo que no escuchaba este tema

    Precioso ;$

  • what was her accent?

  • deeply missed, Happy Birthday...3-2-10.

  • Is Karen your favorite vocalist? If so, please go Google:

    LAS 50 MEJORES VOCES FEMENINAS DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS 20 MINUTOS ES

    Cast your vote, mark 5 points.

    Karen is nº 6. She deserves Nº 1!!!

  • I love it!<3

  • Karen, I was of the age of 13 years, when ' kind of hush ', is to arrive in France, if I do not make a mistake, this title is of 1976, it is has been for the period of the summer 76's, here in France.

  • her voice was unbelievable, such warmth...

  • what a talent!!!

  • Such a beautiful voice.

    She always seemed awkward as a performer though.

    She seemed to be getting better in this performance.

    Who knows what she could have become.

  • @zebratangozebra Even getting into declining health,which I believe she was by this stage,she still had a sexy charm to her like no other female vocalist I've ever seen/heard!

  • this woman was remarkable, i'd like to see the "full" story of her life on the big screen, its sorta like her legacy has been left undone, muddied in mystery for some reason, music industry should do right by her in solidifying all that this woman possessed and gave to the world via her enormous talent, kick ass drummer with a rare extraordinary voice.

    Carpenters music will live on forever.

    Karen Carpenter had "IT"!

    deep respect for this woman and all that she carried, willingly and unwillingly

  • @lightzZz10

    FYI

    There's a tv movie that came out around '89 about The Carpenters with Cynthia Gibb playing Karen. I believe it's out on dvd

  • Love dis song.......

  • Looks and dresses like my english teacher get she can stroke me.

  • Sounds like a personal problem .

  • there's a kind of hush all over the world...karen voice is such amazing!!

  • this is my all time favourite....

  • Beautiful silky smooth voice. She was also a frustrated jazz drummer who never felt comfortable with the "pepsodent twin" persona imposed on her.

  • you're a complete idiot -- what's wrong with you? What a stupid ass comment

  • Sorry to get you "sensitive" but her brother put out a video of her life. Its' all there.

  • so what -- what's with everyone speaking as if they're the only ones who've ever seen "The Karen Carpenter Story" -- everyones always gotta mention anexoria or that she was more comfortable as a drummer -- who cares -- You're not Wikipedia -- find something new to day -- perhaps original thought -- or just a nice memory of her?  Quit reciting. It's so annoying --

  • her voice is like the softest of dreams, velvet and silk in perfect harmony, so utterly flawless and it caresses the soul, it almost makes you want to cry, i wish she was still with us, what a beautiful person she was, by all accounts. Rest in peace Karen.

  • An apt description of her voice......

  • @memyselfandeye3 wonderfully put.

  • @memyselfandeye3 Love your comment

  • @memyselfandeye3 I totally agree with you. I just cannot get enough of Karen's voicer!!!

    F-L-A-W-L-E-S-S is exactly right!!!

  • @memyselfandeye3 She is with us, She lives in your mind, she lives in my mind everyday, we love her.

  • @HorizonteAzul21 Yes she does,she is with all of us, she connects with our innermost Soul. Her voice was pure love.

  • watched it again ...

  • she is as beautiful as his voice.

  • fuck yeah, isn't she gorgeous

  • Someone once that the genius of Bing Crosby is that he sang as if anyone could sing like him, but no one really could. Karen Carpenter was a female Bing Crosby.

  • how i wish i can see her on tv!! singing her songs alive!

  • If god put an Angel on this earth, it deffenitly was Karen! When I am in Heven, I bet Karen be the lead singer in his Choir! NO DOUBT! He sent his angel for us to prepare us what music will be like when we go there cause you know Karen sings there!~JON

  • I agree! Hallelujiah and amen to that!

  • Whatever man, Dont down play my oppinion or how i feel towards how she sings. It was stated in general and not pointed TO YOU. So keeps ur comments directed to the Video/Karen and stop wasting time making comments on someone elses comments, Get a life.

  • ps Why does god allow Hurricans, Death and distructions, Cancer, ECT. Can you answer that? He allows Nature takes its course. He allows People make their own decissions. So dont sit there and be judgemental over simple comment. GEEZE, ur a very uptight person.

  • i miss her

  • golden voice

  • Pencilled eye brows came back...it is gross though now because girls don't know how to do it right...stupid new gen of kids.

  • the voice her it's perfect!

  • Wow, and she started out on key with no acompaniment!

  • You could tune a piano using her voice!

  • @pookypie3 ... SURE !!!

  • @pookypie3 I never thought of that, but I think you're right!!!

  • Of course she did. She was Karen Carpenter. :)

  • .,i love her face expressions.,it makes me love her more...

  • You can't be a monkeys uncle, you are far too stupid,

  • Yep. You have no idea what you are talking about.

  • so what,penciled eyebrows were fashion at the time anyway.

  • Heaven want your voice ..

  • Siempre me encantó esta canción y me seguirá gustando a través de toda mi existencia.

  • She sing best:-P

  • wOw!!!

    ,.,love the song.,

    .,.love the singer.,

    .,.love the boots.,

    .,.i love you karen!!!

    .,i miss yah!!!

    P.S. please listen to the song beechwood45789 by karen.,i love it.,promise you'll love it too...

  • Timeless voice.

  • la mejor voz de la historia; the best voice of the history

  • Karen was the best. Her voice was heavenly where she no doubt sings to this day.

  • .,karen is really such a great singer.,

    .,i love you karen!!!

  • Karen never grows old in this presentation. Her lively expression and performance will truly be remembered. God bless her shiny soul.

  • great vocalist.

  • Wonderful voice, wonderful song.

    Thanks Judie!

  • angelic voice .. miss you Karen

  • A truly AWESOME, TALENTED, BEAUTIFUL lady! We all miss Karen....

  • is there a studio recorded version of Karen singing kind of hush available on youtube?

    I just can't seem to find one.

  • Wow, I love their version the most. I don't know why Richard Carpenter wouldn't like it, except he regrets all synth he ever used. Best version is The Carpenters. It's warm and silky smooth.

  • For someone who obviously had a distorted view of her body, she moves with dignity and grace. The shame is that she compared herself to friends like Olivia Newton-John-women who were known for their beauty as well as their talent. What a pity that Karen could not see her unique beauty. Such a tragedy.

  • Her talent is so natural, so comfortable on stage it is amazing to watch the nonchalant little things she does on stage like shaking someones hand or leaning on someones shoulder while proforming perfectly. Watch "top of the world" video. Her voice is angelic!

  • Sorry, I have had a lot to drink karen carpenter is the greatest female singer to ever live, is it weird that i visited her grave last year

  • I wouldn't say it was weird, humans find if they touch or see something it becomes more vivd and real. if i had the chance i would definately visit

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  • Nunca volverá a escucharse una voz como la de esta hermosa mujer!. Gracias por subir tantos videos para poder recordarla por siempre y para siempre!! Desde Argentina, Buenos Aires, los saludo cordialmente!

  • The truth is........ there are no words that can describe how beautiful karen's voice really is.

  • pure rich creamy caramal

  • ed* caramel (beg pardon) ;-D