Carpenters - Kiss Me The Way You Did Last Night

[Tracevidence1]

For years I thought this album was pronounced LOVE-LEE-NESS. Never really liked it. When I finally discovered it was prononced LOVE-LINES, it made a lot more sense, and I have grown to love this album, and "Kiss Me" is one of my very favorite songs.

[Tracevidence1]

People tell me that I'm hung-up on Karen Carpenter. I'm starting to think that they might be right. I just love her sooo much. She was such a sweet person, with a great voice, and a heart of gold. I hope I get to meet her someday. Someday in Heaven...

[kcrcbest]

beautiful soooooo beautiful, done to perfection , there just is no one like Karen just done soooooooooo beautifully : )

[paulalist1]

i believe this tract was an "outtake" from the Made In America" sessions recorded in 1981 , how lucky Karen recorded such fantastic extra tracks considering the tragic events of 1983!

[gabrielle068]

Honolulu City Lights is another song from Lovelines cd is my favorite i wish someone would put that on here also

[tonyf734atl]

@gabrielle068 it is on here..

[gabrielle068]

i love this song that whole cd Lovelines

[MrLinoventura]

Les Carpenter's........formidable ! Bonjour à Richard........j'écoute souvent cette voix si sensuelle et inoubliable de Karen , mon amie .....

[worrywartdaniel]

I love the feeling of this song. Karen is the absolute best! I still find new songs of her that I adore. Love it!

[sports1267]

Thank you for posting, they were such a talented duo. Some of our greatest singers are sining in heaven, but thanks to their music lasting, we can still enjoy their music. Thank you again.

[rpsnet]

My applause and admiration from Brazil.

[tonyf734atl]

Most definately one of the "most ambitous" productions...and one great tune...

[rouselonline]

Karen sings ANYTHING with such PERFECTION! I love love her vocals in this romantic song...

[wengilee]

SPIRITUAL ~ Just like heard it fresh last night ~! ...

[SalMessina1]

I LOVE YOU...ICH LIEBE DICH TI AMO...

[howzitgoin1970]

One of their best...definitely should have been a single.

[1979davecub]

This song should have been a hit in 1981. Too bad it was left off of "MADE IN AMERICA". In my opinion this song is better than "Touch me when we're dancing". This showed that the Carps still "had it". Too bad Karen didn't recover. Man, I never even knew her, yet I miss her. Is that crazy?

[improvguru]

@1979davecub Not crazy at all. I don't know a single person who doesn't feel the same way. Yes, this song is way better than "Touch Me When We're Dancing."

[kcrcbest]

SUCH A COOOOOOOL SONG THANX JUST SOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL

[kcrcbest]

SUCH A COOOOOOOL SONG THANX

[FlyingMondongo]

At 2:15 and 2:46 I completely understand the feelings of the mupets...

[LuluTirta]

Love this song veryyyyyyyyyy much...!!! Love Karen's soft and beautiful voice... Love all Carpenters' Songs... Like to sing them too... The Carpenters is my lifetime fave :)

"Kiss me the way you did last night... Lay me down slightly, holding me tight...

Kiss me the way you did last night... Tonight until the morning light..."

[mnlght0snt]

Love this song sooooooooooooooooooooo much :)

[vmuto1]

WAKE UP ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAME! THESE ARE THE REAL AMERICAN IDOLS, GIVE THEM THEIR DUE! 

[earcandy2008]

@vmuto1 when the new book gets higher on the charts they will. I can feel it. The true story is now out there. If Karen and Richard can now been seen in honesty, the Hall Of Fame awaits them. "Little Girl Blue" is the book and it is an amazing read.

[vmuto1]

Karen's voice was much higher buy this time, due to what see was going through-still though like only Karen could do-FLAWLESS. This Album was great too, not a surprise, so much feeling. To think what they could have done, the thought haunts me everyday, can only imagine what it does to Richard- He's gone on & has done well. Richard's contribution to music is so Big. The Carpenters entertained millions of people & to this day continue to make people happy. Karen will stay in our hearts forever!!!

[tennis219]

I always thought that with Made in America, Richard tried to call upon what worked for the Carpenters in the 1970s. In this album, there is a wedding song (Because We Are in Love, reminiscent of We've Only Just Begun), Somebody's Been Lyin' (wirtten by Burt Bacharach, who wrote Close to You with Hal David), Beechwood 4-5789 (similar to Please Mr. Postman) and Those Good Old Dreams (written by Richard and John, and very similar to Top of the World). My favorite Carpenters album.

[tennis219]

This song was recorded during the Made in America sessions, mostly done in the spring and summer of 1980. Other songs recorded during these sessions (but not making the album) include Make Believe It's Your First Time, Two Lives, At The End of a Song, The Uninvited Guest and Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore. Originally planned to come out in the late summer of 1980, Made in America was eventually released on June 9, 1981.

[Lawley50]

My sister, Linda Lawley cowrote this song. She has since passed away. I had to hear it again because my sister was a singer and member of the"Eternity's Children" of the late 60's. We had a recording of my sister singing this song, playing at her memorial in 2007

[jojo34209]

@Lawley50 How honored you and your family must be that Karen got to record this song. Such a classic.

[mnlght0snt]

My Favorite :) Carpenters forever :) thanks for posting!

[mnlght0snt]

Oh how I wish Karen didn't die too young... she could do so much more... her voice is simply amazing

[earcandy2008]

...I wish that my laptop were able to be louder. This song definitely deserves to be cranked up all of the way.

[jojo34209]

Lovely song, and to think this was at one time an outtake left out in the cutting room floor. Thank heavens it found its way and heart in the LOVELINES album.

The world misses your beauty and gracious voice, Karen Carpenter.

R.I.P.

[Rukia212002]

I love this song one of there most beautiful and romantic songs and whatever Karen sings always sounds so magical and beautiful.

[cd72]

As well, he had several women background singers come in, to add their expertise and different sound on MADE IN AMERICA, Julia Tillman, Maxine Waters Willard and Carolyn Dennis...

[samakidis]

always in LOVE with HER!!!

[tonyf734atl]

A "classic" Carpenters song! What if this song had made the "Made In America" album...this song i think would've been a hit if it was released as a single!

[haseilblue]

love the voice,..

it echoes in my ear, after hearing this...

very romantic song!!..

thanks for posting!!

[Kateyhall]

This song is romantic!

[WickednUK]

I love anything Karen sings. Her voice reminds me of a dove. Clean, pure, free spirited and beautiful.

[earcandy2008]

I wonder if this had been on "Made In America" and chosen as the 'comeback' single rather than 'Touch Me When We're Dancing" would it have been a bigger hit?

[jojo34209]

Wasn't the "comeback" single from MADE IN AMERICA 'Those good old dreams'? It was the first single released from that album, and it charted higher than 'Touch me".

'Touch me when we are dancing' is with no doubt a more beautiful, blissful song than this one, and a better pick for a hit song as well, but this song is as lovely and worthy of not remaining unreleased as originally intended.

[tennis219]

@jojo34209 Touch Me When We're Dancing was the first single released from Made In America. It was released in the spring of 1981, just before the album came out in June 1981. Want You Back in My Life Again was released as a single in late summer 1981, and Those Good Old Dreams was released in December 1981. The final single from the album, Beechwood 4-5789 was released on Karen's birthday in March 1982. At that time, Karen was already in New York getting daily therapy.

[jojo34209]

@tennis219 There are several discrepancies over the internet as to the actual release times and chartings of these songs; your data is obviously from WIKIPEDIA, which is not the best source for accurate and factual information.

[tennis219]

@jojo34209 My "data" is obviously NOT from Wikipedia. I have been a Carpenters fan since 1972 and joined their fan club almost from its inception. I purchased Made in America the day it was released in the stores (back them, the "street dates" or release dates were always on Tuesdays). I am basing my "data" on the fact that I was fortunate enough to be around when all these great songs were being released. Chart records are in Carpenters fan club newsletters, which I happen to have all of.

[jojo34209]

@tennis219 Well, everything you said matches word for word what Wikipedia says; still your other "sources" do not prove accurate facts.

[tennis219]

@jojo34209 Oh well, what can I say - I think my "sources" are pretty good. In case you don't know, the Carpenters Fan Club newsletters were written by Evelyn Wallace, who worked solely for Richard and Karen. When the fan club first started in the early 1970s, the newsletters came out monthly, but by the end of the decade, they came out about every three months. Richard and/or Karen gave Evelyn tidbits and information for every newsletter, which were really fun to get in the mail and read.

[tennis219]

@jojo34209 Carpenters Fan Club Newsletter #70 (June 1981): "The first single "Touch Me When We're Dancing" has already made its debut on many radio stations across the country, including every Adult Contemporary outlet, with very positive reaction. It has also surfaced on the International charts. Newsletter #71 (Sep 1981): "The debut single "Touch Me When We're Dancing" reached #16 on Billboard's Hot 100 charts, and the second single "(Want You) Back in My Life" was released September 1st."

[tennis219]

@jojo34209 Carpenters Fan Club Newsletter #71 (Sep 1981): "Richard feels "Those Good Old Dreams" is likely to be the next single choice, and will probably be released around the holiday season." Carpenters Fan Club Newsletter #74 (April 1982): "It was not until after the last newsletter was published that Richard decided to release "Beechwood 4-5789" on Karen's birthday."

[tennis219]

@jojo34209 Of the last three singles released from Made in America - Want You Back in My Life, Those Good Old Dreams, and Beechwood 4-5789 (in that order) - none came close to matching the first single, Touch Me When We're Dancing (#16 on the Hot 100, and #1 on the Adult Contemporary Charts for at least two weeks - I still have the photocopy of that Billboard chart, dated for week ending 8/29/81) - I did not hear them on the radio at all, and I'm not sure if any of them made the Top 40.

[tennis219]

@jojo34209 Touch Me When We're Dancing peaked at Number 16 on the Hot 100, much higher than Those Good Old Dreams. I would need to check, but I'm not sure that Those Good Old Dreams cracked the Top 40 - but I could be wrong.

[boywondfw]

@earcandy2008 I like Touch Me When We're Dancing better. I actually love that song. But this has the same sound.

[tennis219]

@boywondfw It's my guess - and just my guess - that Richard left this very nice song off the album not only because it sounded similar to "Touch Me When We're Dancing" , but the title was also so similar ("Touch Me ..." "Kiss Me ...").  In an interview with Paul Grein shortly after the album's release, when talking about TMWWD, Richard said that he and Karen "believed in that tune." Years later, Richard wrote that "Kiss Me..." was a favorite of his and one of their more ambitious productions.

[jeniferat1]

@earcandy2008 Hi , I agree with you, this could have been a bigger hit for sure! For me it is one of the most romantic songs I ever heared, sung by Karen Carpenter with perfect arrangements by Richard Carpenter. LOVE IT!

[rpsnet]

@earcandy2008 Don´t know about that, but I just love both songs. I treasure these ones.

[OceanKingNY]

Siedah Garrett sings backup harmonies with Karen & Richard on this song. Her voice blends so well with theirs that she becomes the "Third Carpenter." (Presumably, Richard felt the backups he and Karen had recorded were incomplete, so he hired Ms. Garrett to help him finish them?)

[RickHenry]

I never cared for this song... but enjoy the video.

[florcha34]

That beautiful is this song!!!

I am charmed with it!!

And you prop many tenderness gives me Karen's photo playing cards with Mickey at 3:43 :)

[kboyzrock]

This is the first time I've heard this song, and I really love it, like I do all the rest of their songs. Simply wonderful!

[carpenterfreak2007]

this song is beautiful. thank you for sharing this song with us fans.

[cd72]

She had a 4 octave range. She herself said so to musician Tom Bahler.

[NostalgiaBob]

This tune and "You're The One" are my two favorites from "Lovelines". This should have been on "Made In America". Great arrangement. Karen sings it so softly and yet so flawlessly.

[Loner4hire]

To me this is one of the outstanding songs on the Lovelines album. Should have been the single instead of "If I Had You" as this would have gotten more airplay.

[LoveHowardBanister]

I love this song!

[no1cfielder]

Nice video, with great stereo sound.

[sisterlead02]

Thank you so much for this!!! I've been looking for this for a very long time! =)

[jekita0903]

this song is very beautiful but I have a question what is her range her high note and down notes and what song have her high note the most high or the most down

[sisterlead02]

As I've read, She had a very cool wide voice range. Her voice rang is D below middle C to G above high C.

[jekita0903]

thanks for the information but she is a mezzosoprano or contralto ?? because I read she is a contralto like me but i don't know

[sisterlead02]

I'm not really sure but when she joined the choir in her hs years, she's really alto.

[jekita0903]

ohh really I was in a choir too and I was solist but I'm alto too sorry in spanish alto is "contralto" or mezzosoprano

[sisterlead02]

Oh, I'm sorry. Karen joined the choir when she's in college not high school.

[no1cfielder]

You can find Karen singing the low D in "A Song for You." She hits some high notes in "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" in the second choral run of "here to remind you" and underneath the second half of the sax solo in "All You Get from Love is a Love Song."

[jekita0903]

thanks you very much

[AKindOfHush]

One of my favorite songs from Lovelines! Thanks!

[LoveHowardBanister]

Thanks!!! There are so many songs I haven't heard from these albums that were released after 1983. I love this song.