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Something's Missing (In My Life) is one of the unreleased cuts from Karen's solo album. The song was recorded in 1980.
Additional Notes:
In 1979, Ri...
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Something's Missing (In My Life) is one of the unreleased cuts from Karen's solo album. The song was recorded in 1980.
Additional Notes:
In 1979, Richard Carpenter took a year off to cure a dependency on quaaludes and Karen decided to make a solo album with producer Phil Ramone. Richard wanted his sister to see a doctor about her eating disorder, but Karen refused, opting instead to work on her solo album.
Karen Carpenter's choice of more adult-oriented and disco/dance-tempo material represented an effort to retool her image. "Something's Missing (In My Life)," which didn't make it on to the final album, remains unmixed and without strings. Other unreleased songs are now available on the internet as bootlegs. Her solo works are markedly different from usual Carpenters fare, with more sexual lyrics and the use of Karen's higher vocal register.
The resulting product met a tepid response from Richard and A&M executives in early 1980, and Karen wavered in her dedication to the project. The album was shelved by A&M executive Herb Alpert, in spite of Quincy Jones' attempts to talk Alpert into allowing the release of the record. According to Phil Ramone, Karen, who usually did not express her emotions in public, cried after being told her album was rejected. In the process, she had to pay $400,000, and wasn't pleased. Carpenters fans got a taste of the album in 1989 when some of its tracks (as remixed by Richard) were mixed onto the album Lovelines.
Seven years later, in 1996, the entire album, featuring mixes approved by Karen before her death and one unmixed bonus track, were finally released.
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When I posted this video last year, Jay Asher, the composer of the song contacted me to let me know how much he liked Karen's version of the song, as well as the video I created to go along with it. He stated that he felt the song would have been a hit, if it had been released. I agree.
Something's Missing (In My Life)
5:52 am..I'm awake
and thinkin 'bout my life
5:53...I can see
I won't sleep a wink tonight
6 am, where's my pen?
I might as well get up and write a song
And try to work out
why when everything seems right,
why do I feel so wrong?
Something's missing in my life...
could it be you, could it be you and me?
Something's missing in my life,
Aww come and be
right where I need you to be
For all my life (All my life... )
Got my house, got my fancy car,
Everything's going like I planned so far,
But something's not there,
that should be there
I gotta find it somewhere,
Since the day you left my side,
I've torn myself apart and I still can't decide,
Is it you I miss
or did you really hurt my pride?
Something's missing in my life,
baby it's you, maybe it's you and me...
If you're what's missing in my life,
then baby come to me,
come feel the need in me.
For all my life....
Something's missing in my life,
could it be you, could it be you and me?
Something's missing in my life,
aww come and be
right where I need you to be ....
You're what's missing in my life,
aww come and be right where I need you to be.....
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Keep it coming, Jeff, as you always deliver, no matter what!
Have a wonderful week!
Great Lisa Dal Bello concert, thanks for uploading! After seeing the concert I remembered a performance by Lisa with the song 'Tango' on a Dutch tv-show, late 80's. The good news is that I was able to track down the original footage. I'll give you a shout when I've uploaded it.
PS: Sorry it took so long for me to reply!