We've Only Just Begun

Quality recording. A lovely rendition by the Carpenters (1970). Karen looks fantastic and performs it so well. Deservedly a hit around the world.

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Music

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• Carpenters
• Karen
• Carpenter
• We've
• only
• just
• begun
• music
• video
• 1970

[torchwoodjackharknes]

Karen Carpenter is one of the few female vocalists to be given the gift from God of having perfect pitch. Given her hauntingly beautiful vocals with Richard's mastery of the recording studio and his own backing vocals, being the vase to her rose so to speak. The two of them created a sound that is unique in it's timbre and its cleanness. Thank you, Richard for sharing your sister with us for so many years.

[psychedelics12345]

How could someone literally dislike this??

[ron71552]

@RussX5Z Sorry....you're 31, not 21. No offence meant!

[ron71552]

@RussX5Z: Thanks for your comments. Moving on is so tough, even now. SHE is still so deeply embedded in my heart and soul that if I tried to be with someone else, I would look at this new woman and still see HER. It would be a never-ending comparison....that just doesn't work for either person. Also, I wanted to compliment you on a statement you made....you may be only 21 but you've already learned a critical life lesson...there are friends and there are REAL friends!

[RussX5Z]

@ron71552 This world esp. America sucks nowadays because its so self centered up its ASS but we only can make the best of the best and just come to a conclusion and accept our mistakes. I HAD TO accept it because I had no choice.

[RussX5Z]

@ron71552 I'm very sorry to hear about that. Even though I've never had a girlfriend in my life and I'm 31. But I do know what loneliness feels like because I hardly have any REAL friends. I know I'm about half your age but have you thought about moving on? Like dating other women and re-marrying? 

[ron71552]

@ efi2075 & krwescott: Thanks for your support and kind words. The music was wonderful back then. I really think (at least musically) that we were fortunate to have been teenagers or young adults at that particular time. The lyrics of songs actually said something, told a story of unending love or heartbreak, made you smile, cry, and/or think. Even though it makes my heart ache, I still listen to songs I associate with HER, or oddly enough...Vietnam.

[efi2075]

@ron71552 we all make mistakes in life.fortunately we still have music.

[krwescott]

ron71552, Hang in there, We are all pretty much in the same boat..

[krwescott]

Gosh,, she looks so uncomfortable without her drums......

[ron71552]

I had to split up my comment and it got mixed up. I started by saying that this song is from a time when all things seemed possible, all mistakes were fixable, and life stretched all the way to a golden horizon. I would marry the one true love of my life and we would live in bliss. But in 1972, when I got out of the Army, I walked away from her. Not a day in my life has gone by without thinking of her. The pain I feel is unbearable now. (read this, then the third part, then the middle.)

[ron71552]

I'm nearly 60, alone, depressed, and not a day of my life has gone by since 1974 when I don't kick myself for being so stupid. When I hear this song, it always carries the question of what could have been, and it's like a knife straight to my heart.