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Carpenters Album: “Live in Japan”
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Release Date:1975-01-01
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Soft Pop, Beatles Legacy, Love Songs
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Explicit Lyrics:Yes
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UPC:766484484728
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Review - :
{$The Carpenters} never released a concert album in America, so this pricey double disc from Osaka, Japan, has been a choice import among serious fans for many years. The show opens with a fair medley comprising {&"Superstar"} and {&"Rainy Days and Mondays."} Other numbers include {&"Goodbye to Love,"} {&"Top of the World,"} and {&"Help"} (which comes off better and more sincere here than it did in the duo's studio version, at least until the synthesizer and electric guitar take over the song). {$Karen Carpenter}'s performance is sincere, and her singing is very good -- she makes {&"Top of the World"} sound like it's the first time she's singing it -- but the backing vocals (by {$Richard Carpenter}, {$Danny Woodhams}, {$Doug Strawn}, and {$Pete Henderson}) and support instruments are a bit on the anemic side, except for {$Tony Peluso}'s inappropriately overamplified guitar on {&"Goodbye to Love."} A major part of disc two is given over to a 1954-1964 oldies medley, with {$Pete Henderson} singing some lead and {$Tony Peluso} as the "deejay/narrator"; that includes {&"Little Honda,"} {&"Da Doo Ron Ron,"} {&"Leader of the Pack,"} {&"Johnny Angel,"} and {&"Johnny B. Goode,"} as well as full performances of {&"We've Only Just Begun"} and {&"For All We Know"} and {&"Sing"} (backed up by {$the Kyoto Children's Choir}.) ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
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