SOLITARE

Music by Neil Sedaka
Lyrics by Phlip Cody
This is one of Karen’s finest performances, even though, to my amazement, she was not that taken with the song.  This is the single version, available on CD for the first time in this collection.  It is most easily differentiated from the album version by the entrance of the electric guitar 8 bars earlier, leading into the first chorus, and the addition of a pipe organ in the second half of the second chorus, the third chorus, and the last two bars.  The mix is virtually identical to that on the album.  Why I felt that those two additions were worth all the trouble and expense incurred is beyond me now.

 

EMI Sosaha Music, Inc. (BMI) / EMI Jemaxal Music, Inc. / Sony/ATV Tunes LLC / Songs Of SJL-RSL Music  (ASCAP)
Produced and Arranged by Richard Carpenter
Lead Vocal: Karen Carpenter
Backing Vocals: Karen and Richard Carpenter
Keyboards: Richard Carpenter
Bass: Joe Osborn
Drums: Jim Gordon
Guitar: Tony Peluso
Oboe: Earle Dumler
Engineer: Roger Young
From the album Horizon (1975)

 

 

 
Last Updated June 4, 2008
May 2004  © Richard Carpenter

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