range of in-flight music featured an “Easy Listening” category that included albums by Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon! Putting aside bizarre classifications like this, there is a simple justification in just four words for answering ‘Yes’ to this question: Carpenters ‘Goodbye to Love’. Despite the sell-out concerts, the Grammys and the millions of records sold, for much of their career, Richard & Karen Carpenter were put in the same ‘beyond naff’ category as Donny & Marie Osmond. And yet in this one track from 1972, the critics were confounded. It features Richard’s timeless anthemic music and arrangement; and a guitar solo by Tony Peluso that to this day sends air-guitarists worldwide rushing for their tennis rackets. Ironically, at the time there were some demented Carpenters fans who accused the pair of selling out to ‘hard rock’ with this track. I’m not sure the band members of Metallica or Cradle of Filth would concur with this classification, but some easy listening radio stations did actually refuse to play it. Karen’s contralto voice was as good as ever, like cream filtering through silk, but with hindsight this song is no longer an easy listen. It has become a very difficult listen because of the disturbingly prescient lyric by John Bettis. Karen’s loveless private life and her ghastly death from anorexia at the age of 32 make the lyric of this song sound like her epitaph. In stock at the moment we have the LP Carpenters: The Singles 1969-1973 (AMLH 63601), which includes Goodbye to Love. The American version of this album included a lyric booklet, but this cheapskate English version does not. As my airline music demonstrated, classifying music into genres is fraught with pitfalls, and so, easy listening or not, I would personally put into the “Good” category most of the recordings of Nat King Cole. Because of his background as a fine jazz pianist, his vocals have a jazz sensibility that is lacking in many of the crooners of the period. TASS currently has numerous albums on LP and CD by the great man.
*Tavistock Area Support Services is a registered charity that provides a range of services for the over-55s in the area (Phone 01822 616958). If you have any unwanted LPs or CDs etc, then just bring them along to The Anchorage Centre, next to Tavistock Bus Station, 8.30 - 4.30, Monday-Friday.
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