Ran across these Karen Carpenter tidbits on the web:
Commenter 1:
“British guitarist analyses Karen Carpenter – the drummer who sang!!!”
Includes Karen’s solo jazz drumming for a TV show
He’s also done a few videos of Karen’s pitch-perfect voice using software
Commenter 2:
I love her crazy drumming skills, that’s how she got her start (w/big brothers band, as a stand in…little did they know she would knock their socks off, with her singing) …. I play it EVERY year, on her birthday.
Commenter 1:
The video host also talks about her start incl playing drums w/Joe Osborne (Wrecking Crew) in the studio and then, by accident, her voice was “discovered”.
She had huge respect from the late, great Hal Blaine, “Wrecking Crew” drummer.
Very interesting discussion of very early Carpenters evolving to signing with A&M records. (Herb Alpert was the “A” in A&M and his trumpet was the label’s logo.
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the blatant anti-semitism on college campuses and elsewhere in this country, but no solution is coming to me.
I read that one woman burned in the Molotov Cocktail attack in Boulder, Colorado, was a Holocaust survivor. Or so she thought. Can any parallel be more stark?
I’m sorry for her, and I’ve sorry for us. I feel like we’re a nation of Neville Chamberlains and the year is 1939. And the date is 10/7.
Naomi was an aid for Karl Stromberg, and escorted Bond and Anya Amasova to Stromberg’s oceanic citadel, the Atlantis. After Bond’s meeting ended, Stromberg instructed henchman Jaws to kill the two spies. In an intense chase sequence with Bond and Amasova driving a Lotus Esprit, Jaws shot at them from a car, another henchmen tried to kill them with a sidecar-missile, and Naomi tried to shoot them down from a helicopter. She met her end as Bond blew up her helicopter with a surface-to-air missile.
Lupe Lamora was the mistress of drug baron Franz Sanchez. Lupe frequently slept around, and Sanchez went to deal with one of her lovers in Florida, getting himself arrested by the DEA in the process. Bond met Lupe unintentionally when trying to kill someone aboard her boat. They met again at a casino, and Bond forced Lupe into taking him upstairs to meet Sanchez. Although Lupe was a love interest, Bond left her at the end of film to be with Pam Bouvier.
Felicca worked for Aziz Fekkesh, a black market dealer who was selling the microfilms of a submarine tracking system. Fekkesh instructed Felicca to entertain Bond, should he call round, so that henchman Sandor could kill him. In their brief time together, Felicca took a liking to Bond, and when she saw Sandor about to shoot him, she spun round and took the bullet herself.
Vesper Lynd worked for Her Majesty’s Treasury, and was assigned to manage the funds lent to Bond for his poker game with villain Le Chiffre. She got caught up with a vicious fight between Bond and Steven Obanno, that ended in Obanno’s bloody death. Bond found Vesper sitting shivering and fully dressed in the shower, trying to wash away the blood. He comforted her, and the two bonded. When Bond was poisoned by Le Chiffre, Vesper came to Bond’s aid and saved his life. Later in the film, the pair were captured, and Vesper spared Bond’s life in a series of events that led to the end of her own.
