Carpenters - Road Ode
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- This version of "Road Ode" can be found on the Japanese compilation album entitled "BY REQUEST."
I've been on this lonely road so long -
Does anybody know where it goes?
I remember the last time
The signs pointed home
A month ago.
Rented cars and empty motel rooms
Lead you everywhere but home.
Crowds of people shouting
How they love the show -
They don't know!
The endless crowds of faces
Just keep on wearing a smile.
The countless times and places -
Lead me back,
Please take me back home!
I wonder if these feelings ever change -
How many times I'll lift this load?
Come tomorrow, I'll be gone again.
Roads of sorrows coming to an end for me!
The endless crowds of faces
Just keep on wearing a smile
The countless times and places -
Lead me back,
Please take me back home!
I wonder if these feelings ever change -
How many times I'll lift this load?
Come tomorrow,I'll be gone again.
Roads of sorrows coming to an end for me!
Most underrated Carpenters song. Perfect song from beginning to end.
Was going to make that same comment but you beat me to it.
One of the best. I feel the mood
Yes so beautiful!!
It was the B side to the sublime "Yesterday Once More" in summer 1973 - what a 45rpm single THAT was to own!
That phrase describes at least a dozen of their unreleased songs.
Karen died 40 years ago today. Her voice is timeless and we're all 40 years further down our roads. RIP Karen. We miss you❤
Everybody knows their "well known" songs and their "hits". But this is one of the hidden gems not a lot of people have ever heard. Well arranged and always of course sung to perfection by the most beautiful voice ever recorded. Karen Carpenter.
Hey justnoticed u just posted this....great xong...so many, thank god for her music. It saved my life as a kid from my terrorizing father. I just kept getting new record after new record...it keptme going.
True & with the Carpenters, most of their lesser known songs were/are as magnificent as their Top Hits. I can't think of many other artists who fit in that Category?
LOTS of hidden gems on this particular album! I have a hard time picking a favorite album but this one is right up there in the top 5!
In fact, The Carpenters have too many underrated, unpopular songs in between their albums in their entire career. This is one of those! To name a few , I can’t make music, Sometimes, One More Time, Kiss Me the Way You Did Last Night, If We Try and many others. I, for one, listen to their unpopular songs more than I do their hits. Karen Carpenter is one of a kind.
Richard's arraignments were impeccable. Karen's voice was, unbelievable... 39 years later!
I would want this one song.what is the c.d. tittle?.
@@gustavosantin5544 It is from Carpenters' 1972 album "A Song For You", and quite possibly my favourite among all their album tracks.
@James One thing is certain. Richard and Karen made one helluva team.
This was one of my favorites, simply beautiful.
This is one of those songs where everything comes together - tune, lyrics, story, arrangement, emotion, singer, accompanying musicians and production - in such a way that we get a rare glimpse of total perfection.
Waking up to grace. Thank you so much. You shine in people’s hearts. How we need ones like you. Giving your all. Soothing us. A blessing. A blessing.
absolutely!!
I totally agree
Pure heaven! How can a voice be so perfect? Wow!
Seriously, does it get any better? Can anyone top Richard and Karen when they made music together? It’s truly astonishing how beautiful their collaborations are.
Goosebumps still, after all these years.
This is absolutely one of their best songs, and oddly not well known.
The Carpenters had SO much talent! I remember when I heard that Karen had passed, I just burst out bawling...they will never know how much their music meant to me. In Junior High, I would eat my lunch as fast as I could so I could go to the library and listen to their records...I knew every song by heart. Karen had that smooth, pitch-perfect voice that I'd never heard from anyone else. Richard was a musical genius who KNEW how to make the songs complement Karen's voice. Can you imagine if she were still alive...all the hundreds of songs she would have recorded by now? Such a great loss, still.
love that orchestration on the second verse...the genius of Richard Carpenter. Another great Joe Osborne track also. He's so under-rated.
Every time I hear Karen sing like this....with so much emotion and feeling.... I just start crying. Her voice was so pure, clear, in perfect pitch, and clean. It really feels like she’s right here in front of me.... singing just for me, and directly to me. It breaks my heart she’s gone.... *more tears* “””””
P.S. ....Richard is no slouch either, he’s the best . They both were very good at what they did. God bless them both.
I still have this on 45. Still love it. Thank you for so much fabulous music.
This is one of their best. The pain, the yearning, the betrayal of their youth.
It’s obvious she believed ever word of this. One of my favorites.
Excellent video and amazing voice. A masterpiece.
One of their best songs without a doubt
I love this song. Karen was great and I really miss her voice. I love the pictures in this video. Many of the roads I've driven myself in my lone road warrior days, even sometimes listening to this song along the way. It brings back so much.
This song hasn't aged at all. It marks a specific time for myself and others but that place and time can never eradicate. There's no time or place 'Road Ode' fits in or used to fit in the long legacy of pop rock. The one and only space this song fits into is The Carpenters time. There is pop, jazz, lite rock, a touch of classical music, Karen Carpenter's expressive delivery and her and brother Richard's beautiful harmonies make this a great song. Perfection. Sadly, a truly underrated song. Thanks for the beautiful video tribute.
This song is MY FAVOURITE CARPENTERS SONG PERIOD. Touches my soul like nothing else. Thank you my dear KC and RC for giving the world such heartfelt music. You will live forever. Miss you soooo much KC.
My favorite Carpenters song too. The chord progressions and the arrangement are outstanding. As you said Alejandro, it touches the soul! I never get tired of hearing Road Ode and finally figured out how to play it on the piano.
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One of the best singers, male or female, of all time...also the only one who can move me to tears. There will never be another
agreed, her voice touches my soul like no other voice.. while i love countless male and female singers and groups of different genres and eras, she always has been and always will be the one for me...
I couldn't agree more. Karen is my all time favorite.
For me too ... and by far! Because it's simply impossible to be as her!
Bloomingpies moving me to tears 😭 right now
Bloomingpies ....me too. I’ve played this three times now.... I’m still crying...
This song was released 50 years ago. Still hauntingly current and relevant.
I wished Richard or record company too 're lease this as a single !!! Too show people who were not around then what a voice Karen had !! A new generation of fans!!!
It would be perfect for a movie about someone who spends a lot of tine on the road. That would introduce it to a new generation.
40 years ago today she left us. Sorrow. These feelings have never changed.
This song never got the attention it deserves. Thanks for the visual
She eternally breaks my heart..and the first time I heard this, back in like 1976, I had the same reaction I do to this day: amazement and thrill, though now it is juxtaposed with sorrow.
Cynthia Lyman I could not have expressed this any better. I am often brought to tears when I listen to Karen. It absolutely breaks my heart that she is gone. She was a beautiful soul who was so gifted... and so unhappy. Tragic, just so tragic.
@@marymuller1062 Yes. I miss Karen still. When she died, it was like losing a friend or even a sister. As you say: tragic.
@@cynthialyman2636 yes! I was at a party when the news came on....we turned off the record playing and didnt play anymore music. Actually they started to olay her but I had to leave...trying to hide crying...my heart was just gone.
The Carpenters had many great songs but this one has something special...
I don't know what it is about karen carpenter that pulls me in ... The voice or the beauty could be both . she is my guilty pleasure . i hope when i die i get to see her😍
So brilliant were all their records, yet this one is superior in some sophisticated, understated, melancholy way. Gary & his buddy I'm sure had no idea of this when they wrote the thing. Undisputed best album by the top American act of the 1970s - and in the tens of thousands of records and artists I've known in my life, still the very, very best artists of all-time, Carpenters.
The "A Song for You Album" has always been my favorite Carpenters album. I wonder what the original song would have sounded like before Richard added the wonderful arrangement.
wow this song is amazing - karens voice is flawless and rich and soulful and the instrumental ending is so melancholy yet beautiful heaven is lucky to have karen
Carpenters: Forever in my life, forever in my heart...
breaks my heart since hearing it for the first time... she lived a tortured life, but all we heard was her outstanding beauty.
I love the photos. They add more emotion.
I just heard this for the first time a couple of days ago and it's already one of my favroite Carpenters songs.
God Bless Karen and Richard Carpenter for their wonderful contribution to beautiful music and enriching our lives
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I first heard and was captivated by this song as a high school student in the 1970s. Now in middle age, as I travel a great deal on business, it continues to hold a very heartfelt and special significance for me. Karen always made you feel like, as she sings, that you were alone and she was "singing a song for you." Thank you for the tremendous respect you showed in crafting a visual for this.
Oh god that's so good...
OMG, had not heard this one until tonight! How!? Has those beautiful melancholy elements and arrangements of classic Carpenters. And a slight "old Elton John" feel. I'm completely in love! 💕
I don't "feel" the Elton John at all?
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Specifically this song.
It's got that lonely, sort of haunted quality. Road Ode it's definitely a Carpenters doing. But, that wistfulness made me think of this Elton song.
You could hear the beauty and sadness in Karen's voice.
I've been on a Carpenters kick lately and just found this jewel in the last 2 weeks.GR8 song!
+"CC" camarocowboy fortunately I found this jewel twenty thirty years ago, one of my favs.
+"CC" camarocowboy try Crystal Lullaby
paul eggins
Paul,i remember when "Close To You" and "We've OnlyJust Begun" first came out and bought an album in the mid 70's that had all their hits on it.I didn't listen to the Carpenters that much since the 70's,listened a little more when Karen died but since i have been retired,i have listened to a lot of music on spotify and in doing so have found old new songs or new old songs that i never listened to in the Carpenters hey Dey.
+"CC" camarocowboy As with The Beach Boys, Karen & Rich recorded many " hidden " gems, & this is surely one. Personally, I never cared for the way Rich used flutes , but that's just me --his productions were note-perfect, & Karen's voice was magic. My favorite " hidden" gem :" A Song For You. " Karen at her very, VERY, best. Wolfsky9
+Wolfsky9 Song For You tears at your heart strings, one of my many faves, she was truly amazing, just love her.
What a fabulous voice!!!
Such a voice....such a tragic loss. RIP Karen.....
This song brings to me so many reminders. I was a loner for a long time, and this was my song. Fortunately I finally found, when I was thirty eight, someone to share my life with, and we have been married since then.
Busted into tears hearing them recently, with all the nostalgic memories that their songs brought back from those years. Am just now discovering them after seeing them on a PBS special last weekend, never having taken the time in immature younger days to appreciate their unique musical contributions and emotions her songs and his arrangements evoked. Thank you, Carpenters. God rest her soul.
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Well said, Freddy.
Wow, she is the greatest of them all!
+Daniel Zambanini oh yeah
Voice of unmatched beauty, color, depth and range! And she made that instrument her very own! Very unique! She touches me every time! Hearts!
Karen carpenters voice was so peerless so nearly flawless what a legend who never took her self seriously she was and is a superstar two songs from a song for you album this one and i wont last a day with out you two very spine tingly beautiful songs sung beautifully by perhaps the greatest ever female voice that ever lived karen carpenters
Listen to how expertly she conveys the emotion of loneliness at the end of the live…I remember last time the signs pointed home…a month ago
We are all travelers on the road of life ...karen poetically and beautifully expressed it
I cant believe it's been 30 years ago, today, that we lost this fantastic voice. R.I.P. Karen.
Brilliant and perfect tune. The vocals and the arrangements are unbelievable.
I like this song! This song tells me about being lost on the wrong road and not knowing where you are
Lead Sister.. miss you KC love you also RC y'all voices together made perfect Harmony to a lot of us 💔
My idol, what a drummer she was too.
What a beautiful song! I never heard it before. Thank you for posting 🧡🧡
This song was released June 22, 1972
truly remarkable my favorite Karen and Richard song
what a great loss we have suffered because of her death
Beautiful. Road Ode was this haunting little tune that somehow, all those vulnerable years ago, I thought only I'd noticed. It was the intimacy of Karen's vocal, I think, that made me feel like it was to me she was confiding this poignant reality check on what seemed such a glamorous life. When she died, it was to this song I came seeking solace and explanation.
Karen never found her home, which I have to believe accounts for the plaintive quality of her vocals, but I can tell you: I was born ten years after she was and i fully and completely respected and admired her; the day she died, I was forever diminished and actually the whole world lost. There will never be another, so rejoice that she was here, however briefly. God loves you, Karen, and so do I.
Hauntingly beautiful!!!
40 years on those of us old enough can appreciate how lucky we were to hear them and sad they did not get the same recognition as Abba etc.
As a kid Karen’s voice was so beautiful I always wished I was older to marry her and have her sing to me every night.
Even though I found my true love I wish Karen could have and had such a long and rich life as me.
I am privileged to have heard them and appreciate the hard work they put in to make a lot of people so glad of the work they did.
NedNickerson, once again a nice visual tribute to the marginalized/under appreciated Carpenters. Karen, hauntingly beautiful vocals...A lovely gem off the Song For You album.
Could'nt have put it better.
They were three-time grammy winners. I would hardly call them 'marginalized.'
Breaks my heart, again and again.
gvalley07 marginalized and under appreciated? For who? Rock fans? Who cares. Now, in the music industry nobody discuss the high quality and the influence of their music. And Karen voice is considered the most beautiful in the popular music.
Ned is just fantastic with his videos of the Carpenters. Very talented as is his detective girl friend Nancy D.
She kind of spells it all out in her music. The sadness was always there....and reachesout to us one way we can relate to it in our own way. Takes me back to 1974-75 my family, my father s last days .RIP Dad. Robyn
This song was the "B " side to "Yesterday Once More " back in 1973.
Can their ever have been a combination of two such wonderful songs? YOM is my very favourite pop recording of all time and Road Ode is one of my top three favourite Carpenters songs.
I wonder if these feelings ever change .... No, they don't.
My gosh this is so powerful. I feel like they are in front of me if I close my eyes. Thank you Ned
I don't believe Karen ever sounded better on record than she did on the A Song for You album. She also sounded wonderful in concert - I can say that with confidence as I was privileged to be in the audience at a concert she, Richard and the band performed at Birmingham Hippodrome during their 1976 tour.
Poor doomed Karen; I admired her then and I love her still. One of a kind.
Favourite one of mine , her voice sublime very menicoly, just like solitaire it makes me smile how perfect it is
This is probably my favorite Carpenters song even though it is not well known. I recall listening to the "A Song for You" album on my dad's stereo in the early 70s. That was my first time hearing their music and have loved it ever since. This version is really nice as is somewhat different that what is on the album.
Just thinking the same thing...glad it's not just in my head.
@@LRBScarecrow On the album, Road Ode fades into the reprise of the title song, I've always found it an absolutely spine-tingling moment.
@@denisej4813 I listen to that track to kick off every Karen Carpenter Day (Feb 4)
@@LRBScarecrow It's wonderful. Gary Sims and Dan Woodhams were. I imagine, writing about the band's hectic touring schedule at the time, but with hindsight it sounds very personal to Karen's life, both professional and personal, and that impression only gets stronger when it fades into the reprise of "A Song For You".
The carpenters will always be in my heart also. This song will sometimes bring me to tears because it also reminds me of Karen's passing
This is so nice listening. R.I.P Karen.
Incredible song✨✨✨✨✨
Wonderful song. Yet another Carpenters hidden gem.
Love this song
Too bad Karen Carpenter is gone. She had such a nice voice, and she sang with feeling.
Coming back home--wherever it is---oh yes, I know, I do know. " Been on this lonely road so , so, so, long.". Wolfsky9, 67 y/o now.
Wolfsky, R U okay?
The song tells their lives of which are within the lyrics. They toured like crazy. It must have been exhausting..
wow i'm a huge carpenters fan and i have never heard this song and i love it.damn i miss karen.
This song and Bless the Beasts and the Children are my favorite songs she sings. I believe and feel every word and every note. These songs mean something to her and they touch me so. Miss her dearly.
the opening lines? story of my life...thank you karen carpenter, greatest female singer of love and romance songs ever...looking for love, finding love and losing love... thank you for being the ULTIMATE EPITOME of the singer who sang TO YOU NOT AT YOU!...
Oh so many heartfelt memories for me right now...long lost years...lost friends, my late father...I so want to go home .. I have no choice. My mum is getting older..I miss my family..the city (Sydney) ...there is no way . lead me back please take me back home....I dont want to die here...dont know what to do....cry..
A Song for You (from which this track was taken) is the best Carpenters album imo - an album that kept me on the right side of sanity when I was in my teens.
I first heard this on the flip side of Yesterday Once More back in the early 70s...and was still a little too young to "get what it was all about" but a couple of years later, it became one of my favorites. I remember playing it over and over and over and over and over...
One of my carpenters's favorite songs and one of my favorites videos....
Une mélodie sophistiquée ... très bons arrangements et belle vidéo !!! J'espère que tu reçois notre amour chère Karen !
Karen Carpenter certainly had a unique voice. There was always a quality of melancholy to its tone. Richard Carpenter was a splendid arranger. It's always with a tear near that I hear Karen's voice. It was a very sad loss when she died - and oh so painful to recall that was 35 years ago when I was but a teenager.
One of my favorites, so beautiful !
I never tire of this song. It makes it’s message with a smooth delivery that just grows on me.
Super song - Great arrangement and vocals - wish it was twice as long with a longer flute solo, third verse and another repeat of the chorus - and a perfect video Robert - great work!
I've always considered this her anthem.
My favorite Carpenters song plus a nicely done video
I believe this single tune solidified my everlasting love for Karen Carpenter; yes, she was amazing on so many of her singles, beautifully and artfully arranged by brother Richard, but my God; listen to this even objectively, and wow.
The best female voice ever, so sad to see all the the biggest names in world have to die so tragically
Miss you so much Karen, #1
Excellent video
Definitivamente una de sus mejores canciones!
This is one of my long time favorites
Thank you for producing this incredible video (with striking photography) to this magnificent song!
Why have I never heard this before? It is superb!
Fantastic video.