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It's beautifully done." In 1973, the duo re-recorded "Ticket To Ride" for inclusion on "The Singles 1969-1973" and in August 2018 it was recorded again with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London at the iconic Abbey Road Studios. An absolutely beautiful job and actually ahead of its time, to me, this is like a promo typical to what became music videos. (It was called) "Something Else" and it was hosted by comedian John Byner.
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It was so cold, and of course it's TV so "hurry up and wait, hurry up and wait!", but it's filmed for a show that did not do very well, it didn't last longer than the initial number ordered. We shot this on Karen's birthday in 1970, she just turned 20, in Squaw Valley, California. "Ticket To Ride" also had a video filmed for it as Richard talks through: "It's a beautifully produced and directed spot from a syndicated pop music show. The arrangement ends with a tag of four part harmony (overdubbed, 12 voices in all) singing "think I'm gonna be sad" that foreshaddows the happier "wah" tag that I would later fashion for the ending of "Close To You"." Richard played all keyboards on the track, Karen sang lead and played drums whilst both siblings sang backing vocals creating the signature "Carpenters Sound". This put her in her marvelous lower register on the word "care", which sounds terrific and adds to the plangent character of the entire chart after all "Ticket To Ride" is a sad lyric. Not only did I slow the piece down, but changed or added, some chord changes as well, along with the melody at the end of the choruses, with Karen resolving on a very effective major seven. He explains the magic Carpenter touch he used on the song: "Since many of The Beatles up-tempo songs are as melodic as the ballads, they can be made, with the right approach, into ballads as well. The Carpenters covered this in 1969 with the gender reversed to suit lead vocalist Karen Carpenter (hes got a ticket to ride.
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Richard has described it as one of their finest tracks. Richard completely reimagined "Ticket To Ride" transforming it into a haunting, melancholy and sublime pop ballad. Join others and track this song downbeat cover of The Beatles Ticket to Ride was their debut single, released on A&M Records in 1969. The Carpenters were self-described Beatles fans, recording a number of songs by the fab four including "Help", "Every Little Thing", "Can't Buy Me Love" and "Nowhere Man". I arranged it for the two of us and the resulting recording became our debut single". "I happened to hear the Beatles "Ticket To Ride" being played as an oldie one day in early 1969" Richard describes "and upon hearing it this particular time, decided the tune would make a nice ballad. It was the only Carpenters single released in mono. It reached a peak of #54 whilst also getting to #19 on the Adult Contemporary chart. For a new single from a new artist it didn't perform too badly, charting for 12 weeks on the US Billboard Hot 100. Typical order times are located within the product description.The Carpenters: History & News - 5th November 1969 - on this day The Carpenters released "Ticket To Ride" as their debut single on A&M Records. It is not guaranteed.Ī Special Order item is an item that we do not stock but can order from the manufacturer. When an item is Out Of Stock and we have an estimated date when our stock should arrive, we list that date on our website in the part's description. We do not have a specific date when it will be coming.Īwaiting repress titles are in the process of being repressed by the label. The Preorder can be released anywhere between weeks, months or years from its initial announcement.Īn Out Of Stock item is an item that we normally have available to ship but we are temporarily out of. Other Preorders are set to release 'TBA.' This means that release date is yet 'To Be Announced'. If a projected release date is known, we will include this in the description in red. Typically the label will set a projected release date (that is subject to change). An In Stock item is available to ship normally within 24 business hours.Ī Preorder is an item that has not yet been released.