Looks as if Richard has a literal shrine to their music on the wall as well as their lyricist.Welcome to Celtic Music Radio 95FM and our festival of music. Perhaps they were kindred spirits somehow. not sure if they ever crossed paths, but of course Freddie died much too young but he was older than Karen. He also along with Brian May and the lads John Deacon and Roger Taylor overdubbed their vocal tracks way before digital like Richard and Karen did. As a child in Zanzibar Freddie listened to the radio which played Indian and Indian influenced by Southern west African music. Thanks to the Shirels and others from the 50s that Karen grew up singing before she became a superstar in her own rite!Īnother superstar act that seems similar in some ways and yet vastly different genre would be Freddie Mercury and Queen. Thanks to their dad for collecting all the music that Richard played. As the audience you don’t realize what quite is the quality that makes their songs get into your head and you just can’t stop singing them! These qualities seem to have greater appreciation and meaning In The Eastern world than in the Western world perhaps before the internet but now it’s so beautiful to share with one another here on utube cross culturally! Likely attributable to the song's association with the teen-oriented Miseinen television themes, but, for whatever reason,Ī testament to the beauty, simplicity and complexity put together. Kagayaki," roughly translated as something like, "The Glow of Perception, the song came to be known in Japan as "Seishun no In Japanese history, with over 3 million in sales. 5 on Japan's Oricon all-popĬhart and was certified as a quadruple platinum record and a repackagedĬompilation of the "22 Greatest Hits of the Carpenters" (with INTBILĪs the lead-off song) became what was then the largest selling album by non-Japanese artists On one side and INTBIL on the other reached No. To an enormous resurgence of the Carpenters' popularity in Japan. "Desperado, " and "I Need to be in Love."Īs documented in my earlier posts, this led Songs for the themes and soundtrack of the series: "Top of the World," ![]() Seizing on the long-time popularity ofĬarpenters music in Japan, the show's producers utilized three Carpenters' "Miseinen" (roughly translated as "Under Age" or In 1995, a teen-oriented television series named Wholly without regard to the quality of the music or of the listeners' ![]() Once More" than any pop song in history, at least in the pre-digitalĪge (the "viral" spread of music via the Internet today rendersĬomparisons between the two eras inapposite, as today's conditions permit aĭegree of access and distribution far beyond that allowed in the earlier era, Into account, a credible case could be made that more persons have heard "Yesterday Malaysia, Venezuela, Belgium, and Israel, among others) or No. Philippines, and the Republic of Korea and the number and striking diversity Other populous East Asian countries like Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Range and duration (at least 40 years) of its popularity not only in China, but in In the world's most populous (1.4 million people) country the Western song in China from its first openings to foreign music in the mid-1980's until the current era of digitally accessible music on a global scale.Ĭonsidering YOM's prolonged primacy among popular songs Of China, there is little doubt that YOM was the most popular and widely played As evidenced by countless reports, articles, and Internet postings out Song heard by well over 50% of the respondents. "China Drive" in 2007 showed that YOM was the first English language A nationwide poll taken by the popular Chinese radio station Popularity and ubiquity in post-Maoist China that Western hipsters traveling there were completely mystified by its cult-like popularity inīeijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and in even more remote corners of the PRC. ![]() 2 in Japan for several months).Īs documented on this blog and many others, YOM achieved such 1 on the Japanese album chart (the YOM single also held No. Was the featured "bookend" song, Now and Then, reached No. Regardless, YOM went on to achieve unparalleled successĪnd popularity in Japan, China, and other Asian countries from its release inġ973 and continuing well after Karen Carpenter's death in 1983, and up to theĬharts in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia in 1974, and the album on which it
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