Carpenter music from SOI

[KingBob]

SOI's show a few years ago was centered around Carpenter songs... remember this? I am trying to get a hold of one of the songs, but I have no idea where to find it. Does anyone know where these songs came from? They sound like a new singer and they have a funky dance beat backgorund.

thanks!

[Artemis]

Can you remember which song? IIRC, there were several different performers in that medly. At least one song was performed actually by the Carpenters (Solitaire), and other songs were covers. I think the "funky" one you're referring to might be "On Top of the World" (the closing number, I think).

[jcspkbfan]

Besides Kurt's "Solitaire," the only other "original" Carpenters song SOI used in that medley was "Superstar" (Lucinda Ruh's solo at the very beginning). Here's the information I could find about the other songs they used:

(2001-2002)
Song: Carpenters
Singer/Composer: Karen Carpenter/Joi Cardwell, Divine, Wade O. Brown, Jason Dean, Jazmin, Kathleen Eyman, Linda Cara

Song: Close to You
Singer/Composer: Divine

Song: Top of the World
Singer/Composer: Jason Dean

Song: Solitaire
Singer/Composer: Karen Carpenter
Type of Program: Carpenters Finale-Group Number

Song: I Won't Last a Day Without You
Singer/Composer: Jazmin

Song: Say Goodbye to Love
Singer/Composer: Kathleen Eyman

Song: I Need To Be in Love
Singer/Composer: Linda Cara

Song: We've Only Just Begun
Singer/Composer: Jazmin, Divine, Linda Cara

Jazmin is also credited as the singer who performed Tara Lipinski's version of "Proud to be An American" that year, in case anybody's interested. :) Hope this helps!

[ceceB]

Wow! that's impressive!

Thanks for the info. I love that medley and had been curious about the songs for quite awhile. :D

[KingBob]

Dear jcspkbfan,

I love you, will you please please marry me??

thank you!!

Kingbob

[jcspkbfan]

I'm flattered, KingBob, but I'm afraid I don't deserve credit for the information I posted in my last message: I just copied and pasted it from a Tara fan site (sorry, I can't remember which one; it was just the first page that popped up when I did a Yahoo! search).

The song list was also posted on the official SOI website, but they must have taken it down when they replaced it with this year's music list instead.

[speedy]

I didn't know Divine composed Carpenters songs...I loved him in all those Jon Waters movies. ;)