Osborn asked Karen to sing and he was impressed by her abilities. In 1966, she and Richard joined a session in the studio of Los Angeles bass player Joe Osborn – a famous session musician from the 1960s to the 1980s. Karen started taking singing lessons with Richard’s friend Frank Pooler, who described her as a “born pop singer”. They formed their own band called the Richard Carpenter Trio later that year, with Richard on vocals and piano, Karen on drums and Richard’s college friend, Wesley Jacobs, on tuba and bass. The siblings joined the band for a local theatre production of the musical Guys and Dolls in 1965 – the first time they played in public together.
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She began to take lessons and learned how to read music. Her parents bought her a Ludwig drum kit and she began to learn more complex drumming techniques. This is not a countdown, leading to a “winner.” It’s just a way to showcase some of the finest music ever made.Karen enrolled at Downey High School in the fall of 1964 and found she liked to play the drums. Each album is featured with its background story, keyed to a relevant date in its history. What are the 20 most essential Motown albums? It’s a difficult choice, but this is ours, picked and presented through the course of this 60th anniversary year. The Man, used the Motown song’s melody as its foundation stone. In 2017, the multi-format hit, “Feel It Still” by Portugal. Postman,” and it topped the Billboard Hot 100 early the following year. In 1974, the Carpenters recorded “Please Mr. album, With The Beatles, which generated substantial music-publishing royalties for Motown and its writers, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman, Georgia Dobbins (an early Marvelettes member), Freddie Gorman and William Garrett. The Beatles recorded the song for their second U.K. Postman” was not only Motown’s first Number One on the pop charts, but also evolved into one of its most enduring, successful copyrights. Among them were “I Want A Guy,” which had been the topside of the Supremes’ first Tamla 45 “Way Over There,” written by Smokey Robinson and recorded by his group, the Miracles and “Whisper,” the flipside of Marv Johnson’s “Come To Me,” the first-ever Tamla release, in January 1959. Postman, Brian Holland and Robert Bateman, selected several songs previously cut by other Motown artists. “All we did was record tunes, and then they put them together to make an album.” With Motown still in the early stages of its development, the producers of most of Please Mr. Why: “We had no idea of an album, per se,” added Schaffner.
“We’d do a few days in the studio whenever we were in town and record a bunch of songs,” said former group member Katherine Anderson Schaffner, quoted in liner notes for the Marvelettes’ Forever: The Complete Motown Albums Volume 1, released in 2009. The drummer is thought to have been Benny Benjamin, although there are claims that a young Marvin Gaye was wielding sticks for that particular track.
Where: The album’s 11 tracks were recorded at Motown’s own, now-historic studio at 2648 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, with the cadre of house musicians who later became known as the Funk Brothers. Postman LP was issued in late November 1961, containing material recorded by the Marvelettes during the course of the year. ( The Miracles’ “Shop Around” had stalled at No. When: As a single, this album’s title track debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 during early September 1961 and made its way to Number One by December, thus becoming Motown’s first claim on the peak of the pop charts. What: The debut album by Motown Records’ first hit-making girl group, and one of the first half-dozen LP releases (on the Tamla label) in the storied music company’s history.
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