{"id":25896,"date":"2025-01-11T22:44:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T22:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25896"},"modified":"2025-01-14T16:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:35:24","slug":"music-close-to-you-the-carpenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25896","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Close To You, &amp; Calling Occupants\u2026 The Carpenters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-XYBj0J99i8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> Close To You, Carpenters, 197?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Studio miming to a full multi-track studio production? \u2026 it\u2019s fun to see and hear, whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/teBV0EoJJY8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Calling Occupants\u2026, Carpenters, 19??<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Properly bonkers later Carpenters , covering Klaatu. Utterly mad! But somehow quite charming\u2026 Unfortunately I have visions of <em>Mars Attacks <\/em>type alien dudes laying waste to our furry friendly MOR emissaries of cosmic peace\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here\u2019s Klaatu\u2019s 1976 original:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jJ4IUjjVfng?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a fairly uninteresting anecdote about this track, which is this\u2026 whilst hitchhiking around France with a pal, Ben, aged about 18-19 years old (poss\u2019 c. 1990?), we got a lift from an off-duty French Foreign Legionnaire officer, in a flashy car, (full of fishing gear), who was listening to this track. I don\u2019t know whose version. For some reason it freaked me out a bit, at the time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studio miming to a full multi-track studio production? \u2026 it\u2019s fun to see and hear, whatever. Properly bonkers later Carpenters , covering Klaatu. Utterly mad! But somehow quite charming\u2026 Unfortunately I have visions of Mars Attacks type alien dudes laying waste to our furry friendly MOR emissaries of cosmic peace\u2026 And here\u2019s Klaatu\u2019s 1976 original: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25896\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Close To You, &amp; Calling Occupants\u2026 The Carpenters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6JG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25896"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25939,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896\/revisions\/25939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}