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Carpenters - Superstar (the original 1971 single version)

"Superstar" was written in 1969 by Leon Russell and Bonnie Bramlett and was originally called, "Groupie." The song is about a young woman who was a groupie and had fallen in love with the guitar player in a rock band. Apparently, they'd had a one-night stand, and she was looking forward to seeing him again, but he's moved on and all she can do now is listen to him on the radio. The song was actually written about Eric Clapton who played guitar with the group "Delaney and Bonnie." It was recorded several times as an album cut by various artists - Bonnie Bramlett, Cher, Rita Coolidge, and Bette Midler. The Carpenters were the first group to release the song as a single. The song was retitled "Superstar." The girl is longing for her "superstar" guitar player. Karen and Richard performed "Superstar" on their first appearance on "The Carol Burnett Show," on September 22, 1971. The single had been released on August 12, 1971. When they appeared on "The Carol Burnett Show," the song was number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart after only 3 weeks. The song reached number 2 after 7 weeks and stayed there for two weeks. It was kept out of the #1 position by Rod Stewart's "Maggie May." The following week, it fell to #4, replaced by Cher's "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves," and the Osmonds'' "Yo-Yo." As far as I've been able to tell, this is the ONLY video that shows Karen playing the drums while singing "Superstar." The audio on the original video clip varied from soft to very soft. I tried to overlay it with a good audio from a CD, but then I had trouble with Carol Burnett's introduction and the audience applause. So, I deleted Carol Burnett's introduction and the audience applause, and I used the audio from the original 45 rpm single for this video. There are other videos on YouTube that have the complete clip from "The Carol Burnett Show." Karen recorded "Superstar" in early 1971 when she was 21 years old. According to Richard, it was a 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕-𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 work lead with Karen reading lyrics that he had written on a napkin. What was intended to have been a work-lead for the musicians to hear Richard's arrangement of the song was so perfect that Richard decided to use it, saying that Karen's doleful interpretation would have been unrepeatable. Lyricist John Bettis recalls, "That performance was our first real glimpse of where Karen's voice was heading. Just having her sing things in the same room to you was getting to be almost a religious experience. Because Richard now really had the vocal range and placement down. He always knew about the lower register being Karen's hit voice, but he really gotten it by this point. He had recorded her so much that he had a tonal memory of her. So, when he composed, he could plug that singing voice in his mind; he knew what it would sound like. It was fabulous to watch him do that because I knew he could hear her in a way I couldn't do when I was writing." Karen didn't particularly care for the song and said as much to Richard. She recalled later, that "he looked at me like I had grown three heads." She said after she heard the completed track, she understood what he saw in the song. "Superstar" would become what many fans and followers of the Carpenters would consider their finest, most ambitious performance. SUPERSTAR (words and music by Leon Russell and Bonnie Bramlett) Long ago, and, oh, so far away, I fell in love with you before the second show. Your guitar, it sounds so sweet and clear - but you're not really here. It's just the radio. Don't you remember, you told me you loved me, baby? You said you'd be coming back this way again, baby Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby - I love you, I really do. Loneliness is such a sad affair and I can hardly wait to be with you again. What to say to make you come again? (baby) Come back to me again (baby) and play your sad guitar. Don't you remember, you told me you loved me, baby? You said you'd be coming back this way again, baby Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby - I love you, I really do! Don't you remember, you told me you loved me, baby? You said you'd be coming back this way again, baby Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby - I love you, I really do.