This is so much better than the movie version!
The movie, which I saw for the first time two nights ago, is beautiful, but the song was performed by a guy who was not much of a singer, and it only runs for about one minute, during the wedding scene.
In 1969, when the picture was being made, The Carpenters were nobodies who were cutting their first album (Ticket to Ride). In 1970, they took the world by storm, with three gold records (“Close to You” single and album, and “For All We Know”), and became household names.
If the picture had had Karen Carpenter singing the theme song, and ran the whole thing (perhaps with the second half playing during the credits), it would have been even more moving than it already was.
Even as it was, the picture was a really big deal, with the phrase of the year (“What’s the story, Richie?”); it won the Oscar for Best Original Song; it made Richard Castellano, who was up for Best Supporting Actor, a star; it was a breakthrough for Bea Arthur, who in 1971 got a classic guest gig on All in the Family, and her own brilliant, long-running series, Maude; and it sated the public’s appetite for a movie for grown-ups. (During the 1970s, long before the ranks of movie critics were replaced by racial socialist propagandists promoting anti-White propaganda and affirmative action politics, they would actually talk about this problem all the time.)
“For All We Know”
Music by Fred Karlin
Lyrics by Robb Wilson and James Griffin
Love, look at the two of us,
Strangers in many ways,
We’ve got a lifetime to share,
So much to say,
And as we go,
From day to day.
I’ll feel you close to me,
But time alone will tell,
Let’s take a lifetime to say,
I knew you well.
For only time,
Will tell us so,
And love may grow,
For all we know.
[Bridge]
Love, look at the two of us,
Strangers in many ways,
Let’s take a lifetime to say,
I knew you well.
For only time,
Will tell us so,
And love may grow,
For all we know.
1 comment:
Never liked them much back then--now?Fantastic.
--GRA
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