Carpenters / Passage (US, A&M Records, SP-4703) <September 23, 1977>

Carpenters / Passage (US, A&M Records, SP-4703) <September 23, 1977>
(1) A&M SP5143-M2 △22613(1)
(2) A&M SP5144(RE-1)-M4 INT △22613-×(15)

75年の「ライヴ・イン・ジャパン」以降のカーペンターズの音楽はあまり聴きません。70年代前半のような「明るい・キレイ」といった感じが無いんですよね。「第一次のディスコブーム」のころですから、迷走していたんでしょうか・・・？？

"Passage" is the eighth studio album by American popular music duo Carpenters. Released in 1977, it produced the hit singles "All You Get from Love Is a Love Song", "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" and "Sweet, Sweet Smile". The Carpenters' version of "Sweet, Sweet Smile" (written by Juice Newton) was picked up by Country radio and put the duo in the top ten of Billboard's Country chart in the spring of 1978.

This album was a considerable departure for the siblings and contained experimental material such as the Klaatu cover "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" single—which reached no. 32 in the US but was a top ten hit in much of the world (and prompted numerous letters to the Carpenters asking when World Contact Day was scheduled[1]). Coincidentally, the album's release predated Steven Spielberg's similarly themed film Close Encounters of the Third Kind by one month. Nonetheless, the album was the group's first to fall short of gold certification in the US.

This is the only Carpenters album (aside from their Christmas albums) not to contain a Richard Carpenter or John Bettis song and also the second album to not have Karen playing drums at all. It was the first studio album since Close to You not to use the familiar Carpenters logo on the cover.

"B'wana She No Home"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=733Ftltx5HU&list=PL_olMUALBIp7lOIqiX6253B5Hhms5vBO7

Don't you ever invite your boyfriend here
I like to be here alone
You just answer the door and feed the deer
And fight the telephone
Got to learn these words and I know you will
Or I'll send you right back to Guayaquil
Say b'wana she no home, say b'wana she no home
Say'b'wana she no home, say b'wana she no home

Got to peel your eyes for the heat my dear
You got to froth and foam
Got to send away the mad puppeteer
Who seems to think this is home
I want you to speak the English right
I want you to smile and be polite
Say b'wana she no home, say b'wana she no home
Say b'wana she no home, say b'wana she no home

I don't care if you drive my 350 honey
Don't let'em steal my chrome
I don't care if you spend all my money honey
Long as you leave me alone
I just want you to try and remember one thing
If somebody knocks or the telephone rings
Say b'wana she no home, say b'wana she no home
Say b'wana she no hnme, say b'wana she no home