I don't think Karen would have been Karen without Richard.  He really did a
lot for her.  I, too, would have loved to have heard some more from her.
She did an album without Richard and even with that voice, it really was not
good.  So sad that she had to leave us the way that she did.

Mack


>
> where is karen? not within the top ten? i am listening to a new japanese
> release with very rare previously unreleased material and i am surprised
> that karen's brother, that un.speakable slave driver, could have prevailed
> over karen in that way. you should hear karen doing standards. the quality
> of her voice is so rich, so fresh yet so somber. someday she'll be
> appreciated for what she was: one of the best singers ever.
> karen, why didn't you live, baby, you'd be chubby, all right, and in the
> year 2001 that would have been such a non-issue. you'd be alive and
singing
> the standards and i would have married you. karen karen karen...
> wallyK

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