Studio miming to a full multi-track studio production? … it’s fun to see and hear, whatever.
Properly bonkers later Carpenters , covering Klaatu. Utterly mad! But somehow quite charming… Unfortunately I have visions of Mars Attacks type alien dudes laying waste to our furry friendly MOR emissaries of cosmic peace…
And here’s Klaatu’s 1976 original:
I have a fairly uninteresting anecdote about this track, which is this… whilst hitchhiking around France with a pal, Ben, aged about 18-19 years old (poss’ 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’t know whose version. For some reason it freaked me out a bit, at the time!