purchase [ Carney ]
Masquerade is directly/clearly implicated in the the <mask> theme:
a false show or appearance
Two weeks back, I was going to write up Please Mr Postman as part of our Wait/Don't Wait theme, and toyed with at least mentioning the Carpenters' version. Which curiously came out with their version of This Masquerade as the B-side of the record. Funny how things come around.
You know the story line: it's a couple that is going through a masquerade, pretending they are still in love, when actually they are just too far away from being close together.
Despite the fact that George Benson made the best charting of the known versions, the song really belongs to Leon Russell: his voice is just right for it. It's the only song on Benson's Breezin' album that has vocals.
Russell's Carney was perhaps his best. I would choose Me and Baby Jane as my favorite - something like it's about Janis? But - the album cover, the pesona that Leon was projecting at that time - they seem to fit both the Carney and the Masquerade image.
No, that's not Baby Jane. This is:
