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Billboard highlighted "Close to You" in its "Spotlight Singles" section on May 30, 1970, commenting: "Performance is exceptional." [20] In a 1995 New York Times Magazine story about love songs released in summers, Stephan Talty described "Close to You" as a "hushed love song" that "[set] the tone for a generation's soft ballads" in 1970. [21]
"Goodbye to Love" is a song composed by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis. It was released by the Carpenters in 1972. On the Close to You: Remembering The Carpenters documentary, Tony Peluso stated that this was one of the first power ballads , if not the first, to have a fuzz guitar solo.
Richard Carpenter of Carpenters heard the song during an evening of relaxation at the movies while on tour. He decided it would be ideal for the duo. It became a hit for them in 1971, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, spending seven weeks in the Top 10, and No. 1 for three weeks on the US easy listening chart. [3]
Close to You is the second studio album by the American music duo the Carpenters, released on August 19, 1970.In 2003, the album was ranked No. 175 on Rolling Stone ' s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, [1] maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list. [2]
The music video to "All You Get from Love Is a Love Song" takes place in the A&M Studios. It starts off with the bongo drum and fades into a camera angle zooming towards Karen Carpenter . At the end of the video, the performance fades into a picture of the Carpenters' Hollywood Walk of Fame Star , which is the beginning to the video "Top of the ...
"We've Only Just Begun" is a single by the Carpenters, written by Roger Nichols (music) and Paul Williams (lyrics). It was ranked at No. 414 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time." [3] It also became Carpenters' second consecutive top-five single in the Billboard Hot 100.
The song was written by Paul Williams (lyrics) and Roger Nichols (music) who also wrote two previous hits for Carpenters – "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays". [1] According to the lyricist Paul Williams, the line "when there's no getting over that rainbow" in the chorus is a reference to the song " Over the Rainbow " from ...
A Song for You is the fourth studio album by the American music duo the Carpenters, released on June 22, 1972.According to Richard Carpenter, A Song for You was intended to be a concept album (of sorts) with the title tune opening and closing the set and the bookended selections comprising the 'song'.