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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]
The Carpenters released ten albums during their active career, of which five contained two or more top 20 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 (Close to You, Carpenters, A Song for You, Now & Then, and Horizon). Ten singles were certified gold by the RIAA, and twenty-two peaked in the top 10 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
(I'm Caught Between) Goodbye and I Love You: Horizon: 1975: 1975: Bettis, Carpenter (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me: Carpenters: 1971: 1971: Bacharach, David (They Long to Be) Close to You: Close to You: 1970: 1970: Bacharach, David (Want You) Back in My Life Again: Made in America: 1981: 1981: Chater, Christian: A Song for You# ...
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]
[128] [129] The movie helped revive the Carpenters' critical standing and increased their music's popularity. [130] [3] Richard Carpenter helped in the production of the documentaries Close to You: Remembering The Carpenters (1997) [131] and Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story (2007). [132]
The Carpenters garnered worldwide commercial success, scoring big hits mainly in the first half of the 1970s. RIAA-certified sales of their records (albums, singles and videos) have been estimated at around 34.6 million units. [ 1 ]
Yesterday Once More is a two-disc compilation album by American pop group Carpenters. ... Close to You" (Bacharach, David) – 4:33; Charts. Chart (1984-1985)
Richard Carpenter also changed the bridge and chord structure, changes Williams felt detracted from the song and he believed that Carpenters would have greater success if they had recorded the song unchanged. [2] The song was recorded as a tract for Carpenters' album A Song for You, and was released two years later as a single in the US. [1]