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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]
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 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 Got You Babe" (Sonny & Cher) [5] [3] "I Need You" [1] "I Need You" (Chris and Craig) [40] "I Saw Her Again" (The Mamas & the Papas) [10] "I Think I Love You" (The Partridge Family) [5] [9] "If I Can Dream" (Elvis Presley) [41] "If I Were a Carpenter" (Bobby Darin) [10] "I'll Meet You Halfway" (The Partridge Family) [9]
(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# ...
Following their hit "(They Long to Be) Close to You" onto the charts, "We've Only Just Begun" hit No. 1 on the Cash Box singles chart and No. 2 on the U.S.Billboard Hot 100 behind the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" and the Partridge Family's "I Think I Love You", becoming the pair's second million-selling gold single, spending nine weeks in the ...
Written by members Nina Persson and Peter Svensson as the lead single from their third studio album First Band on the Moon. [40] "(They Long to Be) Close to You" The Carpenters: 1970 Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David [41] "Say So" Doja Cat: 2019 Recorded in July 2019 and released as a single off her album Hot Pink in November 2019.
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