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Cashbox praised the album, stating that "the dynamic duo of the MOR/easy listening idiom have come up with another winner. “A Kind Of Hush" is a clean collection of tunes that is truly representative of the kind of music that the Carpenters are famous for — smooth, ingratiating melodies that bear their contemporary trademark.
The Carpenters remade "There's a Kind of Hush"—as "There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)"—for their 1976 album release A Kind of Hush for which it served as lead single, reaching No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and affording the Carpenters' their thirteenth No. 1 on the easy listening chart.
In the United Kingdom, they are ranked as the seventh top-selling albums artist on the official record chart of the 1970s. [2] During their career, the duo scored 1 number one album and another 4 Top 10 albums on Billboard 200, as well as 3 number one singles, 12 top 10 singles and 20 top 40 hits on Billboard Hot 100.
The song was recorded in 1976 by the Carpenters and released on their May 1976 album, A Kind of Hush. It was also the B-side track for their 1977 single, " Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft ", released in support of their 1977 album, Passage .
This is a comprehensive list of songs written or performed by pop duo the Carpenters, featuring Karen and Richard Carpenter. This list includes official studio albums, live albums, solo albums, and notable compilations that feature rare or unreleased material.
Their next album, A Kind of Hush, was released on June 11, 1976, and was certified gold. [75] However, it was the first Carpenters' album not to become platinum-certified since Ticket to Ride seven years earlier. The duo had several hits that year, but by this time the public had become over-familiar with them, and sales fell. [114]
Japanese female singer Chihiro Onitsuka covered the song for her 2012 cover album Famous Microphone. Korean jazz duo Winterplay covered the song for their 2010 album Touché Mon Amour. In 2016, Dami Im recorded a version for her album Classic Carpenters. Richard Carpenter recorded a solo piano/vocal version live on Japanese television. [14]
A Kind of Hush, a 1976 album release by the Carpenters; A Kind of Hush, a 1999 autobiographical novel by Richard Johnson A Kind of Hush, a 1999 film based on the above novel "There's a Kind of Hush", a Les Reed/Geoff Stephens composition which was a hit for Herman's Hermits in 1967 and for the Carpenters in 1976; There's a Kind of Hush All Over ...