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Karen and Richard Carpenter recorded the most successful version of the song. In 1970, "(They Long to Be) Close to You" was released by the Carpenters on their album Close to You (1970) and became their breakthrough hit. Believing the original title to be too long, Richard Carpenter added parentheses around "They Long to Be". [9]
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 ]
"Close to You" (Gracie Abrams song), 2024 "Close to You" (Maxi Priest song), 1990 "Close to You" (Tohoshinki song), 2008 "Close to You" (Whigfield song), 1995 "(They Long to Be) Close to You", written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, first recorded by Richard Chamberlain, 1963; covered by the Carpenters (1970) and others "Close to You", by Abhi ...
The day the song dropped, the 24-year-old wrote on her Instagram story: “Hiiiii Close To Youuuuuu hi after seven years hellooooooo :).” Gracie Abrams (@gracieabrams via Instagram)
According to The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (6th edition), on the U.S. Adult Contemporary singles chart, it was the duo's best-performing tune, lasting seven weeks at No. 1 (beating the six-week stay at the top of "Close to You"). [5] The song also helped them to win two Grammy Awards in 1971: Best New Artist and Best Contemporary ...
"Close to You" is a popular song written by Jerry Livingston, Carl Lampl and Al Hoffman. [1] [2] [3] Recordings.
"Close to You" is a song by Italian Eurodance project Whigfield, performed by Danish-born Sannie Charlotte Carlson [2] and released in August 1995 as the fourth single from her first album, Whigfield (1995). It was her first ballad and a top-20 hit in Denmark, Ireland, Spain and the United Kingdom. On the Eurochart Hot 100, it reached number 67.
The song was an answer song to Joey Powers's Midnight Mary in 1962. [ 131 ] Wright spoke out on the importance of creative opportunities for children in the public educational system, [ 4 ] and expressed his opposition to the prevalence of free music downloading and its disadvantage to artists. [ 34 ]