The Carpenters - Close to You
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Artist: The CarpentersEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-01-12
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
- We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters, Nichols, Roger [Son
- Love Is Surrender - The Carpenters, Carmichael, Ralph
- Maybe It's You - The Carpenters, Carpenter, Richard
- Reason to Believe - The Carpenters, Hardin, Tim
- Help! - The Carpenters, McCartney, Paul
- (They Long to Be) Close to You - The Carpenters, David, Hal
- Baby It's You - The Carpenters, Bacharach, Burt
- I'll Never Fall in Love Again - The Carpenters, Bacharach, Burt
- Crescent Noon - The Carpenters, Carpenter, Richard
- Mr. Guder - The Carpenters, Carpenter, Richard
- I Kept on Loving You - The Carpenters, Nichols, Roger [Son
- Another Song - The Carpenters, Carpenter, Richard
Free Music Notes for Close to You
Free Music Review: A surprisingly great CD.
Hit: 4 Stars
I was 13 years old when this album was released. I was into rock bands like Deep Purple and the Grass Roots, and just starting to listen to Black Sabbath. So you could imagine my reaction when a neighbor friend of my parents gave me this tape for Christmas. First of all, at that time I had never heard of the Carpenters, and the only exposure to their music was some bank using "We've Only Just Begun" in their commercials. So I took one brief, two-song listen, and put it away. A couple years later, having trouble sleeping, I decided to put it in the tape player figuring it would bore me to sleep. And in that setting I couldn't believe how beautiful the music was. Instead of helping me sleep I must have listened to it three times. Although there are a few weak songs (hence the 4 star rating instead of a 5) there are some wonderfully produced and original sounding pieces as well.
Believe it or not, the two hits on this CD are by far not the best songs on this album. While popular as easy-listening pop songs, "We've Only Just Begun" and "Close to You" feel like they were produced solely to be hits. To me, the best part of the tape was side two which, if you look at the sequence of songs on the CD, started with "Baby It's You." Here you begin to find, with the possible exception of "Mr. Guder", a group of songs that just sound beautiful. Wonderful melodies, great harmonies, and above average lyrics set these songs way above the first six on the CD. My favorites are the aforementioned "Baby It's You" (a Burt Bacharach song that had been done by just about everyone), "Crescent Moon (showing Karen's ability to sing in a lower octave that you normally hear), and "Another Song" (an interesting mix of vocal & instrumental music). Other gems, "Maybe It's You", "Reason to Believe" and "I kept on Loving You" (Sung by Richard Carpenter).
Of course I would recommend this to any Carpenter fan, although I would be surprised if you didn't already have it. But also to fans of great and beautiful music. Even though I still prefer a harder guitar type of music I went ahead and bought this CD when my tape finally died and I still listen to it.
Close to You Poster
When the Carpenters found themselves with a sudden radio hit ("Close to You"), their record company put the pressure on them to come up with a whole album. The album's glue is, of course, the unabashedly sentimental and corny title track and the subsequent chart topper, "We've Only Just Begun." However, their lush covers of now-classic songs such as "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" and "Baby It's You," and Karen's tragic plea on John Lennon's "Help," contribute to the strength of this collection. The band toys with bossa nova sounds on "Love Is Surrender" and explores deeper emotional terrain on the beautiful "Crescent Moon." Close to You stands as a harbinger of the great things ahead for the Carpenters in the '70s. --Lorry FlemingBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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