Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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]
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 ...
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.
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Close to You (Carpenters album)
(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# ...
The discography of the American pop group the Carpenters consists of 14 studio albums, two Christmas albums, two live albums, 49 singles, and numerous compilation albums. . The duo was made up of siblings Karen (lead vocals and drums) and Richard Carpenter (keyboards and vocal
Close to You (The 88 album) or the title song, 2016; Close to You (The Carpenters album) or the title song (see below), 1970; Close to You (Father MC album) or the title song, 1992