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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 ]
Spring clamp capo A guitar capo with a lever-operated over-centre locking action clamp Demonstrating the peg removal feature on an Adagio guitar capo. A capo (/ ˈ k eɪ p oʊ ˌ k æ-ˌ k ɑː-/ KAY-poh, KAH-; short for capodastro, capo tasto or capotasto [ˌkapoˈtasto], Italian for "head of fretboard") [a] is a device a musician uses on the neck of a stringed (typically fretted) instrument ...
Advanced guitar chords may rely on the use of open strings alongside strings fretted in higher positions. For example fretting the E-barre shape on the fifth fret without the barre allows the open E, A and E to ring alongside the higher position E, A and C#. The strumming on the middle section of "Stairway to Heaven" is played using such chords ...
Guitarist and songwriter Harvey Reid is a prominent partial capo popularizer. He pioneered most of the known capo configurations, wrote books, and composed and recorded songs using partial capo. Reid published a book in 1980, A New Frontier in Guitar, detailing 25 ways to use a Third Hand Capo, at the time the only partial capo on the market. [2]
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
It has been recorded three times by Frank Sinatra; on June 7, 1943, again on December 26, 1943 for Columbia Records and on November 1, 1956 for Capitol Records.The 1956 version was issued as the title track of an album, Close to You and More, in 1957 for Capitol.
"Close to You" is a song by American R&B singer Frank Ocean. It is the eleventh track on Ocean's second studio album, Blonde, released in 2016.The song interpolates and samples various renditions of "(They Long to Be) Close to You" and was performed at FYF Fest in 2017 with a guest appearance from American actor Brad Pitt.