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| ARTIST: | The Carpenters |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | A&M |
| FEATURES: | Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered |
| TYPE: | Vocal, Popular Music, Soft Rock, Pop, Pop Vocals, United States of America |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| MPN: | 393184 |
| TRACKS: | We've Only Just Begun, Love Is Surrender, Maybe It's You, Reason To Believe, Help, (They Long To Be) Close To You, Baby It's You, I'll Never Fall In Love Again, Crescent Noon, Mr. Guder, I Kept On Loving You, Another Song |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 082839318426 |
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Customer Reviews of Close to You
CD which was fresh and was substantial The singing voice of Karen when young, and beautiful harmony can be enjoyed. <
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>Many hit songs are recorded. It will be one of CDs which should be loved.
The Start Of Something Special
On January 2, 1985, my mom went to work at the local Sears in the mall. Before coming home, I had given her $6 to buy a CD of a group I had only heard of for the first time the previous autumn. WTBS was selling "Yesterday Once More," a 24-song package of songs by the brother-sister duo, the Carpenters.<
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>Thinking I wanted the album but afraid to send a hard earned $11.98 for two records, I sent Mom with $6.34 to get this casette. And I was hooked.<
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>The sequencing on the casette is different than on the album or CD and, in my judgment, better. It begins with a good roar, "We've Only Just Begun" and has two above average tunes, "Mr Guder" (a jibe at a former employer that Richard later regretted - but a fan favorite at concerts) and "I Kept On Loving You" (written by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols, composers of "We've Only Just Begun"), the best version of "Reason To Believe" that I've ever heard. This is followed by an attempt at the Beatles tune "Help!" that sounds like a completely different song. And that, of course, wasn't the first time as their first single was "Ticket To Ride" - and it, too, sounded nothing like the Beatles.<
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>Side one of the casette closes out with their biggest hit of all-time, "Close To You." On side two, the first three songs are all right - "Baby It's You," "Love Is Surrender" (for which a video, rare in those days, was made) and "Maybe It's You." But the final three tracks of the album fall off the chart, particularly the last two, "Crescent Noon" and "Another Song."<
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>So how do I rate the album/CD? Four stars. Why not five? Well in favor of the high ranking is two monster hits - a #1 (the title track) and a #2 (We've Only Just Begun), good orchestration, powerful vocals, and a noble attempt at making old songs sound new not once, but three times.<
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>Yet it's not five stars because the end falls so flat as to be absurd. And the cover art is horrendous. This, in fact, would only be a three-star effort were it not for two major hit singles. Nevertheless, this is a good prism of what was to come in the next three years from the Carpenters.<
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I love the Carpenters
This album has some great songs and it is so fun to sing along to. It reminds me of my childhood. I wish there was more music like the Carpenters out there for the next generations to listen to. They always have uplifting, easy to listen to music!