"(They Long to Be) Close to You," performed by The Carpenters, climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming one of the most iconic songs of the decade.
The track was originally written by legendary songwriting duo Burt Bacharach and Hal David in the early 1960s. Its first recording came in 1963 by Richard Chamberlain, followed by another version from Dionne Warwick in 1964.
That changed when Karen and Richard Carpenter reimagined it.
"It's a very deceptive song and a very deceptive arrangement," Richard Carpenter told Goldmine in 2022. "The whole thing makes it sound like it's an easy song, and the trouble with that one is it was so strict with timing and rhythm. It was very easy to start rushing and ultimately, you never want to admit that you need the click track, but on several of them you do and that was one of them. We finally said, 'OK, we need a click track,' so 'Close to You' took around 40 takes to get that basic track with bass, piano and drums, but that was an exception."
"The impact of hearing our music on the radio is impossible for me to put it into words," said Carpenter. "There's a feeling that you've gone against what a lot of people on the way up said was going to happen, which was not much was going to happen with our demo for one reason or another with the sound. But we believed in it."
What began as a missed opportunity ultimately became one of the most enduring love songs in music history.
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