"Goodbye To Love" went on to become quite a big hit
but it did provoke a bit of "hate mail" from people...
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"One of Karen's and my two favourite
"Carpenters" albums, I'd like to touch on the history of two of the
songs:
"Goodbye To Love" - I wrote this melody while
visiting London in late 1971. John wrote the lyric in early 1972.
While constructing the arrangement I pictured a melodic fuzz guitar
solo and knew the guitarist I wanted to use. In '71 one of our tours
featured Mark Lindsay opening the show. His backing group was called
"Instant Joy" and featured a guitarist named Tony Peluso, whose
playing caught my ear. I asked Tony to play on "Goodbye To Love".
The result, in my opinion, is one of the all-time recorded guitar
soos. We subsequently asked Tony to join our road group and he was
with us for many years. "Goodbye To Love" went on to become quite
a big hit but it did provoke a bit of "hate mail" from people who
climed we'd "sold out" and gone HARD ROCK!!!
"Top Of The World"
- I have to admit we miscalled this one. After completing the song
we felt it was a nice "album cut". It didn't take long however,
to learn otherwise. The response to it in concert was overwhelming.
It was culled from the album in Japan and " went gold". Lynn Anderson
covered it and it went to number one on the country charts. Certain
Top 40 stations in the U.S. were charting it based on requests alone.
Not being "born yesterday" we released the record with a few revisions
in late 1973. I should mention that certain titles have been re-mixed
for the "Compact Disk Collection" which was released 1990 U.K. of
"A Song For You". They are: "A Song For You","It's Going To Take
Some Time","Goodbye To Love","Intermission", "Bless The Beats and
Children".
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R I C H A R D C A R P E N T E R
I've
been so many places in my life and time
I've sung a lot of songs I've made some bad rhyme
I've acted out my love in stages
With ten thousand people watching
But we're alone now and I'm singing this song for you
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