A Song For You










"Goodbye To Love" went on to become quite a big hit but it did provoke a bit of "hate mail" from people...




A Song For You "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".


- 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


A Song For You

  1. A Song For You
  2. Top Of The World
  3. Hurting Each Other
  4. It's Going To Take Some Time
  5. GoodBye To Love
  6. Intermission
  7. Bless The Beasts And Children
  8. Flat Baroque
  9. Piano Picker
  10. I Won't Last A Day Without You
  11. Crystal Lullaby
  12. Road Ode
  13. A Song For You (Reprise)

A&M Records Inc. 13 June 1972
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