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A&M 3511 June 13 1972
1972: alternate album cover (no details)
1972: alternate album cover #2 (no
details)
1975: revised album cover (no details)
1983: revised album
cover, no flap
In the notes to the Carpenters: The Compact Disc Collection, Richard Carpenter wrote:
One of Karen's and my two favorite 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 solos. 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 lot of "hate mail" from people who claimed 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 this edition of A Song For You. They are: A Song For You, It's Going To Take Some Time, Goodbye To Love, Intermission, Bless The Beasts And Children.
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