Carpenters – Close To You
Label: | A&M Records – SP 4271, A&M Records – SP-4271 |
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Country: | US |
Released: | |
Genre: | Rock, Pop |
Style: | Soft Rock, Vocal |
Tracklist
A1 | We've Only Just Begun | 3:04 | |
A2 | Love Is Surrender | 1:59 | |
A3 | Maybe It's You | 3:09 | |
A4 | Reason To Believe | 3:02 | |
A5 | Help | 3:02 | |
A6 | (They Long To Be) Close To You | 4:34 | |
B1 | Baby It's You | 2:50 | |
B2 | I'll Never Fall In Love Again | 2:56 | |
B3 | Crescent Noon | 4:09 | |
B4 | Mr. Guder | 3:17 | |
B5 | I Kept On Loving You | 2:13 | |
B6 | Another Song | 4:22 |
Companies, etc.
- Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute
Credits
- Arranged By, Keyboards, Conductor, Vocals – Richard Carpenter
- Bass – Danny Woodhams, Joe Osborn
- Drums – Hal Blaine, Karen Carpenter
- Engineer – Dick Bogert, Ray Gerhardt
- Producer – Jack Daugherty
- Vocals – Karen Carpenter
- Woodwind – Bob Messenger, Doug Strawn, Jim Horn
Notes
Transitional Terre Haute variant, on the tan label, has the following differentiations:
JACKET DIFFERENTIATIONS:
-NO A&M logo on front (as on first pressings)
-Has RIAA seal on back and the A&M logo is centered below the credits (as on first pressings)
-Bottom jacket credits on 8 lines (not 7) which includes the A&M Record Catalogue text (as on first pressings)
-Silverish ink in outer background, replaced on later pressings by simulated CMYK light grey ink.
LABEL/PUBLISHING CREDIT DIFFERENTIATIONS:
-Track A4 publisher 'Faithful Virtue' on jacket (as on first pressings) but listed as 'Koppelman & Rubin' on label.
-Carpenter / Bettis tracks are credited to Almo Music on the jacket (as on first pressings) but credited to Irving Music on labels.
LABEL LAYOUT DIFFERENTIATIONS:
-Columbia block-letter typesetting
-All tracks more centered on the labels and all aligned (Tracks A1 and B1 are not off to the right)
Runout strings are mostly etched with isolated stamped characters.
Original Terre Haute pressing: Close To You
JACKET DIFFERENTIATIONS:
-NO A&M logo on front (as on first pressings)
-Has RIAA seal on back and the A&M logo is centered below the credits (as on first pressings)
-Bottom jacket credits on 8 lines (not 7) which includes the A&M Record Catalogue text (as on first pressings)
-Silverish ink in outer background, replaced on later pressings by simulated CMYK light grey ink.
LABEL/PUBLISHING CREDIT DIFFERENTIATIONS:
-Track A4 publisher 'Faithful Virtue' on jacket (as on first pressings) but listed as 'Koppelman & Rubin' on label.
-Carpenter / Bettis tracks are credited to Almo Music on the jacket (as on first pressings) but credited to Irving Music on labels.
LABEL LAYOUT DIFFERENTIATIONS:
-Columbia block-letter typesetting
-All tracks more centered on the labels and all aligned (Tracks A1 and B1 are not off to the right)
Runout strings are mostly etched with isolated stamped characters.
Original Terre Haute pressing: Close To You
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Pressing Plant ID (Runouts): T
- Matrix / Runout (A Side Label): SP-4441
- Matrix / Runout (B Side Label): SP-4442
- Matrix / Runout (A Side Runout ): T1 A&M SP 4441-T6 3 D
- Matrix / Runout (B Side Runout): A&M SP 4442-P9 0
Other Versions (5 of 176)
View AllTitle (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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Close To You (LP, Album, Stereo) | A&M Records | AMLS 998 | UK | 1970 | |||
Recently Edited | Close To You (LP, Album, Pitman Pressing) | A&M Records, A&M Records | SP-4271, SP 4271 | US | 1970 | ||
Recently Edited | Close To You (LP, Album, Club Edition, Capitol Club) | A&M Records, A&M Records, A&M Records | SP-4271, 93844, SW-93844 | US | 1970 | ||
New Submission | Close To You (LP, Album) | A&M Records | SP-4271 | Canada | 1970 | ||
Close To You (LP, Album, Stereo) | A&M Records | SAML-933927 | Australia | 1970 |
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