Song · The Carpenters
“(They Long To Be) Close To You” by The Carpenters
From the album Offering (1970)
“(They Long To Be) Close To You” by The Carpenters appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2020. It was first released in 1970 on the album Offering. Its best result is #1717 on the WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,394 indie & aaa song of all time.
The Carpenters' "(They Long to Be) Close to You" arrived as a single on May 14, 1970, and with Jack Daugherty producing, it turned a Burt Bacharach and Hal David song that had been around since 1963 into the biggest success it would ever have. It's soft pop with no apologies: wide-eyed wonder at a love so enchanting that the birds and the falling stars seem drawn to it too.
Billboard, Cash Box and Record World all gave it good reviews, and it went all the way: top of the Hot 100 and the Adult Contemporary chart, number one in Canada and Australia, number six in the UK and Ireland, gold by August, and second place on Billboard's year-end Hot 100 for 1970. Since then it has kept popping up on screen as a plot point, in the film Parenthood and in The Simpsons.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1717 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
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