Rick-An Ordinary Fool
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Nice Review of Close To You (why do they always mess up the title Crescent Noon?) lol
Hi-Fi News & Record Review
Feb 1971
Hi-Fi News & Record Review
Feb 1971
⭐ Official Review [Album]: "CLOSE TO YOU" (SP-4271)
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Walkinat9
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Just discovered today that Ramsey Lewis did a pretty (instrumental) jazz cover of one of my favorite tracks on the CTY album. It's on his album Back To The Roots from 1971, which features another Carpenters hit 
rockdoctor
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It's hard to believe that 53 years have gone by since this album hit the shelves. I did buy the Close To You and We've Only Just Begun singles. My favorite from the album is Crescent Noon. Mr. Guder did get some airplay here as well.
hannahtobin
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Not a lot of women play the drums even today, let alone a traditional one like a bodhran.
hannahtobin
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Possibly not. It's a rare instrument in its own right.
Mark-T
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Welcome to the boards, @hannahtobin !
hannahtobin
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Thank you. I'm glad I found this forum and thread.
Matthew S
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Been spending some time relistening to this album, and I’ve gotten stuck on “Help!” Those background vocals, tambourine, trumpet and Hammond organ, especially from 1:30 on are just spectacular, true ear candy. @Chris May how many parts are in these background vocals?
I believe it’s six in total in certain places but I’ll need to listen again.
I've always loved "Help" since I first heard it on the CLOSE TO YOU album back in 1970. To me it sounds like many more stacked vocals, but I've been fooled before. Their recording of "Help" almost sounds like it could have been placed on the OFFERING album - it's got that early, raw sound that I love.
newvillefan
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I agree. It’s always stuck out like a sore thumb on the CTY album for that reason - it should have been on Offering.
newvillefan
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I think I've posted a comment about this review before but I read it again tonight from the Musical Legacy book and it still makes me laugh out loud. Read the last line...
And another related funny that some of you might have seen, which also cracks me up to this day. Look closely
And another related funny that some of you might have seen, which also cracks me up to this day. Look closely
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byline
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My parents subscribed to High Fidelity, so I read this review back when it was first published and kept it in my clippings collection (lost during one of many moves). I was happy to see it again in this book. I agree with everything except for her dismissal of Karen's drumming. I guess it depends on what you consider "a high enough quality." I remember thinking then, and still do: "Isn't it enough to simply be a good drummer and love doing it?"
Even though I understand Richard's criticism of the cover, back then I was a kid and didn't know any better. I loved it and spent way too many hours gazing at it.
Even though I understand Richard's criticism of the cover, back then I was a kid and didn't know any better. I loved it and spent way too many hours gazing at it.
It's pretty hysterical, not unlike the DJ's comment about the Offering cover. These people at A&M were something when it came to the marketing and promotions. Read the three-page letter that was written on A&M letterhead that we included in the book. We left the name of its author out of the book, but it was a staffer who'd been there a while. Just unbelievable ...I think I've posted a comment about this review before but I read it again tonight from the Musical Legacy book and it still makes me laugh out loud. Read the last line...
And another related funny that some of you might have seen, which also cracks me up to this day. Look closely
byline
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Yeah, it's pretty cringeworthy. Do you think it was written that way to sabotage them?
rbisherw
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I was lucky enough to see Carpenters at the "Garden State Arts Center" * in Holmdel NJ, in the early 70s.
I distinctly remember opening their set with "Help"
* presently renamed after some corporate entity.
They're pretty lucky that the "Close to You" single was so damn catchy, because that album cover probably didn't sell many records on its own. Even the typeface on it looks cheesy. I'd say that is my least favorite of all their covers... I don't like A Song For You either, but it least it has a cool insert and the embossed paper and the "flap" closure is classy.
I would agree with this!
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I'm not that bothered either. There are far worse. "A Kind of Hush" is just so completely cringe.
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