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I NEED TO BE IN LOVE
Music and Lyrics by Richard Carpenter,
John Bettis and Albert Hammond
Bettis, Hammond, and I
wrote this ballad in 1976, and it quickly became Karen’s favorite of all the
songs she and I had recorded, partly because of its melodic sweep, and partly
because of the lyric, which resonated with the way she was feeling at that time.
To be frank, I always felt the song, performance, and arrangement were strong
and commercial, and was a bit perplexed when, in the U.S., it peaked only at
#25. It turned out that, regarding this record, I was right; nineteen
years later the very same recording was used in a Japanese mini-series named Misenen, and
re-released as a CD single. It became one of the biggest sellers of 1995,
ultimately going quadruple platinum. In more ways than one, Karen would
have loved that!
Almo Music Corp. / Hammer
And Nails Music, Inc. / EMI April Music, Inc. (ASCAP)
Produced and Arranged by Richard
Carpenter
Lead Vocal: Karen Carpenter
Backing Vocals: The O.K. Chorale
Keyboards: Richard Carpenter
Bass: Joe Osborn
Drums: Jim Gordon
Guitar: Tony Peluso
Oboe: Earle Dumler
Flute: David Shostac
Engineer: Ray Gerhardt
From the album A Kind Of Hush
(1976)
Remixed in 1990 by Richard Carpenter and
Roger Young
Engineer: Roger Young
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