In an interview Richard Carpenter said he received physical threats for using such a “hard rock” guitar solo (paraphrasing a bit) in this song when it was originally released. That guitar is the hook in this song imho.
I find "Rainy Days & Mondays" is the same. When Paul Williams (the composer) sings it, it's a totally different song. Somehow Karen Carpenter could lighten tragic lyrics.
I was single when Karen was alive and felt the joy and sorrow in her songs, I was living it too. Later in life I found my first and only love; I know Karen sent her. The future is a mystery to us all...I love you Karen Carpenter.
Beautiful, sad, and hopeful song. Sung with karen's beautiful voice. Seems like the song described my situation when I first heard it and almost cried inside and out. But at least I found God's perfect Love and I hope his love will find the right one for me on Earth. 💜
I am now turning 26 years old.. no boy friend since birth. I first heard this song when i watched minions. And i feel sad and feel empty at the same time. This song speaks to me. I know i've been single for such long period of time(since birth) im not forcing myself to have relationship. Im just typical person who doesnt eaily fall in love. And honestly i feel empty and lonely feel out of place most of the times with my friends who are now married. I don't know maybe there's really no one for me. My older sisters have their own family now. The only thing i mostly do is work and go home. Tried to socialize but still uh, when i start to like someone and i feel he doesnt like me or maybe im thinking too much so idealistic i guess dont know anymore
26 here too and I've tried for years but every time I liked someone I would get rejected. I'm thinking back at all my efforts to find love and it's been a waste of time. Especially since everyone else seems to pair up easily or they just find hookups and have fun, whereas I struggle to get a second date. So I might just give up dating for now
Life is too short, so enjoy every moment as well as you can!!! Fck the BF or GF, there are many other beautiful things in the world waiting for someone to embrace it!
There are no tomorrow's for this heart of mine. What lies in the future is a mystery to us all. Thinking about her makes me treasure being alive. I wish she could have lived.
I’ve only ever been truly in love three times in my life, a heady teenage love, then a marriage to a. Narcissist, and three decades later I fell in love again with another narcissist. I am old now, i am done . My life is good enough without love .Karen has an amazing voice .
This comment makes me feel terrible. I don’t like thinking about people having to accept loneliness for the rest of their life, the past of bad memories and experiences. But now they’re done, they can’t take their youth back. I’m glad that you’re happy though. Thanks for sharing.
@@cassidy-zh9ie there’s a difference between alone and loneliness. I never feel lonely, and I quite like being alone. Obviously I’ve got family, a couple of good friends and my dogs. I also online a lot, where I have a small circle of trusted friends to chat with so it’s all good. The worst thing about getting old is deteriorating health and adapting to not being able to do all the things one once did with ease, but that comes to most people eventually. So don’t be sad, it’s not all doom and gloom …but I am not coming back, if that option exists, , as some people claim…this time was quite enough. Lol
I love Carpenters but recently it's been a while since I listen to their songs but- this magically is recommended to me in my feed and when I listen, the lyrics is very accurate to my situation right now. I used to find my love, with every efforts I can... but I always fail in the end. They got another girls before we even tried... to the point that I feel like I give up for this, especially after the death of my father recently, before I get a chance to get marry... this makes me feel even hopeless, what Karen sang here is what I truly feel right now, but yeah even this song has a line when there is still hope in the future, and I will believe in that. Tomorrow we'll never know, perhaps in my hardest point of life right now I will find the bright future. I pray.
@@steffanhoffmann8937 My husband died. I still love him with all my heart and soul, but I had to say goodbye to love. There will never a love like we shared.
I did too as a 70's child. Next month marks the 40th anniversary of her death! I was 15, and return when my grandma told me the sad news. Timeless music!
😪 Timeless & so touching. I was born in '65 & remember hearing their songs all the time on the car radio. 🎶 📻 ☮️ 🕊🎶 I pray she knew her maker. 🙏☝️🕎 ✝️ 🕊 G-d bless! 🕊 🎶 🎧 🎶
I remember many many moons ago listening to The Carpenters now when I look at her when I hear her sing I cry and they're not tears of joy tears of status of sorrow that the poor girl was so sad and lonely even though everybody around her loved her something was missing I think she just couldn't find true love I'm crying right now she sings like an Angel how could anybody not love her I'm so sad I can't find any Joy of her songs anymore she was truly in pain and agony such a sweet sorrow!
The genius of Richard and his sister Karen's fab voice. Production outstanding and harmony direction by Richard. The Carpenters were loved in Great Britain. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
In the Philippines too. A singer in the Philippines even imitated her singing style and became famous. But of course no one can beat the original Karen Carpenter. So sad… she longed to be loved since childhood and her dream of having a loving husband and to have children didn’t come true. Same thing that happened to me 😢 … that’s why recently I’m engrossed to singing this song 😢
The song lingers in my heart since yesterday that I saw the Minions movie...until I finally searched for it and the lyrics is so perfect for me. Yoooo MINI BOSS!!!
I went to see the new minions film today and hadn’t heard this song before but I thought it sounded like a carpenters song , and low and behold I was right ❤️
My all time favourite song from the Carpenters. It takes me back to when I was a teenager and the day Karen died. Still makes me feel sad when I hear the Song. Continue to Rest in peace. Your Legacy will live on❤😢🙏🏽
This is the song I used to sing when my first love broke my heart..Yeah, that was 25 years ago. Both of us got married..He became widowed and remarried..Some of my friends told me, maybe if we got married I was the one who died.Well, my relationship with him was fun and memorable ( as I was a teenager ) but that relationship was short. It wasn't even reached one year😂😂. I was immature and he wanted me to change to the things that I wasn't ready to adapt , so it didn't workout. Well anyway, it's really nice to reminisce the past.
Since I was a child, I have always wanted to find my one true love, my soulmate. But I think, maybe, it will never happen. It hurts so bad because I just wish I could feel loved for who I am, at least once in my life
There's a poem called "For Anne Gregory" by William Butler Yeats. The ending lines say Only God can love you for who you are and not for you carrot hair. Learn to love yourself, only then will you find true love...
I recalled hearing this song in Minions: The Rise of Gru; the Minions play it as they mourn for Gru's aggressive stormoff and grow glum. Kevin then fails to save Gru from one of the goons who kidnapped him and brought him to Wild Knuckles (Alan Arkin) in San Francisco, California.
That surprising and astounding fuzz guitar riff at the end is by Anthony F. "Tony" Peluso (March 28, 1950 - June 5, 2010). From Wikipedia: While the Carpenters were working on the song, Richard Carpenter decided that a fuzz guitar solo should be included. Karen Carpenter called guitarist Tony Peluso and asked him to play on the record. Tony remembers: "At first I didn't believe that it was actually Karen Carpenter on the phone but she repeated her name again. ... It was at this point that I realized it was really her and that I was speaking to one of my idols." She told him that she and Richard were working on a song called "Goodbye to Love", that they were familiar with Tony's work with a band called Instant Joy, and that he would be perfect for the sound they were looking for. Peluso first played something soft and sweet, but then Richard Carpenter said: "No, no, no! Play the melody for five bars and then burn it up! Soar off into the stratosphere! Go ahead! It'll be great!" John Bettis has said that Richard Carpenter kept calling him, raving about the guitar solo. He was wondering why Richard was going on about the solo until he heard it. The lyricist said he cried when he first heard the song because he had never heard an electric guitar sound like that. He said Tony Peluso "had a certain almost cello sounding guitar growl that worked against the wonderful melancholia of that song". He went on to say the "way it growls at you, especially at the end" was unbelievable. The Carpenters received hate mail (claiming that the Carpenters had sold out and gone hard rock)
This song could go for a random song album with Feel So Sad (instrumental tune), Jar of Hearts, the sullen hits for Donkey after Shrek dishonored his supremacy for teamwork and Verne after he let the pack and R.J. down after returning the food, R. J. finding the Moon looking full and him watching Gladys and the Verminator set up a laser trap set and Coldplay: Warning Sign.
That just happened to me, too. I fell so hard, that I will never get up again. I am about to celebrate my 65th, and got dumped because I am not wealthy (he is) and we live in different cities. For the past 2 months, he has come up with a countless number of excuses as to why he suddenly cannot come to see me, video me, or even phone me. We had our wedding planned out for my 65th birthday. I do not think I will ever stop crying, especially when I go to bed, alone again, naturally. Cry my heart out until I am asleep.
I hope you find someone that will truly love and care for you. I wish you the best in life and I am sorry I don't understand much of what you're going through because I am just a 15 year old but I do understand many of us humans go through our ups and downs which we all have to get through and I hope this is something you can overcome.
No, actually these are not special or unique songs, think about it, this is something mostly all of us in many ways do possess - I don’t know if everyone can develop - but, it’s actually just kinda universal - everyman
![Carpenters - (They Long To Be) Close To You [Lyrics]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/V44jsIay7mE/mqdefault.jpg)
The beauty of this song is the message is so sad and the melody is so bright and beautiful. A wonderful contrast.
Lol. Well, have you ever heard the Elton John song from the 1970's "Gonna kill Myself"? That one is a real contrast.
That guitar solo is incredible lol. I didn’t expect a Carpenters song to be that HARD.
In an interview Richard Carpenter said he received physical threats for using such a “hard rock” guitar solo (paraphrasing a bit) in this song when it was originally released. That guitar is the hook in this song imho.
I love that guitar solo. Beautifully played.
My all-time favorite. God... Karen's voice is from Heaven. Nobody even comes close.
I've thought the same for years and cried over and over that she left us so soon. I'm 58
IKR
Richard Carpenter was a genius when it came to blending sounds, and Karen was the perfect element for any mix created.
I came cuz minions 😁, such a great song
Yes me too. Great song
Me too😂😂😂
Me too
Me too. I recognised Karen’s voice
Same ❤️
i like how upbeat the song is for such depressing lyrics
the 70's was big on songs like that
I find "Rainy Days & Mondays" is the same. When Paul Williams (the composer) sings it, it's a totally different song. Somehow Karen Carpenter could lighten tragic lyrics.
songs are not about high notes it's just about soulfull, meaningful and pretty simple voice.. i love you karen in heaven😘
I was single when Karen was alive and felt the joy and sorrow in her songs, I was living it too. Later in life I found my first and only love; I know Karen sent her. The future is a mystery to us all...I love you Karen Carpenter.
Beautiful, sad, and hopeful song. Sung with karen's beautiful voice.
Seems like the song described my situation when I first heard it and almost cried inside and out. But at least I found God's perfect Love and I hope his love will find the right one for me on Earth. 💜
I am now turning 26 years old.. no boy friend since birth. I first heard this song when i watched minions. And i feel sad and feel empty at the same time. This song speaks to me. I know i've been single for such long period of time(since birth) im not forcing myself to have relationship. Im just typical person who doesnt eaily fall in love. And honestly i feel empty and lonely feel out of place most of the times with my friends who are now married. I don't know maybe there's really no one for me. My older sisters have their own family now. The only thing i mostly do is work and go home.
Tried to socialize but still uh, when i start to like someone and i feel he doesnt like me or maybe im thinking too much so idealistic i guess dont know anymore
26 here too and I've tried for years but every time I liked someone I would get rejected. I'm thinking back at all my efforts to find love and it's been a waste of time. Especially since everyone else seems to pair up easily or they just find hookups and have fun, whereas I struggle to get a second date. So I might just give up dating for now
Try being 33 and still no love and been rejected or hurt so many times. You're young. Still a chance out there for all.
I'm living the same. 26yo, single since birth, feeling sad and empty, no hope for love in my future 😢
Love is outdated
Life is too short, so enjoy every moment as well as you can!!!
Fck the BF or GF, there are many other beautiful things in the world waiting for someone to embrace it!
Speaks directly to the FEAR of consumption. Afraid of living again for FEAR OF PAIN. Speaks of fear disguised as all that one is afraid of, love.
There are no tomorrow's for this heart of mine. What lies in the future is a mystery to us all. Thinking about her makes me treasure being alive. I wish she could have lived.
Karen - there are many of us who cared if you lived or died..❤
I’ve only ever been truly in love three times in my life, a heady teenage love, then a marriage to a. Narcissist, and three decades later I fell in love again with another narcissist. I am old now, i am done . My life is good enough without love .Karen has an amazing voice .
Me too! Three times! I’m done….unless you want to get together? Hahaha!
@@MrBonemerrow lol…I bet I am old enough to be your mum, so regretfully I have to decline :)
This comment makes me feel terrible. I don’t like thinking about people having to accept loneliness for the rest of their life, the past of bad memories and experiences. But now they’re done, they can’t take their youth back. I’m glad that you’re happy though. Thanks for sharing.
@@cassidy-zh9ie there’s a difference between alone and loneliness. I never feel lonely, and I quite like being alone. Obviously I’ve got family, a couple of good friends and my dogs. I also online a lot, where I have a small circle of trusted friends to chat with so it’s all good. The worst thing about getting old is deteriorating health and adapting to not being able to do all the things one once did with ease, but that comes to most people eventually. So don’t be sad, it’s not all doom and gloom …but I am not coming back, if that option exists, , as some people claim…this time was quite enough. Lol
I pray you find your true love ASAP🙏😊
These lyrics are deep.
'and all i know of love is how to live without it'
Indeed
I love Carpenters but recently it's been a while since I listen to their songs but- this magically is recommended to me in my feed and when I listen, the lyrics is very accurate to my situation right now. I used to find my love, with every efforts I can... but I always fail in the end. They got another girls before we even tried... to the point that I feel like I give up for this, especially after the death of my father recently, before I get a chance to get marry... this makes me feel even hopeless, what Karen sang here is what I truly feel right now, but yeah even this song has a line when there is still hope in the future, and I will believe in that. Tomorrow we'll never know, perhaps in my hardest point of life right now I will find the bright future. I pray.
Amen 🙏
This is right where I am right now. I thought I found somebody I could love, and we didn't get that far and it's blowing up in my face.
I hope you are doing better …..
Someone will find you....🇬🇧🇺🇸
Same here 😢 … this song is definitely made for someone like me 😢
@@steffanhoffmann8937 My husband died. I still love him with all my heart and soul, but I had to say goodbye to love. There will never a love like we shared.
@@kathiealvaro 🙏💔
The trumpet brings a touch of elegance to this beautiful song.
Loved her voice since a child. Feeling this atm.
I did too as a 70's child. Next month marks the 40th anniversary of her death! I was 15, and return when my grandma told me the sad news. Timeless music!
I meant remember!
Yes! Top of the world blew me away when I was a kid!
When it was featured in Minions I got excited af! Carpenters is the best and deserve to be featured
Most of us had experienced saying goodbye to love. But the memories lingers til time immemorial.. 🥰❤️🥰
This song is so beautiful and sad at the same time...but I love it
😪 Timeless & so touching. I was born in '65 & remember hearing their songs all the time on the car radio.
🎶 📻 ☮️ 🕊🎶
I pray she knew her maker.
🙏☝️🕎 ✝️ 🕊 G-d bless! 🕊
🎶 🎧 🎶
they had cars in the 60s?
@@Taylor-oo9ee bruh -_-
So many of us here have struggled to find love. It makes me sad but it is also comforting to know I'm not alone 😭 💔
A haunting and gorgeous voice!
Such a legend, Karen! ❤
I remember many many moons ago listening to The Carpenters now when I look at her when I hear her sing I cry and they're not tears of joy tears of status of sorrow that the poor girl was so sad and lonely even though everybody around her loved her something was missing I think she just couldn't find true love I'm crying right now she sings like an Angel how could anybody not love her I'm so sad I can't find any Joy of her songs anymore she was truly in pain and agony such a sweet sorrow!
Karen--I didn't realized how I would miss you and your music!
*MINI BOSS !*
Glad someone finally understands.... This song defines Me.
great guitar solo in this one
Yes!! I kept on repeating the solo part. Makes me cry . 🥲
Love the guitar in this Carpenters song!
Such sad song ,but it's really is touching ❤️
The genius of Richard and his sister Karen's fab voice.
Production outstanding and harmony direction by Richard.
The Carpenters were loved in Great Britain.
🇬🇧🇺🇸
In the Philippines too. A singer in the Philippines even imitated her singing style and became famous. But of course no one can beat the original Karen Carpenter. So sad… she longed to be loved since childhood and her dream of having a loving husband and to have children didn’t come true. Same thing that happened to me 😢 … that’s why recently I’m engrossed to singing this song 😢
The guitar solo is such a banger for a depressing song.
I always felt like this was my personal anthem.
I really love Karen Carpenter's voice. Listening to it is surreal.
this is why gru got kidnapped😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I love carpenters for all of their jazzy songs and this is totally one of them
This song makes the hurt feel good!!!
I love this song AND all the Carpenter's musica❤️❤️❤️❤️
Letra y melodía de incomparable belleza y poco conocida.
Not true mate they were huge in 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Knowing thyself takes time and effort, keep on searching, there's always a meaning
The song lingers in my heart since yesterday that I saw the Minions movie...until I finally searched for it and the lyrics is so perfect for me. Yoooo MINI BOSS!!!
minii BOSS por favorr
This sounds so magical
Wonderful song ❤
I went to see the new minions film today and hadn’t heard this song before but I thought it sounded like a carpenters song , and low and behold I was right ❤️
Same here! The Minions brought me here.
My all time favourite song from the Carpenters. It takes me back to when I was a teenager and the day Karen died. Still makes me feel sad when I hear the Song. Continue to Rest in peace. Your Legacy will live on❤😢🙏🏽
Th rise of gru brought me here. What a beautiful song. Peace from Malaysia 🇲🇾
I’m here For Minions 😂😂😂
Me too
Same
This is the song I used to sing when my first love broke my heart..Yeah, that was 25 years ago. Both of us got married..He became widowed and remarried..Some of my friends told me, maybe if we got married I was the one who died.Well, my relationship with him was fun and memorable ( as I was a teenager ) but that relationship was short. It wasn't even reached one year😂😂. I was immature and he wanted me to change to the things that I wasn't ready to adapt , so it didn't workout. Well anyway, it's really nice to reminisce the past.
I'm gonna love myself in the way the world can't
Wow my favorite song and singer carpenters thank you so much
Since I was a child, I have always wanted to find my one true love, my soulmate. But I think, maybe, it will never happen. It hurts so bad because I just wish I could feel loved for who I am, at least once in my life
There's a poem called "For Anne Gregory" by William Butler Yeats. The ending lines say
Only God can love you for who you are and not for you carrot hair.
Learn to love yourself, only then will you find true love...
I need more song like this
Speaks towards the current times. How fortuitous.
Sad song but i enjoyed the vibe❤️❤️❤️
POV: u have watched Minions
Am not heart broken or anythin', buh the voice is so captivatin'😍
My heart is breaking for the lovely sad Karen and also for myself-what killed her is killing me😢
I’m gonna always come here when I’m very sad😢🥺😭
I recalled hearing this song in Minions: The Rise of Gru; the Minions play it as they mourn for Gru's aggressive stormoff and grow glum. Kevin then fails to save Gru from one of the goons who kidnapped him and brought him to Wild Knuckles (Alan Arkin) in San Francisco, California.
Don’t know of any other song that squeezes so many words into two verses , very hard maintain perfect pitch throughout the dips and peaks
I love the guitar solo part. 😍
Such a lonely song ultimate loneliness....
So beautiful and sad 💔
Adorable voice and great songs! Goodbye to love😢
Loving the sone
A song for me
I'm saying goodbye to the love of my life it didn't mean to be...
Where did that trumpet come from at the end? It’s not on my home version.
That surprising and astounding fuzz guitar riff at the end is by Anthony F. "Tony" Peluso (March 28, 1950 - June 5, 2010).
From Wikipedia:
While the Carpenters were working on the song, Richard Carpenter decided that a fuzz guitar solo should be included. Karen Carpenter called guitarist Tony Peluso and asked him to play on the record. Tony remembers: "At first I didn't believe that it was actually Karen Carpenter on the phone but she repeated her name again. ... It was at this point that I realized it was really her and that I was speaking to one of my idols." She told him that she and Richard were working on a song called "Goodbye to Love", that they were familiar with Tony's work with a band called Instant Joy, and that he would be perfect for the sound they were looking for. Peluso first played something soft and sweet, but then Richard Carpenter said:
"No, no, no! Play the melody for five bars and then burn it up! Soar off into the stratosphere! Go ahead! It'll be great!"
John Bettis has said that Richard Carpenter kept calling him, raving about the guitar solo. He was wondering why Richard was going on about the solo until he heard it. The lyricist said he cried when he first heard the song because he had never heard an electric guitar sound like that. He said Tony Peluso "had a certain almost cello sounding guitar growl that worked against the wonderful melancholia of that song". He went on to say the "way it growls at you, especially at the end" was unbelievable.
The Carpenters received hate mail (claiming that the Carpenters had sold out and gone hard rock)
Underrated guitar work!
I should have listened and listened to this song.
This song could go for a random song album with Feel So Sad (instrumental tune), Jar of Hearts, the sullen hits for Donkey after Shrek dishonored his supremacy for teamwork and Verne after he let the pack and R.J. down after returning the food, R. J. finding the Moon looking full and him watching Gladys and the Verminator set up a laser trap set and Coldplay: Warning Sign.
Hopeless Gru from the minions always comes to mind whenever I hear this wonderful song😂
I remember my grandma 😢😢😢
Listened in minions and loved it 💋
That just happened to me, too. I fell so hard, that I will never get up again. I am about to celebrate my 65th, and got dumped because I am not wealthy (he is) and we live in different cities. For the past 2 months, he has come up with a countless number of excuses as to why he suddenly cannot come to see me, video me, or even phone me. We had our wedding planned out for my 65th birthday. I do not think I will ever stop crying, especially when I go to bed, alone again, naturally. Cry my heart out until I am asleep.
I hope you find someone that will truly love and care for you. I wish you the best in life and I am sorry I don't understand much of what you're going through because I am just a 15 year old but I do understand many of us humans go through our ups and downs which we all have to get through and I hope this is something you can overcome.
Happy birthday and I hope you live to enjoy many more years.
No, actually these are not special or unique songs, think about it, this is something mostly all of us in many ways do possess - I don’t know if everyone can develop - but, it’s actually just kinda universal - everyman
Thanks to minions..i really love this song❤
Very beautiful music
🎶🎶🎶🎧
“Josh”
“Si si.
“Gru, no panta. por favor por favor….”
Released 1972
Recycled 2022, OST. Minions: The Rise of Gru
❤️❤️❤️
THE ONLY KAREN I LOVEEE
I could listen to this angel sing forever
Singing with the disposition of this lyrics is just impossible.
please upload "I'm Caught Between Goodbye And I Love You"
Wow so touching!
Good mornig. It's beautiful
Bye bye Rahma.. I hope Bob the minion still can make you laugh :)
Josh, pump it up!!
Up, Up, Up!
Minion: Josh.
Josh: si, si
SOS LA MEJOR TÚ VOZ ES UNICA GRACIAS
this song really suits to me thanks minions movie
The vocal and its adliv❤️❤️❤️
I love this song . 😁😁😁
this song make me remember that I'm still single and I never touch a girl 🥺🥺
How old are you?
Could even Sinatra do this any better?
What voice beautiful
From minions 😊