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The Carpenters – We’ve Only Just Begun: When Joe Osborn’s Bass Inspired the Piano 🎹 Richard Carpenter’s piano on the original tracking session still has drum bleed on it, which tells us it was recorded live with the rhythm section. Listen to how the drums, bass, and piano lock together. Joe Osborne plays a beautiful descending line during basic tracking, and you can hear how it inspired Richard. On the final piano take, Richard copies that moment perfectly — it feels like it was written into th

Carpenters Close To You "(They Long to Be) Close to You" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The best-known version is that recorded by American duo the Carpenters for their second studio album Close to You (1970) and produced by Jack Daugherty. Released on May 14, 1970, the single topped both the US Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts. It also reached the top of the Canadian and Australian charts and peaked at number six on the charts of both the UK and Ireland. The r