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词条 A Song for You (The Carpenters album)
释义

  1. Information on the songs

  2. Track listing

  3. Personnel

  4. Singles

  5. Charts

     Weekly charts  Year-end charts  Certifications 

  6. References

{{Infobox album
| name = A Song for You
| type = Studio
| artist = Carpenters
| cover = A Song For You (Carpenters album).jpg
| alt =
| released = June 22, 1972
| recorded = 1971–72
| venue =
| studio = A&M Studios, Los Angeles
| genre = Pop
| length = {{duration|m=36|s=57}}
| label = A&M
| producer = Jack Daugherty Productions
| prev_title = Carpenters
| prev_year = 1971
| next_title = Now & Then
| next_year = 1973
| misc = {{Singles
| name = A Song for You
| type = studio
| single1 = Bless the Beasts and Children
| single1date = August 12, 1971
| single2 = Hurting Each Other
| single2date = January 5, 1972
| single3 = It's Going to Take Some Time
| single3date = April 29, 1972
| single4 = Goodbye to Love
| single4date = June 19, 1972
| single5 = Top of the World
| single5date = September 19, 1973
| single6 = I Won't Last a Day Without You
| single6date = March 25, 1974
}}
}}{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[1]
| rev2 = Rolling Stone
| rev2Score = (Average)[2]
| rev3 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[3]
}}A Song for You is the fourth studio album by American music duo Carpenters, released on June 22, 1972. According to Richard Carpenter, "A Song for You was intended to be a concept album (of sorts) with the title tune opening and closing the set and the bookended selections comprising the 'song'."[4]

In Cash Box{{'}}s Top 100 Albums of 1972, A Song for You was ranked number 26.[5]

Six songs were released as A-side singles internationally: "Hurting Each Other", "It's Going to Take Some Time", "Goodbye to Love", "Top of the World", "I Won't Last a Day Without You", and "Bless the Beasts and Children".

Information on the songs

"Hurting Each Other", a cover of an obscure Ruby & the Romantics tune, was the first single issued from A Song for You in early 1972, and reached number two, becoming the Carpenters' sixth straight gold single. A cover of Carole King's "It's Going to Take Some Time" followed and peaked at number 12, and was followed by the number seven hit "Goodbye to Love", which was refused airplay on some easy listening radio stations because of a fuzz guitar solo by Tony Peluso. The song had a significant impact on the power ballad songs which followed. The album also included the Carpenters' version of the Academy Award nominated title song from the 1971 film Bless the Beasts and Children, which had already charted at number 67 on the Hot 100 as the flip side of the duo's version of "Superstar".

The album's biggest hit single, the number one smash "Top of the World", was not issued until over a year after the album's release. According to Richard Carpenter, who co-wrote the song with John Bettis, the reason for the song's late release in the US was that he had misjudged the song's commercial appeal, but was proven wrong when the Carpenters' "Top of the World" became a hit in Japan in 1972 and Lynn Anderson's cover reached number 2 on the US country charts in 1973. The song went through a few minor revisions, including a slight remix, before it was finally released as a single in the US. The Carpenters' treatment of the much-covered Paul Williams/Roger Nichols composition "I Won't Last a Day Without You" also got a belated single release in 1974, and peaked at number eleven on the Hot 100.

With the exception of "Bless the Beasts..." which peaked at number 26 on the AC chart, all of the album's charted singles made either number one ("Hurting Each Other", "I Won't Last a Day Without You") or number two on the Adult Contemporary chart. The album and its singles were also successful internationally; "Goodbye to Love" and "I Won't Last a Day..." made the top ten on the UK Singles Chart as a double A-side, and "Top of the World" made the Oricon singles chart in Japan on three separate occasions (number 21 in 1972, number 52 in 1973, and number 83 in 1996).

Track listing

All lead vocals by Karen Carpenter, except where noted.

{{Track listing
| headline = Side one
| title1 = A Song for You
| writer1 = Leon Russell
| length1 = 4:42
| title2 = Top of the World
| writer2 = {{hlist|John Bettis|Richard Carpenter}}
| length2 = 2:56
| title3 = Hurting Each Other
| writer3 = {{hlist|Gary Geld|Peter Udell}}
| length3 = 2:46
| title4 = It's Going to Take Some Time
| writer4 = {{hlist|Carole King|Toni Stern}}
| length4 = 2:55
| title5 = Goodbye to Love
| writer5 = {{hlist|Kevin Cronin|Bettis|R. Carpenter}}
| length5 = 3:50
| title6 = Intermission
| writer6 = R. Carpenter
| length6 = 0:22
| note6 = lead vocals: K. and R. Carpenter
}}{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title7 = Bless the Beasts and Children
| writer7 = {{hlist|Perry Botkin Jr.|Barry DeVorzon}}
| length7 = 3:07
| title8 = Flat Baroque
| writer8 = R. Carpenter
| length8 = 1:45
| note8 = instrumental
| title9 = Piano Picker
| writer9 = Randy Edelman
| length9 = 1:59
| note9 = lead vocals: R. Carpenter
| title10 = I Won't Last a Day Without You
| writer10 = {{hlist|Roger Nichols|Paul Williams}}
| length10 = 3:47
| title11 = Crystal Lullaby
| writer11 = {{hlist|Bettis|R. Carpenter}}
| length11 = 3:53
| note11 = lead vocals by K. and R. Carpenter
| title12 = Road Ode
| writer12 = {{hlist|Gary Sims|Dan Woodhams}}
| length12 = 3:50
| title13 = A Song for You
| note13 = reprise
| writer13 = Russell
| length13 = 0:53
}}

Personnel

  • Karen Carpenter – lead and backing vocals, drums
  • Richard Carpenter – lead and backing vocals, piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond organ, celesta, orchestration
  • Joe Osborn – bass guitar
  • Tony Peluso – lead guitar
  • Hal Blaine – drums
  • Earl Dumler – oboe, English horn
  • Bob Messenger – tenor saxophone, flute, alto flute
  • Louie Shelton – guitar
  • Tim Weisberg – bass flute on "It's Going to Take Some Time"
  • Buddy Emmons – pedal steel guitar on "Top of the World"
  • Norm Herzberg – bassoon
  • Red Rhodes – steel guitar
  • Gary Coleman – percussion on "Hurting Each Other"

Singles

  • "Hurting Each Other"

US 7" single (1971) – A&M 1322

  1. "Hurting Each Other"
  2. "Maybe It's You"
  • "Bless the Beasts and Children"

JP 7" single (1972) – AM-114

  1. "Bless the Beasts and Children"
  2. "Help"
  • "It's Going to Take Some Time"

US 7" single (1972) – A&M 1351

  1. "It's Going to Take Some Time"
  2. "Flat Baroque"
  • "Goodbye to Love"

US 7" single (1972) – A&M 1367

  1. "Goodbye to Love"
  2. "Crystal Lullaby"
  • "Top of the World"

US 7" single (1973) – A&M 1468

  1. "Top of the World"
  2. "Heather"
  • "I Won't Last a Day Without You"

US 7" single (1974) – A&M 1521

  1. "I Won't Last a Day Without You"
  2. "One Love"

Charts

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Weekly charts

ChartPosition
Australian Kent Music Report Chart[6]6
Canadian RPM Albums Chart[7]5
Japanese Oricon LP Chart[8]5
UK Albums Chart[9]13
US Billboard 200[10]4

Year-end charts

Chart (1972)Position
US Billbard Top Pop Albums[11]78
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Certifications

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References

1. ^{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r3362|first=Bruce|last=Eder|accessdate=2012-02-02}}
2. ^{{cite web |first=Holden|last=Stephen|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thecarpenters/albums/album/107556/review/6067644/a_song_for_you|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107222303/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thecarpenters/albums/album/107556/review/6067644/a_song_for_you|title=Carpenters: A Song for You: Music Reviews |work=Rolling Stone |date=1972-12-12|archivedate=2009-01-07|accessdate=2012-02-18}}
3. ^{{Cite book| last = Brackett | first = Nathan | authorlink = | author2= Christian Hoard | title = The Rolling Stone Album Guide | publisher = Simon and Schuster | year = 2004 | location = New York City, New York | page = 140 | isbn = 0-7432-0169-8 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA140&lpg=PA140&dq=rolling+stone+carpenters+album+guide#v=onepage&q=rolling%20stone%20carpenters%20album%20guide&f=false}}
4. ^"A Song for You" CD Insert
5. ^Cash Box YE Pop Albums – 1972
6. ^{{Cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, NSW|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.4183&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=c6btf3r8hs459qqt5ln3o3dcv5|title=Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada|publisher=RPM|accessdate=2012-02-19}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/album2012/al_carpenters.html|work=a-カーペンターズ|title=– Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Albums Chart Daijiten – Carpenters|language=Japanese|date=2007-12-30|accessdate=2012-02-21}}{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
9. ^{{cite web| url=http://www.chartstats.com/release.php?release=37418| title= Chart Stats – Carpenters – A Song for You| publisher=UK Albums Chart|format=PHP|accessdate=2012-02-19}}
10. ^{{cite web|title=allmusic ((( A Song for You > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))|publisher=allmusic.com|url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r3362/charts-awards|pure_url=yes}}|accessdate=2011-10-03}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/archivesearch/article_display/855843?imw=Y|title=Top Pop Albums of 1972|publisher=billboard.biz|accessdate=2012-02-10}}
12. ^{{cite book|title=Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005|publisher=Oricon Entertainment|location=Roppongi, Tokyo|year=2006|isbn=4-87131-077-9}}
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