![]() (Thank you Wayne Marshall for bringing it to my attention.) It’s on the last album that Garner recorded before his death. It’s also interesting to hear Dusty Springfield’s recording, with a completely over-the-top arrangement and weird doubletime guitar.Īnyway, those are all very interesting, but now let’s get to Erroll Garner’s recording. I like Dionne Warwick’s version, which is slower and saucier. Several people had recorded “Close To You” before the Carpenters got to it. I will say this for the tune, though: it inspired one of my favorite ever nerdy jokes.Ĭonfirmation bias- Dan Shapiro May 15, 2016 Karen Carpenter is a magnificent singer, but the arrangement just kind of sits there. She’s got this warm, controlled delivery, and she manages to get across both sadness and silliness with a lot of subtlety. ![]() The one thing that really works about the song is Karen. And the song itself is simple and repetitive enough that it can’t support all those pillowy embellishments. All those melodies are toothache-sweet and impeccable to the point of being antiseptic. There are backup singers echoing Karen’s lines. Tom Breihan’s essay about the song in The Number Ones sums up precisely how I feel about it: There you have it.) One of my favorite ever jazz “remixes” is Erroll Garner’s version of “(They Long To Be) Close To You” by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, which the Carpenters had a number one hit with in 1970. (In fact, I just accidentally typed it as, John Coltrane’s remix of “My Favorite Things” is not a remix. ![]() ![]() Technically, John Coltrane’s version of “My Favorite Things” is not a remix of the version from The Sound of Music, but it occupies the same cultural role as a remix. When I teach remixes in music tech class, I like to make the analogy to radical jazz arrangements of standards. ![]()
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