Hive Open Mic #148 - Close To You (The Carpenters)

".. so they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue.. "

Yes, I know, another Carpenter's song.. but how could I resist those lyrics for an Open Mic with the theme of Luz de Estrellas? See?

It's a marvel of a song, brilliantly crafted by Bert Bacharach and in 1970 beautifully sung by Karen Carpenter with her very special voice. The song has been covered loads of times, including here on Hive, where I've seen Hive account@eugelys doing a lovely collaboration last year.

My own version has ended up slightly faster, something that needs ironing out with the next recording; I've tried to add some vocal layers on this one, which I haven't done for some time, but I think it works well with most of the Carpenters songs.

This is a brand new song, so I won't do the key change yet as in the original, but I think it works without that just fine for now.

Hope, you like it and, as always: Thanks for listening!

Edit

It appears that Mr Bacharach passed away on Wednesday.. 😔

You can find the lyrics here

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