I Need to Be in Love

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“I Need to Be in Love”
Cover to the Carpenters' single, "I Need to Be in Love"
Single by The Carpenters from the album A Kind of Hush
A-side	"I Need to Be in Love"
B-side	"Sandy"
Released	May 21, 1976
Format	7" single
Recorded	1976
Genre	Pop
Length	03:25 (Single Version) 03:49 (Album Version)
Label	A&M Records
Writer(s)	Richard Carpenter; John Bettis; Albert Hammond
Producer	Richard Carpenter
The Carpenters singles chronology
"There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)" (1976) "I Need to Be in Love" (1976) "Goofus" (1976)
A Kind of Hush track listing
Side one "There's a Kind of Hush" "You" "Sandy" "Goofus" "Can't Smile Without You" Side two "I Need to Be in Love" "One More Time" "Boat to Sail" "I Have You" "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"

I Need to Be in Love is a song written by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis. It was released as a single on May 21, 1976. It was featured on the "A Kind of Hush" album, which was released on June 11 of the same year. The single featured a version without the piano lead-in and starts immediately with a flute introduction by Bob Messenger. Many fans treasure this song, as Richard Carpenter himself revealed that of all the songs the Carpenters recorded, this was Karen Carpenter's favorite.^[1].

Mr. Carpenter states that although the song only peaked at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100, it was released as a CD single in Japan in 1995 from the best-selling compilation 22 Hits of the Carpenters (promoted as a double A-side with "Top of the World"). "It became one of the biggest sellers of 1995, ultimately going quadruple platinum. In more ways than one, Karen would have loved that!"^[2]

[edit] Cover version

• Filipino bossa nova singer Sitti recorded a cover of this song for her second album My Bossa Nova.
• This song was sung by the Pakistani pop singer Hadiqa Kiyani as a tribute to The Carpenters.

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