Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters

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Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters
Video by Carpenters
Released	March 1, 1998 (VHS & DVD)
Genre	Documentary
Length	100 min.
Label	MPI Home Video
Director	Ron Tosches
Producer	JoAnn Young, Paul Surratt, Bill DiCicco, Laura L. Bucuzzo
Carpenters video chronology
Interpretations (1995) Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters (1997) Gold: Greatest Hits (2002)

Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters is a 100 minute long documentary that was released on DVD by MPI Home Video. It features interviews by Richard Carpenter, John Bettis (co-writer), Gary Sims (part-time member), Petula Clark, et al.

The documentary originally aired as a documentary on PBS.

[edit] Chapters

1. Introduction (Superstar, Rainy Days and Mondays, We've Only Just Begun, (They Long to Be) Close to You)
2. Yesterday Once More - Thank You Rock 'n' Roll - 1978
3. Dancing in the Street - Your All American College Show - 1968
4. Ticket to Ride - Something Else - 1970
5. (They Long to Be) Close to You - Make Your Own Kind of Music - 1971
6. We've Only Just Begun - Make Your Own Kind of Music - 1971
7. For All We Know - The Andy Williams Show - 1971
8. Bless the Beasts and Children - Make Your Own Kind of Music - 1971
9. Rainy Days and Mondays - Desert Inn, then fades into Make Your Own Kind of Music - 1971
10. Superstar - 1971
11. Hurting Each Other - 1972
12. Goodbye to Love - 1972
13. Top of the World - Carpenters' Very First Television Special - 1976
14. And the Story Continues...
15. Only Yesterday - 1975
16. Merry Christmas Darling - A Christmas Portrait - 1978
17. This Masquerade - Music, Music, Music! - 1980
18. Touch Me When We're Dancing - 1981
19. Finale
20. (They Long to Be) Close to You - Carpenters' Very First Television Special - 1976
21. End Credits
22. Encore Program
23. (A Place to) Hideaway - Make Your Own Kind of Music - 1971
24. Potato Chip Commercial - Morton's Potato Chip Company - 1971
25. Ave Maria - A Christmas Portrait - 1978
26. TV Special Promo - 1980

Bonus Material:

• Photo Gallery (1991 remix, Richard Carpenter's Pianist Arranger Composer Conductor version, and reprise of "Yesterday Once More")
• At the White House (Rare footage of Nixon and the Carpenters; Top of the World) - 1972
• Radio Jingle - KFRC Radio
• Chocolate Commercial - Morinaga Hi-Crown Milk Chocolates - 1974
• Soda Pop Commercials - Suntory Pop - 1977