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(They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You

1970 single by Carpenters
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(They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You

Summary

(They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You is a single[1].

Key Facts

  • (They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You's instance of is recorded as single[2].
  • (They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You was performed by The Carpenters[3].
  • (They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You's record label is recorded as A&M Records[4].
  • (They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You's place of publication is recorded as United States[5].
  • (They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You is part of Carpenters singles discography[6].
  • (They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You's language of work or name is recorded as English[7].
  • (They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You was distributed by 7″ single[8].
  • (They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You was published on May 14, 1970[9].
  • (They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You's tracklist is recorded as (They Long to Be) Close to You[10].
  • (They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You's number of parts of this work is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7302866', 'amount': '+2'}[11].

Product Details

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  • Release type: Single[12]

  • First release date: 1970-05-20[13]

  • Genre(s): pop, rock, soft rock[14]

  • Community tags: pop, rock, soft rock[15]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 01d011a3-d74c-4857-a218-0457b8163ccc[16]

Body

Authorship and Creation

(They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You was performed by The Carpenters[3].

Publication

(They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You was released on May 14, 1970[9]. (They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You's place of publication is recorded as United States[5]. (They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You's language of work or name is recorded as English[7]. (They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You is part of Carpenters singles discography[6]. (They Long to Be) Close to You / I Kept On Loving You was distributed by 7″ single[8].

Related Entities

The Carpenters

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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