Close to You: Remembering The Carpenters

Close to You: Remembering The Carpenters
Video by The 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
The Carpenters 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 itself runs for approximately 60 minutes, with a 12-minute encore after the end credits featuring a performance of "(A Place To) Hideaway", the Carpenters' commercial for Morton's Potato Chips, and their performance of "Ave Maria" for the 1978 A Christmas Portrait special. The rest of the 100 minute total running time includes the special features (listed below).

The documentary originally aired as a special on PBS.

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