In 1974, on what was possibly the unfortunate thirteenth of April, Karen and Richard Carpenter had their 14th single enter the Billboard chart, it did so at No.70, the very best new entry of the week. “I Won’t Last A Day Without You” was, in some ways, a curious alternative for a single as a result of it got here from their album, A Music For You, that had come out shut to 2 years earlier and had already included three large hit singles.
The Carpenters then issued “Sing” and “Yesterday Once More” from their 1973 album, Now & Then. However they’d gone again to their A Music For You album for his or her thirteenth charting single, “Top of the World,” and it topped the Billboard charts for a few weeks in December 1973.
“I Won’t Last A Day Without You” is a peach of a tune, that includes a few of Karen’s best concord vocals. Written by lyricist Paul Williams and with a stunning melody by Roger Nichols, Williams had launched his personal model of the tune in 1973. Williams and Nichols had already contributed “We’ve Only Just Begun,” “I Kept On Loving You,” and “Rainy Days and Mondays” to earlier Carpenters’ albums.
In addition to reaching No.11 on the Sizzling 100 “I Won’t Last a Day Without You” made the highest of the Billboard Simple Listening chart. The Carpenters’ subsequent single was “Please Mr. Postman” which additionally topped the Billboard chart, so “I Won’t Last A Day Without You” actually was slightly unfortunate.
Roger Nichols was a kind of Californian musicians (though he was born in Montana) that appeared to have such an assured means with smooth pop/rock and in 1968 together with Tony Asher, who wrote lyrics for the Seaside Boys’ Pet Sounds album, they co-wrote songs on Nichols’ debut album Roger Nichols And The Small Circle Of Mates for A&M Data.
The album is slightly gem that was produced by Tommy LiPuma and engineered by Bruce Botnick; it featured contributions from Van Dyke Parks and Randy Newman. In case you love the Carpenters you’ll love this file too.
Hearken to Carpenters’ “I Won’t Last A Day Without You” on A Music For You right here.
