The Carpenters - Goodbye to Love ( S1.2 )

 

Release and reception

The finished product was released on June 19, 1972, and reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the first song written by the songwriting team of Carpenter/Bettis to reach the US top ten. The Carpenters received hate mail (claiming that the Carpenters had sold out and gone hard rock) because of Richard's idea for a fuzz guitar solo in a love ballad.

"Goodbye to Love" has been described as the prototypical power ballad. Cash Box said that the "funky guitar adds spice to the most notable Jack Dougherty production."

In the UK, the song was originally released in 1972 as the B-side to "I Won't Last a Day Without You". The sides were switched shortly after the record's release, and it reached No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the duo's second top ten hit there (the first being "(They Long to Be) Close to You").

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