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Luis Caro

Luis Caro

Luis Caro

Luis Caro

Luis Caro

The song was The Carpenters' last top-ten single on the Billboard Hot 100—though they would have nine more top-ten singles on the AC charts, ending with AC number seven Make Believe It's Your First Time, a few months after Karen's death in 1983.
The music video features some footage of Karen and Richard at work in the studio. After Karen sang the line, the promise of morning light, it faded from the studio to a fountain in Huntington Library Gardens in San Marino, California. It then featured some footage of a Japanese bridge.
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The single version of the song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, kept from the number 1 spot by Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce. It was the duo's fifth number two hit and made them the act with the second-most number two hits on the chart behind Madonna. The song also peaked at number 1 on the easy listening chart, becoming their eighth number 1 on that chart in four years. It is The Carpenters' biggest-selling record worldwide and their best-selling single in the UK, peaking at number 2. Richard Carpenter stated, on a Japanese documentary, that it was his favorite of all the songs that he had written. He has performed an instrumental version at concerts.
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La letra original de la canción escrita por Palma Pascale era diferente de la que terminó grabando Carpenters. Se le pidió a John Bettis que reescribiera algunas de las letras para que se adaptaran mejor al tono vocal y al fraseo de Karen. Aunque Bettis -el letrista de Richard Carpenter- figura en los créditos de la canción, fue Palma Pascale quien la escribió de principio a fin, con algunos cambios menores en la letra realizados por John Bettis.