THEY LONG TO BE CLOSE TO YOU

Created on 13/03/2001
Latest update on 26/09/2020

Artist: Richard Chamberlain
Author: Burt Bacharach/Hal David
Label: MGM
Year: 1963

("Dr. Kildare I presume?") In film Twilight Of Honor.

Covers:

1964:

Dionne Warwick

1967:

Dusty Springfield

1969:

B.J. Thomas

1970:

Matt Monro

1970:

Carpenters [n°1 US]

1970:

Frank Sinatra

1970:

Johnny Mathis [also in Spanish (as Cerca De Ti)]

1970:

Sacha Distel [English and French version (Comme moi)]

1971:

Barbra Streisand

1971:

Diana Ross

1971:

Perry Como

1972:

Jerry Butler

1975:

Clams [as Close To You]

1976:

B.T. Express

1978:

Aretha Franklin

1987:

Gwen Guthrie

1989:

Anita Meyer

1990:

Maxi Priest

1992:

Engelbert Humperdinck

1995:

Cranberries

1997:

Dal Scorcio

1998:

Barenaked Ladies

2004:

Paul Weller [as Close To You]

2006:

Trijntje Oosterhuis

2009:

Harry Connick Jr.

2016:

Rumer

2016:

Dez Mona

Close To You from '43 as written by Jerry Livingston, Al Hoffman and Carl Lampi and recorded by Ambrose & His Orch., Sarah Vaughan and Frank Sinatra, is another one.

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