I Need To Be In Love

Album: A Kind Of Hush (1976)
Charted: 36 25
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Songfacts®:

  • Richard Carpenter wrote the music for this song, John Bettis and Albert Hammond wrote the lyrics. The song stayed on the Pop chart for a total of 8 weeks and was also a #1 Adult Contemporary Hit for 1 week.
  • According to Carpenters - The Untold Story by Ray Coleman, "I Need To Be In Love" was Karen Carpenter's very favorite song. >>>
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    Steve - Las Vegas, NV, for above 2

Comments: 7

  • Lc from From TnIt’s always wonderful to just listen to The Carpenters music, they both have beautiful voices. Karen’s soft sweet tones are so magical and soothing! It’s so devastating to realize that the world only got to have her for such a short time! Who caused her to grieve herself to death? There should have been more songs!
  • Suzi G from MarylandThis song describes me perfectly. As someone who struggled with eating disorders when I was younger, I have a sad spot in my heart for Karen Carpenter and I feel especially connected when I listen.
  • Randy from Michigan I have always been mad about her ! wish we could have met ! The world will never be the same without her! Still breaks my heart to this day.
  • David Harvey from AustraliaI find this song very, very difficult to listen to without crying, because I can't help thinking about Karen's real-life pain and the sad reality is that she never found any lasting love from a man whom she wanted to have a romance or tie the knot with, most notably her ill-fated marriage to Tom Burris.
  • Anonymous from CypusBeautiful music, beautiful words and the world was a poorer place when Karen C died. R.I.P. I remember crying.....!
  • Ginny WhiteI can identify in many ways with the lyrics of this song. love it
  • Jim from Dover, DeKaren Carpenter's voice finds a way to make the words of this song so much more a feeling rather than a song to me. I know I need to be in love, I know I've "waited" far too long. But if love, really the true kind,involves waiting then what's another few years added on the the 43 already in the books? There is someone in this crazy world for me, she knows it! I have a heart full of good intentions and all of them comfort me each night. I'm hanging on that hope that we'll be alright.
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