I Need to Be In Love by Carpenters Song Info
"I Need to Be in Love" is a song written by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis. It was released as a single on May 21, 1976. It was featured on the "A Kind of Hush" album, which was released on June 11 of the same year. The single featured a version without the piano lead-in and starts immediately with a flute introduction by Bob Messenger. Many fans treasure this song, as Richard Carpenter himself revealed that of all the songs the Carpenters recorded, this was Karen Carpenter's favorite. Mr. Carpenter states that although the song only peaked at number twenty-five on the Billboard Hot 100, it was released as a CD single in Japan in 1995 after being chosen for the theme song of the drama Miseinen. It was taken from the best-selling compilation 22 Hits of the Carpenters (promoted as a double A-side with "Top of the World"). "It became one of the biggest sellers of 1995, ultimately going quadruple platinum. In more ways than one, Karen would have loved that!". "I Need to Be in Love" was also The Carpenters' fourteenth number one on the Easy Listening chart.
