Solitaire (song)

Solitaire (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Solitaire



Caption = "Forget-me-not" Series
Artist = The Carpenters
from Album = Horizon
A-side = "Solitaire"
B-side = "Love Me For What I Am"
Released = July 18, 1975
Format = 7" single
Recorded = 1975
Genre = Pop
Length = 04:40
Label = A&M Records
1721
Writer = Neil Sedaka; Phil Cody
Producer = Richard Carpenter
Certification =
Chart position = * #17 (U.S. Billboard Hot 100), #1 (U.S. AC)
Last single = "Only Yesterday" (1975)
This single = "Solitaire" (1975)
Next single = "There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)" (1976)
Misc = | Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Horizon
Type = studio
Tracks = ;Side one
# "Aurora"
# "Only Yesterday"
# "Desperado"
# "Please Mr. Postman"
# "I Can Dream, Can't I?";Side two
# "Solitaire"
# "Happy"
# "(I'm Caught Between) Goodbye and I Love You"
# "Love Me for What I Am"
# "Eventide"

"Solitaire" is a popular song written by Neil Sedaka and Phil Cody. It tells of a man losing touch with, and thus losing, his sweetheart. Alone, he's "playing solitaire".

Solitaire has been recorded by Sedaka, The Carpenters (a #17 hit in 1975, it topped the Easy Listening survey), Andy Williams (a #4 hit in the United Kingdom in 1973), Jann Arden, Sheryl Crow, Clay Aiken, and Sissel, among others.

The Carpenters' version

The Carpenters' version was released in 1975 on the "Horizon" album. The original version does not have the guitar lead in between Karen singing: "A heart that cared, that went unshared, until it died within his silence." and "And Solitaire's the only game in town, and every road that takes him down."

However, the single version (which can be found on the CD, "") has a guitar line between the verse and chorus.

External links

* [http://www.vex.net/~paulmac/carpenter/lyrics/solitaire.html The Carpenters' rendition of Solitaire]


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