The Carpenters Version
"There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)" | ||||
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Cover to the Carpenters' single, "There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)" |
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Single by The Carpenters | ||||
from the album A Kind of Hush | ||||
B-side | "I'm Caught Between (Goodbye and I Love You)" | |||
Released | 12 February 1976 | |||
Format | 7" single | |||
Recorded | 1976 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 3:04 | |||
Label | A&M | |||
Producer | Richard Carpenter | |||
The Carpenters singles chronology | ||||
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The Carpenters remade "There's a Kind of Hush"—as "There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)"—for their 1976 album release A Kind of Hush for which it served as lead single, reaching No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and affording the Carpenters' their thirteenth No. 1 on the easy listening chart.
The single's success indicated a drop in the Carpenters' popularity, it being the first lead single from a mainstream Carpenters' album to fall short of the Top 5 since "Ticket to Ride" from the group's 1969 debut album Offering, while the No. 33 chart peak of the A Kind of Hush album afforded the Carpenters' their first Top 20 shortfall since Offering (Horizon would prove to be their last album to reach the top 20 in the United States). "There's a Kind of Hush" would remain the Carpenters' final top twenty hit until 1981's "Touch Me When We're Dancing".
Richard Carpenter explained in the liner notes to the Carpenters' 2004 best-of compilation, Gold, that although he and Karen Carpenter loved the song, he was not particularly pleased with how their remake turned out:
"...one of Karen's and my favorite songs from the '60s. In hindsight, however, even though our version was a hit, I wish we'd never recorded it. Here are three reasons why: (1) The original was, and is, perfectly fine. (2) Our foray into the oldies should have ended with the medley featured on side 2 of Now & Then, 1973. (3) The use of a synthesizer in some of our recordings has not worn well with me, on this track, or just about any other track on which I used it."
"There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)" appears in the twentieth episode of the third season of The Simpsons.
Chart | Peak position |
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US Billboard Hot 100 | 12 |
US Billboard Easy Listening | 1 |
Canadian Singles Chart | 11 |
Oricon (Japanese) Singles Chart | 27 |
UK Singles Chart | 22 |
Australian Singles Chart | 33 |
New Zealand Singles Chart | 5 |
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