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“Goodbye to Love” is a song composed by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis. It was released by the Carpenters in 1972. On the “Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters” documentary, Tony Peluso stated that this was one of the first, if not the first, love ballads to have a fuzz guitar solo. Upon reviewing an old Bing Crosby 1940 film called Rhythm on the River, Carpenter noticed that they kept referring to the struggling songwriter’s greatest composition, “Goodbye to Love”. He says `You never hear it in the movie, they just keep referring to it,‘ and he immediately envisioned the tune, and lyrics starting with: : I’ll say goodbye to love : No one ever cared if I should live or die. : Time and time again the chance for : Love has passed me by... While the Carpenters... Read on...