Richard Carpenter was sitting in a London hotel room when the idea for the song Goodbye To Love came to him. It was 1971 and Carpenter was watching a film called Rhythm On The River.
“I was watching a terrific old Bing Crosby movie and in it he plays a songwriter and in this film they keep referring to the greatest song that this writer had ever written, Goodbye To Love,” recalled Carpenter in the 1997 documentary Close To You: Remembering The Carpenters. “You never hear any Goodbye To Love, they just keep referring to it. [And I thought] ‘Goodbye To Love, that’s a great title’.”
