OBE songwriter extraordinaire, pianist, guitarist and Emmy winner Albert Hammond contributed to "I Need To Be In Love" (Richard Carpenter - Albert Hammond - John Bettis). This track is from the 2012 LP "Legend ll". There is a tonnage of Albert Hammond material in this blog.

The Carpenters take on "I Need To Be In Love" was on the 1976 album "A Kind Of Hush". The single reached number twenty-five on the Top One Hundred and was The Carpenters fourteenth release to top the Easy Listening chart. Karen's voice could not have been better and brother Richard said this was her favourite song by the duo.