I’m so glad to talk to you. My name is Tom Arruda. I’m a composer from Brazil and today i have the pleasure to work by a new singer, named Karyme Hass, who’s mad by me a vertion, in portuguese, of one of your hits CLOSE TO YOU.
On a little conversation with FERMATA EDITORA DO BRASIL, the owner of copyrights, left 50% percent of it’s work to us.
But the UNIVERSAL EDICT. doesn’t send no one answer about it’s case.
We are so glad in talk to you in direct about it.
We hope to have an response as soon as its possible.

“Recently” receved:

Dear Tom -

As I am the arranger/artist, and not the composer of “Close to You,” I am not the person to contact re: this matter. Burt Bacharach and Hal David are the composer and lyricist, respectfully.

Thank you for writing.

Regards,
Richard Carpenter

Giselle Karkafi
Personal Assistant to Richard Carpenter

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will see On the link below pics of the singer by the music vertion on the background.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty65VCmwz38

On the link below you can visit karyme’s myspace page
http://www.myspace.com/karymehass

Thank you so much.

With my very best regards!

Tom Arruda.

I was born in 1960 , as a kid , we used to watch your shows on TV , and the whole country I presume are tuned in ,and find your shows entertaining.

In a school program during high school in MCS in the late seventies, we rendered the song, ‘What the World Needs Now’, the Girls’Glee Club sang the Bacharach medley in an interschool contest in Manila.

In the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties up to now, your music is being heard by millions all over the world. I could sum up , and many would agree with me that your music together with Hal David is one of the greatest legacy of my generation.

from,

Antonio A. de Leon
Manila,Philippines