Solitaire (Neil Sedaka song)

"Solitaire"
German single sleeve
Single by The Searchers
B-side	"Spicks and Specks"
Released	February 1973
Label	RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)	Neil Sedaka, Phil Cody
Producer(s)	The Searchers
The Searchers singles chronology
"Sing Singer Sing" (1972) "Solitaire" (1973) "Vahevala" (1973)

"Solitaire"
Single by Andy Williams
from the album Solitaire
B-side	"My Love"
Released	September 7, 1973
Length	4:22
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Neil Sedaka, Phil Cody
Producer(s)	Richard Perry, Jack Gold
Andy Williams singles chronology
"Last Tango in Paris" (1973) "Solitaire" (1973) "Getting Over You" (1974)

"Solitaire"
US picture sleeve
Single by Carpenters
from the album Horizon
B-side	"Love Me for What I Am"
Released	July 18, 1975
Recorded	Late 1974
Genre	Pop
Length	4:40
Label	A&M 1721
Songwriter(s)	Neil Sedaka, Phil Cody
Producer(s)	Richard Carpenter
Carpenters singles chronology
"Only Yesterday" (1975) "Solitaire" (1975) "There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)" (1976)

"Solitaire" is a ballad written by Neil Sedaka and Phil Cody. Cody employs playing the card game of solitaire as a metaphor for a man "who lost his love through his indifference"—"while life goes on around him everywhere he's playing solitaire". The song is perhaps best known via its rendition by Carpenters. Another version by Andy Williams reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in 1973.