It's 10.30pm Tuesday night 12/03/2024 and I've just flicked the T.V. over to Ch 9 in Sydney. They were showing The Raspberries "Go all the Way" I thought "Why are they playing that?" "Is Eric touring soon?" Then I thought "Oh no he hasn't died" "Has he?" My fears were confirmed by the news voice over person. "Eric Carmen was 74" Now I can't stop crying. Not only did Eric help create one of the greatest, mind blowing Guitar riffs in Rock history, he then composed some of the most tasteful Ballads of all time. Good quality Ballads are extremely hard to write. Thanks for the great music and the brilliant singing voice Eric. Eric lived a successful existence and died peacefully in his sleep. "Come on Baby!!!" RIP - Eric Carmen
Not enough kids (especially in the US) nowadays listen to quality music; they prefer the dribble and crap of today. Even today, since I discovered the superb vocalists overseas, I can never listen to US music the same way.
In 1976 my family drove from southern Ontario to Florida for a vacation. This was one of the songs we heard repeatedly on Top 40 radio stations along the way. Yes, 1970s music is hard to beat!
This is my favorite Eric Carmen song ❤️ I hate when people call this a Celine Dion song. No hate to Celine but you have to give credit where credit is due.
2:51 "he really seems lonely" ....exactly! That's the beauty and genius of his song and his performance of it. Something the cover versions completely seem to ignore, no doubt Celine has a crazy voice but her rendition of this song is such a drop from the original IMO.
He is the original...been my favorite song for 45 years! There have been a lot of covers of this song but his version is the most painful (passionate) and has that piano solo. Thanks for playing this 💞
Eric Carmen was a Beatles fan. The Beatles still the world's greatest band even after 50 years after their breakup. No autotune and they wrote and played all their instruments. The slide crying guitar sounds like George Harrison type guitar solo.
The very first song on this album "Sunrise" is a GREAT song. The whole album is a treasure. This man never got the recognition he deserved as a song writer. He was unique and very talented. He had a hit years later called "Hungry Eyes" but this was his debut solo album and the whole album is wonderful. I just don't understand why he didn't have a bigger career than he did. He is a very good artist.
Eric was playing in the Cleveland area at the same time my band was. We were competitors. He was very good. I'm not sure if I ever met him but all of the local bands were constantly meeting up and sometimes jamming with each other. I love this song.
Carmen was lead singer for the Raspberries from '70 thru '74. This solo album was released in late 1975. Song reached number 2 for three straight weeks in Jan 1976. The first of a string of Top 40 hits.
When they played this on the radio, they always cut out the piano piece in the middle (for time) This is the song you listened to after your boyfriend dumped you in high school :(
Wow! I've known this song all of my life and since it came out on the radio (1975) but I've NEVER heard this long version with the extended piano étūde! So cool that we got to react to it together!
I used to sing this to my son. Now he sings it to his little girls. He told us that one day the three year old was singing it to herself when she was put down for a nap!
@@capt.blueberry9719 damn it you beat me to it. Side note I think Eric Carmen didn't know the rules to global music rights and this song slipped through and had to pay for royalties.
Eric was on the turntable in my bedroom for a long time when I was growing up. Turns out he is a great guy, too. He followed me on Twitter (along with many others). "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again," is one I love very much. I will be back to check out some of the other music you have. Thanks for noticing him. (Spoiler alert: he's had a beautiful marriage and life.) 🥰❤
Listen to the original melody in the 2d movement of Rachmaninoff's 2d Piano Concerto. Eric did a great job capturing the incredible sense of melancholy that was in the concerto.
I remember this devastating song. I was just a kid. But here is my take on this... he was happy just doing his own thing and using people, using girls. But when he got older everyone had went on without him and nobody cared. He was harvesting the devastating loneliness caused by his keeping people outside of his heart. But now he realizes how much they meant to him and it’s too late.
Yes! I've still got the LP! But got it on CD so I could play in the car on drives! I played this LP over and over until my parents bought me a different one just to they wouldn't have to hear it anymore! LOL!
Eric Carmen was the lead singer of the group "The Raspberries". I think he also did the soundtrack to the movie "Dirty Dancin'". The song was 'Hungry Eyes'.
Funny how they never got the national acclaim they deserved....same with the James Gang. Used to listen to them both at JB's in Kent in the early 70's.😂
t-m. d. r. I used to see them out at the old Hullabaloo in Chesterland, OH. I’ll never forget how Eric always walked through between sets with a hairbrush and a can of hairspray in his back pants pockets. Also very snobby and stuck up! But yeah, his voice was golden, so we loved him anyway!😘
He said “when I was young, I never needed anyone…those days are gone.” He wants to be with someone at this point. It’s more about the music than the lyrics. The music makes you feel so much. Go with it.
Can remember when the Celine Dion version came out in 1996/1997 & being amazed that anybody would even try covering this perfection from my childhood-she stripped it of pretty much all emotion, as has every other cover I have heard of it.
Hi And yet, Celine somehow managed to turn in the definitive version. As evidenced by the numerous covers based on that version. Often imitated, never duplicated.
Eric Carmen wrote lyrics to a Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2. He took the music and added the words. Another famous piece is "Never fall in love again' is also a famous Rachmaninoff piece.
When the Beatles broke up it seemed like the end of greatness in music and it left many of us wondering what direction it would go in. But it turned out that the Beatles had a very long lasting influence, inspiring a generation of singer songwriters who connected their personal experiences with all of us. The 70’s turned out to be a fantastic era of its own and looking back now I am in full appreciation
This original version is so smooth and easy yet soulful. Celine is my favorite singer of all time but yet this is still my preferred version. I mean its the original and you can hear why it was such a hit.
Raymond C Nilsson didn’t write ‘Without You’, it was written and first performed by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger. Nilsson made the best version, IMO.
Eric Carmen...Great singer and songwriter. He wrote All By Myself using music based on a classical piece. Huge hit reaching #2 in the US and # 1 in Canada. Check out his album Boats against the current. Brilliant. Also any of his music with The Raspberries. Excellent. Love you inda!❤❤
I remember the first time I heard this song. I was 12, we had just dropped my best friend with her parents to return to Augusta after visiting me in Savannah and THEN the news of Elvis passing came over the radio. Not a good day!
grew up with this song in the mid 70's, 'til this day, I still love it. So well written and performed. There's no better music than that written in the 70's.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE - Take my word for it.. Traveling in a jet at 30,000 feet, looking down out the window as the Earth slowly moves past - while having THIS song BLASTING in you ears in HQ STEREO is---an AWESOME Experience... HIGHLY Recommended : )
Eric Carmen began as the lead singer and main songwriter for The Raspberries. A great band that was very popular in the early to mid seventies. He left them in 1975 or so. This song was released in 1976 along with another big hit for him, titled, Never Gonna Fall In Love Again. He's had a very good solo career. Teen idol, Shaun Cassidy, had big hits with two of Eric Carmen's songs. Hey Deanie and That's Rock and Roll...
One of my all time favorites. If you’ve ever seen Guardians of the Galaxy you’ve heard Eric Carmen when he was with the Raspberries. Its a song called Go all the way. He’s great
This is wonderful, that this generation is being introduced to the past music 🎶 and artists, makes me so happy!!! And the music doesn't totally covef over the lyrics of the message in the skngs!!! Old music.. Is an EXPERIENCE !!!
This was the epitomy of the 70's "POWER BALLAD" this song was also covered and revived to a new audience by Celine Dion. Always used to belt this out with Eric back in the day Great Lyric great arrangement this is a true classic Nice reaction as always glad to see you getting exposed to so many of these old greats!
This is one of the songs I remember hearing at the Drive-in movies and they would play this on the speaker you hung on your car window. With the low quality speakers, gave this song an even more sad and Lonely. There was another song that was played and I can't think of it at the moment..........I'll try to think of it and post it later.............
