| Eric Carmen | ||||
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| Studio album by Eric Carmen | ||||
| Released | 1975 | |||
| Recorded | 1975 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 48:19 | |||
| Label | Rhino/Arista | |||
| Producer | Jimmy Ienner | |||
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Eric Carmen is an album by rock and roll musician Eric Carmen. It is also his first of two self-titled albums, the other released in 1984. It peaked at #21 on the Billboard album chart on its release in 1975 (see 1975) and generated the #2 pop single "All by Myself" in the same year. The song reached #1 on the Cashbox and Record World charts. The album also included two follow-up Top 40 hits, "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" (#11), and "Sunrise" (#34), both of which charted in 1976.
All tracks were written by Eric Carmen except the Drifters' song "On Broadway", which was written by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. This LP also contained Carmen's original version of "That's Rock and Roll", which became a #3 hit for Shaun Cassidy in 1977.
The album was Carmen's first solo production after leaving the Raspberries, a Power Pop group which scored several Top 40 hits in the early 1970s.
All compositions by Carmen except "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again" the melody of which he has taken from Rachmaninoff's Symphony No.2 and "All By Myself" from again Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.2, and "On Broadway", which was written by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Mike Stoller and Jerry Lieber