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
Eric Carmen chronology
Eric Carmen
(1975)
Boats Against the Current
(1977)
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Allmusic 3/5 stars [1]

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.

Track listing [link]

All compositions by Eric Carmen with the exception of "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again", whose melody he borrowed from Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Symphony No. 2", "All By Myself", again from Rachmaninoff's "Piano Concerto No. 2", and "On Broadway", which was written by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Mike Stoller and Jerry Lieber.

  1. "Sunrise" – 5:21
  2. "That's Rock and Roll" – 3:10
  3. "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" – 3:45
  4. "All by Myself" – 7:13
  5. "Last Night" – 2:57
  6. "My Girl" – 3:02
  7. "Great Expectations" – 3:03
  8. "Everything" – 2:01
  9. "No Hard Feelings" – 5:40
  10. "On Broadway" – 3:26

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Eric Carmen (1984 album)

Eric Carmen is the fifth album by rock and roll musician Eric Carmen. It was also his second self-titled LP after the 1975 album of the same name.

The album contained one Top 40 hit single, "I Wanna Hear It from Your Lips," which peaked at # 35 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was also a medium adult contemporary hit in both the United States (#10) and Canada (#17). "Spotlight" was featured as the B side of the 45 RPM. "I'm Through With Love" was a minor follow-up hit in the U.S., reaching # 87 on Billboard and # 79 on Cash Box.

In 1985, country singer Louise Mandrell covered "Maybe My Baby." Her version reached number eight on the U.S. Country singles chart.

Track listing

All songs written by Eric Carmen except where indicated.

  • "I Wanna Hear It from Your Lips" (Carmen, Dean Pitchford) – 3:17
  • "I'm Through with Love" – 4:04
  • "American as Apple Pie" (Carmen, Pitchford) – 3:46
  • "Living Without Your Love" (Michael Bolton, Doug James) – 4:07
  • "Come Back to My Love" (Bob Gaudio, Jerry Corbetta, John Bettis) – 3:38
  • Eric Carmen

    Eric Howard Carmen (born August 11, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist. He scored numerous hit songs across the 1970s and 1980s, first as a member of the Raspberries (who had a million-selling single with "Go All The Way"), and then with his solo career, including hits such as "All By Myself," "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again," "She Did It," "Hungry Eyes," and "Make Me Lose Control."

    Biography

    Early life

    From a family of Russian Jewish immigrants, Carmen was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Lyndhurst, Ohio. He has been involved with music since early childhood. By the age of two, he was entertaining his parents with impressions of Tony Bennett and Johnnie Ray. By age three, he was in the Dalcroze Eurhythmics program at the Cleveland Institute of Music. At six years old, he took violin lessons from Muriel Carmen (his aunt), a violinist of the Cleveland Orchestra. By age 11, he was playing piano and dreaming about writing his own songs. The arrival of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones altered his dream slightly. By the time he was a sophomore at Charles F. Brush High School, Eric Carmen was playing piano and singing in rock 'n' roll bands including the Fugitives, the Harlequins, the Sounds of Silence and the Cyrus Erie.

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    I'm Through With Love

    by: Eric Carmen

    I put away your photograph
    And turn out all the lights
    But I can't seem to make myself forget
    'Cause every time I close my eyes
    And see your face again
    I realize that's all that I have left
    I'm through with love
    I'm through with pain
    Don't wanna feel that way again
    'Cause if you're gone for good
    I'll never be the same
    I thought that what we had was real
    But maybe I'm a fool
    Who only sees the things he wants to see
    'Cause it seems that when I need you most
    I find myself alone and I know
    That's not the way love's supposed to be
    I'm through with love
    And sad goodbyes can't take the lows
    Don't want those highs
    This heart needs time to mend
    I'm through with love, my friend
    Well, maybe someday
    If the feeling comes again
    I won't remember
    How it hurt but until then
    I'm through with love
    I'm through with pain
    Don't wanna feel that way again
    'Cause if you're gone for good
    I'll never be the same
    I'm through with love
    And sad goodbyes can't take the lows
    Don't want those highs
    This heart needs time to mend
    'Cause if we've reached the end
    Till I can feel again
    I'm through with love, my friend




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