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"All by Myself" is a song by American singer-songwriter Eric Carmen, released by Arista in December 1975 as the first single from Carmen's debut album, Eric Carmen (1975). The verse is based on the second movement ( Adagio sostenuto ) of Sergei Rachmaninoff 's 1900–1901 Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor , Opus 18.
Eric Carmen is the debut album by American rock musician and singer-songwriter Eric Carmen.It is also his first of two self-titled albums, the other released in 1984. It peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard album chart upon its release in 1975, the highest position of his career, and generated the No. 2 pop single "All by Myself" in the same year.
Eric Carmen, the lead singer on "Hungry Eyes", had been the vocalist of the Raspberries.In 1975, he released his first solo album Eric Carmen in 1975, spawning the worldwide hit "All by Myself", but subsequently faced declining chart fortunes.
The Original Soundtrack was a critical and commercial success reaching No. 3 in the UK [5] and No. 15 in the US [6]. Ken Barnes gave the album a rave review in Rolling Stone, commenting, "Musically there's more going on than in ten Yes albums, yet it's generally as accessible as a straight pop band (though less so than the two preceding 10cc LPs)."
The album was also issued on LP and cassette. In the UK and some other countries, the album was titled Love Songs, with identical cover art, and under that name it charted for five weeks on the UK albums chart, on the K-tel label, peaking at #48. [1] The original CD has since become scarce, though the songs have appeared on many compilations.
The album peaked at number 85 on the US Billboard 200 and number 14 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. [4] [5] In the same year the album was released, Belle recorded a duet with Peabo Bryson, "Without You", the love theme from the film Leonard Part 6. However, "Without You" was not included on the original release of the All by Myself album.
All By Myself is the debut solo album by the former Temptations vocalist Eddie Kendricks. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was released in 1971 on Tamla Records . The opening track, "Let's Go Back to Day One", appeared in the Diana Ross movie Mahogany , directed by Berry Gordy .
"All by Myself" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin, published in 1921. It was introduced in The Music Box Revue of 1922 . Popular recordings in 1921 were by Ted Lewis , Frank Crumit , Aileen Stanley , Benny Krueger 's Orchestra, Vaughn De Leath and by Ben Selvin (vocal by Ernest Hare ).