It reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 both " Love Machine" by The Miracles and " December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" by The Four Seasons, kept the song from number one. Billboard described the song as "a superb rock ballad.faithfully capturing most of the good time feel in rock." Cash Box said that Carmen "captures the vocal power of at least two of the three Bee Gees and seems also to have tapped the lyric capabilities of a Paul McCartney." Record World said that Carmen "croons over a backdrop of cascading strings on this self-penned delight from his recent album." The power ballad was the first single from Carmen's first solo LP after leaving the power pop group the Raspberries and was released in December 1975. ![]() Television performance Ĭarmen performed "All by Myself" and his follow-up hit, "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again," on The Midnight Special television program on J(season 4, episode 37). The melody of the chorus was taken from his previous hit with the Raspberries, " Let's Pretend". Ĭarmen has stated that he also incorporated part of another melody into this song. An agreement was reached in which the estate would receive 12 percent of the royalties from "All by Myself" as well as from " Never Gonna Fall in Love Again", which was based on the third movement from Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. He was later contacted by the Rachmaninoff estate and informed that it was protected. Rachmaninoff's music was in the public domain in the United States at that time, so Carmen thought no copyright existed on it, but it was still protected outside the U.S. He needed to put this into a song, and after listening to Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto, a piece famously used to underscore the 1945 British film Brief Encounter, he adapted the melody of its second movement to write the verse. ![]() Background and composition Īccording to Carmen, he first wrote the solo part of the song, writing four bars at a time, eventually completed the interlude after two months. The slide guitar solo was performed by studio guitarist Hugh McCracken. The chorus was taken from the song " Let's Pretend", which Carmen wrote and recorded with the Raspberries in 1972. ![]() The verse is based on the second movement ( Adagio sostenuto) of Sergei Rachmaninoff's circa 1900–1901 Piano Concerto No. " All by Myself" is a song by American singer-songwriter Eric Carmen released in 1975.
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