| "All by Myself" | ||||
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 One of side-A labels of the US single | ||||
| Single by Eric Carmen | ||||
| from the album Eric Carmen | ||||
| B-side | "Everything" | |||
| Released | December 1975[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1975 | |||
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| Label | Arista | |||
| Composer(s) | ||||
| Lyricist(s) | Eric Carmen[4] | |||
| Producer(s) | Jimmy Ienner | |||
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| Audio video | ||||
| "Eric Carmen - All by Myself (Audio)" on YouTube | ||||
"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. The chorus was taken from the song "Let's Pretend", which Carmen wrote and recorded with the Raspberries in 1972.[5] The slide guitar solo was performed by studio guitarist Hugh McCracken.[6]
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- ^ a b Robert Olen Butler (2010). Hell. Grove Press. pp. 4–. ISBN 978-0-8021-4509-3.
- ^ Pogoda, Gordon (1991). "An Interview with Eric Carmen". ericcarmen.com. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
- ^ "Eric Carmen interview". 2005. Retrieved September 9, 2017.