Eric Carmen (1975 album)

Eric Carmen
Studio album by Eric Carmen
Released	November 1975
Recorded	August – September 1975
Studio	O.D.O. Sound Studios, New York City
Genre	Soft rock
Length	48:19
Label	Arista Records
Producer	Jimmy Ienner
Eric Carmen chronology
Eric Carmen (1975) Boats Against the Current (1977)
Singles from Eric Carmen
"All by Myself" Released: December 1975 "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" Released: April 1976 "That's Rock and Roll" Released: May 1976 (non US single) "Sunrise" Released: August 1976

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Village Voice	C+[2]

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. The song reached No. 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 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 No. 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.