Must disagree, Jason: The most notable "All By Myself" was on the late WB's cruel reality show "Superstar USA", which hid from the gung ho contestants that only the most inept performers advanced week to week.
Can't find a clip on YouTube, and sound alone doesn't capture the literal thrash-on-the-floor theatrics ... but once seen, never forgotten.
David_E
· 8 months ago
Oooo, canya get Mojo to "feature" (post) the title track from Wright's "Who I Am" (1988)?
I can't find the CD anywhere (discontinued?), nor is anything at iTunes.
Eric, you are an officer and a gentleman. Name your price (retroactively) and if I have it, I shall grant it. Thanks!
mojo
· 7 months ago
why do I even write for this place? The readers (Eric and David) are much deeper than I will ever be, heh...Love you ALL!!!!!!!!
mojo
· 7 months ago
PS as a wannabe keyboard playa in the real world Gary Wright makes me drool.
Steve
· 8 months ago
Jason - I searched a bit for the Let Your Love Flow cover. I came across one by Billy Joe Royal. Definitely sounds more southern. Check it out.
jasonhare
· 8 months ago
Thanks, Steve. That's not it. It was a guy performing by himself, and it might be someone I saw live somewhere. I just can't figure it out. It's driving me nuts.
David_E
· 8 months ago
Speaking (sort of) of countrified Mellow Gold ... I see Dan Seals died yesterday. Damn.
DwDunphy
· 8 months ago
I don't believe for an instant that Eric Carmen had no clue he was cribbing from dead composers, thinking their music was public domain. He did it twice, once on "All By Myself" and then on "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again."
Check that - he did it three times. He also ripped "Hungry Eyes" off of Dw. Dunphy back in the '80s. Hey... Waitaminnit...
Holy crap, I'm a dead composer?!?
Bill from Illinois
· 8 months ago
"Emerged from a Casio instead of a vagina" -- priceless.
Speaking of the latter, "Disco Lady" might be filthy, but it's a damn good song. And really, wasn't that the core strategy of most 70s music -- to use mellowness, smoothness, grooviness, earnestness, and other auditory distractions to cover up the fact that you were basically just singing about screwing?
jasonhare
· 8 months ago
Great point, Bill. You really can't justify the whole "shove it in" line by saying it was about disco.
DJ D
· 8 months ago
There's a great remake of Dream Weaver done by '00's pop diva Erin Hamilton who just happens to be Carol Burnett's daughter.
Horatio Foxworthy
· 8 months ago
I swear I saw that Eric Carmen clip when it first aired. Sitting in suburban Detroit, all of 15, I thought, "There is a man who understands the world."
JonCummings
· 7 months ago
A couple points:
1) I'm sending you a karaoke version of "Right Back Where We Started From" so you can listen to nothing BUT the backing vocals.
2) Are you sure that version of "Dream On" isn't from Guitar Hero?
3) Are you insinuating that "Alone Again, Naturally" or "Honey" aren't as "mopey, self-pitying or depressing" as "All By Myself"?
4) Neil Sedaka isn't stupid--he's a genius! A no-balled musical genius! That's it--I'm giving Benny Mardones your address.
Elaine
· 7 months ago
Speaking of Benny, check out a live performance from 1978 that was posted to Wolfgang's Vault a couple weeks ago.
The comment at the bottom pretty much says it all.
DwDunphy
· 7 months ago
Yikes! Truthful words but, wow, that guy risks seriously becoming Benny's next big target for life counseling... "What you do is not creative, random comment writer! What I do is, and I make people happy! I feel sad for you..."
sini
· 7 months ago
Handclaps are kool.
MichaelWSP
· 7 months ago
There has never been a better example of why I hate Yngwie Malmsteen than that track.
"Look a beautiful Classic Rock song! Let me urinate all over it!"
Dio, by the way, rules.
Andrew
· 7 months ago
Amazing that "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" remains their only #1 song. And I do recall that moment way the fuck back in high school. How far we've come.
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Can't find a clip on YouTube, and sound alone doesn't capture the literal thrash-on-the-floor theatrics ... but once seen, never forgotten.
I can't find the CD anywhere (discontinued?), nor is anything at iTunes.
http://eschorn.home.comcast.net/myfilelocker/Wh...
Check that - he did it three times. He also ripped "Hungry Eyes" off of Dw. Dunphy back in the '80s. Hey... Waitaminnit...
Holy crap, I'm a dead composer?!?
Speaking of the latter, "Disco Lady" might be filthy, but it's a damn good song. And really, wasn't that the core strategy of most 70s music -- to use mellowness, smoothness, grooviness, earnestness, and other auditory distractions to cover up the fact that you were basically just singing about screwing?
1) I'm sending you a karaoke version of "Right Back Where We Started From" so you can listen to nothing BUT the backing vocals.
2) Are you sure that version of "Dream On" isn't from Guitar Hero?
3) Are you insinuating that "Alone Again, Naturally" or "Honey" aren't as "mopey, self-pitying or depressing" as "All By Myself"?
4) Neil Sedaka isn't stupid--he's a genius! A no-balled musical genius! That's it--I'm giving Benny Mardones your address.
http://tinyurl.com/cmtlqw
The comment at the bottom pretty much says it all.
"Look a beautiful Classic Rock song! Let me urinate all over it!"
Dio, by the way, rules.