The Truth About Eric Carmen (1949 - 2024) Eric Carmen Life Story
Long before the term “classical crossover” was invented, Eric Carmen, showed everybody how to do it with his 1975 single All By Myself. An international hit that reached No 2 in the US and 12 in the UK, it borrowed the melody from the second movement of Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor for its verse, and for good measure included a classical-like piano interlude. Proving that no musical idea need ever go to waste, Carmen also revisited Let’s Pretend, his 1973 Top 40 hit with his band the Raspberries, and reworked it for the chorus of All By Myself.

His first solo single, it was the biggest hit of Carmen’s career, and in 1996 the song was born again when Celine Dion recorded it, sending it soaring up charts around the world.

In 1976 Carmen followed it up with a second smash, Never Gonna Fall in Love Again, which went to 11 on the US chart. Once again, Rachmaninov was partly responsible, with Carmen quoting from the composer’s Symphony No 2. Both singles were taken from his debut solo album, Eric Carmen, the most successful of his six solo outings and which reached 21 on the US album chart.

He enjoyed another brace of Top 30 hits with She Did It (1977) and Change of Heart (1978), but it was not until 1987 that he had another massive success with Hungry Eyes.

This was from the soundtrack of the movie Dirty Dancing, and though it was not one of Carmen’s own compositions, he was invited to sing by the producer Jimmy Ienner, who had worked with the Raspberries. Once again this was an international hit, and reached No 4 in the US.

Carmen had enjoyed previous film-related success in 1984, when the song Almost Paradise from the movie Footloose, which he wrote with Dean Pitchford, reached No 7 in the US, performed by Ann Wilson and Mike Reno. In 1988 another Carmen-Pitchford composition, Make Me Lose Control, gave Carmen his last big hit when it reached No 3 in the States.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, into a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he grew up in Lyndhurst. He displayed musical leanings from an early age, and by the age of two he was doing impersonations of Tony Bennett and Johnnie Ray for his parents, Ruth and Elmer Carmen.

At two-and-a-half he was enrolled in the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Dalcroze teaching programme, and by the time he was six he was being taught violin by his aunt Muriel Carmen. “My dad’s sister was a prodigy on the violin and viola,” he wrote, “and played with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra for 43 years under the great George Szell … I used to sit on stage with them while they rehearsed.”
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