All By Myself
"All by Myself" is a power ballad written and performed by Eric Carmen in 1975. The verse borrows from the Adagio movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Opus 18, which Carmen believed was in the public domain. Having found it was not, only after the record had been issued, Carmen had to come to an agreement with the Rachmaninoff estate. Early versions, therefore, only give writing credits to Carmen, but later versions also credit Rachmaninoff. The chorus borrows from a song "Let's Pretend" that Carmen had written for the Raspberries in 1973. Carmen's full version has an extended piano solo and lasts over seven minutes, although there is also an edited version at 4:22.
The song was the first release from Carmen's first solo LP after leaving the power pop group, the Raspberries, and was originally recorded by the author and released in December, 1975 to great success. It reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 1 on Cash Box Top 100 Singles and number 12 in the UK. The single sold more than one million copies in the United States, and was certified gold by the RIAA in April 1976. In a 2006 poll for UK's Five programme Britain's Favorite Break-up
Songs, Eric Carmen's version of this song was voted seventeenth.
Carmen's original version has spawned numerous cover versions, by such artists as CĂ©line Dion, Frank Sinatra, and Igudesman & Joo. It should not be confused with the jazz standard of the same name, written by Irving Berlin and performed by Ella Fitzgerald.
Tutorials
Version 1 Most of the slow sections are in this version
Version 2 The piano solo part is added to this version
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