all by myself

     

"All by Myself" is a power balla written and performed by Eric Carmen in 1975. It borrows very heavily from the second movement (Adagio Sostenuto) 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. Carmen's full version has an extended piano solo and lasts over seven minutes, although there is also an edited version at 4:22. In a 2006 poll for UK's five programme Britain's Favourite Break-up Songs, Eric Carmen's version of this song was voted seventeenth.

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  • In 1996 Celine Dion recorded this 1976 Eric Carmen hit in both English & Spanish versions

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