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Subject: Here's much more on Eric Carmen (1949-2024) Author: Rob Durkee (a/k/a Rockin' Robin Scott) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 03/12/24 10:47:36am In reply to: Dead at 74 's message, "Singer Eric Carmen" on 03/11/24 10:04:59pm He was a testimonial as to why Cleveland Rocks. Cleveland's Eric Carmen passed away over the weekend. He was 74. Even though he had 12 hits between his years fronting the Raspberries and his subsequent solo career, NONE of them compare to THIS rocker… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qVTr0Ao8ps "That's Rock ’N' Roll" was on the debut solo LP "Eric Carmen" released in 1975...and the song was the B side of 1988's "Make Me Lose Control." In between, teen idol Shaun Cassidy took a remake of the song to #4 in 1977. Here's Eric Carmen's biggest hit from 1976, a #2 song that was kept out of #1 by "Love Machine Part 1" by the Miracles and "December 1963 (Oh What A Night)" by the Four Seasons... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN9CjAfo5n0 One of Casey Kasem's favorite stories was how the Raspberries made one of their LP jackets smell so strong of--what else?--raspberries, that a woman smelling the LP at a record store fainted. And here's the group's biggest hit from 1972… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtp8WSAzrGw For much much more on Eric Carmen… https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/arts/music/eric-carmen-dead.html https://variety.com/2024/music/obituaries-people-news/eric-carmen-dead-raspberries-singer-all-by-myself-go-all-the-way-1235938937/ https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/eric-carmen-singer-hungry-eyes-other-hits-dead-74https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/entertainment/eric-carmen-death/index.html [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]