50+ Music<p>"All by Myself" is a song by American singer-songwriter <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/EricCarmen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EricCarmen</span></a>, released by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Arista" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arista</span></a> in December 1975 as the first single from Carmen's debut album, Eric Carmen (1975). The verse is based on the second movement (Adagio sostenuto) of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SergeiRachmaninoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SergeiRachmaninoff</span></a>'s 1900–1901 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PianoConcertoNo2InCMinor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PianoConcertoNo2InCMinor</span></a>, Opus 18. The chorus was taken from the song "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LetsPretend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LetsPretend</span></a>", which Carmen wrote and recorded with the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Raspberries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Raspberries</span></a> in 1972. <br><a href="https://youtu.be/PoiN8vZ6WwE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/PoiN8vZ6WwE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>