Eric Carmen - Sunrise -- [STEREO]

---Standard Version--- After leaving The Raspberries, Eric Carmen Began A Solo Career With His Debut Album In 1975. From That LP Came The World Wide Smash "All By Myself". The 3rd Single From The Album Is Called "Sunrise". It's A Fantastic, Powerful, Uplifting, Positive Song That Rarely Ever Gets Played On The Radio Today....Even Though It Made It All The Way Up To #34 In 1976!

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[61Slughi]

Is this Mike's real voice or is he making fun of radio DJ vocals? Sounds fake.

[MusicMike2]

@61Slughi --- Lol. It's really me. I spent many years as a radio DJ. The only thing fake about me is my drivers license.

[gdschozen]

Wow Mike, keep making great music great, thanks to you I can go back in my mind as to the first time I heard Eric Carmen's songs and having the time of my life. Brings a smile to my day just to hear them again. Keep it up cuz what you are doing does count for something & that is my kids get a chanch to have the same love of muic & to play great music too, my oldest son knows how to make great music great. & my youngest son's knows how to listen and play great music and love it too.

Thanks Mike

[MusicMike2]

@gdschozen ----- Thanks everbody. Thanks Eric Carmen.

[bwworld]

Thanks for sharing this, Mike! I, too, just dug through my LP's and lo and behold, there' it is, Eric Carmen's first solo album with the faux-copper cover and this incredible song! I played it for my daughters (13 & 11) and they loved it!

[MusicMike2]

Fantastic! It's wonderful that you are sharing music of the past with your children. I have done the same with mine. My kids like a lot of what they call "vintage rock".

[pixoariz]

@MusicMike2 Your backgrounders on these great songs are really appreciated. Great stuff!

[Enerjee]

@wckartist - yes, but Beacon was of a time and had it had the freedom to continue and broadcast to a much wider audience it would have been far more successful for longer. However, the commercial nature of commercial radio would have still led to what we have today because of the increased competition and a fractured audience.

[wckartist]

@Enerjee

Beacon was the best back in the day, because of tracks like this!!

Shame about its output in 2012!

[Enerjee]

@mahhapanch - Fly

[Enerjee]

@JohnnyWaterbucket - they played it too? Trent went on the air 10 months before Beacon Radio which played it as their first track on the stations in April 1976.

[jpodunk60]

Music Mike...thanks for uploading this little known gem from the great Eric Carmen; love your intro too..This song was a intended to show Eric's hope for a great new beginning as a solo artist. He had indeed given us so much great music, hasn't he?

[fenderbender534]

Heard This Once on the radio, got it on reel to reel tape at the time, haven't heard it in at least 25 years. Great song - deserved to make higher than 34 on the charts. Probably got lost in the repetitious disco songs that seemed to clutter up the top 40 in the 70's (Please note I am not a disco hater, but there was alot of semi mediocre stuff making the charts back then.

[hooeybrown]

Sunrise is awesome. Very uplifting.

[N8908E]

The electric piano reminds me of Elton John's song " Funeral For A Friend."

[N8908E]

Sounds a little like ELO's style.

[jpavlekovich]

Entire "All by Myself" Album is super fantastical