The Raspberries-Overnight Sensation (Hit Record) 1974

From their last album before Eric's first solo venture, this was the first release, too long for traditional AM stations, the radio version was much smaller than the 5-plus minute version I have here. A new line-up couldn't save the band as they broke up a short time later. Enjoy! One of my favorite 70's bands! I saw Eric's solo tour with the Beach Boys exactly 3 months after this album found its way to the cut-out section on the heels of "All By Myself" Eric blew The Beach Boys out of the water!

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• Raspberries
• Eric
• Carmen
• Beach
• Boys
• Overnight
• Sensation
• Starting
• Over

[moparfan59]

Agree 100% goat. I can't play it very loud on my computer. My speakers only go up so much. I gotta get the cd so I can play it on my stereo the way it should be played.

[garageband66]

Then buy some CD's and crank it up!

Thanks for the view.

[gravano2]

Great tune , no airplay here in Canada , I don't know why ? Boy Eric can write great tunes

[garageband66]

Canada like most countries promote their own. I could never understand why Lighthouse, Chilliwack, the Collectors, & other Canadian bandds did not get as much airplay in the US as they should have.

[jonkheere1]

garageband66

Thank you for posting this 70,s classic.

I heard it on the radio a couple of days ago and got that 70,s moment when you hear a song for the first time in years and it instantly took me back to 1974.

LOVE IT!!!!!

[garageband66]

thank you for checking out the site. It is great to go back in time to great memories.

[TheJakal55]

@nycdude999 Too true very underrated single; really good time 74 when muic was music.

[jpodunk60]

Rolling Stone Magazine selected "Starting Over" as one of the best albums of 1974 and one of its columnists, Dave Marsh, selected this as the #1 Song of the Year..guessing this is a little know fact. A fitting exit for the excellence that was Raspberries...

[emile235]

Beach Boys influence maybe? lol

[Argonaut121]

@garageband66 I don't know. I live in Canada and listened to this album a lot back in the old days. That said, it didn't get much aiprplay and I always thought they were under-appreciated.

[SpaceOdyssey56]

Fantastic song!

Since it first hit the airwaves, I've loved "Go All the Way", a song that Eric Carmen made sound a whole lot easier to sing than it really is, but only became a fan of their other music a few years ago, after covering it in karaoke circles. I've more recently covered "Overnight Sensation", which might be the only other Raspberries song available in a karaoke version.

That means that if anyone reading this runs a karaoke company...

GIVE US MORE RASPBERRIES!!!!

[stephenmath1]

very underrated band, awesome power pop pioneers, some shades of the same 60's flavoured Beach Boys type chorus here discernible in Eric Carmen's "Make Me Lose Control" - thanks for posting

[nycdude999]

This went to #18 on the US Pop Charts in 1974. This should have been # 1 of course.

[nycdude999]

@waterman9465  Have you tried prunes?

[Lordscotia]

I must confess to a guilty pleasure.I am a sucker for an Eric Carmen song,albeit the Raspberries or solo.I love his stuff,yet I should hate it!Keep writing that great stuff Eric.