Shaun Squad Society
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Cindy, Dorese and Dame became friends at a Shaun Cassidy concert and immediately decided to form "The Shaun Squad." Soon after, the Shaun Squad Society Podcast was conceived to discuss and reminisce about all-things Shaun Cassidy, from his first years as a teen idol to his current career as a writer and producer.
This podcast brings together a community of Shaun's devoted fans, the ones who played his albums non-stop, and who tuned into The Hardy Boys Mysteries every Sunday evening. And now, 46 years later, Shaun's story-telling tour has delighted fans again. So, join us for the stories, fun-facts, and fascinating interviews as we take you down memory lane with our Teen Dream, Shaun Cassidy.
Shaun Squad Society
Eric Carmen: The Man Behind Shaun's Hits
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Embark on a melodious journey where we celebrate the musical mastery of Eric Carmen and the echoes of his influence on heartthrob Shaun Cassidy. Strap on your nostalgia goggles as we share fascinating tidbits about Carmen's classical roots that blossomed into a rock sensation with the Raspberries, and chuckle over the misheard lyrics of "Go All the Way". We'll pull back the curtain on his role in penning the soundtrack anthem "Hungry Eyes," and how his artistry shaped the hits that made Cassidy a household name.
As the needle drops on this episode, get ready to sway to the rhythm of Carmen's captivating hits from the '70s and dissect the genius behind the power ballads that still tug at our heartstrings. Revisit the infectious "She Did It" while uncovering how his music weaves in homage to legends like the Beach Boys and Hall & Oates, proving his prowess as a songwriter. Revel in the tales of Carmen's impact on the music industry, as we marvel at his absence from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and discuss his broader influence including country music, cinema, and even the Olympics.
Finally, take a seat alongside us as we zoom in on personal stories, like a photographer's mission to immortalize Carmen in the perfect portrait, and reflect on his stirring live performances and songwriting collaborations. With an episode brimming with anecdotes and insights, join us in paying tribute to the lasting legacy of Eric Carmen, whose melodies continue to shape our musical landscape. Don't just take my word for it; tune in, and let the symphony of stories enrich your appreciation for these timeless tunes.
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Eric Carmen
Speaker 1I thought the song. I thought it was don't go away. Don't go away, cause I'm like what's go all the way. I'm a kid, I don't know what that means. Yes, I thought it was don't go away. So there you go, cindy. You know why you changed the word. Welcome to the Sean Squad Society podcast with your host myself, cindy Doris, dey Madonna, where we invite you to share in our enthusiasm and reminisce about all things Sean Cassidy.
Speaker 2From his teen idol days to his recent adventures back on the road again, please join us for the stories and memories that connected us to those happy days that helped create the Sean Squad.
Speaker 1Society podcast. Sean had three gold records. He had three tap songs the do run run, that's rock and roll, and hey, deanie, where's tap? Three gold records.
Speaker 3Well, we know that the do run run was a cover Right From the 60s.
Speaker 1It was from the crystals and. But who wrote the other two songs? We should talk about that. Yeah, do, yeah. So let's talk about Eric Carmen today. Eric Carmen was the man behind the music and I think he's worthy of having a discussion about.
Speaker 3I believe that you're right, because Eric Carmen is a superstar in and of himself. He came from a big background of music.
Speaker 1He did, and I didn't personally know he was a songwriter. Oh OK, that was something new I found out.
Speaker 3Yeah Well, back in the day when he, when he was huge on the charts, I kind of knew. But you know we're going to dive into that. We're going to talk about how he started his career, who he was with before he went so low.
Speaker 1So yeah, there's a story there.
Speaker 2Huge connection, when you talk about six degrees girls, with this.
Speaker 1Exactly he can have six degrees.
Speaker 2He was only six years old when he took violin lessons from his aunt Wow, so it was natural His aunt was a violinist and she was in the orchestra the Cleveland Orchestra.
Speaker 4Oh, wow, and then with him.
Speaker 2By the time he was 11 years old he was already playing the piano and he was already ready to write his own songs. And then something kind of switched a little bit of it. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones they made him change his idea a little bit. So he went ahead like all teenage boys and stuff and he bought a Beatles chord book and he studied his guitar and how to write some of his own music. He still had his own idea, so he couldn't really be under a teacher.
Speaker 1Right yeah, and the Beatles had a lot of influence on a lot of artists back in the day.
Speaker 3Artists back in the 60s the Stones and the Beatles. So I'm not surprised to hear that.
Speaker 2Well then, he had his first singing job, and it was with the the.
Speaker 1Raspberries, the Raspberries, raspberries. That's where I knew him from. That's Raspberries on, I was telling.
Speaker 2Cindy, something I said. Did you know that there was a little sticker on that album that smelled like Raspberries? I tried really hard to find one on eBay.
Speaker 1No, I can't say. I had that record album so I didn't have the experience of that, but that was pretty popular back in the day.
Speaker 3I didn't like the Raspberries music that much. I wasn't a big fan of their music, but I knew who they were back in the early 70s to mid-70s. I wasn't really a big Raspberries fan.
Speaker 1Me either. I was thinking I was still younger. So that was just a song I heard on the radio. I didn't really follow them, I just knew of the song.
Speaker 2Yeah, well, eric Carman wrote and he co-wrote all of their songs. That's great, their lead songs. What was their big hit? Their biggest hit? Well, they had that one that was sold a million of them and it was Go All the Way, go All the Way.
Speaker 1That's the one.
Speaker 2I'm talking about.
Speaker 1And that's funny because that song I didn't know that was the title of it. So I thought the song. I thought it was don't go away. Oh, don't go away, cuz I'm like what's go all the way. I'm a kid, I don't know what that means. Yes, I thought it was don't go away, so you know why you change the word. Yeah, it took a while for me to understand the real title of it, but now I know yes. It was a good song though.
Speaker 3I didn't like it so much. I remember when it was out it was on the radio all the time. I just I think I was more into more bubblegum sound music at that time.
Speaker 1More that was a little edgy for me true, true, because he wanted to be. He was more in the rock band. Right, he wanted to be a rock band, yes, so we had that edgier sound.
Speaker 2Yes, but what I really liked is that, instead of when he went on his own, he wanted to be a softer rock.
Speaker 1Yes, I, I found that out too. He wanted to be more soft rock with powerful ballads.
Speaker 3Yeah, he was one of the first Power ballad artists out there. He was definitely one of the first right. It's exactly.
Speaker 2I didn't realize that he actually sang most of these songs that I already loved. I didn't know, and like the song hungry eyes from dirty dancing.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2I love the movie, but yes, and then to find out he did something for that I love that one too, 95 to die for was amazing.
Speaker 1Yeah, he was a great songwriter, I mean, and you know, after the raspberries, you know, I think they broke up and then he went solo.
Speaker 3Yeah, Eric Carmen was. Eric Carmen went solo and by the mid 70s we were hearing Eric Carmen songs all over the radio, right, Exactly. I mean, who didn't hear? You know? I have a fun fact here Eric Carmen did one of the original song samples. But who would have thought about sampling Classic piano song?
Speaker 1right. So he studied that first right.
Speaker 3Yes, classical his song all by myself. Eric Carmen sampled this, this surgery at Sergey, some classical music guy, and it was like his piano concerto number two and C minor. Well, I Wasn't a huge fan of all by myself. It's kind of Kind of like a power ballad, like you said, but it winds to me like do you have to be all by yourself? Stop crying about it.
Speaker 1And also it did not play that full version on the radio of his concerto. What, how do you say that concerto?
Speaker 3Yeah, well, we were never classical music.
Speaker 1But. But he put that piece in there because that's what he learned. But in the full version of the song you hear all of that, yes, on the radio.
Speaker 3They, they cut it out and maybe because he sampled it without permission, oh, maybe. So, yeah, who knew that Eric Carmen was back in the day sampling Classical music for his, his biggest hits? So I found that out yesterday when I was looking at some Eric Carmen facts and I went, wow, that's pretty cool yeah so, like you said, dame, his aunt was helping him.
Speaker 1You know, learn all this, but they made by a list.
Speaker 2They were a little concerned because he was going into the rock instead of doing what his Aunt's trying to teach him. But when he came out with these hits they were still. You were very pleased. Yeah, the family caught on it.
Early Music Inspirations and Song Analysis
Speaker 1Okay, you know what he's doing, he's making. He's making money off of these songs that he wants to do, and he went his own way with it, and this is what the outcome was.
Speaker 2Well then, in 1976 he had those two first solos that reached the billboards and his charting hit, the R Ia Awarded him with that gold disc. Well, there was one even framed and behind him in his house. I was able to see that yesterday when I was looking into about him.
Speaker 1I think everybody framed their gold records. I think that was Standard to hang that gold record on the wall. But that's that's kind of neat.
Speaker 2Well, yeah, I got to see it. It was exciting.
Speaker 3I keep talking about the ones I didn't like, but you know what song I did like, which one I like too. But we're gonna start with she did it.
Speaker 1I like that one too that had good beats.
Speaker 3Yeah, she did it, you know he. He said a couple of things that I found pretty interesting about she did it. He said that Brian Wilson and Bruce Johnston, they kind of helped give him like motivation for that song, yes, with one of the Beach Boys songs, and I'm like I never knew that I read that also and he got motivation for she did it from Callin' Notes song. So he liked all these songs with dead it in it and it was like this guy really did like these Early songs that had the word did it or the phrase did it apparently it worked back then.
Speaker 1Yeah, I guess so sounds like he did it.
Speaker 3And he did it. Yeah, it's that I read that. Um, he got an inspiration for she did it from the Beach Boys song, Did it again and I like that song. That's a pretty upbeat Beach Boys song. Oh, and then he went on to tour with Darrell Hall and John Notes who we know as Hall and Notes and they did did it in a minute and he said that also helped them inspire.
Speaker 1Wow, did it? Everybody has an inspiration for a song, and that's where his came from.
Speaker 3Yeah, I would never have thought that he liked that phrase. Did it, did it? August, he was listening to all those songs with dead it and he's right. He's like I'm gonna write a song. She did, she, did it. I love it.
Speaker 1I love it.
Speaker 3It's a pretty catchy tune it is, and if you just hear it you know it's all over the radio. And if you listen to it, I guarantee you it's gonna get stuck in your head.
Speaker 1It did, because I woke up with it in the morning with that in my head already, so that worked.
Speaker 3Yeah, and another one I really like. He did a lot of good songs, but he did the song from a dirty dancing. I think we'll talk about that later. Oh, yes, but I really like his follow-up after the dirty dancing song. Mm-hmm, make me lose control.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'll do Reese.
Speaker 3I love that one and the only reason I like it it's because it sounds like Sort of like the 50s and 60s early rock-and-roll songs that had those melodies and harmonies. Yeah, and there's a part in that song, in the chorus, where they go acapella and then right after that you hear this electric or still guitar and it just roars and then it goes right back to the chorus again with the full band. Yes, he was a good arranger. He really was. That's such a great, powerful song, yes thing.
Speaker 2You know what I'm dying to say the words. And it says turn the radio up to the sweet sound. Make me lose control. When I look in your eyes, I go crazy. Take me over the edge and make me lose control. Then it says you, I guess the top of the car you pull it down. Is that what it says in the song?
Speaker 3well, warm July. The whole thing was a tribute to the sixties and they drove around in convertible with the top down and then it says keep this feeling alive, make me lose that control.
Speaker 2When I look at your eyes, I go crazy who's that you might.
Speaker 1I love this song there must be a tea night.
Speaker 2All we once knew and then it says and then I I know that I had heard these songs before, but I didn't know who sang them until right we started connecting to Sean and I didn't know that air Carmen wrote these songs.
Speaker 1Are that Sean put out?
Speaker 3well going back to make me lose control before we really talk about. That's rockerona, hey Dini, which were Eric Carmen songs yes if you listen to, like, make me lose control. He throws in a little hints about those days of the 50s and 60s, yeah, and he talks about the girl how she knows all the words to stand by me, which is a song by Benny King from back in the day, right. And then he mentions be my baby. Now, who covered my baby? Right? So there were all these references.
Speaker 1Yeah, so his early music inspirations, I think yeah, do you want me to play a little bit of the song?
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Speaker 2yeah, let's hear a little bit can I say this other part though? Yeah. Then it says the heat from your touch makes me feel like I'm losing my mind. And then that lady in the video oh, she's so cute. And then it says we start to kiss and we pray that this night will never end anyway I love. I love the girls hair in that, in that video too, cindy, you were going to play it yeah, let's hear a little bit of it.
Speaker 1Yes, low beginning to it, but it picks up and step out in the street.
Speaker 3See, there's my jizz apart so that's a reference to uptown girl about a filled job.
Speaker 4My God, where has the radio up? All the sweet times are in the dark, so let me go keep this feeling alive. In the end there's control. Baby, baby. When I look in your eyes I go crazy fever's high.
Speaker 1Alright, I know we can't hear the whole song, so that's a good.
Speaker 3That is why I love the song so much Because of those harmonies. It's such a great song.
Speaker 1Beautiful yeah, I mean, maybe they were teenagers or whatever. You know back in those days when it was carefree and you put the top down in the car and you just take off and you're with your favorite person you love and Another fun fact the video for Make Me Lose Control is kind of a take off from the movie Corvette Summer and they're driving around in a white convertible Cadillac.
Speaker 3There's a blonde in the movie, so Eric Carman has the girl next to him, so he wanted to really really kind of tie in all of these references from the day and he made a song about it. That song is the only Top 10 Eric Carman song never released by another artist.
Speaker 1Yeah, because other artists did cover his songs.
Speaker 3We know for a fact that one artist covered two of them.
Speaker 1Yes, you were that, yeah, I won. But the other songs too, with Eric Carman is Never Gonna Fall in Love Again. Remember that one.
Speaker 3Yes, that was popular.
Speaker 1Yeah, he did that one too, which I liked. Besides, she did it Hungry Eyes, make Me Lose Control, and All by Myself. Those were all of his top hits that he did that are pretty familiar with everybody.
Speaker 2Yeah, Hungry Eyes reached number two on the Adult Contemporary Chart in 1987.
Speaker 1Well, that was a great song for that movie.
Speaker 3Yes, that was great. That was a wonderful song for the movie and I remember I had the Dirty Dancing Soundtrack and I used to just love that song. I played it over and over Hungry Eyes.
Speaker 2Well, even Eric Carman said that this record had incredible dance music from back in the 1960s and 1970s. Oh, definitely.
Speaker 1It was perfect for the movie.
Speaker 3And when you hear it you can think about the scene in the movie that this music was playing.
Speaker 1And they had passion in everything.
Speaker 2He received so many calls because of this song in Dirty Dancing Love, it Chills. Yes.
Speaker 1You just know, you could picture them dancing and look at each other's eyes and I really think this song.
Speaker 3Well, the whole soundtrack was great. It was, but this was one of the most incredible songs there.
Speaker 1And this is in the movie when he's teaching her how to dance yes, and they're starting to connect. Yeah, perfect song for that movie.
Speaker 2Well, he was on American Bandstand and he was talking about that too. I know we talked about a little bit of that last time we did a podcast.
Speaker 1Right, these artists do the same circuit.
Speaker 2He got on that American Bandstand and I think that Clark said well, it's been a while since you've been on here, a few thousand years. And then Eric Carman, he got a little bit defensive and he said no, we've been on here a couple times since you know, the last time or whatever. Yeah, and then he mentioned that because the records were going off the charts because of his soundtrack. He was so happy about that so I don't think he cared what he was told during that time Right, and he noticed too that Eric Carman was starting to do his.
Speaker 3The solo career yeah it's solo career.
Speaker 1At the same time, sean's getting his stuff together, so we're talking about now?
Speaker 3We're talking about the mid to late 70s, right? So we got Eric Carmen. He's out there, he's got songs all over the charts, and here comes this Sean Cassidy.
Speaker 1It was 1976 when Sean started to record and Eric Carmen gave him that song. Right in 77 the do or run came out and then it was a hit by July, but that's rock and roll didn't come out until the fall of 77 77 well, I have that.
Speaker 2It became popular in 1977. It was a top 10 hit. Well, that's, rock and roll was the longest charting hit. It's been three weeks longer in the top 40. Then did his number one hit, the do run, run, true, with a total of six months on the chart, true, very true, and it became that gold record, like you said to me, cindy, Just like you know, you said all three.
Speaker 1Yeah, he had three gold records and actually when he released us in West Germany it was a number 11 on the charts. It was number one in Canada.
Speaker 2Well, yeah, on the Canadian chart that's rock and roll, reach, yeah, the number one for a whole week and displacing even the Star Wars theme.
Speaker 1right, knock that off.
Speaker 3Okay, knocked it off with my little head, I got it all wrong. The album was recorded and everything, and of course they released it overseas first to get that Following all right, yeah, and then the do or one first and correct then that's rock and roll.
Speaker 1Came out later that year, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was. Cassidy, second Canadian number one hit. It was also Eric Carmen, second composition to reach the top spot right and Eric Carmen put that on his album.
Speaker 1That record this song was already on his album right, that's rock and roll Was the B side to one of every song songs which was what we just finished talking about exactly lose control.
Speaker 3Yes, yeah, so Eric Carmen, that's his song. He had Recorded it. You know how songwriters are they think someone else can do better with their song. They give it to him and he did.
Speaker 1He thought Sean could do well with this, but they changed a sentence in this song.
Speaker 3Yeah, they did.
Speaker 1They took out and changed once one line, yeah, cuz it was originally it was supposed to be. Well, it's the roadies in the crowd. It's when the band's playing way too loud your hips are shaken, ain't no mistaken. So that's the line Sean changed, but still, either way, I think either one is good and what is Sean change it to?
Speaker 3I got to hear the song.
Speaker 1Well, you know what? Let me play Eric Carman's, that's like a roll, then we can.
Speaker 3Yeah, here we go.
Speaker 4Here it is.
Speaker 3It sounds pretty much the same yeah it was fun watching him perform. Yeah, now see, listen to the chorus. How he didn't change it much, sean, sean didn't change. No, exactly how. Eric on me? Yeah, I think so. Now here's the part.
Speaker 1No not yet.
Speaker 4Here we go right?
Speaker 3Yeah, well, it's a roadie. Now don't you worry about being a star. It doesn't matter who or what you want, just stick it with them. Metaphilia.
Speaker 3Yeah, that was the part that was changed, but other than that it sounded pretty much Similar it sounds exactly the way Eric on the recording it does and you know, I think if Eric would have released the song I might have bought it. But maybe Eric was thinking you know I'm doing these More power ballads. Yeah, maybe he thought to release this what wouldn't have made a big impact for him at the time.
Speaker 1Plus, he also had released a song from that record Because, like I said, sean and Eric were simultaneously having their careers or solo careers, so I think Eric had another song out. Anyway, yes, with all by myself.
Speaker 3Yes, that's what I'm saying. It's more slower power balance. What's the way he was going right?
Speaker 2So, he's like.
Speaker 3This upbeat Song about rock and roll. I'm gonna give it to this Cassidy kid and let him see there you go.
Speaker 2That's funny, doris.
Speaker 1I didn't even think about that and I was trying to find the backstory about that too, Cuz I know there was a story about how Eric Carmen and Sean met. I wish I had it, but I couldn't find it again. But if somebody knows about it, let us know.
Speaker 3But you know, so that's rock and roll did great on the charts. Yeah, then Eric Carmen comes along with. Hey, Dini.
Speaker 1Sean's by then doing his second album, born late, born late, and this hey Dini. Was released in November of 1977. So, same year.
Speaker 2Yeah well, girls. It was his third and final top ten hit. Right peaked at. It peaked at number seven for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, and it spent four months on this chart from 1977 to 1978. As with Cassidy's prior singles, this song also became a gold record.
Speaker 1Yep, and that was his third yeah, so that means. Okay, that means that Sean had his three gold records in the same year. Yes, this was all 77.
Speaker 3Yeah, his, like his maiden voyage, so to speak, his day view. He comes right out with these gold records.
Speaker 1So two albums, three gold records, the first year.
Speaker 3So now you know why he was nominated for a Grammy.
Speaker 1Exactly, but he should have won.
Speaker 3Haydeni was on the charts with Eric Carmen at the same time. They were. Same time she did it and Haydeni were on the charts together, so Eric Carmen had two hits on the charts at the same time.
Speaker 2Well, you girls are from Chicago and on the Chicago radio station with WLS, it gave the song so much airplay that I'm sure it helped. And then Haydeni was the 45th most popular song of 1978.
Speaker 1I was just going to say that and it reached as high as number six.
Speaker 2On their survey yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, wls in Chicago was very responsible for playing that song over and over again to get it out there, and it worked.
Speaker 3Yeah, wls was what they call one of the power stations back there, yep, and so if LS was as we call it here in Chicago, if LS was playing it, it was huge and you can set your watch by what time they played certain songs. Oh, yes, I would be in school and I knew exactly what time these songs would play, like on the 20 minute of the hour, on the 15 minute of the hour, yeah, like you knew, at least every hour you would hear it, yeah, and so you figured out a way to get out of that classroom and go listen to this.
Speaker 1I was listening, yes, because I hadn't heard it 13 times before that day, and also Haydeni was the one the song used in his Hardy Boy episode too.
Speaker 2That year. Yes, yes, yes, I remember that.
Speaker 1Yeah, and another fun fact with Haydeni is that was the name of his theme for his tour these past years Magic of a Midnight Sky. Yes, that was the name. It came from Haydeni.
Speaker 3And didn't they say let me get it right. There was a movie, yes.
Speaker 1And, yes, called Splendor in the Grass with Natalie Wood. Yes, and what was her?
Speaker 3name Deanie.
Speaker 1Yes, so that was his inspiration for Haydeni was that that movie with Warren Beatty? So that was Eric Carmen's inspiration. It was.
Speaker 2Hey, hey. Deanie became an international top 40 hit in Canada and Australia.
Speaker 1That's great.
Speaker 2And it reached 21 on that on theirs in Sydney, sydney, australia.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think the highest position was in the US at number seven.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3But it's neat.
Speaker 2It went out there to Australia and, can you know, in Canada as well Australia, Canada, Netherlands.
Speaker 1It tapped on 23 on the charts in Netherlands.
Speaker 3Yes.
Speaker 1But only 170 in Canada. Oh no wait 23. I'm sorry 23. For the whole year it tapped off at 170.
Speaker 2Cool Girls what do you feel about when you watch, like that video, haydeni where he's playing at the piano oh, I'm talking about Sean Cassidy now and wearing that white outfit and the white background with that.
Speaker 1I think he's got too much makeup on the midnight sky yeah. Yeah, I have to agree with that. Too much makeup on. I could tell.
Speaker 2Oh really. Oh yes, I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 3What I remember most about when Haydeni came out is the commercial for Barley. I mean, I remember when that commercial came out because it was the follow up to the Sean Cassidy album. I don't remember the commercial.
Speaker 1What was in it?
Speaker 3I went absolutely not a whole lot, but I just went absolutely crazy because another album was coming.
Speaker 1Oh, definitely, definitely yeah. Two albums in one year.
Speaker 3Yes.
Speaker 1That was a good accomplishment on his part. So I think in 1976 he was pretty busy. Yes, I think so, because he was doing the Hardy Boys and getting these albums ready and touring and touring. Yes, crazy man, smart guys, he did all this.
Speaker 3But back to Eric Carmen. You know he really was a great solo performer and I think you know thank God for his music. Yes, I wonder he lived. He was born and raised in Cleveland. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is in Cleveland, right? I wonder if they've ever inducted Eric or the Raspberries into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1Good, question I'm not sure. Well, let's find out.
Speaker 3Yeah, I Was reading today that there are the new inductee nominations and I think he really should be and if not the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he definitely should be in the songwriters Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2And girls. Later on, like way, in 2014, his song was on Guardians of the Galaxy and that same hit from the beginning go all the way was was in there.
Speaker 1Yeah, on the soundtrack so in various places his music showed up.
Speaker 2Yes, I came back.
Speaker 3Oh, his songs are covered in a lot of different movies and things.
Speaker 2Yeah, in the Olympics too, they used it somehow.
Speaker 3No, it says that Eric Carmen has been snubbed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That's too bad. That is that really is. He should be in there, especially with the raspberries. Yeah, he had a long, good career, I think girls.
Speaker 2Did you go see him, like in 2005? There was a mini tour in the Chicago House of Blues.
Speaker 3No, I didn't know that Eric Carmen was at the House of Blues in no.
Speaker 2I didn't either.
Speaker 3Yeah, in 2005. Only thing I might have been seeing that the House of Blues in the early 2000s. I don't remember if that's when David Cassidy was there, other than that I was. Yeah, that's the wrong one.
Speaker 1I saw that's another concert you and I both went to that. We didn't know each other. Was that yes?
Speaker 3But Eric Carmen, I think, did a lot of good work for the Rock and Roll Industry. He's a great songwriter, as we know. A lot of people have recorded his songs and we have loved him, whether we knew it or not. We have loved Eric Carmen's songs for the last 30, 30, 40 and even a country artist, louise Mandrell. She sang his song may be my baby, so he even crossed over you know, speaking of hungry eyes and dirty dancing, mm-hmm, did you know that Eric Carmen also wrote almost paradise for footloose?
Speaker 2Oh really, yes, yes, that's Frank behind his piano even now. So that's cool.
Speaker 3He wrote it with Dean pitchford and he may Make me lose control. He wrote that with Dean pitchfork, so they had a songwriting pairing going on. The two at it.
Speaker 2Yeah, when Fox invited him into their, his home, and he did a little interview with Fox. That's when I saw that behind his piano and then they sat down, they talked to him. It was on the 40th anniversary for one of his Main hits, I guess and it's fun.
Speaker 2I don't know if anybody else cares about the hair, but I'm a huge hair fan and and he was talking about the photographer that took the picture that was also behind his Piano yeah, he said that the photographer spent 40 minutes showing him how to relax his muscles on his face. Then, when he finally opened his eyes, click. They took all these pictures, and that was one of them. I thought that was kind of neat. He said the photographer went nuts taking photos.
Eric Carmen's Influence on Music
Speaker 1They have their ways of getting that picture. Well, this has been a fun episode. Yes, it has Talking about all of his stuff.
Speaker 3You didn't know, right, eric Carmen was like the songwriter behind Two songs from two of the biggest movies of the 80s. Yep, eric Carmen had a solo career that Spend it a couple of decades and songs that you may sing every day, but didn't even know what Eric Carmen songs, right, and we all know Eric Carmen was responsible for two of Sean's biggest hits hey, dini, and that's rock and roll.
Speaker 1Isn't that interesting too. Cuz on Sean's third album under wraps. I don't think there's any Eric Carmen songs on there, and he didn't have any top ten hits on that one.
Speaker 3Well see.
Speaker 1With Eric and continued on that road.
Speaker 3That was a great, a great episode, great fun listening to those songs and I really hope that you guys enjoyed our little Trip down memory lane with Eric Carmen as much as we did.
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