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Go All the Way

GO ALL THE WAY
 
 
“Go All the Way”  is a hit single by Raspberries, released in July 1972 written by band leader Eric Carmen.  The song reached the Top 5 on three principal U.S. charts, sold more than 1.3 million copies, and earned the band their first Gold Record Award.  It was their second single release, their all-time biggest U.S. hit, and appeared on their debut LP, Raspberries.  The repeat of the words “come on”, in the bridge or middle section, is loosely based on the “come on”s that The Beatles did in “Please Please Me” (another sexually suggestive song).   (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
The Raspberries released several albums in the early 1970’s and had a number of hits, particularly “Go All the Way”. 
 
(February 2010)
 
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Greg Shaw put his faith in what he called “power-pop”:  teenage pop music in the standard 3-minute format but backed up with a hard-edged punk rock aesthetic.  Pete Townshend coined the term power pop in a 1967 interview to describe the music that his band the Who and Small Faces played; many of the Beatles’ mid-period singles are also in that style, such as “Paperback Writer” and “Day Tripper”.  Among American bands, “Time Won’t Let Me” by the Outsiders and “Go All the Way” by the Raspberries are early power-pop hit songs. 
 
(April 2010)
 
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In the early days, everything was in a 7-inch format; but it wasn’t all two-song singles, and it wasn’t all new music.  Apparently right after the first 45 by the Poppees was released, on Bomp 104-EP, Bomp! Records put together the first reissue of music by the Choir, a 1960’s Cleveland band that included several members of the Raspberries, which formed in 1970 and released several smart albums along with a million-selling hit single, “Go All the Way”. 
 
(December 2017)