This particular version of ABM was the highlight of my weekends back in 1978. Back then I was the Saturday and Sunday, midnight to 6am announcer at Syracuse's beautiful music station. The station was completely automated. My job was to change the reel-to-reel tapes and to say stuff like "On FM 93, WNTQ, we just heard Ray Conniff and the Orchestra with "Somewhere My Love". It was boring as sh*t, until, one day, a new tape came in with ABM on it! That night (and every time ABM showed up in rotation) I proudly worked Eric's name into my follow-ups. Something like; "On FM 93, WNTQ, we just heard singer, songwriter Eric Carmen's All By Myself beautifully performed by James Last and His Orchestra....it's 14 below zero here in Syracuse...yadda, yadda, yadda..."
Dave