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Boats Against the Current is a 1977 album by Eric Carmen. The title is taken from a line in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” It was Carmen's second solo LP, after the Raspberries disbanded. It peaked at No. 45 on the Billboard 200 for the week ending October 8, 1977. The album yielded two charting singles, the title track as well as "She Did It." "She Did It" is the bigger hit from this album, which reached No. 23 Billboard and No. 15 Cash Box, as well as No. 11 in Canada. The title track subsequently reached No. 88 Billboard and No. 92 Cash Box. "Marathon Man" was released as a third single in March 1978 but failed to chart. The "Love Is All That Matters" melody is lifted from Tchaikovsky's "Fifth Symphony, Second Movement." Guest musicians on this album included back-up vocals by Brian Wilson and Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys and Burton Cummings, guitar by Andrew Gold, and drumming by Nigel Olsson and Toto's Jeff Porcaro. The title song was covered by Frankie Valli on his 1977 LP Lady Put the Light Out. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boats_A...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
