They had a great sound and some of rock's biggest stars as fans. So why was The Raspberries' career so short? 

It wasn't from lack of trying. Lead Eric Carmen recalls how their first hit, the classic "Go All The Way," just wasn't coming out on disc the way he heard it in his head. And they came close to leaving it off their debut album altogether. 

“When we got into the studio, it just wasn’t flying. I remember going to Jimmy Ienner and begging him to leave it off the record.” 

 With the song that would later become a bona fide hit almost deleted from the album, engineer Shelly Yakus attempted to revive the track by sticking it through a studio gizmo called a limiter. Carmen: “I came in the studio, and they played this thing for me. It was like: ‘Oh my God. There’s my record!’” 

The Raspberries had the song that would launch their career."

All the way to nowhere: The story of The Raspberries