Single:
Go All the Way entered the Australian singles chart* on 2 October 1972 and peaked at #14. The song was #85 on the Top 100 of 1972.
Album:
The song is on Raspberries which entered the Australian albums chart* on 5 February 1973 and peaked at #30.
Songwriter:
Eric Carmen
Producer:
Jimmy Ienner
Record label of Australian release:
Capitol
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Live version recorded at The House of Blues, Sunset Strip, 2022:
Songfacts:
This song is about a girl trying to convince a guy to “go all the way,” meaning to have sex with him. Carmen told Blender magazine in 2006 that he was inspired by The Rolling Stones performance of Let’s Spend The Night Together when Mick Jagger had to sing it as “let’s spend some time together.”
Said Carmen, “I knew then that I wanted to write a song with an explicitly sexual lyric that the kids would instantly get but the powers that be couldn’t pin me down for.”
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/the-raspberries/go-all-the-way
Lyrics:
I never, never knew how complete love could be
Till she kissed me and said
“Baby, please, go all the way
It feels so right (feels so right)
Being with you here tonight”
“Please, go all the way
Just hold me close (hold me close)
Don′t ever let me go (don’t let me go)”
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