“I wanted Eric’s album to be a singer/songwriter record like the type that Billy Joel was making,” says Geffen Records' John Kalodner. “That was my concept. I got Bob Gaudio involved because he produced all of those great 4 Seasons records. Bob was also a musician as well as a songwriter.”

“Bob Gaudio had impressed me greatly when he did ‘Hello Again’ from The Jazz Singer,” says Eric. “Neil Diamond’s voice on that record was a good three times as loud as any normal lead vocal should be. One of the things I had going into this record was a couple of ballads that I thought were very important to the album. I wanted to make sure there was going to be a real good orchestral sound. I wanted to make sure the vocal would not get buried in the track. I wanted to be sure we got the ballads no matter what. I had a pretty good idea of how I could accomplish the rock ‘n’ roll songs in the studio. I didn’t want the ballads to get lost. I thought Neil Diamond’s ‘Hello Again’ was a very good jumping off place for a producer to do ‘I’m Through With Love,’ ‘The Way We Used To Be,’ and ‘She Remembered.’

"On the whole, I like the record a lot,” admits Eric. “‘I’m Through With Love’ was a one-take piano/voice demo that I did in Beachwood, Ohio that was then overdubbed.”