trivial help (pop song from classical source)

[acroyear]

Some sappy pop song from the early 70s, I think by the Carpenters, has as it's chorus the main melody theme from Rachmaninov's 2nd Symphony, 3rd movement.  However, my limited memory of the lyric (hey, i was 4 at the time and it doesn't get repeated all that often, even on XM's 70s channel) has me at a loss for exactly what song it was...

can anybody help?

Update: it was the 3rd movement, not the 4th.  on my cd, movement 1 takes up 2 tracks and the track in question was track 4.

Update 2: they (the classical music group) found it.

LJ Knows Good Music - trivial help (pop song from classical source):

Does it happen to be "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again" by Eric Carmen? All-powerful Wikipedia says it's based on Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popular_songs_based_on_classical_music

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[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

That's why I originally thought it was the Carpenters, 'cause I knew they had a song of that title. A little googling showed that song is by Burt Bacharach and the lyric doesn't fit the Rachmaninov melody at all.

Wikipedia definitely says the song is based on the symphony, and another song from the same album, "All By Myself", is based on a Rachmaninov piano concerto. Obviously, *somebody* was in a mood when they went to write for that album...