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Jul 31, 2024 · READ MORE: Top 10 Meat Loaf Songs 9. Jim Steinman, "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" (1981) Steinman released only one solo album, 1981's Bad for Good, which was intended as Meat Loaf's second ...
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- Meat Loaf, “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’T Do That)”
- Bonnie Tyler, “Total Eclipse of The Heart”
- Celine Dion, “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”
- Jim Steinman, “Bad For Good”
- Bonnie Tyler, “Holding Out For A Hero”
- Meat Loaf, “Paradise by The Dashboard Light”
- The Sisters of Mercy, “More”
- Meat Loaf, “Two Out of Three Ain’T Bad”
- Air Supply, “Making Love Out of Nothing at All”
- Barry Manilow, “Read ‘Em and Weep”
Meat Loaf seemed like just about the last artist on earth likely to score a Number One hit at the height of the grunge era in 1993. But he reunited with Jim Steinman that year for the long-delayed sequel to Bat Out of Hell, and the leadoff single, “I’d Do Anything for Love (but I Won’t Do That),” was so undeniably brilliant that radio stations all ...
“Total Eclipse of the Heart” is Jim Steinman at his most awesomely bombastic, with the famous hook, “Turn around, bright eyes!” It was a 1983 Number One hit for the Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, whose previous U.S. hit had been the Seventies folk-rock ditty “It’s a Heartache.” Steinman gave her a chance to belt, with a mini opera that spiraled through...
What do you do when you set out to write the most romantic song ever? Put Celine Dion in a gothic castle and make sure all the windows are dramatically wide open at all times. Steinman always envisioned a woman singing this iconic power ballad, so he denied giving it to Meat Loaf (who later recorded it anyway) and offered it to his female group Pan...
Jim Steinman originally conceived his 1981 LP, Bad for Good, as Meat Loaf’s follow-up to Bat Out of Hell, but when the singer suffered significant vocal problems, he decided to simply record the tunes himself and release it under his own name. He may have lacked Meat Loaf’s pipes, but the title track is still a masterpiece. Had Meat been able to si...
For the massively successful soundtrack for the 1984 film Footloose, screenwriter Dean Pitchford worked with a diverse array of songwriters to set the tone for the classic blockbuster. Steinman’s contribution was the deliciously camp “Holding Out for a Hero,” a track so big that it makes a scene where two tractors play chicken feel unrepentantly ur...
Steinman set out to make the ultimate song about sex in a car and he easily delivered with the epic “Paradise by the Dashboard Light.” Off Bat Out of Hell and sung by Meat Loaf with Ellen Foley, “Paradise” is a horny, over-the-top tale of a young couple preparing to “go all the way tonight.” Told in three parts (four, if you count the radio-style b...
Steinman’s late-Eighties and early-Nineties work with British goth rockers Sisters of Mercy was proof that his shamelessly over-the-top aesthetics could elevate just about any genre. The band first teamed up with him on 1987’s “This Corrosion” — where frontman Andrew Eldritch told the producerhe was after a “disco party run by the Borgias” — which ...
The most magical things result from listening to Elvis, and for Steinman, it was “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad.” The Bat Out of Hell highlight was born after Steinman heard “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You” on the radio, and applied its simplicity to Meat’s booming heartbreak — resulting in icicles instead of tears. “Meat has Elvis in him,” Steinm...
The story goes that Steinman wrote this 1983 power ballad for Meat Loaf, but Loaf’s record company didn’t want to foot the bill for him record it. So “Making Love Out of Nothing at All” landed with Air Supply, the Australian duo of singer Russell Hitchcock and songwriter-guitarist Graham Russell. “Russell loved the song straightaway, and so did I,”...
Hardly anyone noticed this song when it appeared on Meat Loaf’s Dead Ringer, but a few years later, Steinman revived it — with tweaked lyrics — for a Manilow compilation. As incongruous as the alliance sounded at the time, it worked. Manilow was always at his glorious best when he took it way over the top, so he couldn’t have been more at home with...
- Meat Loaf, “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” (1977) A nearly 9-minute mini rock opera with three acts (complete with an almost too on-the-nose metaphorical interlude of Phil Rizzuto baseball play-by-play), “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” builds and builds until it finally combusts into the aftermath of lust, love and regret.
- Meat Loaf, “You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth” (1977) “On a hot summer night, will you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?” You know the answer’s probably yes regardless, but when the proposal comes alongside production that includes dreamy Wall of Sound production — including an all-time great midsong swipe of the classic “Be My Baby” drum beat — and one of the most (figuratively and literally) breathtaking choruses of the ’70s, said flower-carrying canis lupus is simply making an offer you can’t refuse.
- Jim Steinman, “Left in the Dark” (1981) The GOAT of epic schmaltz rock balladry, Steinman may not have had the vocal chops necessary to sell his cinematic visions of teenage romance to a top 40 audience, but that doesn’t mean he had a bad voice by any stretch.
- Bonnie Tyler, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” (1983) One of the defining singles of the ’80s, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” is a timeless tale of the shadow cast by unrequited love.
- Heaven Can Wait. Jim Steinman’s “Heaven Can Wait” is a song about loss and regret, two themes that would become Steinman’s trademarks. The song first appeared on Meat Loaf’s 1977 album Bat Out of Hell, and though it was not released as a single, it remains one of the most popular songs from the album.
- Good Girls Go To Heaven. The song Good Girls Go To Heaven was released in 1989 as the lead single from Steinman’s album Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell.
- Everything Is Permitted. The song ‘Everything Is Permitted’ is taken from the album Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose’. It was released as a single in 2006.
- Cry To Heaven. When Jim Steinman’s Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell album was released in 1993, it had been 16 years since the original Bat Out of Hell album was released.
- 1977: "Bat Out of Hell"—Meat Loaf. During his early career composing music for theater, Steinman met Marvin Lee Aday, an actor and singer who was starring in his musical More Than You Deserve and working under the name Meat Loaf.
- 1981: "Dead Ringer for Love"—Meat Loaf and Cher. Steinman and Meat Loaf's follow-up, Dead Ringer, was delayed for four years, with part of the delay caused by the singer losing his voice following a long and drug-fuelled touring schedule.
- 1983: "Total Eclipse of the Heart"—Bonnie Tyler. Meat Loaf is Steinman's longest and most famous collaboration, but he also worked numerous times with the Welsh power balladeer Bonnie Tyler.
- 1983: "Making Love Out of Nothing At All"— Air Supply. In 1980, Steinman had written the main title theme for 1980 movie A Small Circle of Friends. A few years later, he reworked the song for soft balladeers Air Supply, giving the band a new sound quite unlike what they were known for.
Apr 21, 2021 · The song was originally written for what would be Steinman’s only solo album as an artist (1980’s Bad for Good), but Streisand recorded the track that also takes production elements from another of his songs: Billy Squier's "All Night Long." "Hulk Hogan’s Theme"
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Nov 1, 2022 · This song originally appeared on Meat Loaf’s 1981 album Dead Ringer, but Steinman made some alterations for Manilow. Whatever Steinman did, it worked; Manilow took the song to #1 on both the Canadian and U.S. Adult Contemporary Charts. It was also Manilow’s last U.S. Top 40 hit to date. 13.
