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steven_stuart 09:03 pm UTC 10/01/10 |
| In reply to: | re: Making Love - New Version - steven_stuart 12:56 am UTC 10/01/10 |
| If Meat Loaf had recorded "TEOTH", would it have been a number one hit? > > Just found a new version of MLOONAA by Pedro Jose (click > > through the tracks on the player in bottom left). > > > > Not the best version, but not the worst either. The BV's > > are pretty cool. > > I liked it. Thanks for posting. > > I also enjoyed reading the article about the song.I didn't > know that Meat had been offered both "TEOTH" and "Making > Love". How different history might have been if Meat had > recorded those two songs but his silly record company > wouldn't pay for them. Alls well that ends well because I > don't think anyone could do a better version of "TEOTH" > than Bonnie did. > > "Making Love Out of Nothing At All" is a power ballad > written and composed by Jim Steinman and has been released > by Air Supply and Bonnie Tyler. The song was first > recorded by Air Supply, gaining them a number two hit on > the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States of America > (US). It was another Steinman production, Bonnie Tyler's > recording of "Total Eclipse of the Heart", that was at > number one while "Making Love..." sat in runner-up > position, keeping Air Supply from scoring their second > number-one single in the US (the first being "The One That > You Love" in 1981). The song subsequently became the title > track of their 1983 greatest hits album. The B-side of the > single was a song called "Late Again". They have included > the song on their numerous greatest hits and live albums, > and recorded an acoustic version for their 2005 album The > Singer and the Song.The original is also featured on the > Mr. and Mrs. Smith soundtrack album, where it was played > during the car chase / gunfight scene. It was also used in > the films Click and Dumb and Dumber > > Steinman offered the song, along with "Total Eclipse of > the Heart", to Meat Loaf for his Midnight at the Lost and > Found album; however, Meat Loaf's record company refused > to pay Steinman for the material so Meat Loaf ended up > writing compositions for the album himself. Steinman's > songs were then offered to Bonnie Tyler & Air Supply. > > By 1983, Air Supply had changed much of its classic > musician line-up, both in the recording studio & on tour. > But Steinman, known for his lavish, rock-opera-ish type > productions, used Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band > members Roy Bittan on keyboards and Max Weinberg on drums, > to musically underscore the recording with like energies. > 70's glam-rock icon Rick Derringer, supplied the electric > guitar solo that made the sound of Making Love Out Of > Nothing At All stand so drastically apart from most other > Air Supply productions. (From Wikipedia, the free > encyclopedia). | |
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