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fanofBOH66 04:25 pm UTC 11/03/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Jim's Catalogue - rockfenris2005 07:30 am UTC 11/03/15 |
| WOW! Thnx > > Albums... > > Yvonne Elliman: Food of love (first recorded JS song "Food > of love") > Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell > Delta House Theme (for the TV show, rare vinyl promo > only) > A small circle of friends: Film soundtrack (No CD but the > film score is out there) > Jim Steinman: Bad for good > Meat Loaf: Dead ringer > Ian Hunter: All of the good ones are taken (Vocal > arrangements on the title track, fast version) > Air Supply: Greatest Hits (Making love out of nothing at > all, Number 2 behind Total eclipse of the heart) > Bonnie Tyler: Faster than the speed of night (Jim produces > whole album, and writes title track and Total eclipse of > the heart) > Barry Manilow: Greatest Hits Vol. II (Jim writes and > produces Read 'em and weep, a song which had been recorded > on Dead ringer. This version has an extra verse) > Footloose: Soundtrack (Jim co-writes and produces Holding > out for a hero. Footloose later becomes a stage show which > opens on Broadway in the late 90s) > Streets of fire: Soundtrack (Jim writes and produces two > songs, Nowhere fast and Tonight is what it means to be > young, recorded by a group he put together called Fire > Inc. Jim has worked with the members on all kinds of > projects, including Pandora's Box: Original Sin) > Billy Squier: Signs of life (Jim co-produces) > Barbra Streisand: Emotion (Jim writes and produces Left in > the dark, which Jim had recorded on Bad for good) > Meat Loaf: Bad attitude (Meat records two Jim songs, > Nowhere fast which is different from the SOF version, and > Surf's up, also from Bad for good) > The Wrestling Album (Jim writes and produces Hulk Hogan's > Theme, which has the same music and track for Ravishing > from Bonnie's next album) > Iron Eagle: Soundtrack (Additional production on the song > "Love can make you cry". I liked this from memory) > Bonnie Tyler: Secret dreams and forbidden fire (Again, Jim > produces the whole album, and contributes three new songs, > Ravishing, Loving you's a dirty job (But somebody's gotta > do it), a duet with Todd Rundgren, and Rebel without a > clue. Holding out for a hero from Footloose is also > included.) > The Sisters of Mercy: Floodland (Jim co-produces > Dominion/Mother Russia, and from memory produces This > corrosion. Love these tracks.) > Pandora's Box: Original Sin (Jim produces his girl band > Pandora's Box, produces whole album and writes a good deal > of the songs but not all. Contains some interesting cover > versions of The Doors Twentieth Century Fox and the Hal > David/Burt Bacharach song My Little Red Book.) > Rude awakening: Soundtrack (Jim co-writes and produces the > title song, and produces Darling be home soon, which I > only heard recently. Really well worth checking out. I > love what Phoebe Snow does at the beginning, and I love > when Jim produces other people's work.) > The Sisters of Mercy: Vision Thing (Jim co-writes and > produces More from this album.) > Iron Prostate: Bring me the head of Jerry Garcia (A demo > that Jim produced in the early 90s. I think the BG vocals > are members of the London production of "Cats".) > Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell > The Shadow: Soundtrack (Jim writes and produces the theme > song "Original sin", a cover version of his song from > Pandora's Box but with some different lyrics.) > Watershed: Twister (Jim executive produces) > Meat Loaf: Welcome to the neighbourhood (Meat records two > older Jim songs, Original sin and Left in the dark. Nice > versions. Can't help but wonder what they would have been > like though if Jim had produced, but it goes in that > direction because of several Jim associates being involved > with the songs.) > Bonnie Tyler: Free Spirit (Jim produces two of his older > songs, Making love out of nothing at all, which is > absolutely spectacular here and should have been Bonnie's > I'd do anything for love IMO, and Two out of three ain't > bad, which is... pretty amusing, haha.) > Take That: Greatest Hits (Jim produces the remix of Never > forget. Jim takes a boyband song and turns it into > something like the movie Gladiator.) > Celine Dion: Falling into you (Jim produces three songs > here, including his own song It's all coming back to me > now from Pandora's Box, which becomes an enormous hit) > Celine Dion: Let's talk about us (Additional production on > the song Us. Jim wrote a song for this album, with lyrics > by Don Black, which never made it to the final version. A > recording is floating around out there.) > Anastasia: Soundtrack (Jim produces the villain song In > the dark of the night, working with legendary voice over > actor Jim Cummings and a cast of thousands, haha.) > Tanz der Vampire: Original cast Highlights & Complete (Jim > produces a lavish double CD album of the musical he > composed in the 90s directed by Roman Polanski) > The Mask of Zorro: Soundtrack (Jim produces I want to > spend my lifetime loving you, written by James Horner and > Will Jennings who had just had a massive hit with My heart > will go on from the movie Titanic. Jim works with singer > Tina Arena again on Whistle down the wind.) > Songs from Whistle down the wind: Various artists (Jim > writes lyrics for this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical which > opened originally in Washington D.C. and then London in > the mid to late 90s. This particular album spawns the > massive Boyzone hit No matter what. Meat Loaf and Bonnie > Tyler's version of A kiss is a terrible thing to waste > also comes from this album) > The Very Best of Meat Loaf (The last collaboration of Meat > and Jim in the studio together. This album contains three > new songs, co-written and produced/co-produced by Jim. Is > nothing sacred, the song dropped from Celine's album, is > recorded here by Meat Loaf and then later released as a > single by Meat with Patti Russo.) > Whistle down the wind: Original cast (Double album of more > or less the entire original London production. Jim however > I believe did not produce this album.) > Opera Babes: Beyond imagination (Jim produces a song > called Vittoria! drawn from Verdi's opera Aida. Well worth > listening to if you're an opera/Jim fan.) > Wuthering Heights: Soundtrack EP (Jim produces this whole > EP and contributes four of the songs, including the new > song If it ain't broke (Break it). Wuthering Heights was a > TV movie Jim executive produced for MTV.) > The Confidence Man: Various artists (A recording of all of > the main songs from Jim's musical with Ray Fox, The > Confidence Man, which was originally to be performed at > the New York Shakespeare Festival. "Steinman does > bluegrass!" I've always been a big fan of this. You still > have your great "epic" Steinman moments though. "Something > of this masquerade may follow" is tremendous.) > The Everly Brothers: The Mercury Studio Recordings (Jim > wrote and produced A kiss is a terrible thing to waste, > which Everly Brothers recorded in the 80s but never > released. Here, these songs were finally released. This is > a great "lost" Steinman song.) > Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose > (Sadly, not a full Meat and Jim collaboration like the > last two albums. I guess I'll always wonder what such an > album would have been like. Most of the songs are covers > of older Jim songs. In the land of the pig and Cry to > heaven are the "new" songs but drawn from unproduced > projects. Worth checking out if you're curious.) > > Musicals > > The Dream Engine (Book, music and lyrics, produced at > Amherst College in 1969. Jim also plays the role Baal. > Steinmania has the full show up on his page. Transcript is > available on this site) > More than you deserve (Music and co-lyrics, produced at > New York Shakespeare Festival 1973. There are several > tapes floating out there, all worth checking out. The > workshop recording that recently came to light revealed > another "unheard" Steinman song, Orphan river.) > Kid champion (Music and co-lyrics, a play by Thomas Babe > produced at New York Shakespeare Festival 1975 starring > Christopher Walken! One of the songs Jim wrote was none > other than For crying out loud from Bat out of Hell.) > Rhinegold (Music and co-book, a musical written with Barry > Keating based on the first opera from Wagner's Ring Cycle, > Das Rheingold, produced several times in NYC) > The Confidence Man (Music, see above.) > Neverland (Music, book and lyrics, workshop in Washington > D.C. Jim's career long "opus", a futuristic version of > J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. Includes three Bat songs, All > revved up, Bat out of Hell and Heaven can wait, also the > music from Bolero from the original Bat tour.) > Whistle down the wind (See above) > Tanz der Vampire (See above) > Garbo (Jim co-wrote the score for this musical that was > produced in Sweden in 2002. Several really awesome moments > here) > Dance of the Vampires (The Broadway version of Tanz der > Vampire, one of the biggest flops in American musical > history. The show was basically ruined from the original > Austrian/German versions. Also marked the first appearance > from Michael Crawford on a Broadway stage since his > legendary performance in The Phantom of the Opera). > > Upcoming: > Bat out of Hell > Nutz > > Other Steinman stage work: > A man's a man (His first score for a play, a play by > Bertolt Brecht) > Baal (Jim wrote the score for this production of what was > Brecht's very first play) > Ubu (A score for a puppet version of the Alfred Jarry play > Ubu on the hill. A soundtrack was recorded, for use in the > play, but never released. Permission would have to be > secured from several parties in order for these tapes to > be released. One wonders what the musical content is...) > The good woman of Setzuan (Another Brecht score) > > And more > > > > Can someone please point me toward's Jim's music? > > > > I know and love: > > - Meat Loaf (BOH 1-3, Bad For Good, Dead Ringer etc. > > - Bad For Good > > - Pandora's Box > > - Bonnie Tyler > > - Celine Dion > > - Air Supply > > - Tanz > > > > Anything else? Thanks! > > > > | |
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