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Stoney and Meatloaf

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Released
  
October 1971

Length
  
34:54

Artist
  
Stoney & Meatloaf

Label
  
Rare Earth

Recorded
  
1971

Stoney & Meatloaf (1971)
  
Bat Out of Hell (1977)

Release date
  
October 1971

Genre
  
Soul music

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Producer
  
Ralph Terrana, Russ Terrana, Mike Valvano

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Stoney and Meatloaf is the little-known debut album of singer Meat Loaf, released in 1971 on the Motown subsidiary label Rare Earth, a collaboration with female vocalist Shaun Murphy. Meat Loaf and Murphy met while performing with the Detroit cast of Hair.

Contents

1971 original release

Producers: Ralph Terrana, Russ Terrana, Mike Valvano
Arrangers: Tom Baird and David Van De Pitte

1978/1979 re-release Meat Loaf featuring Stoney and Meatloaf

  • Producers: Ralph Terrana, Russ Terrana, Mike Valvano
  • Producers on "Who Is the Leader of the People?": Nick Zesses and Dino Fekaris
  • Arrangers: Tom Baird and David Van De Pitte
  • Remixed and remastered at Motown Recording Studios, Hollywood, California
  • Remix engineer: Glen Jordan
  • Mastering engineer: Jack Andrews

    • Personnel

  • Lead vocals: Meat Loaf, Stoney Murphy
  • Backing vocals: Mike Campbell, Telma Hopkins, Joyce Vincent
  • Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers, Scorpion (Bob Babbitt, Mike Campbell, Ray Monette and Andrew Smith) and Ralph Terrana
  • Instrumentation on "Game of Love" and "Jimmy Bell": Charlie Irwin, Richard Ponte, Jim Simmons and Scott Strong

    • Singles

  • "What You See Is What You Get" (b/w "Lady Be Mine" [Edit])
  • "It Takes All Kinds of People" (b/w "The Way You Do the Things You Do")

    • Re-releases

    The album was re-released several times with a different track listing under the title Featuring Stoney and Meat Loaf. Firstly in 1978 and 1979 on the Prodigal label (PDL 2010) and again in 1986 on Tamla Motown (ZL 72217). The album contained most (but not all) of the tracks on the original album. In addition to three new tracks, some songs appear in different versions and in some cases, different song titles.

    Songs

    1(I'd Love to Be) As Heavy as Jesus2:54
    2She Waits by the Window4:07
    3It Takes All Kinds of People2:23

    References

    Stoney & Meatloaf Wikipedia
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