Bat Out of Hell (album)

Bat Out of Hell is an album from 1977 of singer Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday). It was his second album.

Contents

 * 1 Production
 * 2 Success
 * 3 Title
 * 4 Continue
 * 5 Tracks
 * 5.1 Side A
 * 5.2 Side Two
 * Occupancy 6

Production
The album contains music from a bombastic and Wagnerian style. When Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf this album to record labels for wearing they encountered much difficulty finding someone willing to produce it. Guitarist Todd Rundgren heard this and he immediately decided he wanted to produce the album. Rundgren first asked a tidy $ 45,000 for producing albums but this fell through because it was too high for this project. He agreed to a percentage of the proceeds, which he still made a small fortune with it. It was decided to include in the album as a whole and not each number separately. It took some effort to find a label and eventually became the Cleveland International Records.

The cover of this album is in the name of Jim Steinman and illustrated by Richard Corben . The album is dedicated to Wesley and Wilma Aday (Meat Loafs parents) and Louis Steinman.

[Success edit ]
The album was not an immediate hit; it had to grow. Each year sold about 200,000 copies of Bat Out of Hell and are sold worldwide approximately 40 million copies. Only in America that 16 million and more than 1.5 million albums in Australia (even after the recount of the lists in November 2006, stood at number 41 on the Australian Recording Industry Association). This it the best selling album of all time. It was 474 weeks in theUK charts, just behind Fleetwood Mac's Rumours that there was 478 weeks. The list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time magazine Rolling Stone, the album was in 2003 at the 343ste place. It is also one of only two albums never the English top 200 chart is collected and is the longest recorded in the world.

Title [ edit ]
The phrase "Bat out of Hell" is not created by the album or the song; it may be derived from the Greek play The Birds of Aristophanes, who around 414 BC wrote. It was assumed that this process was already a first reference to a bat out of Hell:

Continued [ edit ]
In 1993 there was a sequel to this album Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell (with a cover of Michael Whelan who was inspired by the first cover), at which the hit single " I'd Do Anything for Love (but I Will not Do That)"state. The second sequel, Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, came out in October 2006.

A side [ edit ]

 * 1) " Bat Out of Hell "- 9:48
 * 2) "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)" - 5:04
 * 3) "Heaven Can Wait" - 4:38
 * 4) "All Reved Up with No Place to Go" - 4:19

Two side [ edit ]

 * 1) "Two Out of Three Is not Bad" - 5:23
 * 2) " Paradise by the Dashboard Light "- 8:28
 * 3) * "Paradise"
 * 4) * "Let Me Sleep on It"
 * 5) * "Praying for the End of Time"
 * 6) "For Crying Out Loud" - 8:45
 * Music, text and narration - Jim Steinman
 * Arrangements: Ken Ascher, Roy Bittan, Steven Margoshes, Todd Rundgren, Jim Steinman

The album is available in different sizes and reissues. For example, the edition for the 25th anniversary of the following: "Great boleros of Fire" (live intro), "Bat Out of Hell" (live) and "Dead Ringer for Love", the DVD"Hits Out of Hell" and an edition of "Bat Out of Hell: Revamped" in which the song "Dead Ringer for Love" state.

Occupation [ edit ]

 * Meat Loaf - vocals, backing vocals, percussion
 * Todd Rundgren - guitar, percussion, keyboards , backing vocals
 * Kasim Sulton - bass, vocals
 * Roy Bittan - piano, keyboards
 * Steve Margoshes - piano in "For Crying Out Loud"
 * Cheryl Hardwick - piano in "For Crying Out Loud"
 * Jim Steinman - keyboards, percussion, "lustful sounds" Hot Summer Night
 * Roger Powell - synthesizer
 * John Wilcox - drums
 * Max Weinberg - drums
 * Edgar Winter - saxophone
 * Ellen Foley - vocals
 * Rory Dodd - vocals
 * Marcia McClain - Hot Summer Night
 * Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto, voice of the New York Yankees - Paradise
 * Gene Orloff - concertmaster ( New York Philharmonic , Philadelphia Orchestra )