Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell - Rare Promo LP - Excellent Condition Jim Steinman

$

50

I'm selling my personal collection in preparation for moving.  I do not ship internationally or to Alaska, Hawaii, US Protectorates or APO/FPO addresses.

Bat Out of Hell is the 1977 debut album by American rock singer Meat Loaf and composer Jim Steinman. It was developed from a musical, Neverland, a futuristic rock version of Peter Pan, which Steinman wrote for a workshop in 1974. The album was recorded during 1975–1976 at various studios, including Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York, produced by Todd Rundgren, and released in October 1977 by Cleveland International/Epic Records. Its musical style is influenced by Steinman's appreciation of Richard Wagner, Phil Spector, Bruce Springsteen and The Who. Bat Out of Hell has spawned two Meat Loaf sequel albums: Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose.

Bat Out of Hell is one of the best-selling albums of all time, having sold over 43 million copies worldwide.[4] It is certified 14x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[5] It is the best-selling album in Australia.[6] As of June 2019, it has spent 522 weeks in the UK Albums Chart, the second longest chart run by a studio album.[7] Rolling Stone ranked it at number 343 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Stephen Erlewine in AllMusic writes that "this is Grand Guignol pop—epic, gothic, operatic, and silly, and it's appealing because of all of this." He thinks that Steinman is "a composer without peer, simply because nobody else wanted to make mini-epics like this." Rundgren's production is applauded, as is the wit in the music and lyrics. "It may elevate adolescent passion to operatic dimensions, and that's certainly silly, but it's hard not to marvel at the skill behind this grandly silly, irresistible album."

In 1989, Kerrang! magazine listed the album at number 38 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time". In 2000 it was voted number 121 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. The album was ranked number 343 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2005, Bat Out of Hell was ranked number 301 in Rock Hard magazine's book of "The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time". In 2006, it was voted number nine in a poll conducted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to discover Australia's most popular album. In November 2007, Meat Loaf was awarded the Classic Album award in Classic Rock's Classic Rock Roll of Honour. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

The album continues to sell about 200,000 copies per year and has sold an estimated 34-40 million copies worldwide, including 14 million in the United States and over 1.7 million albums in Australia, where it is the country's highest-selling album as of 2016, being certified 25× platinum.[64][65] The album has stayed on the UK album chart for 522 weeks, making it the UK's third longest charting studio album behind Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jim Steinman.

• I. "Paradise"
• II. "Let Me Sleep on It"
• III. "Praying for the End of Time"

Personnel

Arrangements

• Kenneth Ascher – string arrangements (3, 5)
• Steve Margoshes – orchestra arrangement (7)

Band

• Meat Loaf – lead vocals, backing vocals (6), percussion (2)
• Todd Rundgren – guitar (1, 2, 4–6), percussion (1, 2), keyboards (1), backing vocals (1–3, 5, 6)
• Kasim Sulton (misspelled as "Sultan" in vinyl liner notes) – bass guitar (1, 2, 4–7), backing vocals (1)
• Roy Bittan – piano, keyboards (all except 7)
• Steve Margoshes – piano (7)
• Cheryl Hardwick – piano (7)
• Jim Steinman – keyboards (1, 2, 6), percussion (1, 2), spoken word (2), "lascivious effects" (6)
• Roger Powell – synthesizer (1, 2, 5, 6)
• Edgar Winter – saxophone (2, 4, 6)
• Max Weinberg – drums (1, 2, 6)
• John "Willie" Wilcox – drums (4, 5, 7)
• Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto – play-by-play (6)
• Ellen Foley – lead vocals (6), backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 6)
• Rory Dodd – backing vocals (all except 4)
• Gene Orloff – concert master (7)
• Marcia McClain – spoken word (2)
• Members of New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra – orchestra (7)

• Bearsville (Woodstock, New York)
• Utopia Sound (Lake Hill, New York)
• The Hit Factory (New York City)
• House of Music (West Orange, New Jersey)

• Hard rock[1]
• pop[1]
• progressive rock[1]

• Cleveland International
• Epic