Stoney & Meatloaf rare '71 1st press LP on Motown Rare Earth mint- SOUL ROCK

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Band/Record: Stoney & Meatloaf - Stoney & Meatloaf

Label/Matrix: US 1971 Rare Earth R 528L with 1B/1B ,,1st press'

Condition Record/Sleeve: Mint-/VG+ 

Extra Info: Fantastic Album !! Original US 1st press LP on Rare Earth ..wow .. minty dream audio ... VERY RARE !!

~~ The actor and singer known as Meat Loaf (who began life as Marvin Aday in 1947) will always be best known for his 1977 album Bat Out Of Hell, a melodramatic mixture of Springsteen and Spector stylings which incredibly became one of the best-selling albums of all time. Another major claim to fame for Meat Loaf is his bit part in the 1975 cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show. But few people are aware of an album which Meat Loaf recorded in 1971, years before he worked with Jim Steinman or Jim Sharman. At that time, the big guy was one-half of a duo called Stoney and Meatloaf (Meat's name was then spelled without a space). Stoney was the stage name for a singer/actress named Shaun Murphy. The two of them were discovered while co-starring in a Detroit production of the hippie musical Hair. Stoney and Meatloaf parted ways after their album failed commercially. Although Murphy never achieved anything close to the level of fame that Meat Loaf has, she did continue to work in the business as a back-up singer for Bob Seger and Eric Clapton, and eventually became a full-time lead singer for Little Feat.

The original 1971 issue of the self-titled album Stoney and Meatloaf was released on a label called Rare Earth, a subsidiary of Motown. It mainly consists of blue-eyed soul duets, with hints of gospel ("(I'd Love To Be) As Heavy As Jesus") and blues ("Lady Be Mine"). Many of the songs have a showtunes feel, which is not surprising considering the job which the two singers previously held. The songs were mostly written by Motown employees; strings and horns often figure prominently. Both of the singers have impressive pipes. Murphy's voice has a slightly gritty soulfulness. Meat Loaf sounds a bit hammy at times, but not nearly as much as he did on his later, better-known work. The pair had good chemistry; it's particularly impressive to hear both of them display their vocal abilities on "She Waits By The Window" and "What You See Is What You Get". But two of the album's high points are the songs that each singer sang without the other. Stoney confidently struts through Ike and Tina Turner's "Game of Love", and Meat sounds unusually earthy and hard-hitting on his cover of the Cat Iron blues song "Jimmy Bell". Stoney and Meatloaf is a professionally entertaining album from two stage-trained entertainers.

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