Stoney & Meatloaf

Featuring Stoney & Meatloaf

Studio album by Stoney & Meatloaf
Released	October 1978
Recorded	1971
Genre	Soul music
Length	38:44
Label	Prodigal Records
Producer	Ralph Terrana, Russ Terrana, Mike Valvano, Nick Zesses, Dino Fekaris

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Allmusic	^[1]

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.

Track listing

1971 original release

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"(I'd Love to Be) As Heavy as Jesus"	Patti Jerome, Ralph Terrana, Mike Valvano	2:54
2.	"She Waits by the Window"	Mike Campbell, Ray Monette	4:07
3.	"It Takes All Kinds of People"	Patti Jerome, Mike Valvano	2:23
4.	"Game of Love"	Ike Turner	3:50
5.	"Kiss Me Again"	Mike Campbell, Ray Monette	5:08

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"What You See is What You Get"	Patti Jerome, Mike Valvano	2:15
7.	"Sunshine (Where's Heaven?)"	Ralph Terrana, Mike Valvano	3:02
8.	"Jimmy Bell"	Traditional	3:48
9.	"Lady Be Mine"	Mike Campbell, Ray Monette	4:44
10.	"Jessica White"	Mike Campbell, Ray Monette	2:43

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

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Jimmy Bell"	Traditional	5:14
2.	"She Waits by the Window"	Mike Campbell, Ray Monette	4:07
3.	"It Takes All Kinds of People"	Patti Jerome, Mike Valvano	2:23
4.	"Stone Heart"	Campbell, Monette	2:57
5.	"Who Is the Leader of the People?"	Dino Fekaris, Nick Zesses	4:15

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"What You See is What You Get"	Jerome, Valvano	2:15
7.	"Kiss Me Again"	Campbell, Monette	4:14
8.	"Sunshine (Where's Heaven?)"	Terrana, Valvano	3:02
9.	"Jessica White"	Campbell, Monette	2:43
10.	"Lady Be Mine"	Campbell/Monette	4:44
11.	"Everything Under the Sun"	Campbell, Monette	2:43

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.

Charts

Chart (1979)	Peak position
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)^[2]	25

References

↑ Stoney & Meatloaf at AllMusic
↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Meat Loaf – Featuring Stoney and Meat Loaf" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved October 1, 2016.

Meat Loaf

Studio albums	Stoney & Meatloaf (1971) Bat Out of Hell (1977) Dead Ringer (1981) Midnight at the Lost and Found (1983) Bad Attitude (1984) Blind Before I Stop (1986) Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell (1993) Welcome to the Neighbourhood (1995) Couldn't Have Said It Better (2003) Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose (2006) Hang Cool Teddy Bear (2010) Hell in a Handbasket (2011) Braver Than We Are (2016)

Live albums	Live at Wembley (1987) Live Around the World (1996) VH1: Storytellers (1999) Bat Out of Hell: Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (2004) 3 Bats Live (2008)

Compilations	Hits Out of Hell (1984) The Big Ones (1984) Heaven & Hell (1989) Paradise by the Dashboardlight (The Very Best of) (1991) Back From Hell! The Very Best of Meat Loaf (1993) Back From Hell Again! – The Very Best of Meat Loaf Vol. 2 (1994) Alive In Hell (1994) Heaven Can Wait – The Best Ballads of Meat Loaf Vol. 1 (1996) The Very Best of Meat Loaf (1998) Piece of the Action: The Best of Meat Loaf (2009)

Videography	Live Hits Out of Hell Bad Attitude – Live! Bat Out of Hell II: Picture Show VH1: Storytellers To Hell and Back Bat Out of Hell: Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 3 Bats Live Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise

Tours	Bat Out of Hell (1977–78) Dead Ringer (1981) Meat Loaf & The Neverland Express Euro '82 (1982) World Tour / Monsters of Rock (1983) Bad Attitude (1984–85) 20/20 (1986–87) Lost Boys & Golden Girls / Bat Out of Hell 10th Anniversary (1988–89) Everything Louder (1993–95) Born to Rock (1996) The Very Best of... (1999) Storytellers (1999–2000) Night of the Proms (2001) Just Having Fun... (2002) Couldn't Have Said It Better (2003–04) The Hair of the Dog (2005) Seize the Night / The Three Bats (2006–07) Casa de Carne (2008) Hang Cool (2010–11) Guilty Pleasure (2011) Mad, Mad World (2012) Last at Bat (2013) In Concert (2015-16)

Singles	"What You See Is What You Get" "It Takes All Kinds of People" "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" (w/ Ellen Foley) "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" "All Revved Up with No Place to Go" "Bat Out of Hell" "I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us" "Dead Ringer for Love" (w/ Cher) "Read 'Em and Weep" "Peel Out" "In Europe '82" "If You Really Want To" "Razor's Edge" "Midnight at the Lost and Found" "Modern Girl" "Nowhere Fast" "Surf's Up" "Sailor to a Siren" "Piece of the Action" "Rock 'n' Roll Mercenaries" (w/ John Parr) "Getting Away with Murder" "Blind Before I Stop" "Special Girl" "A Time for Heroes" (w/ Brian May) "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" (w/ Lorraine Crosby) "Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back" "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are" "I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)" (w/ Patti Russo) "Not a Dry Eye in the House" "Runnin' for the Red Light (I Gotta Life)" "A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste" (w/ Bonnie Tyler) "No Matter What" "Is Nothing Sacred" (w/ Patti Russo) "Did I Say That?" "Couldn't Have Said It Better" (w/ Patti Russo) "Man of Steel" "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (w/ Marion Raven) "Blind as a Bat" "Cry Over Me" "Los Angeloser" "Peace on Earth" "If I Can't Have You" "Stand in the Storm" "All of Me" "The Giving Tree" "Going All The Way Is Just the Start" "Speaking In Tongues"

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