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“Home By Now/No Matter What” by Meat Loaf
The greatest hits collection The Very Best of Meat Loaf (which is seemingly the same collection that appears now as The Essential Meat Loaf–I don’t know why the name change has occurred) included three newly-recorded tracks written or co-written by Jim Steinman, all of which were produced by Steinman and co-produced by Steven Rinkoff. In…
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“Songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s ‘Whistle Down the Wind’”
Before the cast album even got released, an album of songs from the musical recorded by non-cast artists arrived. I had never known that this release existed until a few weeks ago, which may actually be good since I think I would never have listened to the full musical, but it is worth talking about…
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“Whistle Down the Wind”
As with the Tanz der Vampire post, we are in stage musical territory and so I am a bit out of my element for talking about some of this work. However, unlike Tanz der Vampire, at least this one is in the language I know! I have also never seen a performance of this show,…
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