Welcome back to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart history from Slate magazine.

About the hits from Coast to Coast.

I'm Chris Malanfi, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of

Slates, Why Is This Song Number One series?

On our last episode, we talked about how Jim Steinman found his muse in the singer Meatloaf, and together

they produced the blockbuster album, Bat Out of Hell. But by the 80s, Steinman and Meat Loaf were on the outs.

Justice Steinman was about to write some of the biggest songs of his career. When it's over, soly say it'll rain a sun a day.

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During his first decade, Jim Steinman had worked with a range of people in the theater world. But in the pop world, his main claim to fame was still Meatloaf.

It was only in the early 80s as Jim and Meat became professionally estranged

that Steinman began working with a wider array of pop collaborators.

One of them would be the vehicle for his most enduring song, but she had already had hits of her own years before she met Jim Stein. in love.

Donnie Tyler, born in Skuen, Wales, Donnie Tyler, born in Scuven, Wales, began recording in London in 1976, and by the end of that year, she had her first British top 10 hit.

The Poppy Ababe-esque, lost in France, reached number nine in the UK.

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