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Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

Turn Around, Bright Eyes, Part 2

Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

Slate Podcasts

Music History,, Music

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Hit Parade is back for non-Slate Plus listeners! Upcoming episodes will be split into two parts, released two weeks apart. For the full episode right now, sign up for Slate Plus and you'll also get The Bridge, our Trivia show and bonus deep dive into our subjects. slate.com/hitparadeplus. In part 2 of our episode on Meatloaf maestro Jim Steinman: Chris Molanphy continues the story of how Steinman moved on from Meatloaf to emerge as a hitmaker for other artists like Bonnie Tyler with "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and Celine Dion with “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”. At the height of his power, he had more credits in the top 40 than Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:09.6

About the hits from Coast to Coast.

0:11.9

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

0:15.8

Slates, Why Is This Song Number One series?

0:19.0

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

0:26.9

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

0:34.4

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

0:44.0

It'll rain the sun and day.

0:47.0

All right, I'm Jack Grealish.

0:52.0

I think you can listen to music from relaxing to

0:55.8

celebrating to getting yourself prepared. I like all sorts honestly I like hip-hop-ar and

1:01.5

beer and then house music as well so yeah there's no

1:04.2

guilty features around yeah.

1:05.6

Jack wears the bows quiet comfort ultra headphones enjoying his favorite music

1:10.7

with more immersive sound than ever before.

1:13.6

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