Stoney & Meatloaf

Stoney & Meatloaf
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Studio album by Stoney & Meatloaf
Released	October 1971
Recorded	1971
Genre	Soul music
Length	34:54
Label	Rare Earth
Producer	Ralph Terrana, Russ Terrana, Mike Valvano
Meat Loaf chronology
- Stoney & Meatloaf (1971) Bat Out of Hell (1977)
Shaun Murphy chronology
- Stoney & Meatloaf (1971) Livin' the Blues (2009)

Featuring Stoney & Meatloaf
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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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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"	Jerome/Valvano	2:23
4.	"Game of Love"	Ike Turner	3:50
5.	"Kiss Me Again"	Campbell/Monette	5:08

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

Producers: Ralph Terrana, Russ Terrana, Mike Valvano
Arrangers: Tom Baird and David Van DePitte

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 DePitte
• 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.