Stoney & Meatloaf

Stoney & Meatloaf
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
Livin' the Blues (2009)

Featuring Stoney & Meatloaf
Studio album by Stoney & Meatloaf
Released	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"	Patti Jerome / Mike Valvano	2:23
4.	"Game of Love"	Eki Renrut	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"	Trad.	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 DePitte

1978/1979 re-release Meat Loaf featuring Stoney and Meatloaf

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Jimmy Bell"	Trad.	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"	Mike Campbell / Ray 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"	Patti Jerome / Mike Valvano	2:15
7.	"Kiss Me Again"	Mike Campbell / Ray Monette	4:14
8.	"Sunshine (Where's Heaven?)"	Ralph Terrana / Mike Valvano	3:02
9.	"Jessica White"	Mike Campbell / Ray Monette	2:43
10.	"Lady Be Mine"	Mike Campbell / Ray Monette	4:44
11.	"Everything Under the Sun"	Mike Campbell / Ray Monette	2:43

Producers: Ralph Terrana, Russ Terrana, Mike Valvano
Producers "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
Re-mix 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

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.