The two beautiful women with huge voices that contributed to making 'Bat Out of Hell" what it is, a rock masterpiece! Great to see them looking fantastic and singing together.
Exactly. P.S.By the way, Karla still looks like portrait ladies, as if one of them could take off her flowered hat, set her hair free and dress in modern clothes♡
I am in my 60's and am brand new to Ellen Foley's history and work. Found her while researching the backup singers in Meat Loafs life. Its really an amazing life story that Ellen has and have enjoyed seeing some of the older videos and interviews. Working through the new album Fighting Words currently. Thats one thing I have noticed in elderly artists, the voice really hangs in there which is good for us aging music lovers. Keep on rockin Ms. Foley!
If you've not listened to the Nightout album, you need to listen. That is one of those things in the music business I do not understand. There are at least two hits on that album and I've never heard any of them on the radio. Her voice holds up
Wow! It's hard to believe that so much time has passed, and you BOTH give a stunning performance, like it's only been 4 minutes and not 40 years! Love the music and your performance of it!
She said her name came from her parents love of music who something about her mum telling dad at the opera that she was pregnant. Hence the name Lyric.
Today is January 27th, 2022 and the world is falling apart day by day. With the passing of Jim Steinman and now Meat Loaf, it feels like the past is fading fast. Thank you for joining together and recording this song. I still have hope that Karla's second album (around '82-'83) for CBS will finally be released. Some sing to remember and some dance to forget. Glad to see you both doing well.
I'm not aware of a "lost" Karla DeVito album between "Is This a Cool World or What?" (1981) and her 2nd album "Wake 'Em Up In Tokyo" which was released in 1986. In case you mean "Wake 'Em Up..." you can find all the songs from that album in my Karla DeVito playlist (ru-vid.com/group/PLjf0y8aSGoFOKFH5pck2oxPe5cBS3AUy3) starting at tracks #36.
@@chijanofuji Karla recorded her wonderful debut album "ITACWOW?" which was released in 1981. A second followup album for CBS was shelved. She recorded a third album, this time for A&M records, called "WEUIT". So, somewhere out there is a long lost, perhaps vaulted perhaps not, Karla album dying to be released......
@@supachaloopa3611 Wow, thanks for the info! Has anyone asked Karla recently if she knows the current status and/or whereabouts of these recordings? Surely whoever owns them (if they still exist) must see the value of releasing that material sooner rather than later.
@@chijanofuji All I know is the following, which may or may not be clues to anything. This is just thoughts I have about that period. Meat Loaf, who was so lucky to tour for almost 3 straight years with the BAT OUT OF HELL album (because it refused to die down and kept jumping up in popularity the more he toured foreign countries), well I believe Karla stayed with the tour the whole time- I could be wrong. But when all was said and done, Meat Loaf could not record another album due to exhaustion and vocal problems, etc. Well, in 1980 Jim Steinman was growing tired of waiting on Meat Loaf to "heal" and went ahead and recorded BAD FOR GOOD himself. Karla appears on the album for the duet DANCE IN MY PANTS (the video is somewhere here on youtube). Then Karla recorded her wonderful debut album IS THIS A COOL WORLD OR WHAT? which included her version of Meat Loaf's HEAVEN CAN WAIT. The same time that album was released, a seperate 12" vinyl promo record was released to radio stations- it was called INTERCHORDS and it was an approximately 43min interview with Karla with 6 album cuts. Odd thing though- when her debut album was released onto CD in 1996 a new interview with her husband Robby Benson was used as a bonus track running about 29min. I'm guessing they didn't want to include INTERCHORDS and make it a 2CD set. Jim Steinman's debut BAD FOR GOOD also came out in 1981. Okay, so I'm sure you know all that. Seems a little sketchy that all of a sudden Meat Loaf was able to record a full album of more of Jim's songs and get it released also in 1981. I'm guessing pressure from CBS was the reason. Karla DeVito then began recording her 2nd solo album for CBS around 1982-1983 same time Meat Loaf was recording his 3rd solo album- here is where I believe things got screwed up for both of them- Jim Steinman's fees for recording his songs jumped considerably (major record companies were now seeking his songs for helping their artists get a hit (Air Supply, Barry Manilow, Barbra Streisand, etc.) and CBS refused to pay it for the songs intended for Meat Loaf's 3rd album, so Meat Loaf had to go start all over and find "similar" songwriters to record his 3rd album, which ended up being called MIDNIGHT AT THE LOST AND FOUND and released in 1983. So I am guessing that may very well have had to do something with Karla not being able to release her 2nd album at that same time- perhaps she too was trying to record more Steinman songs and negotiations didn't go well and maybe she ended up recording second rate material and the company just said screw it and shelved it, I don't know. Also at that time after 1980 record companies were letting go of acts that didn't show a history of strong sells, and they also began developing divisions- Columbia/CBS changed a division to CBS Masterworks for "special acts" they planned on keeping, etc., anyway, in the shuffle she may have got the boot, which is a more believable story. Interestingly, Meat Loaf continued to fight to get Steinman songs for his 4th solo album BAD ATTITUDE but could only get two songs- and one had already been used on Steinman's BAD FOR GOOD album. That previous album, MIDNIGHT, really had bad sales so he knew he had to get back to where he started. Too much info, I know. Okay, so on that 1996 re-release on CD for Karla's COOL WORLD, the bonus track is an interview in which Karla and Robby discuss Robby going to A&M records to see Herb Alpert about getting Karla a record deal, which they did and she released the official 2nd solo album WAKE 'EM UP IN TOKYO in 1986. Just an interesting note: on the song LOVE I CAN TASTE (by Karla and Robby), there's a line that goes- "A kiss is a terrible thing to waste, give me a love that I can taste"- in that same year, 1986 Jim Steinman and Andrew Lloyd Webber released their collaboration WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND musical, in which there is a song called A KISS IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE. Just thought it was kind of a nod to Jim. Maybe not. A lot of people don't know she auditioned for EVITA (one of many actresses) but lost it to movie-killer Madonna. Just think what could have been for Karla had she got that role. It's not too late for her to do a complete EVITA tribute album, as I would love to her her versions of those songs.
@@supachaloopa3611 OK, well as you suspected I already knew everything in the 1st part of your reply. The 2nd part is very interesting and while most of it contains too much speculation and not enough hard facts, I at least agree with you that everything you say could theoretically have happened just as you describe it. It was certainly unusual that large numbers of Jim Steinman songs were released in the short period 1981 through 1984 (on "Bad for Good" and "Dead Ringer" and then the Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply, Barry Manilow and "Streets of Fire" releases), eclipsing his output from any other period. Steinman wasn't normally that productive unless put under pressure, so there could have been a lost album in there somewhere, and it could have been a Karla DeVito album. But surely Karla and/or Robby would have said more about this by now than merely hinting at it once in the lyrics of a song? I suggest someone should outright ask Karla about this. If it's true she may be willing to say so now that both Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf are no longer with us...
The high heels and the wild hair. The chook shed and the room full of books. How lucky we are to be here. Your words have more meaning today, than they did yesterday. Thank-you ladies :) A toast. To the soundtrack of our lives.
I wonder why they overdubbed Karla in Paradise. Not that Ellen isn't also incredible. But this was great. Would love to see a colab with the irreplaceable Patti too.
If I'm not mistaken, it wasn't that they overdubbed Karla. The voice was always Ellen, but she couldn't/didn't do the video, so Karla provided the visuals and then actually sang with Meat on the tour and in live TV performances.
Nice one ladies! Does the job - hits the spot in these uncertain times! Also, and forgive me if this is a bit politically incorrect, but I suspect that there's a certain Mr Steinman looking down from wherever. He's listening to this, nodding his head gently and thinking "Yup..."
Wonderful and joyful song. I was really feeling blue and listening to this really lifted my spirits. You are both such wonderful singers and I'm so glad you recorded together.
Congratulations! Two exceptional ladies happily parodying themselves as older yet still charming women of talent. You both have a sense of humor - bold enough to shout 'who cares!' In a world where people are so sensitive and take themselves so seriously, you have the grace and style to have a good laugh at yourself. You are an inspiration. Fabulous outfits by the way!
Wow Ellen. Thanks so much for uploading this. Looks like you're having a ball! Have to let you know Night Out is one of my favourite albums and you have one of my favourite voices. I try and let anyone and everyone know about the album. If they ask who you are, you are not that lady on Bat Out Of Hell, you are the incredibly talented lady who made a sensational album that still sounds great. Keep on rockin!
❤The two ladies are so sweet and it's so great to see and hear them together...the song is fantastic❣ I grew up with Meat Loaf and mourned his death a lot...and I still listen to Bat Out Of Hell today and still love the album...
It has never left me. I think about her all the time. My birthday is the 22nd April..it was around then. We had gone to this posh restaurant Named after one of the 3 kings.
i never realized Ellen was the one who played on Night Court....or that it was her singing with the late Great MEATLOAF on Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Não sabia que a Ellen era quem cantava Paradise. 😁 Além de descobrir isso também descobri sua versão perfeita de What's Matter Baby. Virei fã. Linda e voz maravilhosa
She also sang Heaven Can Wait first. So actually it was Meatloaf covering Ellen's song, and not the other way around, although many people prefer Meatloafs version, which Ellen and Karla assisted on. 😁👍🍺
Around 1980 I went see Karla perform in, I believe, Long Island, New York. Live, her voice was tremendous and she was very vivacious. The next year she released her first solo album, *Is This a Cool World or What?* which was interesting, but the production value didn't seem up to par and her voice didn't sound nearly as good in that studio recording as it did when I saw her live.
Two of my favourite female singers in the 80th together.... I just thought I dream when I saw this video. So great to here you both together and see you again. Of course I looked after Meatloafs dead to his old songs, but it was so fast to come back to you. "Paradise by the dashboard light" was and is the "love story" what was ever released in a rocksong. Not better singers like Ellen and Carla. From both of you I still have a LP too, because you made also your own great music. So you made my today this Tuesday. Best regards from Germany and "rock on".
