Meat Loaf

:This article is about the singer. See meatloaf for the article about the meat dish.

Hair

After the break up of Floating Circus, Meat Loaf had several odd jobs, including being a body guard for Question Mark. Having no steady work, Meat Loaf decided to get a job as a parking lot attendant with a friend of his. A man pulled up in the parking lot that Meat Loaf thought might be the guy that was going to hire him. The man asked Meat Loaf what he did beside parking cars and Meat Loaf told him that he was a singer. The guy said that he should come in and audition for Hair. Not being prepared, Meat Loaf told the piano player to play the sixteen-bar blues in C. After singing the first sixteen-bars of "The World Is Alright, It's the People that Make It Bad", they asked him to stop and to come see the show that night because they wanted to hire him to sing "Aquarius", play General Ulysses S. Grant and the Young Recruit. When he went to the show that night, for some reason the sprinklers came on half way through and ended the show. Meat Loaf went on to do the show in Los Angeles and then for a six month run in Detroit, Michigan.

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Question Mark - Hair - General Ulysses S. Grant - Detroit - Michigan

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Meat Loaf, because of the publicity generated from Hair was invited to record with Motown. They suggested that he do a duet with Stoney Murphy and he agreed. They were given songs written by Motown's production team in charge of the album and only came in to lay down their vocals. The album, titled Stoney & Meatloaf (Meatloaf being shown as one word), was completed in the summer of 1971 and released in September of that year. A single was released in advanced of the album titled What You See Is What You Get managed to get to number thirty six on the R&B charts and seventy-one on Billboard Hot 100 chart. To support their album, Meat Loaf and Stoney toured with Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers, opening up for Richie Havens, Bob Seger, Alice Cooper and Rare Earth.

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Motown - Stoney Murphy - 1971 - R&B - Billboard Hot 100 - Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers - Richie Havens - Bob Seger - Alice Cooper - Rare Earth

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After the tour, Meat Loaf rejoined the cast of Hair, this time on Broadway. After he hired an agent, he auditioned for the Public Theater's production of More Than You Deserve. It was during the audition that Meat Loaf first met his future collaborator Jim Steinman. Meat Loaf got the part of Rabbit, a maniac that blows up his fellow soldiers so they can "go home". Also in the show were Ron Silver and Fred Gwynne. After it closed he appeared in "As You Like It" with Raul Julia and Mary Beth Hurt.

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Broadway - Public Theater - More Than You Deserve - Jim Steinman - Ron Silver - Fred Gwynne - As You Like It - Raul Julia - Mary Beth Hurt

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