Paradise by the Dashboard Light by Meat Loaf is featured in Nationals, the twenty-first episode. Watch the video, get the download or listen to Meat Loaf – Paradise by the Dashboard Light for free. Paradise by the Dashboard Light appears on the album Bat Out of.

Side-A label of U.S. 7-inch vinyl single by from the album 'Bat Overture' Released August 1978 Format 7' / 12' Recorded 1976,, Length 8: 28 (album version) 5:32 (single edit) singles chronology ' (1978) ' Paradise by the Dashboard Light' (1978) ' (1979) ' (1978) ' Paradise by the Dashboard Light' (1978) ' (1979) ' Paradise by the Dashboard Light' is a song written. It was first released in 1977 on the album, with vocals by the American musician alongside [aspen miller] ]. The song is most notable for its unique structure and length, and has become a staple of radio. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • Background and recording [ ] 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light' is one of the longest songs to be released uncut on one side of a record. The only difference is the song fades out almost immediately after the final line is sung.

In some countries, a shorter 5:32 edit was released. The largest change is the complete removal of the 'baseball play-by-play' section. Jim Steinman had stated that he wanted to write 'the ultimate car/sex song in which everything goes horribly wrong in the end.' According to Meat Loaf on, the original length of the track was to be 27 minutes. [ ] Composition [ ] The song is divided into three parts: Part I.

Paradise The song opens with the characters reminiscing about days as a young high school couple on a date. They are parking by a lake and having fun, experiencing 'paradise by the light', until the male character insists they're 'gonna tonight' (the audio track suddenly cuts out, quickly pans through the left and right channels once before slowly returning to both channels).

Baseball broadcast His pushing the matter is mirrored by announcer broadcasting a portion of a baseball game that serves as a for his attempts to achieve his goal, accompanied by and the two characters talking in the two individual left and right channels. Rizzuto's baseball play-by-play call was recorded in 1976 at in New York City by producer, Meat Loaf and Steinman.

Rizzuto publicly maintained he was unaware that his contribution would be equated with sex in the finished song, but Meat Loaf asserts that Rizzuto only feigned ignorance to stifle some criticism from a priest and was fully aware of the context of what he was recording. In a nod to the, some radio stations in created a version where Rizzuto's part was substituted with announcer describing the baseball play. Let Me Sleep on It Just as the boy is about (via the ), the girl bursts out telling him to 'Stop right there!' She refuses to go any further unless the boy first promises to love her forever and. Reluctant to make such a long-term commitment, the boy repeatedly asks her to continue on for the time being and promises to give his answer in the morning.

However, as she is not giving in that easily, so that he finally cracks and gives his promise: 'I started swearing to my God and on my mother's grave/That I would love you to the end of time'. Praying for the End of Time Back in the present, the characters can no longer stand each other's presence. However, the male character cannot possibly break his vow and hence is now praying for the end of time to relieve him from his obligation. The song fades out on the situation, juxtaposing his gloomy 'It was long ago, it was far away, it was so much better than it is today!' In the left channel with her nostalgic 'It never felt so good, it never felt so right, we were glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife' in the right channel. In early live performances of the song, this part (and thus the conclusion of the song itself) was followed by a spoken-word epilogue by Meat Loaf and, where they, still in character as the two protagonists, argued about what to keep after the couple's divorce (having been presumably married for a number of years). Nck Box Serial Number.

The argument was cut short by DeVito shouting '.And I'll keep the baby!' , which left Meat Loaf's character speechless as he apparently ignored the existence of a baby; immediately after, he ended the argument by screaming incoherently at her. The exchange was repeated with different female vocalists, in different versions and with different endings, in most of Meat Loaf's subsequent live tours and remains in the set to the present day, when it is still occasionally performed by Meat Loaf and his current featured vocalist.

Music video [ ] 35mm prints of a live-on-soundstage performance of 'Paradise' were struck and initially sent to many theaters holding midnight screenings of, as a short subject to play before the feature. Very few of these prints are still extant and/or in playable condition. The video also received healthy airplay in the first years of MTV, despite its relative age to the new artists the channel was showcasing. Although is recorded on the album, another woman,, was used for the music video and for live performances.