{"id":15115,"date":"2021-04-27T17:39:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T17:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=15115"},"modified":"2021-04-27T17:49:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T17:49:06","slug":"ellen-foley-alumni-of-bat-out-of-hell-album-releases-a-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2021\/04\/27\/ellen-foley-alumni-of-bat-out-of-hell-album-releases-a-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat Loaf’s collaborators, Ellen Foley & Karla DeVito, release new music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ellen Foley, a featured vocalist on one of the biggest-selling rock albums of all time, Meat Loaf\u2019s Bat Out of Hell<\/em>, today announces details of her fifth solo album. Fighting Words<\/em> will be released August 6 on CD and download via Urban Noise Music. Out today is the album\u2019s first digital single, \u201cI\u2019m Just Happy to Be Here,\u201d a timely duet with fellow singer\/actress Karla DeVito.
 
During the 1970s, Foley<\/a> and DeVito<\/a>\u2019s careers intersected by way of their professional involvement with composer\/playwright Jim Steinman<\/a>. Both women were involved in a Steinman musical called Neverland<\/em>, which led to Foley being hired as a vocalist on Meat Loaf\u2019s Bat Out of Hell<\/em><\/a> album. Foley sang the female lead on the Top 40 hit \u201cParadise by the Dashboard Light,\u201d as well as backing vocals on three additional tracks. Steinman wrote all of the songs on Bat Out of Hell<\/em>. The album has gone on to sell over 50 million albums worldwide, including 14 million in the U.S. 
 
In late 1977, Foley was performing as a cast member in the Broadway revival of Hair<\/em><\/a> and unavailable to tour for Bat Out of Hell<\/em>. As a substitute, Meat Loaf and Steinman hired DeVito. The popular video for \u201cParadise by the Dashboard Light\u201d featured DeVito lip synching to Foley\u2019s original vocal track. 
 
In recent years, the two women have become close friends, and DeVito came on board immediately when offered the chance to duet with Foley on \u201cI\u2019m Just Happy to Be Here.\u201d Like several of the songs on Fighting Words<\/em>, the track could be interpreted as addressing America\u2019s re-emergence after the worst days of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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