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Steinman and wrote
Steinman wrote the theme music for the 1979 National Lampoon TV show Delta House.
Steinman also wrote two of the songs on the album: " Total Eclipse of the Heart " and " Faster Than the Speed of Night ".
Steinman is credited for producing all of the tracks on Billy Squier's 1984 album Signs of Life, and Barbra Streisand's album of the same year, Emotion, featured " Left in the Dark ", which Steinman wrote and produced.
In 1985 Steinman wrote and produced a theme song for WWF performer Hulk Hogan.
Steinman wrote all the songs, and was credited as producer and arranger.
Also included is the song " Is Nothing Sacred ", on which Steinman wrote music for Don Black's lyrics.
When the reviews came out, Jim Steinman made a show of his disapproval of the project by not attending opening night and publicly distancing himself from the show that had resulted from this " too many cooks " approach: " The show that I wrote is not at the Minskoff.
According to Meat Loaf, Steinman had given the song, along with " Making Love ( Out of Nothing At All )", to Meat Loaf for his album Midnight at the Lost and Found ; however, Meat Loaf's record company refused to pay for Steinman and he wrote separate songs himself.

Steinman and music
In 1971, Steinman provided music for a puppet show called Ubu.
In 1974, Steinman worked with college friend Barry Keating on a musical called Rhinegold, based on Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold, writing the music and co-writing the script.
In 1975, while working for Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Steinman contributed music and lyrics to Thomas Babe's Kid Champion, which starred Christopher Walken.
The book and lyrics were written by Ray Errol Fox, the music by Steinman.
CBS executive Clive Davis even claimed that Steinman knew nothing about writing, or rock music in general.
Steinman produced the track and is credited with writing the music, and Dean Pitchford for writing the lyric.
Whistle Down the Wind is a musical based on the 1961 film Whistle Down the Wind with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Jim Steinman, known for his work with Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler.
* Jim Steinman, music producer, composer
A creative team was also finally being assembled, including set designer David Gallo, who Steinman liked because Gallo told him upon meeting for the first time that he was probably the only set designer in America who still subscribed to Heavy Metal Magazine, and that he bought Bat Out of Hell because he saw the album cover artwork ( conceived by Steinman and executed by Richard Corben ) and decided he had to have it before he even heard the music.
While Steinman's fans acclaim it as his biggest musical success, about 70 % of the musical score written by Steinman was recycled from his earlier projects, mainly from his less-known shows like The Dream Engine and The Confidence Man ( co-written with Ray Errol Fox ), although it also features music from his widely known records like " Total Eclipse of the Heart " ( remade as " Totale Finsternis "), the melody, but not the lyric, from a Bat Out Of Hell II song called " Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are " ( remade as " Die unstillbare Gier ") and " Original Sin ", originally written for Pandora's Box album of the same name and later sung by " Meat Loaf " in Welcome to the Neighborhood ( parts of which were remade as " Gott Ist Tot " and " Einladung Zum Ball ").
** Footloose – Tom Snow ( music ), Dean Pitchford ( lyrics ), Kenny Loggins, Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar and Jim Steinman ( music & lyrics )
Pandora's Box was a female pop music group assembled by Jim Steinman in the 1980s.
Caswell was one of the singers for The Dream Engine, a music performance group that performed and recorded the work of composer and lyricist Jim Steinman.

Steinman and lyrics
According to Steinman in an interview, Andrew Lloyd Webber approached him to write lyrics for The Phantom of the Opera because Lloyd Webber felt that his " dark obsessive side " fit in with the project.
Steinman provided lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Whistle Down the Wind, which opened in Washington, D. C. in December 1996.
Music was composed by Jim Steinman and orchestrated by Steve Margoshes, and original German book and lyrics were written by Michael Kunze.
Composer Steinman was no stranger to the theater scene in New York, having spent five years under the professional wing of New York Shakespeare Festival founder Joseph Papp in the early Seventies and authored several musicals, including The Dream Engine, Neverland and The Confidence Man, and also provided the lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Whistle Down the Wind.
After briefly considering a West End run, under the influence of Steinman and his manager David Sonenberg, it was decided to bring the musical ( now titled Dance of the Vampires ) to New York for the 1998 season, with Steinman translating and reshaping the German book and lyrics, Polanski returning as director, and original Viennese producer / Polanski manager Andrew Braunsberg serving as executive producer.
" Another unfortunate side-effect of the changing material was that with Steinman out of the picture, there was no one around to write new lyrical material as necessary in some cases, and so the English version ( of necessity ) borrowed a lot of new material from Steinman's lyrics for the previous English versions of what songs were recycled in the show ( see song list below ).
Music and lyrics for the English version were officially credited to Jim Steinman, and the English book was officially credited to Jim Steinman, Michael Kunze and David Ives.
* Music and lyrics: Jim Steinman
Although Meat Loaf believed that the lyrics were unambiguous, the singer recalls that Steinman predicted that they would cause confusion.

Steinman and for
In 2011, the prize was awarded to Bruce Beutler of the United States and Jules A. Hoffmann of France " for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity " and to Ralph M. Steinman of Canada " for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.
David Amram resided in Putnam Valley for many decades, as did Jim Steinman, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Barbara Bel Geddes, Roy Scheider, and for a short-time SNL creator Lorne Michaels.
For discovering the central role of dendritic cells in the adaptive immune response, Steinman was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2007 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2011.
Eldritch has later considered producer Steinman to have been more pivotal in securing funding for additional production than the songs themselves.
James Richard " Jim " Steinman ( born November 1, 1947 ) is an American composer, lyricist, and Grammy Award-winning record producer responsible for several hit songs.
Steinman proceeded with the album, released as Bad for Good in 1981.
Steinman was this time credited as co-producer with Todd Rundgren for all but one track.
Steinman was credited as co-producer with Jimmy Iovine for the song " Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through ".
In 1984, Steinman was hired by and worked briefly with the rock band Def Leppard on some tracks that were intended for a Def Leppard album.
Steinman produced the track " Love Can Make You Cry ", written by Michael Kehr, Don Kehr and Ian Hunter, for the soundtrack album for the 1986 film Iron Eagle.
The soundtrack album for the 1989 film Rude Awakening included two tracks produced by Steinman.
With Andrew Eldritch, Steinman co-wrote and co-produced the track " More " for the 1990 album Vision Thing by the group The Sisters of Mercy.
Steinman was executive producer for the album, and Steinman's partner Steven Rinkoff was producer for all but one track of it.

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