Bat Out of Hell - wikipedia Bat Out of Hell This article is about the album. For the title track, see Bat Out of Hell ( song ). For the British television series, see Bat Out of Hell ( TV series ). For the musical, see Bat Out of Hell The Musical. Bat Out of Hell Studio album by Meat Loaf Released September 1977 Recorded 1975 -- 1976 Studio Various 8 Bearsville Studios, Woodstock, NY Utopia Sound, Lake Hill, NY The Hit Factory, New York, NY House of Music, West Orange, NJ Genre Hard rock glam rock pop heavy metal Length 46 : 33 Label Cleveland International / Epic Producer Todd Rundgren Meat Loaf chronology Stoney & Meatloaf ( 1971 ) Bat Out of Hell ( 1977 ) Dead Ringer ( 1981 ) Singles from Bat Out of Hell `` You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth ( Hot Summer Night ) '' Released : October 1977 `` Two Out of Three Ai n't Bad '' Released : February 1978 `` Paradise by the Dashboard Light '' Released : August 1978 Bat Out of Hell is the debut studio album by American rock singer Meat Loaf, as well as his first collaboration with composer Jim Steinman and producer Todd Rundgren. The album was released in September 1977 on Cleveland International / Epic Records. It is one of the best - selling albums of all time, having sold over 43 million copies worldwide. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked it at number 343 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in 2003. Its musical style is influenced by Steinman 's appreciation of Richard Wagner, Phil Spector, Bruce Springsteen and The Who. Bat Out of Hell has been certified 14 times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. As of May 2015, it has spent 485 weeks in the UK Charts. The album went on to become one of the most influential and iconic albums of all time and its songs have remained classic rock staples. `` Bat Out of Hell '' has spawned two additional Meat Loaf sequel albums : Bat Out of Hell II : Back into Hell and Bat Out of Hell III : The Monster Is Loose. A musical based on the album, staged by Jay Scheib, opened at the Manchester Opera House on February 17, 2017 before transferring to the London Coliseum and Toronto, Canada 's Ed Mirvish Theatre in late 2017. Since April 2, 2018 it has been running at the Dominion Theatre, London, with plans to run the show in parallel in Germany and in a tour of the United States in 2019. Contents 1 Pre-production 2 Production 3 Composition 4 Cover 5 Title 6 Reception 7 Dispute between Cleveland International and Sony 8 Track listing 8.1 Versions 9 Personnel 9.1 Arrangements 9.2 Band 10 Charts 11 Certifications 12 See also 13 References Pre-production The album was developed from a musical, Neverland, a futuristic rock version of Peter Pan, which Steinman wrote for a workshop in 1974, and performed at the Kennedy Center Music Theatre Lab in 1977. Steinman and Meat Loaf, who were touring with the National Lampoon show, felt that three songs were `` exceptional '' and Steinman began to develop them as part of a seven - song set they wanted to record as an album. The three songs were `` Bat Out of Hell '', `` Heaven Can Wait '' and `` The Formation of the Pack '', which was later retitled `` All Revved Up with No Place to Go ''. Bat Out of Hell is often compared to the music of Bruce Springsteen, particularly the album Born to Run. Steinman says he finds that `` puzzling, musically '', although they share influences ; `` Springsteen was more an inspiration than an influence. '' A BBC article added `` that Max Weinberg and Roy Bittan from Springsteen 's E Street Band played on the album only helped reinforce the comparison. '' Steinman and Meat Loaf had immense difficulty finding a record company willing to sign them. According to Meat Loaf 's autobiography, the band spent most of 1975 writing and recording material, and two and a half years auditioning the record and being rejected. Manager David Sonenberg jokes that they were creating record companies just so they could be rejected. They performed the album live in 1976, with Steinman on piano, Meat Loaf singing, and sometimes Ellen Foley joining them for `` Paradise. '' Steinman says that it was a `` medley of the most brutal rejections you could imagine. '' Meat Loaf `` almost cracked '' when CBS executive Clive Davis rejected the project. According to Meat Loaf 's autobiography. Davis commented that `` actors do n't make records '' and challenged Steinman 's writing abilities and knowledge of rock music : Do you know how to write a song ? Do you know anything about writing ? If you 're going to write for records, it goes like this : A, B, C, B, C, C. I do n't know what you 're doing. You 're doing A, D, F, G, B, D, C. You do n't know how to write a song... Have you ever listened to pop music ? Have you ever heard any rock - and - roll music... You should go downstairs when you leave here... and buy some rock - and - roll records. Meat Loaf asserts `` Jim, at the time, knew every record ever made. ( He ) is a walking rock encyclopedia. '' Although Steinman laughed off the insults, the singer screamed `` Fuck you, Clive ! '' from the street up to his building. In one 1989 interview with Classic Rock magazine, Steinman labeled Meat Loaf `` the only genuine genius I 've ever worked with. '' In a 1989 interview with Redbeard for the In the Studio with Redbeard episode on the making of the album, Meat Loaf revealed that Jimmy Iovine and Andy Johns were potential candidates for producing Bat Out of Hell before being rejected by the singer and Steinman in favor of Todd Rundgren, whom Meat Loaf initially found cocky but grew to like. Rundgren found the album hilarious, thinking it was a parody of Springsteen. The singer quotes him as saying : `` I 've ' got ' to do this album. It 's just so ' out ' there. '' They told the producer that they had previously been signed to RCA. Production Recording started in late 1975 in Bearsville Studios, Woodstock, New York. Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg, the pianist and drummer from Bruce Springsteen 's E Street Band played on the album, in addition to members of Rundgren 's group Utopia : Kasim Sulton, Roger Powell and John `` Willie '' Wilcox. Edgar Winter played the saxophone on `` All Revved Up ''. Rundgren himself played guitar, including the `` motorcycle solo '' on `` Bat Out of Hell. '' Both Steinman and Rundgren were influenced by Phil Spector and his `` wall of sound. '' According to Meat Loaf, Rundgren put all the arrangements together because although `` Jim could hear all the instruments '' in his head, Steinman hummed rather than orchestrating. When Rundgren discovered that the deal with RCA did not actually exist, Albert Grossman, who had been Bob Dylan 's manager, offered to put it on his Bearsville label but needed more money. Rundgren had essentially paid for the album himself. Mo Ostin at Warner Bros. was impressed, but other senior people rejected them after they performed live. Steinman had offended them a few years earlier by auditioning with a song named `` Who Needs the Young, '' which contains the lyric `` Is there anyone left who can fuck ? Screw ' em ! '' Another E Street Band member, Steve Van Zandt, and Sonenberg arranged to contact Cleveland International Records, a subsidiary of Epic Records. After listening to the spoken word intro to `` You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth '' ( `` Hot Summer Night '' ), founder Steve Popovich accepted the album for Cleveland. Rundgren mixed the record in one night. However, the mixes were not suitable to the extent that Meat Loaf did not want `` Paradise by the Dashboard Light '' on the album. Jimmy Iovine, who had mixed Springsteen 's Born to Run, remixed some of the tracks. After several attempts by several people, John Jansen mixed the version of `` Paradise by the Dashboard Light '' that is on the album. According to Meat Loaf, he, Jansen and Steinman mixed the title track. Phil Rizzuto 's baseball play - by - play call for `` Paradise by the Dashboard Light '' was recorded in 1976 at The Hit Factory in New York City by Rundgren, Meat Loaf and Steinman. As an Italian Catholic, Rizzuto publicly maintained he was unaware that his contribution would be equated with sex in the finished song. However, Meat Loaf asserts that Rizzuto only claimed ignorance to stifle criticism and was fully aware of the context of what he was recording. Composition `` Bat Out of Hell '' This sample contains the beginning of the chorus. Problems playing this file ? See media help. Todd Rundgren acknowledges that Steinman was highly influenced by the `` rural suburban teenage angst '' of Bruce Springsteen. According to manager David Sonenberg, `` Jim would always come up with these great titles and then he would write a song that would try to justify the greatness of the title. '' Since 1968, Jim Steinman had been working on a magnum opus, which finally opened in 2017 in the form of Bat Out Of Hell The Musical. The first incarnation of his work was a musical called The Dream Engine when he was in college at Amherst. The qualities of teenage rebellion and a girl joining a `` tribe '' led by a charismatic leader are present in all versions of Steinman 's work. The Dream Engine is where the spoken word piece `` Hot Summer Night '' originates, and is the earliest work that appears on the Meat Loaf album, where it is performed by Jim Steinman and actress Marcia McClain. The next incarnation of Steinman 's magnum opus, during the 1970s, was a musical called `` Neverland, '' which contained many of the same scenes and themes as The Dream Engine but was now largely depoliticized and contained many Peter Pan references. Some scenes in `` Neverland, '' such as the parents feeding their imprisoned daughter `` dream suppressant '' drugs, are still present in Bat Out Of Hell The Musical, but overall Neverland was of a much darker tone. This musical contained the songs Heaven Can Wait, Bat Out Of Hell, and All Revved Up With No Place To Go. On the 25th anniversary version of the album Bat Out Of Hell, one of the bonus live tracks, `` Great Boleros Of Fire, '' is an instrumental version of another song from Neverland titled `` Gods. '' ( Meat Loaf finally recorded and released this song under the title `` Godz '' on his 2016 album Braver Than We Are ). When staged in 1977, the cast of `` Neverland '' included Ellen Foley as Wendy - who performs the lead female vocal on `` Paradise By The Dashboard Light '' on the album. The music for `` Neverland '' was performed by Orchestra Luna, and one of their members at the time was Karla DeVito. Ellen Foley was not available when it came time to go on tour for the album, so Karla DeVito took her place. In the various promotional music videos for the songs on the album Bat Out Of Hell Karla DeVito 's lips are synced to Ellen Foley 's album vocals. The opening track `` Bat Out of Hell '' is the result of Steinman 's desire to write the `` most extreme crash song of all time. '' `` You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth '' is musically inspired by the rock chords of The Who 's `` Baba O'Riley '' with a Phil Spector style melody on top. In Jim Steinman 's `` Neverland '' and `` Bat Out Of Hell The Musical, '' the spoken word `` Hot Summer Night '' and this song are used as an exchange of wedding vows, and to celebrate a wedding. The song `` Two Out of Three Ai n't Bad '' was written in direct response to actress Mimi Kennedy asking Jim Steinman whether he could write a simple song like Elvis Presley 's `` I Want You, I Need You, I Love You ''. Todd Rundgren identifies how the song was influenced by the Eagles, who were successful at the time. The producer also highlights the `` underlying humor in the lyrics, '' citing the line `` There ai n't no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box. '' He says you could only `` get away '' with that lyric `` in a Meat Loaf song. '' Ellen Foley, who appears on `` Paradise by the Dashboard Light '', first met Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman while they were all working together on the National Lampoon Road Tour, so they had a history of performing over-the - top musical comedy sketches together. The baseball commentary make - out section performed by New York Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto was written with the announcer in mind, using phrases he would actually say during commentary. `` For Crying Out Loud '' was originally written for the 1975 New York Shakespeare Festival musical Kid Champion, and a recording by an unknown artist is in the New York Public Library archives.. Jim Steinman considers the line `` And ca n't you see my faded Levi 's bursting apart '' his most daring lyric on the entire album. Comparing the album to Steinman 's late - 1960s musical `` The Dream Engine, '' Classic Rock magazine says that Steinman 's imagery is `` revved up and testosterone - fueled. Songs like `` Paradise by the Dashboard Light, '' `` Two Out of Three Ai n't Bad '' and `` For Crying Out Loud '' echoed the textbook teenage view of sex and life : irrepressible physical urges and unrealistic romantic longing. '' Steinman 's songs for `` Bat Out of Hell '' are personal but not autobiographical : I never thought of them as personal songs in terms of my own life but they were personality songs. They were all about my obsessions and images. None of them takes place in a normal world. They all take place in an extreme world. Very operatic... they were all heightened. They do n't take place in normal reality. For example, citing the narrative of `` Paradise, '' Rundgren jokes that he ca n't imagine Steinman being at a lakeside with the most beautiful girl in school, but he can imagine Steinman `` imagining '' it. Cover Steinman is credited with the album cover concept, which was illustrated by Richard Corben. The cover depicts a motorcycle, ridden by a long - haired man, bursting out of the ground in a graveyard. In the background, a large bat perches atop a mausoleum that towers above the rest of the tombstones. In 2001, Q magazine listed the cover as number 71 in its list of `` The Hundred Best Record Covers of All Time. '' Steinman had wanted equal billing with Meat Loaf on the album 's title ; he wanted it to be called `` Jim Steinman presents... '' or `` Jim and Meat, '' or vice versa. For marketing reasons, the record company wished to make ' Meat Loaf ' the recognizable name. As a compromise, the words `` Songs by Jim Steinman '' appear relatively prominently on the cover. The singer believes that this was probably the beginning of their `` ambivalent relationship. '' Title The phrase `` Bat Out of Hell '' can be traced back to the Greek playwright Aristophanes ' 414 B.C. work titled The Birds. In it is what is believed to be the first reference to a bat out of Hell : Near by the land of the Sciapodes there is a marsh, from the borders whereof the unwashed Socrates evokes the souls of men. Pisander came one day to see his soul, which he had left there when still alive. He offered a little victim, a camel, slit his throat and, following the example of Odysseus, stepped one pace backwards. Then that bat of a Chaerephon came up from hell to drink the camel 's blood. Steinman registered `` Bat Out of Hell '' as a trademark in 1995, and sought to prevent Meat Loaf from using the title. In 2006, however, the singer sought to cancel Steinman 's trademark and use the title for Bat Out of Hell III : The Monster Is Loose. Reception Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic Rolling Stone mixed The Rolling Stone Album Guide Robert Christgau C − `` Bat Out of Hell '' was released by Cleveland International Records in September 1977. However, at Cleveland International Records ' parent label, Epic Records, almost everyone hated it. Steve Popovich, the head of Cleveland International Records, was relentless in his efforts to get Epic and all of CBS Records and radio on board. In 1993, Steinman reflected that the album was `` timeless in that it did n't fit into any trend. It 's never been a part of what 's going on. You could release that record at any time and it would be out of place. '' Response to the album was slow. Steinman asserts that it was `` underpromoted, '' having a reputation of being `` damaged goods because it had been walked around to so many places. '' Due to the enthusiastic response to the music videos from the record, Australian and England audiences were the first to develop interest. The BBC television program The Old Grey Whistle Test aired a clip of the live band performing the nine - minute title track. According to `` Classic Rock, '' the response was so overwhelming, that they screened it again the following week. They later invited the band to perform `` Paradise '' live. `` As a result, in the UK ' Bat ' became an unfashionable, uncool, non-radio record that became a ' must - have ' for everyone who heard it, whether they ' got ' Steinman 's unique perspective or not. '' Despite the album 's success in Canada, it was not an immediate hit in the U.S. Bat Out of Hell still sells about 200,000 copies per year and has sold an estimated 43 million copies worldwide, including 14 million in the United States and over 1.7 million albums in Australia, where it is the best - selling album in the country and even re-entered the ARIA Charts in June 2007, at number 34. It stayed on the United Kingdom charts for 485 weeks, a feat surpassed only by the 522 weeks of Fleetwood Mac 's Rumours. In 1989, Kerrang ! magazine listed the album at No. 38 among the `` 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time. '' In 2003, the album was ranked number 343 on Rolling Stone 's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2005, `` Bat Out of Hell '' was ranked number 301 in `` Rock Hard '' magazine 's book of `` The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time. '' In 2006 it was voted number nine in a poll conducted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to discover Australia 's most popular album. In November 2007, Meat Loaf was awarded the Classic Album award in Classic Rock 's Classic Rock Roll Of Honour. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Reviews were initially mixed, but have since become much more positive. At first `` Rolling Stone '' called the songs `` swell, but... entirely mannered and derivative '' and noted that the arrangements `` are n't bad, '' although the musicians were commended. The review ended with the assertion that the `` principals have some growing to do. '' Modern reviews are more positive, however. Allmusic declares `` this is Grand Guignol pop -- epic, gothic, operatic, and silly, and it 's appealing because of all of this. '' They acknowledge that Steinman is `` a composer without peer, simply because nobody else wanted to make mini-epics like this. '' Rundgren 's production is applauded, as is the wit in the music and lyrics. `` It may elevate adolescent passion to operatic dimensions, and that 's certainly silly, but it 's hard not to marvel at the skill behind this grandly silly, irresistible album. '' Dispute Between Cleveland International and Sony In 1995, Cleveland International sued Sony Music Entertainment for unpaid royalties from sales of `` Bat Out of Hell. '' Under the terms of the 1998 settlement agreement ending the suit, Sony agreed to pay US $6.7 million and include the Cleveland International logo on all future releases of the album. In 2002, Steve Popovich, founder of Cleveland International, sued Sony alleging that Sony had failed to include the logo on the album as agreed. In 2005, the federal district court in Cleveland, Ohio entered judgment against Sony pursuant to a jury verdict in favor of Popovich and awarded Popovich US $5,700,000 in damages for Sony 's breach of the 1998 settlement agreement. Sony appealed the verdict but in 2007 the federal appellate court in Cincinnati, Ohio affirmed the judgment of the trial court. In 2012, Sony reached a final out - of - court settlement with Popovich 's estate over more unpaid royalties revealed in an audit performed prior to Popovich 's death in 2011. Track listing All tracks written by Jim Steinman. Side one No. Title Length 1. `` Bat Out of Hell '' 9 : 48 2. `` You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth ( Hot Summer Night ) '' 5 : 04 3. `` Heaven Can Wait '' 4 : 38 4. `` All Revved Up with No Place to Go '' 4 : 19 Side two No. Title Length 5. `` Two Out of Three Ai n't Bad '' 5 : 23 6. `` Paradise by the Dashboard Light '' ( duet with Ellen Foley ) ( I. Paradise / II. Let Me Sleep On It / III. Praying for the End of Time ) 8 : 28 7. `` For Crying Out Loud '' 8 : 45 Versions The album also exists in numerous other formats and re-releases, including a Super Audio CD version, a 25th anniversary edition ( 2001 -- Epic / Legacy # 62171 ) with two bonus tracks ( `` Great Boléros of Fire ( live intro ) '' ( 3 : 54 ) and `` Bat Out of Hell ( live ) '' ( 11 : 10 ), and a `` Bat Out of Hell : Re-Vamped '' release ( 1991 ) containing the bonus song `` Dead Ringer for Love. '' A new hybrid SACD version was released in late 2016 by Analog Spark, an audiophile imprint of the Razor & Tie label, mastered from the original tapes by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound. ( Early copies erroneously name Kevin Gray as the mastering engineer ; Analog Spark issued a statement that this intended arrangement did not happen because of a `` miscommunication. '' ) Personnel Track numbers indicate that a musician only plays the instrument so noted on that specific track. Arrangements Kenneth Ascher -- string arrangements ( 3, 5 ) Steve Margoshes -- orchestra arrangement ( 7 ) Band Meat Loaf -- lead vocals, backing vocals ( 6 ), percussion ( 2 ) Todd Rundgren -- guitar ( 1, 2, 4 -- 6 ), percussion ( 1, 2 ), keyboards ( 1 ), backing vocals ( 1 -- 3, 5, 6 ) Kasim Sulton -- bass guitar ( 1, 2, 4 -- 7 ), backing vocals ( 1 ) Roy Bittan -- piano, keyboards ( 1 - 2, 6 ) Steve Margoshes -- piano ( 7 ) Cheryl Hardwick -- piano ( 7 ) Jim Steinman -- keyboards ( 1, 2, 6 ), percussion ( 1, 2 ), `` lascivious effects '' ( 6 ) Roger Powell -- synthesizer ( 1, 2, 5, 6 ) Edgar Winter -- saxophone ( 2, 4, 6 ) Max Weinberg -- drums ( 1, 2, 6 ) John `` Willie '' Wilcox -- drums ( 4, 5, 7 ) Phil `` Scooter '' Rizzuto -- play - by - play ( 6 ) Ellen Foley -- lead vocals ( 6 ), backing vocals ( 1, 2, 4, 6 ) Rory Dodd -- backing vocals ( all except 4 ) Gene Orloff -- concert master ( 7 ) Members of New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra -- orchestra ( 7 ) Charts Chart ( 1977 -- 78 ) Peak position Australian Albums ( Kent Music Report ) Canada Top Albums / CDs ( RPM ) 5 Dutch Albums ( MegaCharts ) German Albums ( Offizielle Top 100 ) 11 New Zealand Albums ( RMNZ ) Swedish Albums ( Sverigetopplistan ) 13 UK Albums ( OCC ) 9 US Billboard 200 14 Certifications Region Certification Certified units / Sales Australia ( ARIA ) 25 × Platinum 1,750,000 Canada ( Music Canada ) 2 × Diamond 2,000,000 Denmark ( IFPI Denmark ) 2 × Platinum 40,000 Germany ( BVMI ) Platinum 500,000 New Zealand ( RMNZ ) 17 × Platinum 255,000 United Kingdom ( BPI ) 10 × Platinum 3,282,300 United States ( RIAA ) 14 × Platinum 14,000,000 Summaries Worldwide 43,000,000 sales figures based on certification alone shipments figures based on certification alone See also Rock music portal 1977 in music Bat Out of Hell II Meat Loaf discography Wagnerian rock List of best - selling albums in the United States List of best - selling albums in the United Kingdom List of best - selling albums in Australia List of best - selling albums in New Zealand References Jump up ^ Whitaker, Sterling ( October 21, 2012 ). `` 35 Years Ago : Meat Loaf 's ' Bat Out of Hell ' Released ''. 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Meat Loaf Studio albums Stoney & Meatloaf ( 1971 ) Bat Out of Hell ( 1977 ) Dead Ringer ( 1981 ) Midnight at the Lost and Found ( 1983 ) Bad Attitude ( 1984 ) Blind Before I Stop ( 1986 ) Bat Out of Hell II : Back into Hell ( 1993 ) Welcome to the Neighbourhood ( 1995 ) Could n't Have Said It Better ( 2003 ) Bat Out of Hell III : The Monster Is Loose ( 2006 ) Hang Cool Teddy Bear ( 2010 ) Hell in a Handbasket ( 2011 ) Braver Than We Are ( 2016 ) Live albums Live at Wembley ( 1987 ) Live Around the World ( 1996 ) VH1 : Storytellers ( 1999 ) Bat Out of Hell : Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ( 2004 ) 3 Bats Live ( 2008 ) Compilations Hits Out of Hell ( 1984 ) Heaven & Hell ( 1989 ) Heaven Can Wait -- The Best Ballads of Meat Loaf Vol. 1 ( 1996 ) The Very Best of Meat Loaf ( 1998 ) Videography Live Hits Out of Hell Bad Attitude -- Live ! Bat Out of Hell II : Picture Show VH1 : Storytellers To Hell and Back Bat Out of Hell : Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra 3 Bats Live Meat Loaf : In Search of Paradise Tours The Seize the Night Tour ( 2006 -- 07 ) The Casa de Carne Tour ( 2008 ) The Hang Cool Tour ( 2010 -- 11 ) Guilty Pleasure Tour ( 2011 ) Mad, Mad World Tour ( 2012 ) Last at Bat Tour ( 2013 ) Singles `` What You See Is What You Get '' `` It Takes All Kinds of People '' `` You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth '' `` Paradise by the Dashboard Light '' `` Two Out of Three Ai n't Bad '' `` Bat Out of Hell '' `` I 'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us '' `` Dead Ringer for Love '' `` Read ' Em and Weep '' `` Peel Out '' `` In Europe ' 82 '' `` If You Really Want To '' `` Razor 's Edge '' `` Midnight at the Lost and Found '' `` Modern Girl '' `` Nowhere Fast '' `` Rock ' n ' Roll Mercenaries '' `` Blind Before I Stop '' `` Special Girl '' `` I 'd Do Anything for Love ( But I Wo n't Do That ) '' `` Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back '' `` Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through '' `` Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are '' `` I 'd Lie for You ( And That 's the Truth ) '' `` Not a Dry Eye in the House '' `` Runnin ' for the Red Light ( I Gotta Life ) '' `` A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste '' `` No Matter What '' `` Is Nothing Sacred '' `` Did I Say That ? 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Question: where did the term bat out of hell come from
Answer: the Greek playwright Aristophanes' 414 B.C. work titled The Birds