Making Love Out of Nothing at All - wikipedia Making Love Out of Nothing at All `` Making Love Out of Nothing At All '' Single by Air Supply from the album Greatest Hits B - side `` Late Again '' Released July 1983 Format 7 '' single Genre Pop rock, soft rock Length 5 : 43 ( Album version ) 4 : 29 ( Single version ) 5 : 38 ( Video version ) Label Arista ( U.S. ) Geffen ( UK ) Songwriter ( s ) Jim Steinman Producer ( s ) Jim Steinman Air Supply singles chronology `` Two Less Lonely People in the World '' ( 1983 ) `` Making Love Out of Nothing At All '' ( 1983 ) `` Just As I Am '' ( 1985 ) `` Two Less Lonely People in the World '' ( 1983 ) `` Making Love Out of Nothing at All '' ( 1983 ) `` Just As I Am '' ( 1985 ) Music video `` Making Love Out of Nothing At All '' on YouTube `` Making Love Out of Nothing At All '' is a power ballad written and composed by Jim Steinman and first released by Australian soft rock band Air Supply for their 1983 compilation album Greatest Hits. It reached number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks ( behind `` Total Eclipse of the Heart '' by Bonnie Tyler, giving Steinman a consecutive peak of two songs ). The song has been covered by many other artists, the most successful being that of Bonnie Tyler. Contents 1 Background and recording 2 Composition 3 Music video 4 Chart history 4.1 Weekly charts 4.2 Year - end charts 5 Personnel 6 Bonnie Tyler version 6.1 Lyrics 7 Rory Dodd demo version 7.1 Lyrics 7.2 Charts 8 In other media 9 References 10 External links Background and recording The song is a reworking of the main title theme from the 1980 film A Small Circle of Friends, for which Jim Steinman wrote the score. It was first recorded by Air Supply, giving them a number two hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. for three weeks. It was held off from the top spot by another Steinman production, Bonnie Tyler 's recording of `` Total Eclipse of the Heart ''. This is the group 's last top ten hit in the United States. The song was subsequently released as a new track from their 1983 greatest hits album. The B - side of the single was `` Late Again ''. They have included the song on their numerous greatest hits and live albums, and recorded an acoustic version for their 2005 album The Singer and the Song. Steinman offered the song, along with `` Total Eclipse of the Heart '', to Meat Loaf for his Midnight at the Lost and Found album ; however, Meat Loaf 's record company refused to pay Steinman for the material so Meat Loaf ended up writing compositions for the album himself. Steinman 's songs were then offered to Bonnie Tyler and Air Supply. By 1983, Air Supply had changed much of its classic musician line - up, both in the recording studio and on tour. But Steinman, known for his lavish, rock - opera - ish type productions, used Bruce Springsteen 's E-Street Band members Roy Bittan on keyboards and Max Weinberg on drums, to musically underscore the recording with like energies. Glam - rock icon of the 1970s Rick Derringer supplied the electric guitar solo that made the sound of `` Making Love Out of Nothing At All '' stand so drastically apart from most other Air Supply productions. Composition The song opens with a few bars of the melody played on the piano. The first part of the song lists several things that the vocalist knows how to do, followed by something that they do not. The structure is similar to Steinman 's `` I 'd Do Anything for Love ( But I Wo n't Do That ) '', where the chorus consists of things that the vocalist would and then would not do. And I know just where to touch you And I know just what to prove I know when to pull you closer And I know when to let you loose Like the final lines of each chorus in `` Anything for Love '', the end of `` Making Love '' contrasts with the previous stating what he does n't know how to do. The final part of the verse laments : But I do n't know how to leave you And I 'll never let you fall And I do n't know how you do it Making love out of nothing at all The title is repeated six times, with background vocals supplying the `` making love '' part, and the lead vocalist singing the last part of the line. Strong drumbeats begin the next section of the song, which concentrates upon the attributes of its subject : Every time I see you all the rays of the sun Are streaming through the waves in your hair And every star in the sky is taking aim at your eyes like a spotlight There is an instrumental interlude, dominated by the melody of the title line played by piano. The final verse returns to the structure of the first. The original Air Supply version had an American football analogy, with `` I can make the runner stumble, I can make the final block ; And I can make every tackle at the sound of the whistle, I can make all the stadiums rock. '' Music video Two videos for the Air Supply version exist. The first version begins with a couple driving to an airport. The man ( Graham Russell ) is `` leaving for a tour '' and asks the woman ( played by Graham Russell 's real - life spouse, Jodi Russell ) to join him, as he give her anything she wants. House Graham Russell : So, wo n't you reconsider ? Girlfriend : So, wo n't you ? Driving to the airport Graham Russell : Come with me, I can give you anything. Girlfriend : I 've been there, all I want is you. In front of the plane Graham Russell : But it 's just one more tour, then I 'll be back. Girlfriend : But I wo n't... I ca n't... The remainder of the video intersperses Russel Hitchcock and Graham Russell onstage with various scenes of the man and woman 's relationship. Graham and Russell, who comprise Air Supply, leave their dressing room for the stage. As they sing with the band, the female ( Jodi Russell - Graham Russell 's real - life wife ) is shown packing and leaving their home, placing their photograph face down on the table in the process. Nevertheless, she changes her mind and does a u-turn on the freeway, and now drives to the airport. She meets him at the side of the stage near the end of the song and they embrace. The plane seen in the video is a Learjet 35. Another version is set in 1960s New York City and involves a soldier and a young woman and the various challenges they encounter in their relationship, interspersed with scenes of the band singing the song. See : Chart history Weekly charts Chart ( 1983 - 84 ) Peak position Australia Kent Music Report 45 Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) Canada Adult Contemporary ( RPM ) Ireland ( IRMA ) 30 South African Singles Chart 5 UK Singles Chart 80 US Billboard Hot 100 US Adult Contemporary US Cash Box Top 100 Year - end charts Chart ( 1983 ) Rank Canada Top Singles 28 US Billboard Hot 100 66 US Cash Box 27 Personnel Russell Hitchcock - lead vocals Graham Russell - background vocals Roy Bittan - piano, synthesizer Larry Fast - synthesizer Max Weinberg - drums Steve Buslowe - bass + Rick Derringer - electric guitar Sid McGinnis - acoustic guitar Jimmy Maelen - percussion Eric Troyer, Rory Dodd, Holly Sherwood -- additional backing vocals + In initial releases of Air Supply 's 1983 Greatest Hits album, Steve Buslowe was not included as the bass guitarist in the album credits. However, this error was corrected in future pressings. Bonnie Tyler version `` Making Love ( Out of Nothing At All ) '' Single by Bonnie Tyler from the album Free Spirit Released 1995 Genre Pop rock Length 7 : 49 Songwriter ( s ) Jim Steinman Producer ( s ) Jim Steinman Steven Rinkoff The song was later covered by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler on her album Free Spirit. It opens with a wordless choral vocal followed by sounds of thunderclaps and a bell before the melody begins, played on piano. Over the piano section is an excerpt from `` Un bel di '', the aria from Puccini 's Madame Butterfly, sung by Tyler 's mother Elsie Hopkins. Allmusic called this version `` fantastic, clocking in at nearly eight minutes, and seems perfectly suited for her voice. ( Air Supply 's ) version was already great, but hers is awesome. '' It was produced by Steinman, with Steven Rinkoff as co-producer, at The Hit Factory, New York City. Lyrics These lines were changed for the Tyler version, and also for the subsequent Karine Hannah version, as well : I can make you find your power I can make you lose your fear I can make your body do some very magical things I 'll make your inhibitions all disappear Rory Dodd demo version A version from 1982 sung by Rory Dodd also exists. The only accompaniment is Steinman playing piano, and he includes several variations on the primary melody in the intro and bridge. Lyrics After the bridge, there are two verses that appear before the final two verses of the Air Supply version. The verse from the Tyler version is not included. I can make your money double Or I can make you lose your shirt I can make the old wounds start to heal Or I can make the new ones hurt I can make the music louder Or I can make the songs all fade I can make every girl just wan na get up and dance And make the boys in the band start to play Charts Chart ( 1995 - 96 ) Peak position Eurocharts Border Breakers Airplay 5 Netherlands ( Dutch Top 40 ) 17 UK Singles ( Official Charts Company ) 45 In other media Air Supply 's version of the song is also featured in the 2005 film Mr. and Mrs. Smith during the car chase - gunfight scene, and is also featured on the film 's soundtrack album. It was also used in the films Click and Dumb and Dumberer : When Harry Met Lloyd. In 1983, Air Supply performed the song on stage, in `` lip - sync '' form with full back - up band for the popular early 1980s television program Solid Gold. Absent were many of the musicians that producer Jim Steinman used to record the original tracks. However, original Air Supply members Frank Esler - Smith on keys and Ralph Cooper on drums participated, and former Babys lead guitarist Wally Stocker `` synced '' so well, studio player Rick Derringer 's guitar solo, without the slightest of glitch. The song was used for a Wendy 's commercial, where a `` burger '' is `` singing '' a part of the song, part of a promo being used in conjunction with online music service Rhapsody. The song was also used in the episode `` Chuck Versus the Predator '' of the American TV series Chuck. A cover of the song by Mari Nallos is the theme song of the Tagalized ( means `` translated '' in Tagalog ) version of My Husband 's Woman, an Asian series which is aired in the Philippines on GMA 7. In 2012, this song, along with `` Total Eclipse of the Heart '', was a central plot point in `` Unknown Subject '', the twelfth episode of season seven of US TV series Criminal Minds. In the show, a bar piano player attempts to convince a victim that he is n't the one who attacked her. He claims she thought she heard him play `` Total Eclipse of the Heart '' ( which the attacker had played during her attack ), when he had actually played `` Making Love Out of Nothing At All '', and says they sound similar because they were composed by the same person. The song is the theme song of the film Monga, covered by Nicky Lee. The song was background music for much of the 2016 -- 17 season finale of the ABC show The Goldbergs. References Jump up ^ `` Making Love Out of Nothing at All - Air Supply - Song Info - AllMusic ''. allmusic.com. Retrieved 23 February 2017. Jump up ^ `` VH1 's 40 Most Softsational Soft - Rock Songs ''. Stereogum. SpinMedia. 31 May 2007. Retrieved 31 July 2016. Jump up ^ `` A SMALL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS Main Title Theme ''. Jump up ^ `` Special Sub-Topic : ' Making Love Out Of Nothing At All ' ''. FunTrivia.com. Retrieved 9 December 2006. Jump up ^ `` Air Supply : The Singer And The Song ''. CD Baby. Retrieved 2006 - 10 - 22. Jump up ^ Adams, Cameron ( 26 October 2006 ). `` Meat Loaf 's a Hell raiser ''. Herald Sun. Retrieved 2006 - 10 - 26. Jump up ^ AirSupplyVEVO ( 23 March 2011 ). `` Air Supply - Making Love Out Of Nothing At All ''. Retrieved 26 July 2017 -- via YouTube. Jump up ^ Canada, Library and Archives ( 17 July 2013 ). `` Image : RPM Weekly ''. BAC-LAC.gc.ca. Retrieved 26 July 2017. Jump up ^ `` The Irish Charts -- Search Results -- Making Love Out of Nothing at All ''. Irish Singles Chart. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2002 ). Top Adult Contemporary : 1961 - 2001. Record Research. p. 17. Jump up ^ `` Cash Box Top 100 10 / 29 / 83 ''. TropicalGlen.com. Retrieved 26 July 2017. Jump up ^ `` Top 100 Singles of 1983 -- Volume 39, No. 17, December 24 1983 ''. RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved April 9, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Top 100 Hits of 1983 / Top 100 Songs of 1983 ''. www.MusicOutfitters.com. Retrieved 26 July 2017. Jump up ^ `` Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1983 ''. TropicalGlen.com. Retrieved 26 July 2017. Jump up ^ Air Supply - Making Love Out of Nothing at All -- The ( Almost ) Complete Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman Lyric Archive Retrieved 3 - 16 - 2014. ^ Jump up to : Air Supply - Greatest Hits @ Discogs.com. Retrieved 16 March 2014. Jump up ^ Air Supply - Greatest Hits ( 1983 ) liner notes ( lists Steve Buslowe 's name and contribution at the end ). Accessed on 22 August 2013. Jump up ^ Free Spirit ( booklet ). Bonnie Tyler. East West Records. 1995. 0630 - 12108 - 2. Jump up ^ `` Bonnie Tyler : Free Spirit ''. Allmusic. Retrieved 2006 - 10 - 22. Jump up ^ `` Phantom of the Paradise - The ( Almost ) Complete Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman Lyric Archive ''. mljs.EvilNickname.org. Retrieved 26 July 2017. Jump up ^ `` Charts Airplay '' ( PDF ). Retrieved October 20, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Nederlandse Top 40 -- Bonnie Tyler search results '' ( in Dutch ) Dutch Top 40. Jump up ^ `` Official Singles Chart Top 100 ''. Official Charts Company. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Air Supply Russell Hitchcock Graham Russell Frank Esler - Smith Rex Goh Studio albums Air Supply The Whole Thing 's Started Love & Other Bruises Life Support Lost in Love The One That You Love Now and Forever Air Supply Hearts in Motion The Christmas Album The Earth Is... The Vanishing Race News from Nowhere The Book of Love Yours Truly Across the Concrete Sky Mumbo Jumbo Live & compilations Greatest Hits Making Love... The Very Best of Air Supply Greatest Hits Live... 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