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( October 2013 ) `` Two Out of Three Ai n't Bad '' Side - A label of U.S. 7 - inch vinyl single Single by Meat Loaf from the album Bat Out of Hell B - side `` For Crying Out Loud '' Released February 1978 Format 7 - inch single Length 5 : 27 ( LP version ) 3 : 58 ( 7 '' version ) Label Epic Songwriter ( s ) Jim Steinman Producer ( s ) Todd Rundgren Meat Loaf singles chronology `` You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth '' ( 1977 ) `` Two Out of Three Ai n't Bad '' ( 1978 ) `` Paradise by the Dashboard Light '' ( 1978 ) `` You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth '' ( 1977 ) `` Two Out of Three Ai n't Bad '' ( 1978 ) `` Paradise by the Dashboard Light '' ( 1978 ) `` Two Out of Three Ai n't Bad '' is a love song performed by the American musician Meat Loaf in his solo career, preceded by `` You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth '' and followed by `` Paradise by the Dashboard Light ''. It is a track off his 1977 album Bat Out of Hell, written by Jim Steinman. It reached # 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned a million - selling Gold single from the RIAA. It stands as one of his career signature tunes, still enjoying recurrent airplay. It was the final song written for the album. In a 2003 interview for the VH1 Ultimate Albums series, Steinman recalls : `` I remember Mimi Kennedy ( a cast member of Jim 's then - current musical Rhinegold ) telling me, she said, you know, when I was probably complaining why no one liked my stuff and could n't get a deal, she says, `` Well Steiny, your stuff is so complicated. Ca n't you write something simple ? '' And while she was saying that the oldies station was on the radio and it was playing that old Elvis song, ' I Want You, I Need, ' whatever it was. ' I Want You, I Need You, I Love You ', you know. I just started singing my own song but it was ' I Want You, I Need You, I Love You. ' She said, `` Why do n't you write something simple like that, ' I want you, I need you, I love you ' ? '' I said, `` Well I 'll try. '' I do n't try to make them complicated. I remember going home and I tried so hard but the best I could do was : I want you, I need you but there ai n't no way I 'm ever gon na love you, do n't be sad, ' cause two out of three ai n't bad. So it was still a twist but it was my closest to a simple song, and one Elvis could have done. '' A music video was shot for the single and received significant airplay on television video programs of that day, a number of years before the conception of MTV. Two mixes were created for the song. In the album mix, timed around 5 : 27, one can hear prominent Moog - synthesizer embellishments by session keyboardist Roger Powell. The single mix, timed around 3 : 50, downmixes the synthesizer considerably, in place of a much warmer and predominant string arrangement by Ken Ascher. This mix also edits out and removes the first lyrical bridge of the song which includes the line, `` There ai n't no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box '', and does some overlapping, splicing and editing to seamlessly merge back into the second part of the lyrical bridge, starting with, `` I ca n't lie, I ca n't tell you that I 'm something I 'm not ''. Yet, another lyrical edit in the last verse removes the lines, `` And though I know I 'll never get her out of my heart, she never loved me back, Ooh I know, well I remember how she left me on a stormy night, oh she kissed me and got out of our bed ''. Lastly, a song fade - out beginning in the middle of the ending chorus ' second refrain is also featured, hence removing the full - circle lyrics of `` Baby we can talk all night, but that ai n't getting us nowhere, '' that both started and ended the song, in its full album mix version. The Japanese release changes the title of the song to use a percentage, translating it as `` 66 % is good enough ''. Contents 1 Subsequent versions 2 Charts 2.1 Meat Loaf version 2.1. 1 Weekly charts 2.1. 2 Year - end charts 2.2 Bonnie Tyler version 2.3 Julian Austin version 3 Personnel ( original Meat Loaf version ) 4 References 5 External links Subsequent versions Country music group Nitty Gritty Dirt Band performed a cover for their 1984 album Plain Dirt Fashion. Canadian country music singer Julian Austin performed a cover for his 1997 debut album What My Heart Already Knows and reached No. 10 on the RPM Top Country Tracks charts. Charts Meat Loaf version Weekly charts Chart ( 1977 - 78 ) Peak position Austria 11 Canada RPM Top Singles 5 Canada RPM Adult Contemporary 6 Irish Singles Chart 25 New Zealand 9 UK Singles Chart 32 US Billboard Hot 100 11 US Billboard Adult Contemporary 31 US Cash Box Top 100 9 Year - end charts Chart ( 1978 ) Rank Canada RPM Top Singles 16 US Billboard Hot 100 30 US Cash Box 46 Bonnie Tyler version Chart ( 1996 ) Peak position US Hot Dance Maxi - Singles Sales ( Billboard ) Julian Austin version Chart ( 1998 ) Peak position Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) 20 Personnel ( original Meat Loaf version ) Meat Loaf - lead vocals Todd Rundgren - guitar, backing vocals Kasim Sulton - bass guitar Roy Bittan - piano Roger Powell - synthesizer John `` Willie '' Wilcox - drums Rory Dodd - additional backing vocals Strings arranged and conducted by Kenneth Ascher References Jump up ^ Meat Loaf - Two Out Of Three Ai n't Bad ( Japanese release ), retrieved 2017 - 04 - 14 Jump up ^ http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4614a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4614a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4614a RPM Top Singles, July 8, 1978 Jump up ^ http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.6958&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.6958.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.6958 RPM Adult Contemporary, August 12, 1978 Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 1993 ). Top Adult Contemporary : 1961 -- 1993. Record Research. p. 160. Jump up ^ `` Cash Box Top 100 7 / 01 / 78 ''. tropicalglen.com. Jump up ^ `` Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada ''. Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2017 - 04 - 05. Jump up ^ `` Top 100 Hits of 1978 / Top 100 Songs of 1978 ''. Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016 - 10 - 13. Jump up ^ `` Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1981 ''. Tropicalglen.com. 1981 - 12 - 26. Retrieved 2016 - 10 - 19. Jump up ^ Billboard Vol. 108, No. 22. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1996. p. 29. ISSN 0006 - 2510. Jump up ^ `` Top RPM Country Tracks : Issue 3492. '' RPM. Library and Archives Canada. March 23, 1998. Retrieved October 14, 2013. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Bat Out of Hell Meat Loaf Songs by Jim Steinman Produced by Todd Rundgren Side 1 `` Bat Out of Hell '' `` You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth '' `` Heaven Can Wait '' `` All Revved Up with No Place to Go '' Side 2 `` Two Out of Three Ai n't Bad '' `` Paradise by the Dashboard Light '' ( duet with Ellen Foley ) `` For Crying Out Loud '' Related articles Bat Out of Hell II : Back into Hell Bat Out of Hell III : The Monster Is Loose Bat Out of Hell : Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Cleveland International Records 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 ? '' `` Could n't Have Said It Better '' `` Man of Steel '' `` It 's All Coming Back to Me Now '' `` Cry Over Me '' `` Los Angeloser '' Related articles Discography Neverland Express Stoney & Meatloaf Ted Nugent Jim Steinman Patti Russo Shaun Murphy Amanda Aday Pearl Aday Bonnie Tyler songs Discography The World Starts Tonight `` Lost in France '' `` More Than a Lover '' Natural Force `` It 's a Heartache '' `` Living for the City '' `` Heaven '' `` ( You Make Me Feel Like ) A Natural Woman '' `` Here Am I '' Diamond Cut `` Too Good to Last '' `` My Guns Are Loaded '' Goodbye to the Island `` I 'm Just a Woman '' `` Sometimes When We Touch '' `` A Whiter Shade of Pale '' `` Sitting on the Edge of the Ocean '' `` I Believe in Your Sweet Love '' Faster Than the Speed of Night `` Have You Ever Seen the Rain ? '' `` Faster Than the Speed of Night '' `` Total Eclipse of the Heart '' `` Straight from the Heart '' Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire `` If You Were a Woman ( And I Was a Man ) '' `` Loving You 's a Dirty Job but Somebody 's Gotta Do It '' `` Band of Gold '' `` Lovers Again '' `` Holding Out for a Hero '' Hide Your Heart `` Hide Your Heart '' `` Do n't Turn Around '' `` Save Up All Your Tears '' `` To Love Somebody '' `` The Best '' Bitterblue `` Against the Wind '' `` Bitterblue '' `` Where Were You '' Angel Heart `` Fools Lullaby '' `` I Cry Myself to Sleep at Night '' Silhouette in Red `` You Are So Beautiful '' Free Spirit `` You 're the One '' `` Making Love Out of Nothing at All '' `` Bridge over Troubled Water '' `` Two Out of Three Ai n't Bad '' All in One Voice `` Angel of the Morning '' `` I Put a Spell on You '' `` The Rose '' `` He 's the King '' `` Silent Night '' Heart Strings `` Human Touch '' `` Everybody Hurts '' `` Amazed '' `` Against All Odds ( Take a Look at Me Now ) '' `` And I Am Telling You I 'm Not Going '' `` Lean on Me '' `` In My Life '' `` Learning to Fly '' `` Right Here Waiting '' `` I Still Have n't Found What I 'm Looking For '' `` I Ca n't Make You Love Me '' `` Need Your Love So Bad '' `` It 's Over '' Simply Believe `` Si demain... ( Turn Around ) '' `` Si tout s'arrête ( It 's a Heartache ) `` Darlin ' '' Wings `` Louise '' Rocks and Honey `` This Is Gonna Hurt '' `` Believe in Me '' `` What You Need from Me '' `` Love Is the Knife '' `` Mom '' Collaborations `` A Rockin ' Good Way ( to Mess Around and Fall in Love ) '' `` Islands '' `` Vergiß Es ( Forget It ) '' `` Amour Éternel ( Eternal Flame ) '' `` Love 's Holding On '' Other songs `` Sayonara Tokyo '' `` Here She Comes '' `` The Desert Is in Your Heart '' `` I Do n't Know How to Love Him '' Julian Austin Studio albums What My Heart Already Knows Back in Your Life Bulletproof The Red and White One for One Notable singles `` Little Ol ' Kisses '' `` Diamond '' `` Two Out of Three Ai n't Bad '' `` What My Heart Already Knows '' `` Hard Time Loving You '' `` Take the Money and Run '' `` Forever Loving You '' Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Two_Out_of_Three_Ain%27t_Bad&oldid=826213263 '' Categories : 1977 singles Meat Loaf songs Songs written by Jim Steinman Bonnie Tyler songs Julian Austin ( musician ) songs Nitty Gritty Dirt Band songs Song recordings produced by Todd Rundgren 1977 songs Epic Records singles Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from October 2013 All articles needing additional references Articles with hAudio microformats Singlechart usages for Canadacountry Singlechart called without artist Singlechart called without song Talk Contents About Wikipedia Magyar Edit links This page was last edited on 17 February 2018, at 21 : 41. 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Question: who wrote the song two out of three ain't bad
Answer: Meat Loaf