Hmmm . . . I would think that someone like Lieber & Stoller, or Holand/Dozier/Holland, or some similar songwriting group (Goffin & King?) might have had three Top 10 hits by different artists at once. Time for some research!
I thought the drummer on most of that Bonnie Tyler album was Max Weinberg, of E Street Band fame. Was he your dad’s best man, or am I mistaken?
I know that lot of the keyboards were done by Paul Shaffer, now best known as David Letterman’s sidekick.
I assume this is the same Max Wienberg who leads the band on Conan O’Brien’s show?
Bonnie Tyler originally did it, but I think Kim Karnes (one-hit-wonder w/“Bette Davis eyes”) covered it too.
I was all ready to jump in and say, "Ha! You’re all wrong - it was Klaus Nomi!
And then Mr. Mayo looked over my shoulder and said, “Nomi’s song was ‘Total Eclipse of the Sun.’”
Rats. I hate it when he goes around being right and everything.
Some years before Bonnie Tyler recorded “Total Eclipse,” Jim Steinman used the melody in its entirety as part of the soundtrack to a movie called “A Small Circle of Friends.” Perhaps, as an earlier poster mentioned, he had already written the tune for a proposed musical, and recycled it for the movie.
Incidentally, I SWEAR, that the first 20 or 30 times I heard Bonnie Tyler sing “It’s A Heartache” on the radio, I thought it was Rod Stewart!
Nope, at least not if your not limiting yourself to the US. Barry Gibb did it, but I don’t remember the details.
Nah - My dad’s best man was a session drummer frequently employed by Bonnie Tyler (or at least whoever was responsible for putting Bonnie Tyler’s songs). He did the drumming for that song.
Boy would I be happy if my dad’s best man was Max Weinburg!
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The recycling is more than likely. I love Steinman’s work enormously, but if you took every album he has produced/created over the past 20 years and factored in all of the cover versions and other “recyclings”, you’d have about a quarter as many albums. His low productivity is kind of frustrating, but builds anticipation, I suppose. You can’t hurry crazed genius…
Re the Bonnie/Rod similarity: it’s been commented on more than once in the press. In an amusing twist on it, there was a commercial for Pierre Cardin men’s cologne that ran around the holidays about 10 years ago, which I believe featured Bonnie singing Rod Stewart’s “You Wear It Well”.
And yes, Saltire, Max Weinberg’s current full-time gig is as Conan O’Brian’s version of Paul Shaffer.