{"id":882,"date":"2026-03-06T14:15:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/?p=882"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:15:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:15:44","slug":"this-unknown-broadway-singer-appeared-on-a-ted-nugent-album-before-his-own-career-took-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/this-unknown-broadway-singer-appeared-on-a-ted-nugent-album-before-his-own-career-took-off\/","title":{"rendered":"This Unknown Broadway Singer Appeared on a Ted Nugent Album Before His Own Career Took Off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just one year before Meat Loaf<\/a>‘s Bat Out of Hell<\/em> success, the singer contributed vocals to a Ted Nugent album. The singer had seen some success on Broadway, as well as an opening act in the group Floating Circus. Floating Circus opened for acts such as the Who, the Stooges, the Grateful Dead and Alice Cooper<\/a>. Following the disbandment of Floating Circus, Meat Loaf formed the duo Meat Loaf & Stoney and signed to Motown Records. In 1971, the duo earned a minor hit with “What You See Is What You Get”, which peaked at No. 36 on the Best-Selling Soul Singles chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meat Loaf soon left Motown Records and returned to theater performances. In 1973, he was cast in the original LA Roxy cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em>. Meat Loaf played both Eddie and Dr. Scott. When the musical was adapted to film, Meat Loaf only played Eddie. He claimed the musical was much better than the film, mostly because he didn’t play both Eddie and Dr. Scott. Meat Loaf then performed in the Broadway musical Rockabye Hamlet<\/em> in 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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