Steinman, who sadly passed away earlier this week at the age of 73, was then best known for his extensive work writing off-Broadway stage musicals, so it makes sense that the brand of pop that would eventually make him an industry notable was highly theatrical and anything but conventional, his multi-movement near-Wagnerian epics – usually surpassing five minutes in length, his most famous composition topping the twelve-minute mark in its full-length album version – hardly resembling the typical radio fare of the day when Steinman first came to the attention of pop audiences. The immensely-underappreciated Yvonne Elliman – best known for the lush disco of her chart-topping and BeeGees-penned Saturday Night Fever contribution “If I Can’t Have You” (the former Jesus Christ Superstar co-star and Eric Clapton backup singer, in fact, has four other Top 40 hits to her name as well, including covers of the BeeGees’ “Love Me” and Barbara Lewis’ “Hello Stranger”) – doesn’t get much attention for it, but the Hawaiian native, in recording the song “Happy Ending” on her 1973 outing Food of Love, also has the distinction of being the first pop star to record and commercially release a song by an up-and-coming songwriter named Jim Steinman, best known as the songwriter behind Meat Loaf’s biggest albums.
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