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You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)

Meat Loaf

1978 · Rock, Pop

Rare pressing on Gatefold

You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) by Meat Loaf

You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) is a Rock album by Meat Loaf, originally released in 1978. On Gatefold: 27 pressings tracked.

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Sound DNA

  • Rock
  • Hard Rock
  • polished
  • triumphant
  • summer

Master for Meat Loaf "You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth", taken from the album Bat Out Of Hell.
This master contains several releases, featuring one of the the following versions of the song on side A:
- the full 5:04 album version, including the spoken intro;
- the album version without the spoken intro, running 4:12;
- the single version, edited even further and running 3:40.
The song was released as the first single of the album, b/w a 3:05 edit of "For Crying Out Loud" (running 8:45 on the album).
This version charted in the UK, but neither in the Netherlands nor in the US.
After the song "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" became a No. 1 hit in the Netherlands, "You Took..." was re-issued in the US, b/w the 5:25 Dutch edit of "Paradise...".
This release reached No. 39 in the Billboard Hot 100.
In the Netherlands, "You Took..." was re-issued in its full 5:04 with the full 5:23 of "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad" on the B-side (that song was released as an A-side before, but did not chart in the Netherlands). This release became a Dutch Top 5 hit, and was the fifth single lifted from the album (only the final two charted there):
1. You Took The Words... / For Crying Out Loud (EPC 5980)
2. All Revved Up... / Heaven Can Wait (EPC 6101)
3. Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad / For Crying Out Loud (EPC 6281)
4. Paradise By The Dashboard Light / Bat Overture (EPC 6673)
5. You Took The Words... / Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad (EPC 6729)

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Rare pressing on Gatefold · 27 pressings tracked on Gatefold

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