AIR SUPPLY - MAKING LOVE OUT OF NOTHING AT ALL 1983 (Audio Enhanced)

The song was first recorded by Air Supply, gaining them a number two hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States of America (US). It was another Steinman production, Bonnie Tyler’s recording of “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, that was at number one while “Making Love…” sat in runner-up position, keeping Air Supply from scoring their second number-one single in the US (the first being The One That You Love in 1981). The song subsequently became the title track of their 1983 greatest hits album. The B-side of the single was a song called “Late Again”. They have included the song on their numerous greatest hits and live albums, and recorded an acoustic version for their 2005 album The Singer and the Song.The original is also featured on the Mr. and Mrs. Smith soundtrack album, where it was played during the car chase / gunfight scene. It was also used in the films Click and Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

Steinman offered the song, along with “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, to Meat Loaf for his Midnight at the Lost and Found album; however, Meat Loaf’s record company refused to pay Steinman for the material so Meat Loaf ended up writing compositions for the album himself. Steinman’s songs were then offered to Bonnie Tyler & Air Supply.

By 1983, Air Supply had changed much of its classic musician line-up, both in the recording studio & on tour. But Steinman, known for his lavish, rock-opera-ish type productions, used Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band members Roy Bittan on keyboards and Max Weinberg on drums, to musically underscore the recording with like energies. 70’s glam-rock icon Rick Derringer, supplied the electric guitar solo that made the sound of Making Love Out Of Nothing At All stand so drastically apart from most other Air Supply productions.

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