October 2, 1983 –
Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler’s single Total Eclipse Of The Heart was No. 1 on the Billboard Charts, on this date. The song, which was Tyler’s biggest hit of her career, made her the only Welsh artist to score a U.S. No. 1 hit.
The song was written and produced by Jim Steinman, and had sales in excess of 6 million copies. Steinman wrote all of Meat Loaf’s hits, including Paradise By The Dashboard Light, Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad, had offered this song, along with Making Love Out Of Nothing At All, to Meat Loaf for his 1983 album >Midnight At The Lost And Found. For financial reasons, Meat’s record company wanted him to write his own songs for the album, so Total Eclipse went to Tyler and Making Love Out Of Nothing At All went to Air Supply.
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