Song of the day for April 19, 2024

Original Sin by Taylor Dayne is todays featured song.

In 2021, Jim Steinman, the celebrated songwriter, pianist, and producer, who rose to fame masterminding Meatloaf’s iconic 1977 Bat Out Of Hell album, died at the age of 73. In addition to his longtime collaboration with Meatloaf -– which included six albums between 1977 and 2016 – Steinman produced hit records for Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply, and Sisters Of Mercy. Steinman also wrote many big hits over the years including this song as well as, songs for Celine Dion, Barry Manilow, Fire Inc., The Sisters Of Mercy, Russell Watson, The Everly Brothers and more.

“Original Sin” is a song produced, written and arranged by Jim Steinman. Steinman originally wrote, composed, and produced the song for the album of the same name by the musical team called Pandora’s Box. American singer Taylor Dayne covered the song (singing to a stripped-down version of the backup tracks recorded for Pandora’s Box), and it was released as a single on June 26, 1994, and included in the soundtrack to the film The Shadow. The photograph displayed on the cover of Dayne’s single was shot by Alberto Tolot, taken on the set of its music video. This version of the song has slightly altered lyrics referring to the themes of the movie (a line about ‘evil lurking in the hearts of men today’ based on the intro to “The Shadow” radio program) different from the ones sung by Meat Loaf on Welcome to the Neighborhood and Pandora’s Box.