who sang the original it's all coming back to me now
Pandora's Box
title: It's All Coming Back to Me Now text: has since performed the song as part of The Dream Engine at Joe's Pub in New York City. For the track, Roy Bittan performed on the grand piano, with Steinman and Jeff Bova on keyboards. Guitars were by Eddie Martinez, with Steve Buslowe on bass guitar and Jimmy Bralower on drums. Todd Rundgren arranged the background vocals, which were performed by Ellen Foley, Gina Taylor, and Deliria Wilde. The song was released as a single in the United Kingdom during October 1989, but only reached No. 51 in the singles charts. In its review of the album, "Kerrang!" magazine called title: It's All Coming Back to Me Now text: said "the theme of Wagner's opera "Tristan and Isolde", with its extreme passions and obsessive love, informs all his best work." A 2007 article in the "Toronto Star" claims that the song was written as Steinman's "tryout" as lyricist for Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Boulevard". In 1989, Steinman produced a concept album, "Original Sin", with an all-female group called Pandora's Box. The album featured many tracks that would later be recorded by other artists, particularly Meat Loaf. Elaine Caswell was the lead vocalist for "It's All Coming Back To Me Now", who apparently collapsed five times during its recording. Caswell title: Ellen Foley text: she sang backing vocals on Joe Jackson's album "Body & Soul" and had a large role in the music video for Utopia's "Crybaby". Foley was one of four female vocalists to front the band Pandora's Box, formed by Jim Steinman in 1989. Their album "Original Sin" was the first to feature the song "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (vocals by Elaine Caswell); both Meat Loaf and Celine Dion had separate chart successes with that song, years later. Foley lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and continues an active career in music and has appeared on Broadway title: It's All Coming Back to Me Now text: It's All Coming Back to Me Now "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" is a power ballad written by Jim Steinman. According to Steinman, the song was inspired by "Wuthering Heights", and was an attempt to write "the most passionate, romantic song" he could ever create. "The Sunday Times" posits that "Steinman protects his songs as if they were his children". Meat Loaf had wanted to record "It's All Coming Back..." for years, but Steinman saw it as a "woman's song." Steinman won a court movement preventing Meat Loaf from recording it. Girl group Pandora's Box went on to title: The Dream Engine text: a long history working with Jim Steinman. She was a vocalist on the 1989 album called "Original Sin" by Pandora's Box. This album was produced by Steinman, with Steven Rinkoff, and contained mostly songs that Steinman wrote. On this album, Caswell performed the very first recording of the song "It's All Coming Back to Me Now", which would later become a hit in 1996 with Celine Dion as the vocalist. Caswell has performed this song with TDE at their live shows. She has sung on television and radio advertisements, as a backup vocalist for television performances, and as a backup