Ellen Foley recalls her epic duet with Meat Loaf: 'Stop right there!' - Fox News

"Stop Right There!" Three words of warning — and three words that Ellen Foley credits with launching her career in music.

It was Foley who belted out the words to Meat Loaf about halfway through their eight-and-a-half minute duet "Paradise By the Dashboard Light," the epic seduction song on his mega-selling 1977 "Bat Out of Hell" album.

Foley is now looking back on the singular experience of making the memorable song as she recalls Meat Loaf and a "beautiful, feisty, joyful friendship" that began in her early 20s.

Meat Loaf, born Marvin Lee Aday, died on Thursday at 74.

He was the most unlikely of rock superstars, Foley says?

Ellen Foley collaborated with Meat Loaf on the hit single "Paradise By the Dashboard Light" from his 1977 hit album "Bat Out of Hell." Meat Loaf died Thursday, at age 74.

MEAT LOAF, THE 'I'D DO ANYTHING FOR LOVE' SINGER, DEAD AT 74.

It was in the '70s that Foley met Meat Loaf, when the two of them were driving around in a blue van, touring with a National Lampoon comedy show.

Ellen Foley collaborated with Meat Loaf on the hit single "Paradise By the Dashboard Light" from his 1977 hit album "Bat Out of Hell." Meat Loaf died Thursday, at age 74.

"I think it was sold off of live performance," Foley said of the 1977 album.

But Foley says people also recite a litany of other occasions when they've pulled out the song, telling her: "'I did it at karaoke, at my wedding, at my high school reunion, at my bar mitzvah.'"

Indeed, Foley says, she sometimes feels like an astronaut, looking back on the big moonshot that defined a career

But this week, Foley is remembering the friend she simply calls Meat, whom she last saw when they collaborated on his 2016 album, "Braver Than We Are."