Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through

"Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through"
Side A of the US single
Single by Jim Steinman
from the album Bad for Good
B-side	"Love and Death and an American Guitar"
Released	May 22, 1981 (1981-05-22)
Length	4:00 (radio edit) 6:23 (album version)
Label	Epic
Songwriter(s)	Jim Steinman
Producer(s)	Jim Steinman and Jimmy Iovine
Music video
Video on YouTube

"Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through"
Single by Meat Loaf
from the album Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell
B-side	"I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" (live) (North America) "Wasted Youth" (Europe)
Released	January 1994 (1994-01)
Studio	Ocean Way Recording (Los Angeles)
Length	5:50 (album version) 4:02 (radio edit)
Label	MCA Virgin
Songwriter(s)	Jim Steinman
Producer(s)	Jim Steinman
Meat Loaf singles chronology
"Bat Out of Hell" (1993) "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" (1994) "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are" (1994)
Music video
Video on YouTube

"Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" is a song written by American composer Jim Steinman. It was first featured on Steinman's 1981 solo album Bad for Good, with lead vocals by an uncredited Rory Dodd. It was later recorded by American singer Meat Loaf and released in 1994 as the third single from the album Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell.

Both the Steinman original and the Meat Loaf remake were top-40 hits. Steinman's version hit number 32 on the US Billboard Hot 100, number 14 on the Billboard Rock Top Tracks chart and number 29 on the Cash Box Top 100; it is Steinman's lone top-40 hit as an artist. In New Zealand, the song spent two weeks at number six. It matched this position 12 years later with the Meat Loaf version. Also, the Meat Loaf version reached number 11 on the UK Singles Chart, number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number four on Canada's RPM Top Singles chart in early 1994.