Meat Loaf, ‘You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth’ (Cash Box’ magazine, October 28, 1978). Click to enlarge.

“1978 belongs to Meat Loaf.”

Here we have an ad for Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell celebrating the album’s first anniversary and touting the artist’s domination of the charts.

Meat Loaf’s single in the fall of ’78, “You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth,” was actually a re-issue after the success of the LP and made it to #39 on the US Hot 100.

Previously on Vintage Ads: Queen, ‘Bicycle Race’/’Fat Bottomed Girls’ (1978)