Wild Heart of the Young
| Wild Heart of the Young | ||||
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| Released | March, 1982 | |||
| Genre | Folk rock, pop rock, easy listening, adult contemporary | |||
| Length | 37:56 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Kenny Edwards | |||
| Karla Bonoff chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Rolling Stone | [2] |
Wild Heart of the Young is the third album by singer/songwriter Karla Bonoff. The album includes Bonoff's only Top 40 hit, "Personally", which peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard singles chart.[3] It is unusual in that it was not written by Bonoff.
Track listing[]
All songs written by Karla Bonoff, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Personally" | Paul Kelly | 3:37 |
| 2. | "Please Be the One" | 4:07 | |
| 3. | "I Don't Want to Miss You" | 4:29 | |
| 4. | "Even If" | 4:05 | |
| 5. | "Just Walk Away" | 4:15 | |
| 6. | "Gonna Be Mine" | Bonoff, Kenny Edwards | 3:59 |
| 7. | "Wild Heart of the Young" | 4:51 | |
| 8. | "It Just Takes One" | 4:41 | |
| 9. | "Dream" | 3:52 |
Reception[]
Rolling Stone's Stephen Holden notes that with this album Bonoff "has finally stopped playing the role of the passive loser…" and "strengthened her style to the point that she no longer sounds like an all-too-willing victim of love." He relates that "[i]n her finest performance, she turns Paul Kelly's "Personally,"… into a sly tour de force of sexual tease." And concludes of the album that "at its best it says goodbye to the smoggy, posh romanticism of Seventies L.A. with a confident kick of the heels."[2]
AllMusic's William Ruhlmann retrospectively describes "Personally" as "a coy and catchy pop song utterly uncharacteristic of Bonoff's other work." He opines that "Bonoff's original songs, which made up the bulk of the album, simply were not up to the standard set by her debut, and Wild Heart Of The Young was the weakest of her three Columbia Records albums."[1]
Charts[]
Weekly charts[]
| Chart (1982) | Peak position |
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| US Billboard 200[4] | 49 |
Year End Charts[]
| Year End Chart (1982) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard 200 | 83 |
Charting singles[]
| Single | Chart | Position |
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| Personally | U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 19 |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary | 3 | |
| Please Be The One | U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 63 |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary | 22 |
Sound track[]
"Wild Heart of the Young" is the sound track in the season five episode of The Wonder Years "Broken Hearts and Burgers". It was also used in an episode of the mid-1980s soap opera Rituals.
Personnel[]
- Karla Bonoff – lead vocals, piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals
- Russ Kunkel – drums, percussion
- Bob Glaub – bass guitar, electric guitar
- Andrew Gold – electric guitar, electric piano, organ, percussion, background vocals
- Danny Kortchmar - electric guitar
- Kenny Edwards – electric guitar, background vocals
- Hawk Wolinski – organ, electric piano, synthesizer
- Bill Payne – synthesizer, organ
- Steve Forman – percussion
- Ira Ingber – electric guitar
- Joe Walsh – electric guitar
- Waddy Wachtel – electric guitar
- David Sanborn - saxophone
- Victor Feldman – vibraphone
- Mark Jordan – organ
- Phil Kenzie – saxophone
- Don Henley – background vocals
- Timothy B. Schmit – background vocals
- J. D. Souther – background vocals
- Wendy Waldman – background vocals
- Brock Walsh – background vocals
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Wild Heart of the Young at AllMusic
- ^ Jump up to: a b Holden, Stephen. "Wild Heart of the Young", Rolling Stone, May 13, 1982, p. 67.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2000). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 7th Edition, p. 76. Billboard Books, New York. ISBN 0-8230-7690-3
- ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1982-11-20
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- 1982 albums
- Karla Bonoff albums
- Columbia Records albums