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. It is unusual in that it was not written by Bonoff.
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."
It 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."
After two modest-selling albums, Karla Bonoff tried a new approach with her third, posing for a cover photo in a lace dress with a male model, cutting a specially chosen cover song for a hit single, and making an MTV video.
And it worked, sort of. Paul Kelly's "Personally," a coy and catchy pop song utterly uncharacteristic of Bonoff's other work, did make it into the Top 40. But that didn't stimulate the album's sales enough to keep Columbia Records from dropping Bonoff.
Beyond the commercial considerations, though, 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.
Side A
A1. Personally - 3:37
A2. Please Be The One - 4:08
A3. I Don’t Want To Miss You - 4:28
A4. Even If - 4:06
A5. Just Walk Away - 4:14
Side B
B1. Gonna Be Mine - 4:00
B2. Wild Heart Of The Young - 4:51
B3. It Just Takes One - 4:43
B4. Dream - 3:54
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
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – CBS Inc.
- Copyright (c) – CBS Inc.
- Recorded At – Wilder Bros. Studios, Los Angeles
- Recorded At – Santa Barbara Sound Recording
- Recorded At – Sunset Sound
- Mastered At – Amigo Studios
- Mastered At – Customatrix
- Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute
- Designed At – Dawn Patrol
- Manufactured By – Columbia Records
- Record Company – CBS Inc.
- Published By – Tree Publishing Co., Inc.
- Published By – Five Of A Kind Publishing Co.
- Published By – Seagrape Music
Credits
- Art Direction, Design – Jimmy Wachtel
- Illustration [Hand Letttering] – Gloria Von Jansky
- Management – Norman Epstein
- Mastered By – Bobby Hata
- Mixed By – Jim Isaacson, Jim Nipar
- Mixed By [Help With The Mixes] – Andrew Gold
- Photography By – Randee St. Nicholas
- Producer – Kenny Edwards
- Production Manager [Production Assistant] – Jodie Lunine, Liz Heller
- Recorded By – Allan Blazek, Jim Isaacson, Jim Nipar
- Recorded By [With] – Dennis Kirk, James Geddes, James Ledner, Ray Blair, Stephen McManus
Notes
Release: 1982
Format: LP
Genre: Soft Rock
Label: CBS Records
Catalog# CBS 85173
Prijs: €4,99
Vinyl: VG
Cover: Bovenkant rand beschadigd
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