Wild Heart of the Young

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.

Wild Heart of the Young
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch, 1982
GenreFolk rock, pop rock,
easy listening, adult contemporary
Length37:56
LabelColumbia
ProducerKenny Edwards
Karla Bonoff chronology
Restless Nights
(1979)
Wild Heart of the Young
(1982)
New World
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Rolling Stone[2]

Track listing

All songs written by Karla Bonoff, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Personally"Paul Kelly3:37
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 Edwards3:59
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
US Billboard 200[4] 49

Year End Charts

Year End Chart (1982) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200 83

Charting Singles

Single Chart Position
Personally U.S.Billboard Hot 100 19
U.S. BillboardAdult Contemporary Chart 3
Please Be The One U.S.Billboard Hot 100 63
U.S. BillboardAdult Contemporary Chart 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

References

  1. Wild Heart of the Young at AllMusic
  2. Holden, Stephen. "Wild Heart of the Young", Rolling Stone, May 13, 1982, p. 67.
  3. Whitburn, Joel (2000). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 7th Edition, p. 76. Billboard Books, New York. ISBN 0-8230-7690-3
  4. http://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1982-11-20
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