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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 Karla Bonoff
Released	March 1982
Genre	Folk rock, pop rock, easy listening, adult contemporary
Length	37:56
Label	Columbia
Producer	Kenny Edwards
Karla Bonoff chronology
Restless Nights (1979) Wild Heart of the Young (1982) New World (1988)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	[2]

Track listing

All songs written by Karla Bonoff, except where noted.

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. 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," even though the episode itself was set in the summer of 1972, exactly ten years before the song was released. It was also used in an episode of the mid-1980s soap opera Rituals.

Personnel

• Karla Bonoff – lead vocals, piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals
• Russ Kunkel – drums, percussion
• Bob Glaub – bass guitar, electric guitar
• Andrew Gold – electric guitar, electric piano, organ, percussion, backing vocals
• Danny Kortchmar - electric guitar
• Kenny Edwards – electric guitar, backing 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, Timothy B. Schmit, J. D. Souther, Wendy Waldman, Brock Walsh – backing vocals

References

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