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1982 studio album by Karla Bonoff
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.

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."

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."

Charts

Weekly charts

Year End Charts

Charting singles

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