She’ll return to CSPS in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, March 31, accompanied by guitarist Linda Gerber. However, Bonoff finds performing live still gives her a thrill and goes out on mini-tours of regions of the United States or Australia to invigorate her musical chops. She hit the top ten in 1994 with a single from the film 8 Seconds called “Standing Right Next to Me” and in the same decade penned the Grammy-winning duet between Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville “All My Life.” Other notable covers of Bonoff’s material include “Home” by Bonnie Raitt, “Tell Me Why” by Wynonna Judd, and “Isn’t It Always Love” by Lynn Anderson. It exists on an odd island of strangeness and really didn’t do much for me or my career.” Still, Bonoff said she liked singing it and still sings it live.īonoff has enjoyed other success as both a singer and a songwriter. While the single sold lots of copies, it was not the kind of song that sold albums. It’s not associated with a particular artist. She explained that “Personally” is what those in the music industry call a “faithless” hit. “There’s something schizophrenic about the situation.” “The weird thing about it is that people either know me from that song, or they do not know that song and know me for the material covered by Linda,” Bonoff said over the phone from her California home. Her version of “Personally” made it to number three on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart back in the summer of 1982. Singer songwriter Karla Bonoff is best known by music fans as the person who penned three of the hits from Linda Ronstadt’s seminal 1976 album Hasten Down the Wind: “Someone to Lay Down Beside Me,” “If He’s Ever Near,” and “Lose Again.” Strangely, Bonoff’s biggest hit record was one she did not write. Karla Bonoff may not have been in the spotlight much through her long career, but her songs have.
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