Heart

Released: March 26, 1990

Songwriter: Nancy Wilson (Heart) Mark Andes Denny Carmassi Sue Ennis Howard Leese Ann Wilson

Producer: Richie Zito

After midnight I call you
Even though I know better
I just got to
The moon is full
My heart is hot and you know what I'm longing to do
With this aching I got

The call of the wild
Oh baby, can't you hear me calling
Oooh...
The call of the wild
The call of the wild

How can you ask me why I'm pushing
When you know damn well what you do
What you do to a woman
I get so inspired, lying so close
It's the flash and the flame and the fever
I need the most

The call of the wild
Oh baby, can't you hear me calling
Oooh...
The call of the wild
The call of the wild

If I could chain you to me I'd do it in a minute
My magic caravan, baby you'd be in it
I'm hiding the prize and you're gonna win it
You're gonna win it now

The call of the wild
Oh baby, can't you hear me calling
Oooh
The call of the wild
Oooh
The call of the wild
Oooh
Oh baby
Listen to me howling

The call of the wild

Heart, lead by Ann and Nancy Wilson, is considered a — or the — Grand Dame of hard rock and heavy metal.

Not only do they have more hit singles and AOR tracks than most other bands (songs we’d go over in detail but they’re listed on this very page in order of popularity) but in some ways deeper respect than many, both for their own groundbreaking talent and appeal and some unusual recognition thereof, including having been picked to perform Stairway to Heaven for Led Zeppelin themselves at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012, making Robert Plant and company actually cry. Not Rush, not Aerosmith, nor any of the other bands beloved rock/metal that — along with Ann and Nancy’s band — followed Zeppelin by one generation. Just Heart.

Starting in the mid seventies, Heart forged a unique and powerful sound outstanding in their field, and was unusual in topping the charts well into their own second decade in the late eighties, becoming a staple of MTV’s rotation, albeit sometimes crammed by the industry into music videos that the bandmates despised and comment on to this day.

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