Hits List: Heart

This great Pacific Northwest band has gone over 74 million in sales and have always been tremendous live.  I was fortunate enough to catch them when they were just starting out.  That's the best time for they have the hunger, the drive, and the energy.  I saw them in 1976 at the Iowa State Fair when they opened for Bachman-Turner Overdrive.  As was usually the case when an opening act performed, most people were just talking, waiting for BTO.  I of course, loving music and already aware of the group, was listening intently.  As the group got into the second song or so, someone in the crowd said, and I remember it distinctly, "Hey pipe down everyone--these guys are good!"  Boy, were they! 

But this group was far more than that.  Ann & Nancy Wilson paved the way for women in rock.  Groups like the Go-Go's and Bangles and countless solo artists like Pat Benatar and others had the going much, much easier because of this group.  Here is a complete list of the Hits of Heart:



1976:  "Crazy On You" (#35, #25 Canada) --Highly, highly underrated song
           "Magic Man" (#9, #26 Canada) --It was a #1 song for us in Boise.
           "Dreamboat Annie" (#42, #17 Adult Contemporary, #53 Canada)
1977:  "(Love Me Like Music) I'll Be Your Song"
           "Barracuda" (#11, #2 Canada) --again highly underrated in the U.S.
           "Little Queen" (#62, #58 Canada)
           "Kick It Out" (#79, #67 Canada) --yet another highly underrated Heart song.
           "Love Alive"
1978:  "Crazy On You"--re-issue (#62, #68 Canada)
           "Heartless" (#24, #18 Canada)
           "Straight On" (#15, #14 Canada) --yet another underrated song.
1979:  "Dog & Butterfly" (#34, #33 Adult Contemporary, #51 Canada)
           "Magazine"
           "Without You"
1980:  "Even It Up" (#33, #56 Canada)
           "Bebe Le Strange"
           "Break"
           "Raised On You"
           "Sweet Darlin'"
           "Tell It Like It Is" (#8, #43 AC, #4 Canada)
1981:  "Unchained Melody" (#83)
1982:  "This Man Is Mine" (#33, #16 Mainstream Rock)
           "City's Burning" (#15 Mainstream Rock)
           "Bright Light Girl"
1983:  "The Situation"
           "How Can I Refuse" (#44, #1 Mainstream Rock)
           "Sleep Alone" #43 Mainstream Rock)
           "Allies" (#83)
1984:  "The Heat" (#40 Mainstream Rock)

1985:  "What About Love" (#10, #3 Mainstream Rock, #8 Canada)
           "Never" (#4, #2 Main, #13 Canada)
1986:  "These Dreams" (#1, #2 Main, #1 AC, #6 Canada, #62 U.K.)
           "Nothin' at All" (#10, #6 Main, #40 AC, #29 Canada, #76 U.K.)
           "If Looks Could Kill" (#54)
1987:  "Alone" (#1, #3 Main, #2 AC, #1 Canada, #3 U.K.)
           "Who Will You Run To" (#7, #2 Main, #19 Canada, #30 U.K.)
           "There's the Girl" (#12, #16 Main, #31 Canada, #34 U.K.)
1988:  "I Want You So Bad" (#49, #88 Canada)
           "Wait for An Answer"
           "Never"/"These Dreams" (release in U.K.--#8)
           "What About Love" (release in U.K.--#14)
           "Nothin' at All" (release in U.K.--#38)

1990:  "All I Wanna' Do Is Make Love to You" (#2, #2 Main, #6 AC, #1 Canada, #8 U.K.)
           "Wild Child" (#3 Main)
           "Tall, Dark, Handsome Stranger" (#24 Main)
           "I Didn't Want to Need You" (#23, #13 Main, #14 Canada, #47 U.K.)
           "Stranded" (#13, #25 Main, #8 AC, #2 Canada, #60 U.K.)
1991:  "Secret" (#64, #30 Canada, #79 U.K.)
           "You're the Voice" (#20 Main, #65 Canada, #56 U.K.)
1993:  "Black on Black II" (#4 Main, #59 Canada)
           "Will You Be There (In the Morning)" (#39, #15 AC, #8 Canada, #19 U.K.)
1994:  "Back to Avalon" (#60 Canada)
           "The Woman in Me" (#24 AC, #13 Canada)
1995:  "Alone"
           "The Road Home" (#47 Canada)
1998:  "Strong, Strong Wind"
2004:  "The Perfect Goodbye"
           "Oldest Story in the World" (#22 Main)
           "Make Me"
2010:  "Hey You" (#26 AC)
           "WTF"

2012:  "Walking Good"
           "Fanatic" (#49 Mainstream)
2013:  "Dear Old America"
           "Stairway To Heaven" (#20 Mainstream)
           "All Through The Night" (with Richard Marx--#16 AC)

That's a sum of 34 career hits, with nine making the Top 10 and two #1's, and that's with radio underrating several of their songs.