Gaynor ( Bonnies real name) is a wonderful singer. Had so much fun at home as a teenager, she was massive and from my home town. She’s been married to the same man, has an extremely close family and still doing world tours. Spends her time between her homes The Mumbles Wales and Portugal. You couldn’t meet a kinder warm, funny caring lady.
@@HASarpsborg When you see her and Robert they are like a pair of loved up soppy teenagers. Not many couples like that around these days. He’s a lucky guy and she’s a lucky girl.
I truly hope her life is as good as you say. She deserves it. She lead a generation of wemon to be proud, strong, and sexy as h***. I've often said get Bionsae to sing the hero song...just as the original. She showed us all we could have equality and still love to love. It seemed so simple.
This was the first recording Bonnie did after throat surgery to remove nodules from her vocal chords which explains the extra husky voice compared with other recordings of hers, although having said that there was always a husky element to her voice
I remember hearing about that. Also if I recall, they said her voice after the surgery was very different from what it was beforehand. B.T. went years with those nodules on her vocal cords. And it took a while for her to be able to sing again. Once she did, this raspy vocal came out...
@@Deborahtunes It became a real blessing. It gave her a signature vocal sound no one could really duplicate! Like Rod Stewart. What's funny is Rod Stewart would do a version of this on a 70's tribute album of him doing remakes.
Bonnie's raw, raspy, husky voice is a result of unsuccessful vocal cord surgery about a year before she recorded this song. Her biggest hit was Total Eclipse of the Heart, which was written by Jim Steinman, best known for being the songwriting partner of Meat Loaf. Bonnie actually did more collaborating with Jim than Meat Loaf did. Jim has also written songs recorded by Celine Dion, Air Supply, Barbara Streisand, Barry Manilow, and the Everly Brothers.
I always assumed she was American she is Welsh/ British maybe that's why I also was reminded or Rod Stewart😍This was a big hit for her and Rod Stewart actually remade it!
There is a Rod Stewart version of this on an album he recorded. He was doing a stretch of cover albums. Four were classic pop/jazz standards, another called "Soulbook" an album of classic R&B/Soul hit songs, and the last was a tribute of 70's hits where you'll find this. Huge Rod Stewart fan here!
@@seanswinton6242 I wasn’t aware he had done a cover of this. I’m 60 and haven’t missed a Rod concert in Atlanta since I was 15! I really like him a lot. Thanks for the info!
When you do Total Eclipse of the Heart by her, make sure it's the long version. Her voice here is so beautiful and rough, like she just smoked 20 packs of cigarettes.
You’ve done lovely Bonnie, so now it’s time for more Tina Turner guys! I’m so shocked you guys haven’t done her live performances (post Ike) - she really became ’Tina’ when she went on her own and worked her butt off to get back to the top. It’s a very inspiring story. Her live performances in Amsterdam 1996 and Wembley 2000 are NOT to be missed: Proud Mary, Nutbush, Better Be Good To Me, The Best, Addicted to Love, Twenty Four Seven and so much more! This whole concert is incredible, her energy, the band, the dancers, the stage, the crowd - you are really missing out if you don’t react to Tina and this concert!! 🙏🏽💜
I e-mail them EVERY Friday after no Tina Turner. Tina Turner Live at Wembley (2000) is one of the best live performances I have ever seen! AND she was 61 when she did this!!!!
@@flixgirl1 absolutely agree with you! 🙌🏾 I’m pretty sure Jay and Amber will be blown away by Tina in this concert. In terms of women of rock she is the apex for me. She does it all. Not many performers can do what she does, in her outfits, wearing high heels, running all over the stage and on an extended arm going out into the audience, interacting and dancing with her dancers and band and still looks and sound phenomenal - she absolutely kills it. These guys are one of my fave reactors and I’d love to see them experience Tina like this. 💜
That's why I watch your reactions...comparing her voice to Rod Stewart was spot on and something I never even thought about but it is amazingly similar in this song for sure.
I do love Amber's ability to listen to the lyrics and get the message. I am a lyrics person first and then the music just adds to it, but the lyrics mean so much.
Great cross over song! It was her first hit. Another female that has her sound is Kim Carnes. She has a great duet with Kenny Rogers called Don't Fall In Love With a Dreamer, and solo hits Betty Davis Eyes, and More Love.
Lost in France, released in 1976, was my first introduction to Bonnie. It led to her nomination for Best British Female Newcomer at the 1977 Brit Awards.
I recorded a concert of her on an old video take along with episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine and Postman Pat, my some who was about 3 at the time loved Listen To this song, it was his favourite.He got so upset when i did n' realise what he wanted, i thought it was Thomas he wanted, his brother was a Postman Pat fan
Back in the 90’s my company was given a concert series at Chastain Park in Atlanta. I was offered a choice of tickets. I chose Bonnie. I will never regret that choice.
Amber's totally on point! I love finding this quality in female vocalists, and Bonnie Tyler has literally been referred to as "the female Rod Stewart" at times during her illustrious career. In Bonnie's case the raspier voice was a result of nodules she had removed from her vocal chords. After she recovered, it had permanently changed her voice. She embraced the change with the encouragement from those around her and thus, we are blessed with great tunes like "Total Eclipse of the Heart", "Holding Out for a Hero" and this lovely gem.
This was one of her first songs after her throat surgery on her vocal folds. Went against her doctors advice to not talk for a few weeks and damaged them. Never slowed her down. I liked the sound.
Bonnie's first massive hit here in the U.S. I was 11 at the time, 1977, and my brother was 19 and played it constantly!! But I never, ever got sick of it. It might sound a little weird, but to me me the extreme rasp in her voice is somehow comforting to me. This song was recorded not long after she had surgery for vocal nodules which is why it sounds like she gargled with broken glass and the songs that came after are a little more smooth. I've always loved her.
She was still recovering from her vocal chord surgery when this was recorded, that's why she sounds like she's been gargling broken glass all day here. The surgery left her with a rasp that she has never lost, but it is definitely at it's most raspy here.
I've always loved her voice. It's like she's got glass in her throat. Such a unique quality that many singers try to emulate, but few can properly achieve. She's got it naturally! ❤
You are right about her voice her voice was so powerful but then she has surgery and was told not to sing for 6 weeks but she didn’t listen but her rasp came from her not listening to her doctor but it also gave her that amazing rasp in her voice. I absolutely love her rasp!
@@greg2976 same. Always appreciate honesty. But this is very good song for me. Not the best, but up there as a classic. But it’s good to hear honest reactions.
Yes and most dont like a song theyve never heard before listening to it for the first time. Most songs take multiple listens to like or love them ☺ They have to grow on you
@@stephenulmer3781 Exactly! There were so many songs That I had to listen to more than a handful of times to like them! And I ended up to love them!!!!!
Thank you both! This song means so much to me. The very essence of who I am- a child in front of the television set, watching this for the first time in 1977.
Bonnie’s 1976 breakthrough with Lost in France, was my first introduction to Bonnie. It led to her nomination for Best British Female Newcomer at the 1977 Brit Awards.
This song is from 1977... it was one of her first big hits in the US. She had already had a couple in the UK. She is originally from Wales. "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was 1983 and "Holding Out for a Hero" was 1984. Total Eclipse of the Heart was written for her by Jim Steinman. The song writer that helped Meatloaf with many of his songs.
I remember these songs so well, I am of the age when I first remember this songs being played. I called her the “Female Rod Stewart”, I just loved listening to her sing. Good memories.
......I am still in love with Juice Newton's rendition of it (1984, vs BT's 1977), which (admittedly) I grew up with. A quick Google search put JN's in country genre.....
Thanks for getting back to Bonnie! While you're at it, can you do more by Sarah McLachlan? You've only reacted to her once, and there are so many great songs of hers to hear! ("Building a Mystery", "Possession", "I Will Remember You")
Love this song. Good comparisson Amber. I remember listening to this and Rod Stewart songs in the back seat of my mum's car as a kid. As soon as you said I think I always thought of Bonnie Tyler as the female Rod Stewart!
I’m so so so HAPPY you’re finally doing Bonnie Tyler after your one & only review of her song “Holding Out For a Hero”. HOWEVER, you have to do her biggest hit ever, “TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART”. It’s one of the most ICONIC POWER BALLADS OF ALL TIME, and it was written and produced by Meatloaf’s longtime collaborator Jim Steinman.
Always loved Bonnie Tyler. And she always had that husky voice and it's very distinctive. You can't mistake her for anyone else. Have you heard anything from Elkie Brooke? Another great British female singer from the past. Pearl's a Singer, Lilac Wine, No More the Fool, Fool if you think its Over... just a few names.
4:54 -Amber u nailed it--The perfect voice to sing these lyrics..agonized and sorrowful, sounding like she's been drinking for a month straight because she's so bummed about being hurt.
Terrific reaction! Jim Steinman also wrote "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All". But because Air Supply had no hits, the record company gave it to them first. Bonnie Tyler also did an amazing version of this song. They had to change one verse, but I recommend checking it out here on RU-vid.
She's a favorite of mine. I lived in England in the 80's and she was huge there. She did a duet with Shakin Steven's that is one of my favorites of hers.
Amber, you actually nailed it that Bonnie was always referred as the "male Rod Stewart" from Wales. Sadly, but to our benefit, a surgery to remove nodules (when it causes your vocal chords to be effected by rapid movement without the proper lubrication) in the late 1970s. The shame of it all, was she only had those 3 songs that charted over her in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart ("It's A Heartache" peaked at #3 in 1978 - "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" was her biggest chart success, reaching #1 & staying there for 5 weeks and "Holding Out For A Hero" only reached #34 in 1984). She had nearly 20 top 40 hits in the UK.
She had nodules on her vocal chords so she went through the surgery to remove them. But later she broke her voice somehow (some people said she yelled when she had not to even talk) and it stayed like this to this day. If you want to hear her voice before that, listen to Lost In France. It's A Heartache was her first single after that surgery and with this raspy voice. And yes, it worked for her. Previously no one recognized her voice as special, buth with the rasp... man oh man.
This is about 5 years(1978) before all those other Bonnie Tyler songs from 1983 and 84. And yes she was compared to Rod Stewart when she first came out. My mom had her album on 8 track and played it all the time ☺
In 1976 Tyler had nodules removed from her larynx, and it took her months longer than expected to recover. “I was a naughty girl and wouldn't stop talking,” she says. When she did recover, her voice was transformed. that was after this song. Great review!
Her voice sounds the way it does because they had to operate on it in the early 1970's and they thought and told her that she would never be able to sing again. It turns out that for some reason that it made here voice with the gravely sound to her voice, and it somewhat went away as she got older. This was one of her first big hits.
The surgery happened in 1977, a year before this single. She somehow broke her voice during the recovery and it stayed this gravely forever. That's why It's A Heartache became Tyler's first big hit - it was her very first single with this rasp.
Lost in France and this song were her first hits before she went on to sing more powerful songs. I remember my mum buying Lost in France when I was very young.
First time I heard this song; back in 1978, I was still in middle school. I thought she had a great voice, and I liked the song well enough. By the time 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' came out; I totally forgot this song, or her. After hearing the song again; I was totally surprised to find this was the same artist.
I love Bonnie Tyler too, this one is one of my faves. Another Welsh singer you should check out, not sure if you have is Duffy, she'd be a good female Friday pick, try the song Mercy first.
If you like Bonnie's voice then you'll love another Welsh singer Cerys Matthews. She was in a band called Catatonia in the mid to late 90s and had hits with 'Mulder and Scully' and 'Road Rage'
Excellent soulful song FILLED with gut-wrenching emotion! Rob - you gotta lear to appreciate the slower ones too lol! (but I do respect your honesty here)
Some other great Bonnie Tyler songs are; Lost In France, If You Were A Woman (and I Was a Man), Have You Ever Seen The Rain, Loving You Is A Dirty Job, Married Men, Fool's Lullaby, Believe In Me, Ravishing and so many more.
