Wendy Waldman - Heartbeat [1982] {1986 by Don Johnson}
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- I don't care what you say - you can give it away
but your money don't mean much to me
I've been out on my own - gonna go it alone
'cause that's the way it's got to be
everybody tells me how
I can beat the odds for now
well I've been standing by the fire but I just don't feel the heat
heartbeat - I'm looking for a heartbeat
heartbeat - I'm searching for a heartbeat
beating like mine
looking at me it's easy to see
you think you know just how I feel
well if you do me wrong
it won't take me long
before my restless heart will heal
I'm looking for a love like mine
they tell me it's so hard to find
but I can feel it in the rhythm of the heartbeat in the street
heartbeat - I'm looking for a heartbeat
heartbeat - I'm searching for a heartbeat
beating like mine
tell me what you feel without the heartbeat
tell me what is real without the heartbeat
heartbeat - I'm looking for a heartbeat
heartbeat - I'm searching for a heartbeat
beating like mine
heartbeat...
℗ 1982 CBS Inc.
Wendy Waldman - Eric Kaz
(BMI)/(ASCAP)
I like the grittyness of this OG Version of this masterpiece of an 80s Tunage. She even co wrote it alongside Eric Kaz (another underrated songwriter). Absolute MASTERPIECE !
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I hadn't heard this version of Heartbeat . I heard Don Johnsons version first.
The original version.
Should have been her big hit of the 80's. Too good, probably.
+dggydddy59 I wish I knew what happened with this song. I think that she experienced the same kind of rejection for this entire album that Bob Dylan got for going hard electric rock in 1965. This was Wendy's first rock album. It deserved a far better response than it received. I loved it personally. I think it is her finest work.
TOTALLY agree!
Not as polished as when Don Johnson did it. It's faster and more frantic
The original version of Heartbeat
(Vocals, Piano, Guitar - Wendy Waldman) - (Soloist - Peter Frampton) - (Guitar, Lead Guitar, Synthesizer, Keyboards - Mark Goldenberg) - (Drums, Percussion - Harry Stinson) - (Bass - John Regan) - (Backing Vocals [Support Vocals] - James House).
Wow...when I first heard this on the radio back in 1982, I swore it was the Pretenders! I was a HUGE fan of theirs back then...I was 13-14 at that time...
Her best underrated song.
Very good
Awesome 👏
baddass love it
The style is like Jack Lee's "Come back and stay". And then Paul Young made it a hit. I didn't know about Wendy. I heard Don's version back in the day until now. :)
Wow, I just learned of this one today.
Actually, I learned today of Helen Reddy's
surprising 1983 version, following Helen's
death yesterday, which led me to learning
of this original Wendy Waldman version.
The Don Johnson hit is one of my very
favorite records of all time, but this
Wendy Waldman version is damn good.
I rank them as following ......
1) Don Johnson (still the best).
2) Wendy Waldman (a close 2nd).
3) Helen Reddy (a very distant 3rd).
Damn…I’d actually rate Helen Reddy’s version first. That’s probably because it’s the first version I heard as a kid in 1983. I bought her “Imagination” album back then, not really knowing who she was at the time, but because I liked the album cover art. It intrigued me. I fell in love with that album, then I was pleasantly surprised when I later heard Don Johnson cover it. For years I thought he was covering a Helen Reddy composition. Much later in life (now in my 40s), I’ve read some liner notes and discovered this recording… man this is good. It’s getting harder for me to determine which version is best. Each one has a unique quality that hits me in the heart. Just all around a great song!
Saw Wendy in October 1987 at the Hampton Coliseum in Virginia. She opened for Dan Fogelberg.
I'm here after doing some research after listening to Don Johnson's Heartbeat album which is pretty good (I was only familiar with this song/video from back in the day with Dweezil Zappa). It's really cool to hear the original. Production of Waldman's original is not as slick, but it's a good song.
Covered - and a top 5 hit - by Don Johnson (yes, him) in 1986 - and it's really good! (So is this, of course, but does get a bit screechy at the end.) She co-wrote it with Eric Kaz.
Peter Frampton at 1:50, she can rock
scorching Peter Frampton
Wow :)
It's interesting to hear the original version of Don Johnson's hit. This version is good, but a little under produced.
I liked Dons cover of this but Wendy's gritty version is better despite not having the same quality in the final product that Dons much bigger recording budget allowed for him.
Very good song. I would like to know what month it was released in 1982?
"Which Way to Main Street" was released March 19, 1982. The single came out a few weeks afterwards, I believe, but I don't think it was as late as the May '82 date 45cat has for it.
Don Johnson s version is better in my opinion. This one is sounds like one more song to fll an album. No offense. Just my opinion.
Nobody had a beat on this until Chas Sandford got his hands on it for Don Johnson. Don's is the best by a nautical mile. Both Helen and Wendy got this totally wrong. They both take it far too fast which forces the singer to sing the verses entirely too fast to make an impact. As a result, neither Helen nor Wendy's versions are memorable. Helen, though, is the far better singer so she does better but that's relative. It's still bad. Wendy's voice is slight so this wasn't never gonna hit.
Um. You know Wendy herself wrote this track, right?
And sorry but hers is way better, the highs hit way harder than they do on the Johnson version and there's way more of a climax here.
Yep.. more power pop against San ford's AOR.. love both 👍
Agreed Chas made this song, but Helen's version is nails-on-chalkboard bad. She might have been the better singer in her comfort zone, but it's like giving "Smells Like Teen Spirit" to Tony Bennett to sing -- it doesn't matter who's the better singer, because it's just going to come off like a joke.