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  • Tony Billoni · 2 years ago
    Oh, man, that Personally has 1982 dentist's office written all over it. More smoooth, than mellow, baby.

    Hey, is that a newer pic of McD? He's really becoming a member of theguys-who-look-like-Kenny-Rogers club.
  • David · 2 years ago
    There is a review on Amazon that compares this song to Glenn Frey's "Real Love."

    I have nothing to add.

    (Okay, one thing: *Whatever* it is she couldn't mail, send or phone in, when you look at the album cover, it's clear she used it to kill the man she was sleeping with. Mellow.)

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000002...
  • r · 2 years ago
    Nice one. As I recall, I think Frey was the one who suggested this song to KB.Just thought I'd add Harry Nillsson's name to great writers who's biggest hits they didn't write. Also, you can add Hall and Oates mysterious that as in I Can't go For That.
  • jefito · 2 years ago
    Dude. In that picture, Karla Bonoff looks like she could be Amy Winehouse's mom!
  • Matthew Bolin · 2 years ago
    Oh jeez....do I have to be the one to say it?
    Really?
    Oh great.
    (sigh)
    It's her PUSSY! She's giving him her tight, mellow, PUSSY!
    I'm glad I could clear that up.
    **********
    Anyways, the think I love about this song is on the first verse, you can clearly hear the guitarist playing what is probably the wimpiest, most flaccid reggae ever put on tape.
  • Dw Dunphy · 2 years ago
    Yay, more trivia for y'all. The dead dude on the cover of Wild Heart Of The Young is Robbie Benson, then husband of Karla Bonoff. He may still be the husband of Karla Bonoff, but I'm too lazy to tag IMDB right now. Although Bonoff didn't write Personally, she dedicated it to Robbie (a/k/a The Beast), so let's hope that whatever she was bringin', he got it... Or else it was the U.S. Postal Service, Sloppy Seconds Department again.
  • Jane · 2 years ago
    First of all, I just want to say, THANK GOD this week is not a repost. :-)

    And second, I confess, I just looked up Robby Benson at wiki, cuz I couldn't resist. It says there that he is married to Karla Devito and that they have two kids ... named Lyric and Zephyr. (Which, btw, is just cruel.)

    That's the Meatloaf chick, right? I didn't look her up, too, otherwise I'd be at this all day ...

    Um, up until 5 minutes ago, I really liked this song. Now I can't get ODE TO BILLY JOE out of my head. Um, thanks. :-)

    And finally, I loved "Somebody's Eyes." I wore out that cassette tape years ago.
  • Dw Dunphy · 2 years ago
    Damn. I should've IMDBd after all... See, this kind of misreporting is why you can't trust ANYTHING on the internet.
  • Jason · 2 years ago
    FAQ!

    Q. Is Karla Married to Robbie Benson?
    A. No, but Robbie Benson is married to Karla DeVito, a singer who's best known for performing with Meatloaf for many years. Other than both women are named Karla (with a K), there's no connection.

    Robert's going to be so upset he wasn't the one to make this correction.
  • Robert · 2 years ago
    You kids cherish your corrections. BUT I'LL BE WATCHING ... AND WAITING.
  • Candy · 2 years ago
    I swear, you have the uncanny ability to bring back the most repressed memories ever. I'm sitting shotgun in my older brother's yellow Dodge Colt listening to 13K (1300 AM). Because we could cruiselistening to AM stations back then. In a craptastic car.
    You had to love singing I have something to give you...that the mailman....can't deliver! I'm emailing this mp3 right now. Thanks!!!!
  • jb · 2 years ago
    In 1982 I was on the air at a country station that played some of the more Eagle-ish adult contemporary hits during the day, so we added Personally. The first time I played it on the air was the first time I'd ever heard it, and I liked it so much that I played it a second time right away. It was better than 90 percent of the other stuff we were playing at the time, so why not?It may also have been the first mp3 I ever posted on my blog, although why that should be I have no explanation.
  • Robert · 2 years ago
    I don't think I'd ever heard this one before you posted it here. I didn't like it when I first heard it, but you're right about the chorus being an earworm. I was a fan by probably the third listen. Nicely done, Ms. Bonoff and Mr. Hare.