Bonnie Tyler "Hide Your Heart"

Hide Your Heart (released under the title Notes from America in the United States, Canada and Brazil), is the seventh studio album by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. It was released in Europe on 9 May 1988, by Sony Music, and in the US on 20 September 1988 by Columbia Records. The album was recorded in Woodstock, New York, and produced by Desmond Child.

Unlike Tyler's previous two releases, the album failed to chart on the Billboard 200, but did see success in Europe.

The album features the song "Hide Your Heart" written by Paul Stanley, Desmond Child and Holly Knight. This song was later covered three times in 1989 Ace Frehley's Trouble Walkin', Robin Beck's Trouble Or Nothin', and Molly Hatchet's Lightning Strikes Twice. And performed in 1989 by Paul Stanley with Kiss on their Hot in the Shade album.


The album also features the original versions of the track "Save Up All Your Tears", which would be covered, with a faster arrangement, by Cher on her 1991 album Love Hurts, and "The Best", later covered by Tina Turner. Also included is Bonnie Tyler's power ballad remake of Turner's 1986 B-side "Don't Turn Around" (which was also a #1 UK hit for Aswad in 1988 and an international hit for Ace of Base in 1994), and the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody", also a hit two years later for Jimmy Somerville.

Hide Your Heart was recorded at the Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York. Desmond Child had received a budget from CBS Records to write and produce three songs for Tyler's next album. Within a few days, they recorded an entire album on that budget. "I begged the musicians to stay overtime," Child recalled in a 2013 interview.

Bass guitarist Seth Glassman and lead guitarist John McCurry swapped instruments to record "Turtle Blues", which was not planned to feature on the album. The song was recorded at 2 a.m. after a jamming session. McCurry overdubbed the guitar solo after the song was recorded. "Turtle Blues" was originally written and recorded by Janis Joplin for her 1968 album Cheap Thrills with Big Brother and the Holding Company. Tyler recorded her vocals in the same booth as Joplin's original version.


Additional recording took place at The Hit Factory and Right Track in New York City.