Straight from the Heart (song)

"Straight from the Heart"

7" Cover

Single by Bryan Adams

from the album Cuts Like a Knife

B-side

"One Good Reason"

Released

February 1983 (US)

Format

Genre

Soft rock

Length

03:32

Label

A&M

Writer(s)

Bryan Adams, Eric Kagna

Bryan Adams singles chronology

"Lonely Nights"
(1982)

"Straight from the Heart"
(1983)

"Cuts Like a Knife"
(1983)

CD Single

Music sample
"Straight from the Heart"

"Straight from the Heart" is a song by Canadian rock musician Bryan Adams. It was released in February 1983 as the lead single from his third studio album, Cuts Like a Knife. It was his breakthrough song in the U.S., the first to make the top 40, reaching number 10.^[1] It also peaked at #32 on the Adult Contemporary chart, the first Bryan Adams single to appear on that chart.

Background

Adams wrote the song when he was 18 in the late 1970s. Although Adams did not release his version of the song until 1983, the song was first recorded by Ian Lloyd in 1980, on his album Third Wave Civilization.^[2] Later, the song was covered by teen band Rosetta Stone in 1982 (issued as a single in November that year, a month before Adams' version came out as a single). Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler released it on a 45 in the US in May 1983. It was featured on her smash 1983 album Faster Than the Speed of Night.

Chart positions

Chart (1983)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[3]	98
Canada Top Singles (RPM)	20
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)	51
US Billboard Hot 100^[4]	10
US Billboard Top Tracks^[4]	32

References

↑ Bryan Adams - Cuts Like A Knife
↑ Viglione, Joe. "3WC (Third Wave Civilization)". Answers.com. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
1 2 "Artist Chart History (singles) - Bryan Adams". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-10-19.

Bryan Adams

Albums and singles Videos Awards Backing band Co-writers

Studio albums	Bryan Adams You Want It You Got It Cuts Like a Knife Reckless Into the Fire Waking Up the Neighbours 18 til I Die On a Day Like Today Room Service 11 Tracks of My Years Get Up!

Live albums	Live! Live! Live! MTV Unplugged Live at the Budokan Bare Bones Live at Sydney Opera House

Soundtracks	Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron Colour Me Kubrick

Compilations	So Far So Good The Best of Me Anthology Icon

Videography	Reckless Waking Up the Neighbours So Far So Good (And More) MTV Unplugged Live at Slane Castle Live at the Budokan Live in Lisbon Live at Sydney Opera House

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Bryan Adams singles

Bryan Adams	"Give Me Your Love" "Remember" "Hidin' from Love"

You Want It You Got It	"Coming Home" "Fits Ya Good" "Lonely Nights"

Cuts Like a Knife	"Straight from the Heart" "Cuts Like a Knife" "This Time" "I'm Ready" "The Only One" "Take Me Back"

Reckless	"Run to You" "Somebody" "Heaven" "Summer of '69" "One Night Love Affair" "It's Only Love" (w/ Tina Turner)

Into the Fire	"Heat of the Night" "Hearts on Fire" "Victim of Love" "Only the Strong Survive" "Into the Fire" "Another Day"

Waking Up the Neighbours	"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" "Can't Stop This Thing We Started" "There Will Never Be Another Tonight" "Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven" "All I Want Is You" "Do I Have to Say the Words?" "Touch the Hand"

So Far So Good	"Please Forgive Me"

18 til I Die	"The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You" "Let's Make a Night to Remember" "I'll Always Be Right There" "Star" "18 til I Die"

MTV Unplugged	"Back to You" "I'm Ready"

On a Day Like Today	"On a Day Like Today" "When You're Gone" (w/ Melanie Chisholm) "Cloud Number Nine"

The Best of Me	"The Best of Me" "Cloud Number Nine (Chicane Mix)" (w/ Chicane) "Inside Out"

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron	"Here I Am" "Don't Let Go" (w/ Sarah McLachlan)

Room Service	"Open Road" "Flying" "Room Service" This Side of Paradise "Why Do You Have to Be So Hard to Love?"

Anthology	"So Far So Good" "When You're Gone" (w/ Pamela Anderson)

11	"I Thought I'd Seen Everything" "Tonight We Have the Stars" "She's Got a Way"

Tracks of My Years	"She Knows Me"

Get Up!	"Brand New Day" "You Belong to Me"

Notable collaborations and non-album singles	"Reggae Christmas" (1984) "Diana" (1985) "Christmas Time" (1985) "Young Lust" (1990) "All for Love" (1993, w/ Rod Stewart & Sting) "When The Night Comes" (1994)" "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" (1995, w/ Paco de Lucía) "Rock Steady" (1995, w/ Bonnie Raitt) "Hey Elvis" (1996)" "I Finally Found Someone" (1997, w/ Barbra Streisand) "Don't Give Up" (2000, w/ Chicane) "You Walked In" (2004) "Never Let Go" (2006) "You've Been a Friend to Me" (2009) "Merry Christmas" (2009) "Bang the Drum" (2010) "One World, One Flame" (2010) "Alberta Bound" (2011) "Tonight in Babylon" (2012, w/ LoverushUK!) "After All" (2013, w/ Michael Bublé) "Feels Like Home" (2015, w/ Diana Krall)

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Bonnie Tyler songs

Discography

The World Starts Tonight	"Lost in France" "More Than a Lover"

Natural Force	"It's a Heartache" "Living for the City" "Heaven" "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" "Here Am I"

Diamond Cut	"Too Good to Last" "My Guns Are Loaded"

Goodbye to the Island	"I'm Just a Woman" "Sometimes When We Touch" "A Whiter Shade of Pale" "Sitting on the Edge of the Ocean" "I Believe in Your Sweet Love"

Faster Than the Speed of Night	"Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" "Faster Than the Speed of Night" "Total Eclipse of the Heart" "Straight from the Heart"

Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire	"If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man)" "Loving You's a Dirty Job but Somebody's Gotta Do It" "Band of Gold" "Lovers Again" "Holding Out for a Hero"

Hide Your Heart	"Hide Your Heart" "Don't Turn Around" "Save Up All Your Tears" "To Love Somebody" "The Best"

Bitterblue	"Against the Wind" "Bitterblue" "Where Were You"

Angel Heart	"Fools Lullaby" "I Cry Myself to Sleep at Night"

Silhouette in Red	"You Are So Beautiful"

Free Spirit	"You're the One" "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" "Bridge over Troubled Water" "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad"

All in One Voice	"Angel of the Morning" "I Put a Spell on You" "The Rose" "He's the King" "Silent Night"

Heart Strings	"Human Touch" "Everybody Hurts" "Amazed" "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" "Lean on Me" "In My Life" "Learning to Fly" "Right Here Waiting" "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" "I Can't Make You Love Me" "Need Your Love So Bad" "It's Over"

Simply Believe	"Si demain... (Turn Around)" "Si tout s'arrête (It's a Heartache) "Darlin'"

Wings	"Louise"

Rocks and Honey	"This Is Gonna Hurt" "Believe in Me" "What You Need from Me" "Love Is the Knife" "Mom"

Collaborations	"A Rockin' Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love)" "Islands" "Vergiß Es (Forget It)" "Amour Éternel (Eternal Flame)"

Other songs	"Sayonara Tokyo" "Here She Comes" "The Desert Is in Your Heart" "I Don't Know How to Love Him"

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