I'll never know what Jimmy Iovine was thinking letting All The Beautiful Worlds slip off "Wild Hearts" radar? What was he hearing!? This song is passionate, soulful and has a catchy as hell chorus! It has "hit" written all over it. With a little more refinement, additional production and tightening up the mix it would have been perfect back in 1983, and could have easily been Stevie 2nd or 3rd single from WH.
That all being said, I still think Stevie could pull off a pretty decent vocal on ATBW and I can only imagine DS being much more imaginative on the arrangement then the play by numbers session player's WH outtake. Stevie needs to pull this true gem out again. Unlike Secret Love - which I always though of as a cute piano lullaby that Dave & Glen did wonders with - ATBW has more meat & is pure pop sophistication. I salivate at the thought of what DS & GB might bring to this song!
2nd & 3rd choices are pretty close behind. After hearing what Stevie & Dave did with LFTM, she needs to enlist him again to produce and arrange all of the Rhiannon tracks including Forest Of The Black Roses, Maker Of Birds & Forsaken Love!! Dave stayed true to her Stevie's LFTM demo in the best possible way...leaving the best parts of the demo and finishing it as an old school meets modern day Stevie classic!
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