{"id":548850,"date":"2025-02-22T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T18:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.com\/?p=548850"},"modified":"2025-02-22T11:59:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T17:59:43","slug":"the-forgotten-karla-bonoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.com\/2025\/02\/22\/the-forgotten-karla-bonoff\/","title":{"rendered":"The forgotten Karla Bonoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re a pop music fan, you’ve probably heard Karla Bonoff<\/a>‘s songs\u2014but may not know that she wrote them, for the most famous ones were popularized by others. Her two best, in my view, were covered by Linda Ronstadt (“Someone to Lay Down Beside Me<\/a>“) and Lynn Anderson (“Isn’t it Always Love<\/a>“). Yet Bonoff recorded both of these songs herself, and her versions\u2014save for Ronstadt’s, which is a classic\u2014are at least as good as the covers.<\/p>\n

Bonoff does tour, but it’s hard to find good live videos of her performances.\u00a0 I’ll show a couple. She’s now 73 but apparently is still drawing appreciative fans to her concert.<\/p>\n

Here’s her best song performed live, and clearly done some time ago. The quality of the recording is poor, but gives an idea of her talent.<\/p>\n