Bonnie Hayes

Infobox musical artist
Name = Bonnie Hayes
Background = group_or_band
Origin = San Francisco California, USA
Genre = Rock, New Wave
Years_active = 1982 — Present
Label = Slash Records,
EMI,
Beacon,
Bondage Records
URL = [http://www.bonniehayes.com/ Official site]

Bonnie Hayes is an American singer/songwriter from California, USA. In the late 1970s, she founded a New Wave band called The Punts, who released a 45 RPM single, "Shelly's Boyfriend" (a song inspired by her sister), b/w "Rochambeau," which received considerable airplay in the SF market. In 1982, the band changed their name to "Bonnie Hayes with the Wild Combo" and released their first album entitled "Good Clean Fun", a New Wave/rock offering. The "Good Clean Fun" album was finally released on CD in September 2007. The song "Girls Like Me" from that album was used in the opening credits for the 1983 movie "Valley Girl".

Hayes went on to write many songs for other artists. She wrote two songs for the Bonnie Raitt album, "Nick of Time", "Love Letter" and "Have a Heart"; as well as songs for such artists as Bette Midler, Natalie Cole, Robert Cray, and David Crosby.

Bonnie Hayes is the sister of Chris Hayes, former lead guitarist of Huey Lewis and the News, and Kevin Hayes, who plays drums with the Robert Cray Band [cite web|url=http://www.hln.org/bandinfo/biographies.shtml|title=Huey Lewis and the News Biographies, "Chris Hayes (Former guitar, vocals)"] .

ongwriting Teacher

Bonnie Hayes began her teaching career as a keyboard instructor at Family Light Music School in Sausalito, CA, a small private school whose staff also included Michael Bloomfield (Electric Flag, Super Session), John Cippolina (Quicksilver Messenger Service, brother of Mario Cippolina, who played sax with Huey Lewis and the News) and Toni Brown (Joy of Cooking). She continues to teach various aspects of songwriting. Students of hers have won various songwriting prizes, such as: [ [http://www.bonniehayes.com/files/teach.htm] Bonnie Hayes, "teaching", home page]
* the John Lennon songwriting contest
* the WCSA songwriting contest
* the Soulmaking contest

Albums

Good Clean Fun (1982)

(This album was released on CD on September 18, 2007.)
* Label: Slash Records
* Label record ID: SR-112

Track listing

# "Girls Like Me" (B. Hayes)
# "Shelly's Boyfriend" (B. Hayes/Savage)
# "Separating" (B. Hayes/Savage)
# "Dum Fun" (B. Hayes/Savage)
# "Coverage (B. Hayes)
# "Inside Doubt" (B. Hayes/Savage)
# "Joyride (B. Hayes)
# "Loverboy (B. Hayes)
# "Raylene" (B. Hayes)
# "The Last Word" (B. Hayes)

Brave New Girl (1984)

(With the Wild Combo) [Allmusic guide]

Bonnie Hayes (1987)

* Label: EMI Distribution
* ASIN: B00000EEA9

Empty Sky (1996)

* Label: Beacon
* ASIN: B00000DPGU

Love In the Ruins (2003)

* Label: Bondage Records
* ASIN: B00008US5V

Track listing

# Beautiful Ideal
# I Can't Stop
# Greener Grass
# Keeping the Hum Going
# Still Wild
# Stealing Roses
# Everybody Wins
# Turn Down Love
# Vintage People
# Money Makes You Stupid

References

External links

* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:gpfrxql5ldfe~T1 All Music Guide]
* [http://www.bonniehayes.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.jlsc.com/ The John Lennon Songwriting Contest]
* [http://www.eclypso.com/bonniehayes/index.html Bonnie Hayes & the Wild Combo photos]