“Wild Life” by Bananarama

Bananarama wrote "The Wild Life" themselves, in two days flat, for a 1984 American movie that shared its title, a Christopher Penn picture, and it went onto the movie's soundtrack. By the time the single appeared on London Records, the English girl group's second album, the self-titled Bananarama, had already been in the shops for months, so for a while it was reissued with the new song tacked on.

Only the US, Canada, Australia and Japan got it as a single; Britain was handed "Hot Line to Heaven" as the album's last single instead. The American release stopped at 70 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it charted nowhere else. The album soon went back to its original running order, and the song didn't reach CD until The Essentials in 2002.

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