Around 1989, several artists started making their own versions of the Bonnie Tyler song Hide Your Heart. The Kiss version is the most well known one, but Ace Frehley, Robin Beck, and even Molly Hatchet also covered the song. What was with all these covers? It's not like the original was even some huge hit, it was a good song, but nothing iconic.
In typical late 80's fashion, Paul Stanley wrote the song with professional songwriters Desmond Child and Holly Knight hoping for a hit. It didn't work out after the song got rejected for Kiss's Crazy Nights album. Paul and Desmond started shopping it around to other artists, and Bonnie Tyler happened to be the first one to release it (on an album produced by Child). Lacking any better material, Kiss recorded and released it on their Hot In The Shade album. Ace, always ready to try to cash in on his Kiss fame, took a bite and recorded his own version too. Robin Beck covered multiple Desmond Child songs recorded by Bonnie Tyler for her Trouble or Nothin' album (also produced by Child), this just happened to be one of them. No big mystery, just people trying to cash in on a mediocre song that was written for purely commercial Top 40 intentions but never lived up to those hopes.
great tune with massive chorus! Though maybe I could do without the ha ha ha hey hey hey part, would be better if was replaced with actual lyrics. But still great tune! another great song from the same Bonnie Tyler album is "Save Up All Your Tears" it was also sung by several singers. So were "Don't Turn Around" and "The Best".
Another Child/Stanley (and Kulick) tune was "Sword & Stone" which was left off of Kiss's 1987 Crazy Nights album. But it resurfaced in 1989 as a single for German rock band, Bonfire & on Paul Dean's (bassist for Loverboy) 1989 solo effort.
It got rejected by Nevison for Crazy Nights so Paul published it and it got shopped around. The KISS version wasn’t the first to be released even though Paul wrote it. Bonnie Taylor 88 Molly Hatchet 89 Ace Frehley 89 KISS 89 Robin Beck 89 Paul did play it on his 89 solo tour, which predated Hot In The Shade. He introed it by mentioning people may have heard it on bootlegs.