Remaining installment of a collection of 5 Music Life Journal interviews with 2025 Inductees into the Canadian Songwriters Corridor of Fame. The Legends Induction Ceremony takes place Friday, Oct. 17, on the Lyric Theatre within the Meridian Arts Centre in downtown Toronto.
By Jim Barber
Andy Kim is grateful for the presents that life has given him. He exudes gratitude in each phrase he says, particularly when speaking in regards to the extremely serendipitous experiences, the lucky coincidences, the blessings, the best way the guiding hand of destiny selected to bless him for his exceptional profession as a songwriter, artist, vocalist and performer.
He’s grateful for the almost 60 years that he has lived his dream of being a recording artist. He’s grateful for the individuals who helped him alongside the best way, grateful for the alternatives that he was proffered, and for the perception, fortitude and self-belief to leap at these alternatives.
Amongst quite a few deserving accolades afforded him by the Canadian music trade lately one other deserving honour can be added when Kim is inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Corridor of Fame on Oct. 17 in Toronto, alongside Jane Siberry, Ian Thomas, Triumph and Gino Vannelli.
The story of how Kim, greatest recognized for his late 1960’s iconic pop composition ‘Sugar, Sugar’ and his equally iconic, melodic tune a couple of passionate rendezvous ‘Rock Me Gently’ received to this place in his life and profession is one thing virtually too good, too compelling, too Hollywood-esque to be believed. The success, the accolades, the airplay, the adulation and respect garnered from a literal lifetime of making memorable music is constructed on the inspiration of some key, however epic objects, moments and folks.
First there was the radio. As a teen, rising up in one of many sprawling, working-class tenements in Montreal, the son of Lebanese immigrants who got here to Canada in search of a greater life, there have been few if any roads resulting in fame and fortune. To have a life a bit higher, a bit much less harrowing, a bit much less economically and socially tenuous as you dad and mom’ era was one thing to attempt for. Maybe, if you happen to had been blessed with God-given athletic ability, and a chance to get out on the ice at a neighborhood rink, you possibly can observe within the footsteps of many working-class Quebeckers and change into a professional hockey participant. However this was not the future for younger Androwis Youakim. Hockey was not the promised land out of his neighbourhood – music was. And it was due to a kindness from one among his older brothers {that a} dream was not solely kindled, however erupted right into a passionate, all-consuming focus for the teen who would sooner or later garner worldwide recognition as Andy Kim. Eager to take heed to music, the brother allowed Andy to borrow his little transistor radio, one among his prized possessions. After fumbling round with the dial, the waves of static parted, a booming, excitable voice got here via the audio system, virtually grabbing younger Andy by the scruff of his neck, beckoning him to hear. The second is nearly too good to be true, one thing that if it had been written by a scriptwriter for a film, it could be turned down as too fanciful, too unrealistic.
“I grew up in a tenement in Montreal. We didn’t have a lot, however we had love. I’m the third of 4 brothers and someplace round age 11 or 12, I requested my older brother if I might borrow his radio. And he loaned me a transistor radio and by no means requested for it again. There was a variety of static, however hear Jim, how I grew up, the place I grew up, my future had already been written. However then one night time, in my mattress, I lastly get via all of the static and I’m listening to WABC New York. And I used to be mesmerized. And the man went on to speak in regards to the artists which are developing, and wherever they go, ladies are all lined as much as get their autographs. Now we didn’t have a musical household. There was no historical past of anybody taking part in music. And even fascinated with this now, I get emotional, as a result of that’s the place my profession began. I cherished going to high school. I cherished homework, I cherished all that stuff. However then there was WABC in New York, Cousin Brucie was the DJ [Bruce Morrow, who turned 90 on Oct. 13!] and I used to be listening and heard music that I didn’t hear in Montreal. And I began dreaming. I went to parochial faculty, they usually didn’t have music classes. They’d nothing besides one thing that regarded like a playground the place you may run round throughout recess. At dwelling, in my brother’s room, I discovered all these magazines they usually had been all about music and there have been all these names and handle about folks in music and the identify Jeff Barry was at all times entrance and centre. I didn’t do something however begin this dream. I went to New York Metropolis, the place I didn’t know a soul, in quest of the songwriters and producers that made the information I used to be listening to on my brother’s transistor radio. Now, on the time, my dad and mom thought I used to be silly. They didn’t need me to do it. However I used to be a kind of children. As I stated, I cherished homework, I wasn’t an issue little one till my dream. And as I received older, I noticed if in case you have a dream, one can find your dream, but when all you do is want, you’re by no means going to go anyplace. So, it was my older brother who actually sort of championed my dream as a result of he noticed that it was a manner out. I assume he wished a greater life for his little brother,” he stated.
“My father didn’t need me to go. My father made it recognized in many alternative ways in which I used to be by no means going to do that. However look, by that time, I by no means listened to anyone. I simply listened to my coronary heart, and I listened to that whisper that I imagine God gave me. Deep down inside, there was a second in time that the place it’s virtually like I already noticed Chapter 2 in my life, however nobody else did, besides possibly my brother who noticed the concept that I had. What’s actually fascinating is that my father was very old style. We by no means actually noticed eye to eye on a variety of issues. However I came upon from him that I had second cousins in New Jersey. And the solace was that after my time within the metropolis, I might take a bus to New Jersey and meet people I didn’t know existed. They usually took me in. The entire expertise opened up my world.”
The subsequent pivotal second was that call, that monumental alternative that might simply result in rack and wreck – however which held out a golden chalice of hope, a glowing attract of a beautiful life following. As he stated, nonetheless in his teenagers, Kim made the fateful determination to actually observe the voice of Uncle Brucie and search out this legendary ‘Jeff Barry’ to hunt an viewers, as one would search an viewers with the Pope at St. Peter’s Basilica. On this case, The Brill Constructing was the sacred and holy vacation spot, the centre of the music trade not simply in America and North America, however the world. Kim would make his manner, this teenaged son of Center Jap immigrants, realizing no-one in New York Metropolis, however laser targeted on assembly the mysterious man who made superb music.
“As I’m speaking to you now, it’s virtually like a narrative or a film. Like, wait a minute, did all this actually occur? It doesn’t sound believable. And the reality is goals are completely different from actuality. It comes all the way down to that transistor radio, and Cousin Brucie. If I by no means requested for that radio, I don’t know what would have been. I did have that umbilical wire in New Jersey if I wanted one thing, so I wasn’t utterly at a loss. However I used to be a stranger there, I used to be a stranger to all these folks, these names I heard on the radio. So, I waited two and a half hours to fulfill Jeff Barry. He gave me 5 minutes after which stated, ‘okay, play me one thing.’ So, I performed him one thing [he had his guitar with him] and he stated, ‘okay, come again subsequent week. I sort of prefer it, possibly we’ll end it collectively.’ I stated, ‘properly sir, I can’t come again as a result of I’ve received to go dwelling. My mother and pa predict me to go dwelling, again to Montreal,’ and so I began packing up my guitar to place it within the case. Then he stated, ‘properly, get the handle from the woman on the entrance desk, as a result of I’ve received to enter the studio.’ I checked out him and requested if I might include him, as a result of I had by no means been in a studio earlier than. So, that is the subsequent unreal factor that occurs. Jeff Barry appears at me and stated, ‘have you ever had lunch?’ I advised him that I hadn’t eaten, so he stated, ‘I often get a sandwich, and I’ll provide you with half.’ So, there I used to be, strolling on Broadway at Seventh Avenue with Jeff Barry. He didn’t say a phrase to me as I ate half his sandwich,” Kim defined.
“We went into the basement of this lodge, which was the studio which Phil Spector, Jeff used, Ellie Greenwich used, Leiber and Stoller – lots of people made information there. So, I’m following him, and he waves for me to sit down behind the engineer, and I do not know what’s occurring, so I simply sit there, and I stand up to depart after a couple of minutes and Jeff sees me and waves me to sit down again down. So, I sit there for an additional jiffy, however then left, ran as much as the ninth flooring of the Brill Constructing, received the telephone quantity and the mailing handle, then later received on a bus to return again to Montreal. Even simply saying all this out loud to you appears like a fairytale, not to mention being across the nice Jeff Barry. I imply, simply being within the Brill Constructing was one thing. The Brill Constructing is Tin Pan Alley. The constructing was all musicians, songwriters, publishers and labels. It housed most likely everybody you wished to fulfill so far as songwriting goes. So, after I noticed in my journal ‘1619 Broadway,’ I figured it was the place I wanted to be. However I nonetheless didn’t actually get the significance of the place earlier than I received there. You stroll into the Brill Constructing at the moment, and also you take a look at a board that tells me the place the places of work or no matter you’re searching for are. To your proper, as you stroll in, it was the Jack Dempsey Restaurant – with [legendary former heavyweight boxing champion] Jack Dempsey standing there shaking palms with folks as they stroll in. I don’t actually have the phrases to clarify it, however this was Jack Dempsey. This was New York Metropolis, within the Sixties. And it was someplace that I felt I wished, that I wanted to be part of. However wanting on the board, I noticed that Jeff Barry was on the ninth flooring. And you then see the opposite names, Ellie Greenwich [at the time Barry’s paramour and sometime collaborator] and there’s Leiber and Stoller.”
It could be value a brief pause to simply soak within the significance of these names and the songs that they crafted to the tradition of, properly, the world. It offers the context and setting of this momentous go to to New York far more significance, even gravitas, to Kim’s story.
Greenwich wrote or co-wrote with Barry ‘Da Doo Ron Ron,’ ‘Be My Child,’ ‘Then He Kissed Me,’ ‘Do Wah Diddy Diddy,’ ‘Christmas (Child Please Come Dwelling),’ ‘Chapel of Love,’ ‘Chief of the Pack,’ and ‘River Deep – Mountain Excessive,’ amongst others.
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller wrote songs that turned a few of Elvis Presley’s earliest and most iconic hits together with ‘Hound Canine.’ ‘Jailhouse Rock,’ ‘King Creole,’ and others, whereas additionally cracking the higher echelons of the charts with tracks like ‘Kansas Metropolis,’ ‘Yakety Yak,’ ‘Charlie Brown,’ ‘There Goes My Child,’ and ‘Stand By Me.’
Barry, the item of Kim’s obsession, wrote many hit songs alongside Greenwich, in addition to with Phil Spector, highlighted by those talked about above with Greenwich, in addition to ‘Inform Laura I Love Her,’ ‘Keep in mind (Strolling In The Sand),’ and later ‘I Truthfully Love You,’ which was the breakout hit for Australian ingenue, Olivia Newton-John.
In addition to these luminaries talked about by Kim, the Brill Constructing additionally boasted the songwriting/producing skills of Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Sonny Bono, Neil Diamond, Carole King, Gerry Coffin, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Tony Orlando, Doc Pomus, Neil Sedaka and Paul Simon.
Choosing up the narrative of this unimaginable story, Kim talks about how he quickly turned extra deeply enmeshed inside the Brill Constructing system, finally changing into collaborators along with his hero, all of which results in, finally, the present topic of this piece, his induction into the Canadian Songwriters Corridor of Fame.
“After I moved down there and began working with Jeff, sooner or later he walked in whereas I used to be taking part in his tune ‘Child, I Love You,’ on guitar [written by Barry, Greenwich and Spector, originally a hit for The Ronettes, later becoming a hit again for punk icons, The Ramones] and he requested what rhythm was I taking part in. He appreciated the best way I used to be taking part in it, and he inspired me to chop the monitor, and it turned my first million vendor [hitting number one in Canada and number 9 on the Billboard charts in the U.S.]. As I believe again, I used to be enthusiastic about being a songwriter, though I used to be not likely a songwriter but. All I do know is that I had this chance to enter the studio and document my model of ‘Child, I Love You.’ I received the braveness to discover my very own songwriting there. Jerry and Mike [Leiber and Stoller] and Jeff pulled me into the workplace sooner or later and stated, ‘cease being so f***ing humble.’ And I didn’t know what they had been speaking about. They realized I used to be there, within the constructing, just about 24/7. I lived there. It was the place my goals had been increasing to not solely simply writing however recording, and never solely simply recording however for touring and with the ability to finally journey the world and all that stuff. However you recognize what, between you and me, I nonetheless do not know why all of it labored. It’s simply that there was one thing inside a dream that gave me the trail that finally led me to being honoured with all these nice songwriters,” Kim stated, earlier than coming to the story of the tune that might mark him out as a particular artist, each from a songwriting perspective, and as a performer. This tune is probably essentially the most impactful in his profession – ‘Sugar, Sugar,’ which was carried out by Kim and a gaggle of topflight studio musicians because the soundtrack to a made-up group referred to as The Archies, a preferred children cartoon present.
“Might 24, 1969, ‘Child, I Love You’ hit the charts for me for the primary time, occurring to being my first million vendor and all that. The identical day, Might 24, 1969, ‘Sugar, Sugar’ was launched. I by no means thought of it in another manner than only a tune for Saturday morning tv comedian e-book characters. Don Kirshner, they referred to as him the person with the golden ear, he received fired from working with The Monkees [also a prefabricated, for television band] I’m positive he had the entire songwriting world making an attempt to write down a tune for this tv present. And I don’t know how one can clarify it, the way it got here to be me. I imply, it took me all of 10 minutes and you then transfer on to the subsequent factor and it’s in another person’s palms. When one thing occurs, it simply occurs. I’ve tried to dissect it a bit of extra. I used to be nonetheless on the excessive from ‘Child, I Love You,’ and this was simply one other tune to me, yeah it was on the charts, however I didn’t assume folks actually wished to play it on the radio. However then it travels all around the world. And I actually, don’t have the reply as to why. It’s not a query as to why the tune was written, it was written for this TV present. The query is why has it lived thus far past its shelf life, and my identify is hooked up to it as author and the singer who sang it. On the time, I didn’t look again to research something.
“A couple of years in the past, [music store chain] Lengthy and McQuade requested me if I’d are available and speak to youthful songwriters. So, there have been a couple of hundred folks within the viewers, and I stated to them, ‘earlier than we get began, can anybody inform me the place these two lyric strains got here from? ‘I simply can’t imagine the loveliness of loving you. I simply can’t imagine it’s true.’ A couple of folks put up their palms. One stated Leonard Cohen, one other Joni Mitchell. They talked in regards to the poetry of all of it: ‘I simply can’t imagine the loveliness of loving you. I simply can’t imagine it’s true. I simply can’t imagine the marvel of this sense too. I simply can’t imagine it’s true.’ So, for a couple of good minute or so, folks had been shouting out names of all these nice artists and songwriters. And I stated, ‘it’s the primary verse from ‘Sugar, Sugar.’ And everyone was dumbfounded as a result of no person is aware of the verse, however everybody is aware of the tune.
“Are you acquainted with [renowned and influential Lebanese poet/writer] Khalil Gibran? There’s an ideal remark [from his most famous work, ‘The Prophet’] the place he mainly says that your youngsters come from you, however they don’t belong to you. You’re the bow, they’re the arrow, as soon as they’re born, when you let the arrow go, it goes it’s personal manner. That’s the best way it’s to me for songs. I used to be by no means valuable about something. I used to be excited in regards to the course of and vitality of writing an concept that turned a tune. However then as soon as it’s executed and handed on to the producer or whoever, you simply sort of go away it. I’ve had songs that had been hits and songs that I cherished that ought to have been hits however they didn’t even get one play on a radio station. However it didn’t matter. What mattered is that I used to be within the tent of artists, I used to be within the tent of songwriters and producers that made these songs come to life. I by no means wished to be the man who owned the tent. I didn’t wish to be primary within the tent; I simply wished to be a part of it. And that’s why, when it’s time, I can be leaving my one and solely life as a cheerful one.”
Kim is nearly reticent to speak in regards to the songwriting course of, as he chalks a lot of how he creates, primarily based on his personal private experiences and remembrances, to that ephemeral entity referred to as inspiration.
“Truthfully, I’ve no f***ing concept how ‘Sugar, Sugar,’ or ‘Rock Me Gently’ or the rest I’ve written truly come collectively. I believe that deep down inside, if you happen to actually dream about one thing, then that dream turns into a actuality. That dream has a spotlight to it. I can’t take a bow for inspiration. It’s an pleasure, it’s an vitality. And thank God that again within the day my cassette participant was at all times working as a result of I’d hum and sing issues which are going by in my thoughts so shortly and capturing and freezing that second of inspiration. So, then I’ll return and hear and marvel, ‘how did I sing that? And why did I sing it in that manner? What made me sing that?’ Somebody stated it’s like magic – songwriter’s magic. Now, there are many folks that can say, ‘we spent three weeks scripting this tune.’ And I get that. However it’s simply not the best way it’s labored for me. I believe songwriting is the treasure of believing that one thing is there, inside you, our outdoors of you, that you simply haven’t touched but. I’ve been round Jane Siberry, and I’m positive there’s inspiration there for her, however there’s additionally approach. However actually, I’ve by no means regarded over my shoulder at what another person has executed. So, in a manner, I believe you’ve received the mistaken man to have a superb dialog with about course of,” he stated with a chuckle, earlier than we moved onto the topic of the aforementioned different iconic hit tune that has change into ingrained in well-liked tradition, and Canadian tradition, the huge 1974 hit tune, ‘Rock Me Gently.’
“In case you take the time to learn the lyric slowly and perceive the context, it’s fairly simple to determine what it’s about and why I wrote it. There’s no critical mental course of at work right here both. I had moved from New York to Los Angeles and had met somebody. Now I had solely been there for a few days. We went to dinner in Malibu and after dinner she requested if I wished to stroll on the seashore. So, we walked on the seashore … and I received dwelling at 4 o’clock within the morning. It’s essentially the most graphic tune I’ve ever written. And no person wished to place it out, no person wished to document or produce it. I used to be the songwriter, however I ended up additionally being the producer and the artist. I assumed I had made my greatest document, by myself. And I believe the rationale why no person was was as a result of my two minutes and 30 seconds [of fame, the average length of a hit song] had been up. That’s my conclusion. So, I got here again dwelling to Montreal, began by personal Canadian document firm [ICE Records] and put it out by myself. I knew disc jockeys from coast to coast and I referred to as and advised them I had this new document; would they play it. I didn’t say something in regards to the U.S., and it began to get airplay and due to CKLW [a Windsor, Ontario AM radio station] they cherished the tune, they usually stored taking part in it sufficient that I received a telephone name from a distributor who would put it out within the U.S. and the remaining is historical past. So, the dreamer stored on dreaming.”
The fickle unpredictability of the music enterprise had already left its mark on Kim, though he overcame its ignorance and infidelity to nonetheless conquer the charts with ‘Rock Me Gently’ however even that success was not sufficient to beat altering fashions, altering tastes and the ‘flavour of the month,’ ‘what have you ever executed for me these days’ ethos of pop music.
New administration had the good concept that Andy Kim wanted a re-brand (after all that time period was not round on the time, however it’s what occurred,’ and so he re-merged within the later Nineteen Seventies as Baron Longfellow. It didn’t precisely go in response to expectations of administration.
“I used to be managed by somebody who had three artists on his label. And I’ll identify them for you; Tom Woodward turned Tom Jones, Gerry Dorsey turned Engelbert Humperdinck and Raymond Sullivan turned Gilbert O’Sullivan. And he thought Andy Kim needed to change his identify too. I stated, ‘properly, everyone is aware of my identify.’ He stated, ‘no, no, you seem like a Baron Longfellow. You’re six foot two, with darkish hair. You’re Baron Longfellow.’ I went round and requested some musician buddies and different folks within the trade, they usually stated, ‘no man, we’re at all times going to recollect you as Andy Kim.’ However then the supervisor passes away and I made a decision I’d give it a shot, so I began releasing music as Baron Longfellow and that is what I’d hear on the radio,’ Hey this tune is from Baron Longfellow. We additionally know him as Andy Kim.’ However I made a decision to not go to his gravesite and say, ‘I advised you so,’” he deadpanned, including that there was then one other lull that lasted into the early years of the 21st century earlier than one other serendipitous human entered the image.
“It virtually felt just like the stamp of Andy Kim was, you recognize, sort of evaporating till Ed Robertson [of The Barenaked Ladies] confirmed up in my life and stated, ‘hey man, I wish to write a tune with you and produce a document. I used to be at all times writing and put out some low cost music, however no person heard any of it. No one cared, however I cared. Like I’ve stated many instances earlier than, I’ve no different recognized ability, what I do is write songs. So, I used to be dwelling my life, I used to be completely satisfied writing songs, even when no person was and no person was listening after which out of the shadows comes my good friend Ed Robertson. And he produced my [2005 EP] I Forgot to Point out. He did such an ideal job and, hey man, I ended up successful Indie Solo Artist of the 12 months throughout Canadian Music Week. I don’t know how one can clarify all this. All I do know is that this; ever since I used to be a child, after I was an altar boy, was to thank God. I thank him for my life. It’s been a giant thanks ever since I can bear in mind. By way of the ups and downs the moments the place you had been hoping one thing would change your life, and it did for a second, after which it didn’t. It’s at all times been about thanking God for these moments.
That very same 12 months, he additionally started one thing which, once more was a dream that become a actuality, which become a phenomenon – The Andy Kim Christmas Present, with proceeds over time going to varied Toronto-area charities. There may be possible a whole era of oldsters who got here to know who Andy Kim was due to this well-liked and well-publicized occasion that sees luminaries from throughout the size and breadth of the Canadian music scene to return collectively and share the venerable stage at Massey Corridor to play festive music, and usually have a splendidly celebratory time.
“As I advised you earlier, I grew up in a tenement. And each time I travelled and did a present, there’s at all times the day earlier than the present, and a variety of instances I’d take my guitar to orphanages and different locations the place children are in powerful conditions and hurting. And I’d sing ‘Sugar, Sugar’ to them, and it was one thing I might give again. Slightly factor to make them really feel no less than a bit of bit higher for a second. So, I made a decision to do a present, a one-off, at The Mod Membership. It was an unimaginable viewers, and all of us had fun. Later that 12 months, I bear in mind getting off a cruise ship the place I used to be performing in Florida and received a telephone name requested if I used to be doing my Christmas present once more. I stated, I wasn’t positive, possibly? They stated ‘properly, we’d like to advertise your present.’ So, originally it was CHUM after which it turned different radio stations. And I used to be doing this as a thanks to everybody who would take the bus, take the streetcar, take the subway – I wished it to be reasonably priced. I didn’t care who confirmed up, I wished to indicate my gratitude and provides one thing again for all the pieces that I had been given,” Kim defined.
“The purpose is that with my mother, my child brother and I used to assist her rather a lot. We’d drag a Christmas tree from the market up three flights of stairs. And my mom would have that Christmas tree. There can be no presents like you have got in the present day, but it surely didn’t matter. We had this lovely tree. So, I’m getting a bit of emotional fascinated with it, as a result of I’d hardly thought of it till now but it surely’s nonetheless what I do take into consideration after I take into consideration Christmas and why I do my Christmas exhibits. It’s going to a charity that may assist folks. And to have the folks, all these nice artists popping out, it’s thoughts boggling. To truly have Alex Lifeson [Rush, Envy of None] play your songs and for him to be there, it’s past actuality to me.”
The listing of performers for the 2025 version of the Andy Kim Christmas Present has but to be launched, and even when it’s, there are nonetheless typically surprises on the night time of the present. A sampling of previous visitor performers contains Colin James, Feist, Kim Mitchell, Lights, Metric, Nelly Furtado, Ron Sexsmith, Sarah McLachlan, Serena Ryder, The Sheepdogs, Arkells, Barenaked Girls, Metropolis and Color, Tom Cochrane, William Prince and extra!
This 12 months’s model of the occasion takes place Wednesday, Dec. 3 with proceeds going to the Centre for Dependancy and Psychological Well being’s Presents of Mild program. Tickets went on sale Oct. 17 by way of www.ticketmaster.ca.
The dream to be a songwriter continues apace, as Kim has by no means stopped following his ardour and his muse. In 2011, he launched his first full size album in a long time, Occur Once more, adopted three years later by a collaboration with Kevin Drew [Broken Social Scene] on the album, It’s Determined. His most up-to-date album, It’s Determined, was launched on the Arts & Crafts label in 2015.
In addition to the induction into the Canadian Songwriters Corridor of Fame, Kim was inducted into Canada’s Stroll of Fame in 2018, the Canadian Music Corridor of Fame in 2019 and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2023.
“Issues simply are available waves generally. More often than not, I’m simply enthusiastic about simply sitting there writing songs, then rapidly, they determine to provide you an honour of a lifetime and I don’t actually know what to do about it. I assume there comes a time when folks provide you with an award only for a lifetime of getting the very best time in your life, doing what you at all times dreamed of doing,” Kim stated.
“I’ve at all times celebrated; I’ve celebrated all of the instances I wrote a tune and went into the studio and made the document, and whether or not they went to primary, or they by no means noticed the sunshine of day on the charts, I used to be at all times invigorated by the truth that I’m doing the one factor I understand how to do, however the factor I like to do. It’s actually a pleasure throughout. And to be surrounded by all the opposite artists on the induction ceremony, that’s a cool factor. You’re round different songwriters and though we could write completely different songs, we could have completely different concepts about issues, on the finish of the day, all of us need folks to hear. And we’re celebrating the truth that, hey man that is what we determined to do with our lives.
“And right here’s the factor, what I’m enthusiastic about is the truth that, simply listening to them and their music all through the years, I’m simply completely satisfied they’re nonetheless round they usually’re nonetheless excited. I do know Triumph isn’t performing however Rik is, however both manner, it doesn’t take away the enjoyment of getting executed one thing that’s a part of Canadian historical past and Canadian tradition.”
For extra info on Andy Kim, go to https://www.andykimmusic.com.
For extra info on the Canadian Songwriters Corridor of Fame, go to https://www.cshf.ca.
- Jim Barber is a veteran award-winning journalist and creator primarily based in Napanee, Ontario, Canada, who has been writing about music and musicians for greater than 30 years. In addition to his journalistic endeavors, he works as a communications and advertising and marketing specialist and is an avid volunteer in his neighborhood. Contact him at bigjim1428@hotmail.com.
