Closing installment of a sequence 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 items 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 outstanding 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 numerous deserving accolades afforded him by the Canadian music trade in recent times one other deserving honour will likely 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 music a few 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 other people.
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 mother and father’ technology was one thing to try for. Maybe, for those who had been blessed with God-given athletic talent, and a chance to get out on the ice at a neighborhood rink, you could possibly 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 in all 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 in all his prized possessions. After fumbling round with the dial, the waves of static parted, a booming, excitable voice got here by way of 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 may borrow his radio. And he loaned me a transistor radio and by no means requested for it again. There was a whole lot of static, however hear Jim, how I grew up, the place I grew up, my future had already been written. However then one evening, in my mattress, I lastly get by way of 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 might be arising, 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 enjoying music. And even interested by this now, I get emotional, as a result of that’s the place my profession began. I liked going to high school. I liked homework, I liked 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 college, they usually didn’t have music classes. They’d nothing besides one thing that regarded like a playground the place you’ll be able to run round throughout recess. At residence, 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 deal with about individuals in music and the identify Jeff Barry was all the time 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, searching for 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 mother and father 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 liked homework, I wasn’t an issue youngster till my dream. And as I received older, I noticed you probably have a dream, you will see 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 type of championed my dream as a result of he noticed that it was a means 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 skool. We by no means actually noticed eye to eye on a whole lot of issues. However I discovered from him that I had second cousins in New Jersey. And the solace was that after my time within the metropolis, I may take a bus to New Jersey and meet people I didn’t know existed. And so they took me in. The entire expertise opened up my world.”
The subsequent pivotal second was that call, that monumental alternative that would simply result in rack and break – 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 resolution to actually observe the voice of Uncle Brucie and hunt down 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 means, this teenaged son of Center Japanese immigrants, understanding no-one in New York Metropolis, however laser centered 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 desires are totally 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 fully at a loss. However I used to be a stranger there, I used to be a stranger to all these individuals, these names I heard on the radio. So, I waited two and a half hours to satisfy 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 type of prefer it, possibly we’ll end it collectively.’ I stated, ‘nicely sir, I can’t come again as a result of I’ve received to go residence. My mother and pop expect me to go residence, again to Montreal,’ and so I began packing up my guitar to place it within the case. Then he stated, ‘nicely, get the deal with from the lady on the entrance desk, as a result of I’ve received to enter the studio.’ I checked out him and requested if I may include him, as a result of I had by no means been in a studio earlier than. So, that is the following unreal factor that occurs. Jeff Barry appears at me and stated, ‘have you ever had lunch?’ I instructed him that I hadn’t eaten, so he stated, ‘I often get a sandwich, and I’ll offer you 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 resort, 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 don’t know what’s occurring, so I simply sit there, and I stand up to go away 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 ground of the Brill Constructing, received the telephone quantity and the mailing deal with, then later received on a bus to come back again to Montreal. Even simply saying all this out loud to you feels 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 satisfy 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 have a look at a board that tells me the place the workplaces 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 arms with individuals as they stroll in. I don’t actually have the phrases to elucidate it, however this was Jack Dempsey. This was New York Metropolis, within the Nineteen Sixties. And it was someplace that I felt I wished, that I wanted to be part of. However trying on the board, I noticed that Jeff Barry was on the ninth ground. 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 may be value a brief pause to only soak within the significance of these names and the songs that they crafted to the tradition of, nicely, the world. It provides 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 thing 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 Actually 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.
Selecting up the narrative of this unbelievable story, Kim talks about how he quickly turned extra deeply enmeshed throughout the Brill Constructing system, ultimately changing into collaborators along with his hero, all of which ends up in, ultimately, 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 enjoying his music ‘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 enjoying. He favored the best way I used to be enjoying it, and he inspired me to chop the observe, 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 feel again, I used to be enthusiastic about being a songwriter, though I used to be probably not a songwriter but. All I do know is that I had this chance to enter the studio and report 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 discovered I used to be there, within the constructing, just about 24/7. I lived there. It was the place my desires had been increasing to not solely simply writing however recording, and never solely simply recording however for touring and having the ability to ultimately journey the world and all that stuff. However you recognize what, between you and me, I nonetheless don’t know why all of it labored. It’s simply that there was one thing within a dream that gave me the trail that ultimately led me to being honoured with all these nice songwriters,” Kim stated, earlier than coming to the story of the music that may mark him out as a particular artist, each from a songwriting perspective, and as a performer. This music is probably probably the most impactful in his profession – ‘Sugar, Sugar,’ which was carried out by Kim and a bunch of topflight studio musicians because the soundtrack to a made-up group referred to as The Archies, a well-liked 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 some other means than only a music for Saturday morning tv comedian guide 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 certain he had the entire songwriting world making an attempt to write down a music for this tv present. And I don’t know the right way to 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 following factor and it’s in another person’s arms. When one thing occurs, it simply occurs. I’ve tried to dissect it slightly extra. I used to be nonetheless on the excessive from ‘Child, I Love You,’ and this was simply one other music to me, yeah it was on the charts, however I didn’t suppose individuals 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 music was written, it was written for this TV present. The query is why has it lived to date past its shelf life, and my identify is connected to it as author and the singer who sang it. On the time, I didn’t look again to research something.
“Just a few years in the past, [music store chain] Lengthy and McQuade requested me if I might are available and discuss to youthful songwriters. So, there have been a number of hundred individuals 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.’ Just a few individuals put up their arms. 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 surprise of this sense too. I simply can’t imagine it’s true.’ So, for a few good minute or so, individuals had been shouting out names of all these nice artists and songwriters. And I stated, ‘it’s the primary verse from ‘Sugar, Sugar.’ And all people was dumbfounded as a result of no person is aware of the verse, however everybody is aware of the tune.
“Are you accustomed to [renowned and influential Lebanese poet/writer] Khalil Gibran? There’s an ideal remark [from his most famous work, ‘The Prophet’] the place he principally says that your kids 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 means. That’s the best way it’s to me for songs. I used to be by no means treasured about something. I used to be excited in regards to the course of and vitality of writing an concept that turned a music. However then as soon as it’s carried out and handed on to the producer or whoever, you simply type of depart it. I’ve had songs that had been hits and songs that I liked 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 will likely 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, based mostly on his personal private experiences and remembrances, to that ephemeral entity referred to as inspiration.
“Actually, I’ve no f***ing thought how ‘Sugar, Sugar,’ or ‘Rock Me Gently’ or the rest I’ve written really come collectively. I feel that deep down inside, for those who 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 all the time working as a result of I might hum and sing issues which might be going by in my thoughts so shortly and capturing and freezing that second of inspiration. So, then I’ll return and hear and surprise, ‘how did I sing that? And why did I sing it in that means? What made me sing that?’ Somebody stated it’s like magic – songwriter’s magic. Now, there are many individuals that may say, ‘we spent three weeks penning this music.’ And I get that. However it’s simply not the best way it’s labored for me. I feel songwriting is the treasure of believing that one thing is there, inside you, our exterior of you, that you just haven’t touched but. I’ve been round Jane Siberry, and I’m certain there’s inspiration there for her, however there’s additionally approach. However truthfully, I’ve by no means regarded over my shoulder at what another person has carried out. So, in a means, I feel you’ve received the fallacious man to have an excellent dialog with about course of,” he stated with a chuckle, earlier than we moved onto the topic of the aforementioned different iconic hit music that has change into ingrained in common tradition, and Canadian tradition, the large 1974 hit music, ‘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 severe 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 residence at 4 o’clock within the morning. It’s probably the most graphic music I’ve ever written. And no person wished to place it out, no person wished to report 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 report, by myself. And I feel the explanation 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 residence to Montreal, began by personal Canadian report firm [ICE Records] and put it out by myself. I knew disc jockeys from coast to coast and I referred to as and instructed them I had this new report; would they play it. I didn’t say something in regards to the U.S., and it began to get airplay and because of CKLW [a Windsor, Ontario AM radio station] they liked the music, they usually saved enjoying it sufficient that I received a telephone name from a distributor who would put it out within the U.S. and the remainder is historical past. So, the dreamer saved 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 carried out 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 Seventies as Baron Longfellow. It didn’t precisely go in line with 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, ‘nicely, all people is aware of my identify.’ He stated, ‘no, no, you appear like a Baron Longfellow. You’re six foot two, with darkish hair. You’re Baron Longfellow.’ I went round and requested some musician pals and different individuals within the trade, they usually stated, ‘no man, we’re all the time going to recollect you as Andy Kim.’ However then the supervisor passes away and I made a decision I might give it a shot, so I began releasing music as Baron Longfellow and that is what I might hear on the radio,’ Hey this music 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 instructed 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, type of evaporating till Ed Robertson [of The Barenaked Ladies] confirmed up in my life and stated, ‘hey man, I wish to write a music with you and produce a report. I used to be all the time writing and put out some low-cost music, however no person heard any of it. No person cared, however I cared. Like I’ve stated many occasions earlier than, I’ve no different recognized talent, what I do is write songs. So, I used to be residing my life, I used to be completely happy 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 profitable Indie Solo Artist of the Yr throughout Canadian Music Week. I don’t know the right way to 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 keep in mind. By 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 all the time been about thanking God for these moments.
That very same yr, he additionally started one thing which, once more was a dream that was a actuality, which was a phenomenon – The Andy Kim Christmas Present, with proceeds through the years going to numerous Toronto-area charities. There’s probably a whole technology of parents who got here to know who Andy Kim was due to this common and well-publicized occasion that sees luminaries from throughout the size and breadth of the Canadian music scene to come back collectively and share the venerable stage at Massey Corridor to play festive music, and customarily have a splendidly celebratory time.
“As I instructed you earlier, I grew up in a tenement. And each time I travelled and did a present, there’s all the time the day earlier than the present, and a whole lot of occasions I might take my guitar to orphanages and different locations the place children are in powerful conditions and hurting. And I might sing ‘Sugar, Sugar’ to them, and it was one thing I may give again. A little bit factor to make them really feel at the very least slightly bit higher for a second. So, I made a decision to do a present, a one-off, at The Mod Membership. It was an unbelievable viewers, and all of us had fun. Later that yr, I keep 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 certain, possibly? They stated ‘nicely, we’d like to advertise your present.’ So, in the beginning 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 inexpensive. 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 loads. We’d drag a Christmas tree from the market up three flights of stairs. And my mom would have that Christmas tree. There could be no items like you may have at this time, however it didn’t matter. We had this stunning tree. So, I’m getting slightly emotional interested by it, as a result of I’d hardly thought of it till now however it’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 individuals. And to have the individuals, 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 checklist 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 evening of the present. A sampling of previous visitor performers consists of 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 yr’s model of the occasion takes place Wednesday, Dec. 3 with proceeds going to the Centre for Habit and Psychological Well being’s Presents of Gentle 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 many years, 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.
Moreover 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 typically. More often than not, I’m simply enthusiastic about simply sitting there writing songs, then impulsively, 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 individuals offer you an award only for a lifetime of getting the perfect time in your life, doing what you all the time dreamed of doing,” Kim stated.
“I’ve all the time celebrated; I’ve celebrated all of the occasions I wrote a music and went into the studio and made the report, 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 all the time 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 might write totally different songs, we might have totally different concepts about issues, on the finish of the day, all of us need individuals 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 happy they’re nonetheless round they usually’re nonetheless excited. I do know Triumph isn’t performing however Rik is, however both means, it doesn’t take away the enjoyment of getting carried out 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 based mostly in Napanee, Ontario, Canada, who has been writing about music and musicians for greater than 30 years. Moreover his journalistic endeavors, he works as a communications and advertising specialist and is an avid volunteer in his neighborhood. Contact him at bigjim1428@hotmail.com.
