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ANDY KIM DISCOGRAPHY                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Andy Kim's 45 Discography updated 04/18/01 Artist A Side/B Side Label Catalog # Year Andy Kimm I Hear You Say (I Love You Baby/? Cotique/Redbird C-174 1966 Andy Kim How'd We Ever Get This Way/Are You Steed 707 1968 Andy Kim Shoot'em Up Baby/Ordinary Kind Of Girl Steed 710 1968 Andy Kim Rainbow Ride/Resurrection Steed 711 1968 Andy Kim Tricia, Tell Your Daddy/Foundation Of My Soul Steed 715 1969 Archies Feelin' So Good (S.K.O.O.B.Y.-D.O.O.)/Love Light Calendar 1007 1969 Andy Kim Baby, I Love You/Gee Girl Steed 716 1969 Archies Sugar Sugar/Melody Hill Calendar 1008 1969 Archies Jingle Jangle/Justine Kirshner 5002 1969 Andy Kim So Good Together/I Got To Know (Steed/DOT) 720 Steed 720 1969 Andy Kim Friend In The City/You Steed 723 1970 Archies Who's Your Baby/Senorita Rita Kirshner 5003 1970 Monkees Oh My My/I Love You Better Colgems 66-5011 1970 Andy Kim It's Your Life/To Be Continued Steed 727 1970 Archies Sunshine/Over and Over Kirshner 1009 1970 Archies Together We Two/Everything's Alright Kirshner 5009 1970 Andy Kim Be My Baby/Love That Little Woman Steed 729 1970 Andy Kim I Wish I Were/Walkin' My La De Da Steed 731 1971 Andy Kim I Been Moved/If I Had You Here Steed 734 1971 Andy Kim Shady Hollow Dreamer/Who Has The Answers Uni 55332 1972 Andy Kim Love The Poor Boy/? Uni 55353 1972 Andy Kim Oh What A Day/Sunshine MCA 55356 1973 Andy Kim Rock Me Gently - Part 1/Rock Me Gently - Part II Capitol 3895 1974 Andy Kim Fire, Baby I'm On Fire/Here Comes The Mornin' Capitol 3962 1974 Andy Kim The Essence Of Joan/ ? ICE/Capitol 4032 1975 Andy Kim Mary Ann/You Are My Everything ICE/Capitol 4086 1975 Andy Kim Baby You're All I Got/Dancin' ICE/Capitol 5030 1975 Andy Kim Give Me Your Love/That Girl ICE/20th Century 6709 1976 Andy Kim Harlem/Harlem 10027 ICE 7028 1976 Baron Longfellow Go It Slow/? ICE/Polygram 1980 Baron Longfellow Amour (Tu Es Ma Papillon)/ ICE/Polygram 1980 Baron Longfellow I'm Gonna Need A Miracle Tonight/? ICE/Polygram 1984 Baron Longfellow Hold Me/? ICE/Polygram 1984 Baron Longfellow In the Night Machine/? ICE/Polygram 1985 Longfellow Powerdrive/? ICE 1991 Andy Kim I Forgot to Mention ICE 2004                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Andy Kim's Album Discography updated 04/18/01 Artist A Side/B Side Label Catalog # Year Andy Kim How'd We Ever Get This Way Steed ST 37001 1968 Andy Kim Rainbow Ride Steed ST 37002 1969 Archies Everything's Archie Calendar 103 1969 Andy Kim Baby, I Love You Steed 37004 1969 Archies Jingle Jangle Kirshner 105 1969 Monkees Changes Colgems COL-119 1970 Archies Sunshine Kirshner/Calendar KES 107 1970 Archies The Archies Greatest Hits Kirshner 109 1970 Andy Kim Andy Kim's Greatest Hits Steed 37008 1971 Andy Kim Andy Kim UNI 1973 Andy Kim Andy Kim ICE/Capitol 100 1974 Andy Kim Andy Kim's Greatest Hits (Steed/ABC-Dunhill) ST 37008 ABC/Dunhill 1974 Baron Longfellow Baron Longfellow ICE/Polygram 1001 1980 Baron Longfellow Prisoner By Design ICE/Polygram 1002 1984 Andy Kim Baby I Love You: Greatest Hits (Steed/ABC-Dunhill) ST 37008 EMI 8382-582 1996 Note: Andy Kim played and sang on many of the Jeff Barry produced records from 1967-1971. I have listed material where Kim contributed both writing, singing and instrumental parts to the whole recording. I have omitted Ron Dante's album and singles of 1970 however because Kim's involvement was more a guest appearance rather than as a main contributor.

The Rebirth of Andy Kim

Former '60s pop idol back on the charts with new album By Kerry Doole The name Andy Kim may evoke just a faint flicker of recognition. If a radio station played a set of music of such songs as "Rock Me Gently", "Baby I Love You", "How'd We Ever Get This Way" and "Sugar Sugar," however, chances are you'd be humming along. They all have an Andy Kim songwriting credit, and have helped him become one of Canadian music's best-selling pop artists ever (record sales of over 30 million). Those tunes were smash hits for both Andy and artists like The Archies and Wilson Pickett, back in the late '60s and early '70s, and they guaranteed Kim a place in the pop history books. Refreshingly, the Montreal native isn't sitting on his laurels (and royalty cheques). Very few artists from that era are having hits now with new material, but, after a very long absence, Andy Kim is back. Tandem chatted with Kim recently in his current Rosedale abode. A refreshing interview subject, he displayed not an iota of arrogance over his current comeback. He had long been written off by a recording industry obsessed with youth, but he has defied the odds by returning with a new hit single, "I Forgot To Mention." This melodic pop song, co-written with and produced by the Barenaked Ladies' Ed Robertson, is introducing Andy Kim to a new generation of listeners. Who knows, some of them may even have been conceived by parents listening to one of his songs!

"At a concert in New Zealand recently, the promoter told me about being at a high school dance and being too nervous about asking a girl he fancied to dance. Then 'Rock Me Gently' came on and he got up the nerve."

His current 'comeback' thrills Andy. "I had no concept there would be such an overwhelming response. You hope that people will hear your music. That is all an artist can hope for, to create the art and hopefully have an exhibition of it that people will come and see. If they respond to it, then wonderful. If you don't, well at least you have created something and it is there. I am just very flattered and honoured that this is going on now." Kim is now in his early '50s, but his trademark long black hair and sideburns remain intact, and he possesses a healthy glow. He insists, convincingly, that the youthful enthusiasm of the Montreal teen that wrote those early hits remains.

"I am still that 16-year-old kid inside, hoping that someone would hear my music. It is even more exciting now. At 16 I was excited about hearing my songs, but I was too young to grasp the dynamics of what was going on. Recently, when I heard 'I Forgot To Mention' on the radio, I ran and called my brother Joe in Montreal, holding the phone up to the speakers. Halfway through I started crying! I am not cool about this." Kim could easily have become jaded and bitter about his extended period in the pop wilderness. By the mid '70s, the music business had no time for a former teenage pop idol.

Andy recalls that "I have been through enough twists and turns in the U.S. where people have heard the music, and loved it, then they hear it is Andy Kim and then they are not interested. That is just the way it is. I have never seen the music industry as having the responsibility to babysit my dreams." He even changed his name to Baron Longfellow in 1980 (sounds like an adult film star's name, doesn't it?), but found it hard to duplicate his initial success. The seeds for his commercial renaissance were sown by the Kumbaya festival, over a decade ago. Show creator Molly Johnson called Kim in Los Angeles (his longtime base) and persuaded him to participate in the AIDS fundraising star-studded spectacular. The Barenaked Ladies were recruited to back Andy up on "Rock Me Gently," and he immediately hit it off with Ed. "Being around Ed really inspired me. Sometimes you meet someone and sparks happen. You feel a kinship. We continued to correspond and then thought it would be fun to get together and write a song. It was without any expectations or parametres." "I Forgot To Mention" is also the title of Kim's new five-song EP. The other material is equally strong, and more is on the way. Andy is assembling a band to go out on tour early next year, while his appearance in the Bluebird North series soon will give local fans a chance to catch this impressive rejuvenated talent. I Forgot To Mention is out on Iceworks.

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