D'origine libanaise, Androwis YOUAKIM, est né le 5 décembre 1946 à Montréal au Canada. C'est sous le pseudo d'Andy KIM qu'il fait carrière.
En tant que chanteur, il atteint la 9ème place du Hot 100 avec sa reprise du "Baby I love you" créé par les RONETTES (1963); la 1ère au Canada.
"Rainbow ride" entre dans le top 50. "How'd we ever get this way" s'était classé 21ème en 1968.
En tant que compositeur et associé à Jeff BARRY, ils fournissent aux ARCHIES le titre "Sugar sugar" qui devient n° 1 du Hot 100. Ils travaillent également sur l'album 'Changes' des MONKEES en 1970.
"Baby I love you" est le titre principal de ce troisième album sorti sur le label 'Steed'. Il est entouré des reprises de:
- "If I were a carpenter" - créé par Bobby DARIN (1966)
- "By the time I get to phoenix" - créé par Johnny RIVERS (1966)
- "This guy's in love with you" - créé par Herb ALPERT (1968)
Thank you very much!
RépondreSupprimerHi!
RépondreSupprimerThanx for this one. Know artist but a "new" addition to his collection. Another song that was a minor hit in Canada was "Shoot 'em Up Baby" off his '68 1st LP "How'd We Ever Get This Way".
Cheers!
Ciao! For now.
rntcj
Hi!
RépondreSupprimerOngoing from previous comment. A quote from Andy about "Shoot 'em Up Baby":
Kim's first hit single, "How'd We Ever Get This Way," bore several of the trademarks of Barry-Kim's late-'60s work: a hand-clapping rhythm, a catchy easygoing melody, and a faint Caribbean feel to the arrangement. It made #21 in mid-1968, with its follow-up, "Shoot'em Up, Baby," doing almost as well, climbing to #31. "Somebody wrote an article about it in Seattle, Washington saying that 'Shoot'em Up' was a reference to drugs, which I wasn't then and never have been involved in," clarified Barry in Sean Egan's book The Guys Who Wrote 'Em: Songwriting Geniuses of Rock and Pop. "It's like on a Saturday night the cowboys would go to town and fire their guns in the air and get drunk and just kind of have a crazy old time and that's what 'Shoot 'Em Up' meant to me. But this guy wrote a big article on this record saying what a bad person I am and horrible to do to kids. I wrote him a nice thank you letter because the record broke out of Seattle. It brought so much attention to it that it became a hit."
Interesting,eh?! Non?
Cheers!
Ciao! For now.
rntcj