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Single By Northern Lights | Many artists participated such as Paul Anka, Liona Boyd, John Candy, Tom Cochrane, Tommy Hunter, Oscar Petersen, Carroll Baker, Slyvia Tyson, Corey Hart, Neil Young, Ane Murray, Joni Mitchell, Burton Cummings, Gordon Lightfoot and many others. |
The project was organized by Bruce Allen, who brought together a large group of artists to record a song written by David Foster, Jim Vallance, Bryan Adams, Rachel Paiement, Paul Hyde and Bob Rock. Foster and Vallance wrote the one French Verse, Hyde and Rock contributed the song title.
The song was recorded on February 10, 1985 at Manta Sound Studios in Toronto.
The song was issued as a single by CBS Records in March of that year, and quickly reached number one on the Canadian Top 40 Chart. It also finished #1 on the year-end Canadian Charts for 1985.
By 1990, the project had raised $3.2 million for famine relief projects in Africa. Ten percent of the funds raised were kept in Canada to assist Canadian food banks.