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Tears Are Not Enough Celebrates 30 Years
Single Released in 1985
By John Gavin, Sunday, March 22, 2015

 

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Single By Northern LightsMany 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.

Tears Are Not Enough is a 1985 charity single recorded by a supergroup of Canadian artists, under the name Northern Lights, to raise funds for relief of the 1983-85 famine in Ethiopa. It was one of the number of such supergroup singles recorded between December 1984 and April 1985, along with Band Aid'S, DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS?

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.

 

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