![]() ![]() He financed the recording session of "Rock Me Gently" himself. With his chart career as cold as the Canadian winter, the Montreal native formed his own label, Ice Records. "It's true that you can be lonely at the top, but believe me, it's a lot lonelier when you're nowhere." "I never mentally admitted defeat in spite of three years off the charts and 18 months between record contracts," Andy said in a 1974 Billboard interview. His March 1971 single "I Wish I Were" only made it to number 62, and four months later "I Been Moved" barely cracked the Hot 100. The Steed label folded and Kim recorded briefly for MCA, but from mid-1971 to mid-1974 Andy couldn't get a hit record. In addition to the smash title track, it include's Andy's Top 40 hits "Rock Me Gently," "Shoot'em Up, Baby," "Be My Baby" and "Fire Baby, I'm on Fire." In late 1999, the 16-track German import CD Andy Kim - Baby I Love You: Greatest Hits (above) was released. "Rock Me Gently" was a chart-topping single from Andy Kim's self-titled 1974 album for Capitol Records, which peaked at #21 on the Billboard Hot 200 and spent a total of 17 weeks on the pop album charts. ![]() Andy also hit the Top 40 with original songs like "How'd We Ever Get This Way" and "So Good Together," and returned to the Barry-Greenwich-Spector songbook to cover the Ronettes' "Be My Baby." His most rewarding success, in financial terms, was writing a number one song for the Archies, "Sugar, Sugar" with Barry. ![]() He had a Top 10 hit with a new version of the Ronettes' "Baby, I Love You," a song written by Jeff with his former wife Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector. Ndy Kim had a hot chart streak from 1968-1971, when he was signed as an artist to Jeff Barry's Steed label. ![]()
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