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NEVER MY LOVE

from TRACKS OF MY YEARS

Written by Dick & Don Addrisi

 

“Never My Love” was an American pop standard co-written by Don and Dick Addrisi of the popular duo, The Addrisi Brothers. The brothers had a few hits under their names during the Sixties and Seventies. The Addrisi’s biggest success as songwriters, “Never My Love,” was performed by The Association out of California. The Association’s rendition brought “Never My Love” to #2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in 1967 and eventually sold over a million copies of the single. 

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SUNNY

from TRACKS OF MY YEARS
Written by Bobby Hebb

“Sunny” is an evergreen written by the late American r&b singer/songwriter Bobby Hebb (1938-2010). The song was written in 1963 right after Hebb suffered the loss of his older brother, Harold, who was stabbed to death the same day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. “Sunny,” with its optimistic lyrics, came as a reaction to those sad events. Hebb recorded the song in 1966 and that single skyrocketed to the top of Billboard’s Pop and R&B charts reaching #2 and #3 respectively. “Sunny” has had hundreds of cover versions to this day.

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GOD ONLY KNOWS

 from TRACKS OF MY YEARS

written by Brian Wilson & Tony Asher

In 1985, David Foster and Bryan Adams first collaborated on the famous charity song, “Tears Are Not Enough.” These two Canadian treasures would later touch base when Adams sang on Foster’s 1991 ” River Of Love ” cd and when Adams and Barbra Streisand sang together on the 1996 “I Finally Found Someone,” a duet produced by Foster. Fast forward to a couple of years ago. Foster approached the legendary rocker with a project he thought would be perfect for his friend. The idea was to record a bunch of covers of hits from the sixties and the seventies, songs that Adams loved back in his teenage years.

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TEARS ARE NOT ENOUGH

From WE ARE THE WORLD
Written by David Foster, Bryan Adams & Jim Vallance French Lyrics by Rachel Paiement Title by Paul Hyde & Bob Rock

David Foster got a call in February of 1985 from his friend and mentor, Quincy Jones. Jones had just completed recording “We Are The World” for famine relief in Ethiopia. He asked Foster to quickly prepare an all-Canadian song to be included on the same project.

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I FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE

From THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES
Written by Barbra Streisand, Marvin Hamlisch, R.J. “Mutt” Lange & Bryan Adams

“I Finally Found Someone” is just one episode in the long professional partnership between Ms. Steisand and David Foster. The seventies found the super-producer first playing keyboards and arranging music on her records like “Lazy Afternoon,” “Superman,” “Songbird,” and “Wet.”

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