Burning The Ground Exclusive 1985
Ten years ago today November 22, 2011 I originally posted this Canadian charity single. Since then not much has changed, and the message is still the same. I hope that with the holiday season approaching we can pull together, and give thanks for all that we have by helping those around us that are less fortunate. Thank you all for continuing to share the BTG journey with me. I will be taking a break for Thanksgiving but will return next week. Take care of yourselves.
NEW 2021 Transfer!
NEW Meticulous Restoration!
Originally posted November 22, 2011
“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 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia. It was one of a number of such supergroup singles recorded between December 1984 and April 1985, along with Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” in the United Kingdom, and USA for Africa’s “We Are the World” in the United States.
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 Paiment, Paul Hyde and Bob Rock. Foster and Vallance wrote the music and initial lyrics, Adams completed the english lyrics, Paiement 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. The song’s video also received extensive airplay on MuchMusic.
On December 22, 1985, CBC Television aired a 90-minute documentary on the song’s creation, which was subsequently released on videocassette. A CBC reporter, Brian Stewart, had been the first Western journalist to bring the famine in Ethiopia to worldwide attention.
By 1990, the project had raised $3.2 million for famine relief projects in Africa. Ten per cent of the funds raised were kept in Canada to assist Canadian food banks.
SOLO VOCALISTS (in order)
Gordon Lightfoot
Burton Cummings
Anne Murray
Joni Mitchell
Dan Hill
Neil Young
Bryan Adams
Corey Hart
Bruce Cockburn
Liberty Silver
Geddy Lee (Rush)
Mike Reno (Loverboy)
SIDE A:
Tears Are Not Enough 5:17
SIDE B:
Tears Are Not Enough (Edit) 3:58
Tears Are Not Enough (Instrumental) 4:54
VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Columbia – 12BEN-7074, Columbia – 12BEN 7074
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Single
Country: Canada
Released: March 1985
Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock
CREDITS:
Co-producer – Jim Vallance
Design – Dean Motter, Modern Imageworks
Engineer [Assistant, Lion Share] – Tom Fouce
Engineer [Assistant, Little Mountain] – Mike Fraser
Engineer [Assistant, Manta Sound] – Peter Lee, Ron Searles
Engineer [Lion Share], Mixed By – Humberto Gatica
Lead Vocals – Anne Murray, Bruce Cockburn, Burton Cummings, Corey Hart, Dan Hill, Geddy Lee, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Mike Reno, Neil Young
Producer – David Foster
NOTES:
1985 Northern Lights for Africa (Society)
Heard in Duos or Trios:
Mike Reno (Loverboy) with Liberty Silver
Carroll Baker, Ronnie Hawkins and Murray McLauchlan, Véronique Béliveau, Robert Charlebois and Claude Dubois
Bryan Adams with Don Gerrard
Salome Bey, Mark Holmes (Platinum Blonde) and Lorraine Segato (The Parachute Club)
(Alfie) Zappacosta with (Lisa) Dalbello
Carole Pope (Rough Trade) and Paul Hyde (The Payola$)
Find the 12″ at DISCOGS
VINYL RESTORATION:
-DjPaulT
burningtheground.net
THE GEAR:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut Carbon (DC)
Cartridge/Stylus: Ortofon 2M Black
Turntable Isolation Platform: ISO-Tone™ Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck
Phono Pre-amp: Pro-Jec Tube Box DS2
DAC: Alpha Design Labs GT40a USB DAC
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner
SOFTWARE:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling/Dither: iZotope RX Advanced 2
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removal: Manual
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator
RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi
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Hi Paul and happy holidays to you and yours!
‘Tears Are Not Enojgh’ is a fairly pleasant record with a good message and good on you for preserving it in such high quality. I find it interesting that I cannot recall its melody line even after several listens. ‘We Are The World’ on the other hand really gets stuck in my head and passes the ol’ grey whistle test!
As expected in this genre of arrangements of sharing and caring music. Nothing I would buy to get in my record collection. Interesting song with a message as always to our hearts. Nice.
Happy Thanksgiving Day Paul and to all our neighbours in the United States!
Greeting from Canada! We the North!
Paul, thanks for reposting this great single by Band Aid. Hope you can continue to repost the old classics you shared years back. For those of us who discovered your blog much later in time, seeing what you had posted back then makes us our mouth water.
Enjoy your thanksgiving!!!
Best regards from Costa Rica.
These large-ensemble charity singles were such a big deal back in the mid-’80s! I thought this one was especially good, but that was probably because I was such a big fan of Anne Murray, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell and Bryan Adams.
Thanks for the new transfer of this one!
No escuchaba este tema desde 1985, Projecto realizado por artista Canadiense, muy bueno aunque no tan famoso como lo fue We Are The World, Los cantantes latinos tambien hicieron una grabacion similar en el 1985 titulada “Cantare Cantaras” en beneficio de UNICEF.
Yo igual, Tenía mucho tiempo de no escuchar el tema, pero es de los buenos para recordar. La grabación de “Cantaré Cantarás”no me hace recordar nada. Voy a buscarla para ver qué bloqueo mental tengo para con ese tema.
Saludos
Cantare Cantaras no esta mal buscalo por youtube en el video podrs apreciar tambien a todo el grupo de cantantes que formo parte de la grabacion del tema
Love this song. Totally in the style of We are the world. Thank you Paul and happy Thanksgiving 🙂
You’re welcome, Daniel Happy Holidays 🙂
Dear Paul, very good song, tremendous classic of these great interpreters, a hymn for those years, which remained in the hearts of many people.
Thank you 🙂
Love this single! So much talent involved… Thank you Paul! Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy the holiday!!
Happy Thanksgiving 🙂