Andy Kim

Andy Kim

Andrew Youakim, performing as Andy Kim, is a Canadian pop rock singer and songwriter. He is known for hits that he released in the late 1960s and 1970s. He has recorded under the stage name Baron Longfellow since the mid-1980s.

About Andy Kim in brief

Summary Andy KimAndrew Youakim, performing as Andy Kim, is a Canadian pop rock singer and songwriter. He is known for hits that he released in the late 1960s and 1970s: the international hit \”Baby, I Love You\” in 1969, and \”Rock Me Gently\”, which topped the US singles chart in 1974. He has recorded under the stage name Baron Longfellow since the mid-1980s or just as Longfowel in the early 1990s. He continues to perform under his original recording name of Andy Kim. He co-wrote, with Jeff Barry, \”Sugar, Sugar\” which was a hit single for the Archies, reaching #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and ultimately becoming the RIAA Record of the Year.

In March 2005, Kim received the annual annual Favourite Artist Award for Canadian Music. The music video for his song “What Is Happening Is” reached #1 at Bravo Bravo in the summer of 2005. Ed Robertson convinced Kim to come out of retirement with him to produce the track “I Got Mentioned” for the Barenaked Ladies, which received airplay on several radio stations across Canada. In 1995, Kim played the. stage at the Kumbaya Festival at which the band’s band’s Ed Robertson was also performing, at which he wrote the song “Igot For Mention”