Northern Lights (6) – Tears Are Not Enough
Tracklist
| A | Northern Lights (6)– | Tears Are Not Enough | 3:56 |
| B | David Foster– | Tears Are Not Enough (Instrumental) | 4:53 |
Companies, etc.
- Manufactured By – CBS Records Canada Ltd.
- Distributed By – CBS Records Canada Ltd.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Northern Lights For Africa Society
- Copyright © – Northern Lights For Africa Society
- Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Don Mills, ON
- Published By – Foster Frees Music, Inc.
- Published By – Adams Communications, Inc.
- Published By – Calypso Toonz
- Published By – Irving Music, Inc.
- Mastered At – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Don Mills, ON
- Lacquer Cut At – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Don Mills, ON
Credits
- Co-producer – Jim Vallance
- Engineer – Hayward Parrott
- Lyrics By – Jim Vallance
- Lyrics By [French] – Rachel Paiement
- Mixed By – Humberto Gatica
- Music By – David Foster
- Other [Title By] – Bob Rock, Paul Hyde
- Producer – David Foster
- Vocals [Uncredited] – Zappacosta
Notes
A Canadian benefit single whose proceeds went to aid for Africa.
On sleeve:
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price $2.49
℗ & © 1985 Northern Lights For Africa (Society)
All profits realized by CBS Records Canada Ltd. from the sale of "Tears Are Not Enough" will be contributed to the Northern Lights For Africa (Society).
Sleeve has signatures of participants in the recording.
On labels:
℗ & © 1985 Northern Lights For Africa (Society)
Foster Frees Music Inc., Adams Communications Inc./Calypso Toonz (Procan)/Irving Music Inc. BMI-1985
MAPL logo indicating 100% Canadian Content
Runouts all etched except for stamped number after "DM-"
Solo vocalists (in order of appearance):
Gordon Lightfoot
Burton Cummings
Anne Murray
Joni Mitchell
Dan Hill
Neil Young
Bryan Adams
Corey Hart
Bruce Cockburn
Geddy Lee (Rush)
Mike Reno (Loverboy)
Vocalists heard in Duos or Trios:
Mike Reno and Liberty Silver
Carroll Baker, Ronnie Hawkins and Murray McLauchlan
Véronique Béliveau, Robert Charlebois and Claude Dubois
Bryan Adams with Donny Gerrard
Salome Bey, Mark Holmes (The Parachute Club)
(Alfie) Zappacosta and (Lisa) Dal Bello
Carole Pope (Payola$)
On sleeve:
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price $2.49
℗ & © 1985 Northern Lights For Africa (Society)
All profits realized by CBS Records Canada Ltd. from the sale of "Tears Are Not Enough" will be contributed to the Northern Lights For Africa (Society).
Sleeve has signatures of participants in the recording.
On labels:
℗ & © 1985 Northern Lights For Africa (Society)
Foster Frees Music Inc., Adams Communications Inc./Calypso Toonz (Procan)/Irving Music Inc. BMI-1985
MAPL logo indicating 100% Canadian Content
Runouts all etched except for stamped number after "DM-"
Solo vocalists (in order of appearance):
Gordon Lightfoot
Burton Cummings
Anne Murray
Joni Mitchell
Dan Hill
Neil Young
Bryan Adams
Corey Hart
Bruce Cockburn
Geddy Lee (Rush)
Mike Reno (Loverboy)
Vocalists heard in Duos or Trios:
Mike Reno and Liberty Silver
Carroll Baker, Ronnie Hawkins and Murray McLauchlan
Véronique Béliveau, Robert Charlebois and Claude Dubois
Bryan Adams with Donny Gerrard
Salome Bey, Mark Holmes (The Parachute Club)
(Alfie) Zappacosta and (Lisa) Dal Bello
Carole Pope (Payola$)
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Rights Society: BMI
- Matrix / Runout: PROCAN
- Pressing Plant ID: DM-
- Matrix / Runout (Side A label): 7073-A
- Matrix / Runout (Side B label): 7073-B
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 1): 7BEN-7073-A-1A-2HZ DM-95
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 1): 7BEN-7073-A-1A-2HZ ② DM-7
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 2): 7BEN-7073-A-1̶̷A̶̷-1C-2HZ: DM-93
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 2): 7BEN-7073-B-1A-2HZ: DM-3
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 3): 7BEN-7073-A-1A-2HZ: DM-95
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 3): 7BEN-7073-B-1C-2HZ: DM-11
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 4): 7BEN-7073-A-1̶̷A̶̷-1C-2HZ: DM-14
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 4): 7BEN-7073-B-1C-2HZ: ② DM-6
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 5): 7BEN-7073-A-1̶̷A̶̷-1C-2HZ:② DM-5
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 5): 7BEN-7073-B-1C-2HZ: DM-10
Other Versions (4)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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Tears Are Not Enough (12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Single) | Columbia | 12BEN-7074, 12BEN 7074 | Canada | 1985 | ||
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Tears Are Not Enough (7", 45 RPM, Single, Promo) | Columbia | 7BEN-7073 | Canada | 1985 | ||
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New Submission
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Tears Are Not Enough (7", 45 RPM, Promo) | Columbia | 7CDN-16 | Canada | 1985 | ||
| Tears Are Not Enough (7", 45 RPM, Single) | Columbia | 7BEN-7073 | Canada | 1985 |
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Edited 5 months agoSome sources list Paul Anka as one of the singers on "Tears Are Not Enough". That is wrong. Anka did want to participate, but he backed out due to scheduling issues. What would have been his solo went to Dan Hill instead. Here are some other major Canadian performers who somehow, to put it short, got excluded: Leonard Cohen, Randy Bachman, Gino Vannelli, Stompin' Tom Connors, Rik Emmett, Ivan Doroschuk, Robbie Robertson, Ra McGuire, Hank Snow, Sylvia Tyson, Doug Bennett, Lee Aaron and Zal Yanovsky. How they ended up not performing, your guess is as good as mine.
UPDATE!
-Because Leonard Cohen performed the day before the recording session in Copenhagen, he would have been unable to appear on the recording.
-Rik Emmett was on tour with Triumph in the US at the time the song was recorded. Emmett says he was invited and would have loved to be part of the recording but scheduling wouldn't allow and recording verses remotely wasn't an option.
-On the Toronto Mike'd podcast, Randy Bachman revealed he was never asked to appear on the recording.
-The recording of "Tears Are Not Enough" overlapped with Stompin' Tom Connors' self-imposed retirement, a move meant to protest the lack of given to Canadian stories by the policies of the Federal government. Therefore, Connors was unable to attend the sessions. -
Edited 3 years agoWhen I was a kid, the radio stations in Winnipeg would play a version that had overdubs of some of the artists speaking throughout the song, in particular between the first chorus and the second verse where there was an additional 4 bar instrumental section filled with various spoken introductions, stuff like "This is Corey Hart, let's feed the world!".
Would love to find that version someday, can't find any reference of it anywhere online.
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