Tears Are Not Enough -30 years later

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video links/story: 30 years ago: TEARS ARE NOT ENOUGH was recorded http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tear...ater-1.2949836

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I've watched this many times over 30 years and just now noticed in part 2 at 1:54 Gordon starts his part of the taping and standing beside David Foster at the controls is the late Barry Harvey ...

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/who-was-...950819?cmp=rss

The superstar group, known as Northern Lights, recorded Tears Are Not Enough, raising millions of dollars for famine relief in Africa as well as aid for food banks in Canada. Here's a look at the people who participated in recording sessions for the single, including the main session in Toronto on Feb. 10, 1985:

Vocalists, (solo, duos and trios in order of appearance):

Gordon Lightfoot.
Burton Cummings.
Anne Murray.
Joni Mitchell.
Dan Hill.
Neil Young.
Bryan Adams.
Mike Reno (Loverboy) and Liberty Silver.
Carroll Baker, Ronnie Hawkins and Murray McLauchlan.
Corey Hart.
Véronique Béliveau, Robert Charlebois and Claude Dubois (in French).
Bruce Cockburn.
Geddy Lee (Rush).
Adams and Don Gerrard.
(Alfie) Zappacosta and (Lisa) Dalbello.
Carole Pope (Rough Trade) and Paul Hyde (The Payola$).
Salome Bey, Mark Holmes (Platinum Blonde) and Lorraine Segato (The Parachute Club).
Mike Reno.
Chorus members:

Aldo Nova.
Liona Boyd.
John Candy.
Tom Cochrane.
Gordon Deppe (the Spoons.)
Robin Duke.
Brian Good.
Tommy Hunter.
Martha Johnson.
Marc Jordan.
Eugene Levy.
Baron Longfellow (also known as Andy Kim, also from the Spoons.)
Richard Manuel.
Frank Mills.
Kim Mitchell.
Bruce Murray.
Catherine O'Hara.
Oscar Peterson.
Colina Phillips.
Wayne St. John.
Paul Shaffer.
Graham Shaw.
Leroy Sibbles.
Jane Siberry.
Ainalem Tebeje.
Alan Thicke.
Ian Thomas.
Sylvia Tyson.
Sharon Lee Williams.
Wayne Gretzky and NHL All-Stars and fans (in the music video).
Instruments and production:

David Foster - keyboards, producer.
Jim Vallance - drums, engineer, associate producer.
Paul Dean (Loverboy) - guitar.
Steven Denroche - French horn.
Doug Johnson (Loverboy) - synthesizer.
David Sinclair - acoustic guitar.
Hayward Parrott - engineer.
Geoff Turner - engineer.
Bob Rock - engineer.
Humberto Gatica - mixing engineer.

Corrections

An earlier version of this story said that Paul Anka was part of Northern Lights. In fact, he was unable to attend the recording session that day.

[paskatefan]

Thanks for posting all this info and the video! I still love this song even more than "We Are the World." I guess I was born in the wrong country (I love the USA, but I heart Canada too).