Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently
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- Andrew Youakim performing as Andy Kim, is a Canadian pop rock singer and songwriter. He grew up in Montreal, Quebec in Canada. Kim is known for a number of hit singles that he released in the late 1960s and early 1970s such as "Rock Me Gently", which topped the U.S. singles charts.
In 1968, he co-wrote "Sugar, Sugar" for The Archies. The song was No. 1 for four weeks and in 1969 was certified "Record of the Year" by the RIAA.
Kim has also recorded under the stage name Baron Longfellow since the mid 1980s
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Man this song brings back memories. I was 24. Summer. Nam was three years behind me, and I was partying like a madman. I wore my 8 track out on this song. Had a 67 Mustang. Ahhh youth. Enjoy every day my friends
Right on,and thank you for your service brother 😎✌️🇺🇸
Thank you for your service !
Yes! No matter what, keep yourself alive until you can retire. I wake up every day and thank God that somehow, some way I made it to paradise. 🍹 The only thing that I ever wanted to own was my time.
Ok@@jasmine0354
Welcome home GI.
Andy Kim voice always reminded me of Neil Diamond, both are great voices.
I never noticed until now that he does sound like Neil Diamond. I actually think that's who I thought sung it.
I always thought so too
Looks like him to
I thought this was a Neil Diamond song since it came out when I was young until about a year or two ago when I tried to find it and discovered this guy
Yesssss
The 70's was the era of simply great music. Wish we had more of it now.
That’s for sure the more the merrier please go back in time very romantic
That's because today's music is all Africa all the time.
@@tarstarkusz an age braging bout diversity but in reality there is less diversity😆 back then u would hear diff kinds of genres now a days it's almost always all the same tune😅
@@m_san_d Don't forget, there was Motown back then. So it's not like black music wasn't around and didn't get much respect. I own many Motown 45s to this day.
But today, we get the opposite of that. We get all Africa, all the time. It's awful if you don't like rap, which I don't.
@@tarstarkusz aye
430 days sober and clean today, since 1978 I feel great, and free for once in my life💯✝️🙏
Well done,keep up the good work😊
Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐
May he walk with you forever 💖
Way to go my friend. Stay young and live free
Congratulations 🎊
I remember this..loved it I'm 63 and could still dance to it.
Incomparable🎶Is this your favorite song?
I’m 61 the world was such a better place in our day
63 here, too, it's music that keeps our hearts young,dance on people
Me too.
5 years after your post, let me know if you get this! 61 here and thinking at my tender age back then how much this song had my head bobbing, feet tapping and singing in my head. At some point back then, I started falling in love with the ladies singing background because they sounded so sexy!
Wish life was like the 70's now.
Pretty sure the Vietnamese wouldn't want to live through the bloody 70'S again
You got that right 👍. Oh, how I miss growing up in that era.
Me too!
cant beat the music from the 70s. Such great memories
That's when singers had to be very talented, because there was no Autotune. Now music is just plain crap.
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Well pass on Ottawa lurch n jenny
🪄🎥 vroom vroom 🎩
1970s music is a music drug/is a drug
transistor radio under my pillow, child of the 70's, it was a golden time!
I remember those times!
It was the best! I had a little Sony transistor that lived under my pillow way back then. Love the 70's
Love this song, another example of why the 70's was the best era in music!!
60s to 80s yea or nay
I was born in 1960 and even as a very young child, I absolutely loved this era of music. The absolute best.
Im 60 ALSO , THE 70s were the BIG BOMB 4 SURE
Born in 61. Amen to that.
62! Thank God for TH-cam we keep rocking
Born in 65, absolutely love the 60' - 80's music!!
1963 here, have loved this song forever!!!! I miss good music, lyrics that mean something not just noise and cussing!!!!! Kids today have no idea sadly...
The first time I heard this song I thought it was Neil Diamond. I just assumed he was behind this timeless classic. One of my favorites. Always has been always will be.
Me too
I said the same thing on another video version of this song!
Same for me
Yes,sounds like Him,till this day had no clue who sings.....
This was one of my mums favourite songs and we used to listen in the car whilst singing our hearts out. Sadly my mum passed a couple of years ago but this song brings back so many great memories of her. Miss you so much mum x
I am a 58 years old man and when I hear this song feel like I am 20 years old. Love it so much
64 and feel the same way! what a great time in our lives!
Agree~~
Me2 man,Keep up the good spirits man.
EXACTLY the same for me......dancin at work!!!!!
I’m a 58 year old man, and when I hear this music it takes back to those years so long ago, luv it
I can't believe I still remember all the words to this song. I was 13 when it came out.
I was 12 when this song came out and am surprised that I can still remember the words like it was yesterday.
this is a perfect example of a perfect song, perfectly sung and perfectly performance.
The female has THE voice and carries the song at the end.
I'm an 80's kid and love that era of music. It's music from the 70's that comes in a close second. Both these decades have the best and most memorable music.
The 60s were pretty good too! 👌
@@skippy7208 lots of good music in the 60's too!!
Sings like neil diamond, looks like englebert humperdink. Both great singers!!
this song is almost 45 years ago and still sounds incredible
1970s music is the greatest music ever made
Best song I have ever heard! I love it. I grew up in the 70’s and I still love all my 60’s,70’s, and 80’s music forever the best, I wish everything would go back to those good old days.
I am 66 years old and this music brings back memories when I was in high school the most beautiful music I ever heard and I love every bit of it
So I'm at the Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show that follows the Chuckwagon Races last night (July 13, 2018) and the announcer says 'Ladies and Gentlemen, Andy Kim', and he's lifted onto the stage from a sunken platform singing 'Rock Me Gently', I almost choked on my funnel cake. Everybody was singing along and having a great time. As this is one of my all time favourite songs of my childhood, I was having an 'out of body' experience. Still can't believe it... he followed up with 'Sugar Sugar' and asked us all to sing along (like he had to ask) everyone was on their feet!
Lmao... That's great.. I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS STILL ALIVE..
I'd love to see a video of him singing the 2 songs in2108.
Why'd I, ever, leave Calgary?! Love the story; thanks, for sharing it!
Roz Ficatch
Lol that’s hilarious Roz if I knew what funnel cake was 😂but great song. Never knew he was responsible for Sugar Sugar.
What an amazing blessing!!!
Born in 1964 I grew up in the 70's ohhh to have a time machine, this was music, pure and authentic. I miss it dearly ✌
Sundar BalooMoti ,
64 here too
I too, was born in 1964. The music and the era... amazing!!
Same here such awesome music still have the lp somewhere...
I also was born in 64 12 years after my sister who was the youngest I grew up fast and hard n rocked it all the way through. I miss these old songs thank you all you music enthusiast and TH-cam 4 posting all these awesome songs
One of the great songs to come out of the seventies. I always found the rhythms very hypnotic.
This is one of my favorites, I love it so much, I can listen to it all day long ❤️
Hello dear,how are you doing,how is the weather over there?
still gives me chills
love this song
Hello dear,how are you doing,how is the weather over there?
Great song !🎶
Even more so when you see who is dancing with the young girl, at the very start of the video. Rather puts
the songs lyrics into a different perspective.
Yes, that really did give me the chills!
@@kenrunciman8706I spotted that too, and thought the same as I read the lyrics!
I have said it so many times before, I LOVE this song. Two thumbs up
Hello dear,how are you doing?
What a beautiful song, if I heard it several times back in 1974 when I was a high school student, some tears have come to the listener when I remember my youth, how time has passed, nothing to do Andy Kim was a great musician of the decade from the 70s, thanks for uploading it to youtube
I remember this song, when I was a young kid., 👧🏻 These songs take me back when I was a child great era !! Love everything about the 70s
Love it Love it! Clean/cool music!!!!
Me too Mary..... I love anything and everything 70's!
Same here man
WOW! I remember when I was in Junior High School and this song was so popular. I wish that they would write more songs like this but I guess that is how history is made. Thank you for placing this song on the 70's list. Rock On!!!
I was born in 1969 and came to age in the 80's and early 90's. I could never understand when I was young why my parents always listened to 50's music, I just thought they were old and didn't know better. Now I understand, music is about remembering a time in your life and soliciting a feeling that has been lost only to be rekindled by a familiar tune. Often I use this music as a therapy session when life gets hard, it takes me back to a simpler time when music was such a large part of my life and I was carefree. My car radio is usually on 80's on 8 or 90's on 9 and guess what? My kids just think I'm old and don't know any better.
MrSpicoli21 right on, man!
I was born in 1972 and I think gen x actually were very lucky as far as music, TV etc.We had all the old stuff from the 50s and 60s still being played on the radio as well as decent music in the 80s and 90s. I do feel like music died in the late 90s. The feel became very commercial and fake in every genre. I feel old now but thank the Lord we have Sirius XM.
Born in '61 and can't count how many times I've said what you've said in your post. I was a kid when these songs were playing on the radio. Your kids will probably be saying the same thing in twenty years.
I was born in 1969 also.ive always loved the oldies like this as well as the good ole 80's!
I WAS 16 IN 1969. THOSE WERE SOME GREAT TIMES 4 ALL THESE SONGS. THE SONGS TODAY DON'T EVEN MAKE SENSE.
This man can!!Raise a glass to awesome mid 70s music!
I use to love Andy Kim in my youthful age and now I am 59 years old I am not tired of it. Bravo Andy.
I wish I was born back in the 40's so I could have lived my prime years in the 60's,70's and 80's. Today's music and way of life is just sad. The times back then seemed so much nicer then today. I get my mom who was born in the 60's to tell me her stories she has from growing up in those decades. I'll take this age of music any day over the crap we have today. I need a time machine!
You should have been born in 1950. Thirteen years old and the Beatles were in the charts - Rolling Stones etc - to me the best music ever was the sixties - simple and very evocative now.
i hear that loud and clear.today is just sad...PERIOD
ryan slaes I lived the 60 and 70s it was great, loved the music. There was some bad times too. The music got us thru it. Im 61 years old now, I listen to 60s & 70s music every day. Peace.
ryan slaes- Maybe you should watch Midnight In Paris. About a man who wished he lived in the 1920s. I was a teen during the 70s, and hated it. There's no way I'd go back. Of course, most people tend to enjoy their youth. I didn't. But don't regret it, because I'm glad to have learned how to be happy in the here and now.
Yes sir, they were good times and better music to me, born in "56. Todays music is just too fast and meaningless to me. Oh those oldies.
Sweet innocence's emotion here God please help us find this simple time again ......
I agree. Robin Thicke would never sing something like this. He's too sex-obsessed to sing a song about love.
JayDon Proud Catholic this coming from person who belong to rape religion that rape and murder indigenous people.
Time machine needed!🙄
The female background singer absolutely crushes it, especially at the end. From the 3:00 mark on, Andy gets out of the way and it's HER song.
That's Carol Carmichael, aka Carol Parks, whose like way with the exultant choruses you will also recall from her backing vocals on the Albert Hammond hit from 1972 "It Never Rains in Southern California".
Days gone will never come again... broken hearts, broken dreams....still, the memories we have...those were the good old days.
I can't believe I've lived so long without ever hearing this song until today. I just stumbled upon it & I had no idea what I was missing out on. My god, what a brilliant pop song. Great voice. Love it, love it, love it!
best music ever back in the 70's
Olimpo 2016 I went from Partridge Family music to Rolling Stones Led Zeppelin Alice Copper Allman Brothers Lynyrd Skynyrd. I nicknamed Mick Jagger ( A ROOSTER ON ACID ) cause of his energy on stage. It was cool Lynyrd Skynyrd came to Buffalo, NY I like some 70s Bands are still playing. ZZ Top played at our County Fair. That Buffalo called SNOW CAPITAL OF USA because of 1977 Blizzard. Its True we average 10 feet every winter from Lake Erie
And 60's!
@@marymitchell8023 Agreed👍
@@jamesogrady6612 WE HAD IT ALL US 70s BRATS
I'm deaf and never heard this song before im so glad it has subtitles so I can enjoy this wonderful song
I'm blind, what did I miss?
lol 😢😂😅
Memories will never be forgotten with this great song, Thank you! 👍
Putin > Biden
@@Perririri Now that came out of left field! 🙏
Born in 1963,this song played at the roller skating rink and it brings back such wonderful memories ♥ ❤ 💖 I love this song!🙂🤗😘💗💗💗
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@@CandaceJustice 🙂🤗😘💗💗💗🙋♀️
Why oh why isn't there a better video for one of my favourite songs of all time... 'Rock Me Gently'... just does something to me. It came on the radio the other day when driving... and I was in complete euphoria!
Andy Kim... extremely underrated!
I'm 66 and still young! I recall dancing to this classic in discos in UK! Pop music has changed so much, some of today's is fabulous, it will be seen as a classic in years to come, but for now these are our classics!
I love this song takes me back to the 60s and 70s don't get any better then this
WHEN I FIRST HEARD THIS I SWORE IT WAS NEIL DIAMOND. GREAT TUNE.
Me too,from the first time I heard it when I was in grade school until months ago and I'm 51yrs young!
I am just watching this with a pal and that is the first thing I said.
Andy Kim could have been Neil Diamond......... you know.. if there was no Neil Diamond. XD
same here
ABSOLUTELY !! As did I. Until this VERY moment, I had ALWAYS thought it WAS Neil Diamond. MAN!!! I am SO dumb....
Lots of great 1974 memories with this one.
ken
graduated HS in 74 you nailed it with that comment
It was a good time to be 13
Yes!!!!
I was hearing this,Listen to the Music by the Doobie Brothers and more on the radio before rushing to the newsagent with my pocket money for my sweeties plus the Dandy and the Beano on a Saturday morning.
@@brianmcnellis5512 it was better to be 18.
Such a brilliant songwriter and performer. Falling down a rabbit hole of his tunes after accidentally finding the Choir! Choir! Choir! performance of Sugar Sugar by The Archies where they got Andy Kim to sing and record it with them for the 50th anniversary of the song just a couple of years ago. Andy is in his '70s and still sounds phenomenal! If you haven't heard it yet, definitely find it on here and give it a listen. So beautiful! 😍
I loved Sugar, Sugar back in the day.
I lived through such a music era I would never trade for anything.60 as a young kid to the 80s as a young man ...Bands ..Disco Think of it ...What a time of music It was my gift to my life!!!!!!!!
Ah....NOW I remember this guy! This song was HUGE when I was a teeny-bopper!!! LOL
I remember the 70's, brings back memories.
I am 60 now and I have always loved this song!
Still listening to it all these years later. Great song.
I was a 19 year old United States Marine back in 1974, when this was a hit. And so in love with my cute blonde haired, brown eyed girlfriend.
To me, this was my love song in as a teenager.... back in the 70's! This is the song I wanted my man to sing to me....lol ! Still one of my all time favorites
I was born 1 year later Becky. I agree with you. We really had the best songs in the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s. Musicians like the Eagles, Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Seger etc.saved the ‘80’s & ‘90’s. JMO. To each his own. It was a great time to be alive & the music was magical!! Ya’ had to be there to understand.🤘🏽Long Live Rock!!
Incomparable! Is this your favorite song?
this song has the same infectious bubble perfection as "Sugar Sugar" which Kim wrote . many thanks for this clip xo
Wow love this song !! Oh the memories this song brings back.
Love this song!! 💗 Always did!!
johannababy143xo oh yeah🐾🐾😋
Not alone
Now that you mention it, he does sound like Neil Diamond
Me too
Love this song. Plus he was so cute.
This song brings back memories of hot summer nights spent listening to the radio because I couldn't sleep. Those were the days....
Hello dear,how are you doing,how is the weather over there?
Great Song Back In The Days And I Still Like It ROCK ME GENTLY
Love this song. Remember when I was a kid jumping around in living room singing this song.
I first heard Rock me gently when I was visiting family in the Denver
Boulder area in August of 1974, it was played on on radio station KIMN AM950 Denver. I was in the Navy, transiting to San Diego
from Norfolk, VA. Great times then, great music.
Christopher O'Rourke great music back in the summer of 1974. I was in the Marine Corps, transfering from Camp LeJeune, NC to Okinawa. Great times, transport me back.
Christopher O'Rourke Thank you for your service to this country sir. God bless.
Guitarzan Spiders and Snakes and She's My Girl, Bill were hilarious hits of Jim Stafford.
WOW !!! such a GOOD memory !!! I DO,,,, congratulate YOU!!! i AM JUST about the same,,, when I listen to a song that really TOUCHES me !!
Thanks for not saying "transitioning".
I never knew who sang this amazing song and I also never heard it enough times on oldies radio. When I have heard it I've always loved it. Songs like this are precious and I never get tired of them. Love is the most important thing in the world especially in these terrifying times it's good to hear music that is made to soothe and uplift.
Songs like this are precious to me as well, so as soon as I got the chance I burned a CD played it over and over again. Now my adult children appreciate as I did! Generations will have the opportunity to know good music when they hear it! The least i can do :)
me too...always thought it was Neil Diamond
Great ! This song is very addictive to me.
The memories straight back to the 70’s I was only a kid but I remember this song playing
One of my favorite songs of all time. I keep it on cd so I can play it in whatever car I am in. GREAT MUSIC.
Me too!! Texasbil Henson 😉
I was 9 when this song broke big in 1973 -74 .One of the more memorable classic 70's AM radio greats from those days.
I am the same age. I truly believe the music was the only thing that got me through
My childhood
Me too. Born 1965
me too 10 in 74
I LOVE that female backup singer! What emotion! Wow!
I totally agree! Have to listen to that part a few times.
One of my favs in the day, TY TY, big crush too, yum! I am a 66 yr old lady and still get the warm feeling from this!!
Even though I was just a kid when this song came out I loved it then and I still love it now.
The similarities are astounding. Both Kim & Diamond are amazing performers. They're such a large part of my teens that I have difficulty separating them. OMG Middle & High school come flooding back so vividly...
Obviously Neil influenced.
When I started my first year of High School in September, 1974, this song was on the bus radio almost every day on the way to school. Great song. They played it so much it doesn't surprise me that it got to number one. Brings back fond memories..
I hear this and I'm suddenly 7 years old, perched in the back "rumble seat" of our big blue 1972 Pontiac Grand Safari station wagon as we head from our home in Easton PA to spend the day with family in Syosset NY. The radio's tuned to WABC "77" with the legendary Dan Ingram as Mom hauls ass across the GWB like Mario Andretti, with all us kids jamming to this song, bobbing our heads and singing at the tops of our lungs like pint-sized rock stars...
I turned 13 in 1968, about the time the Archies sang Sugar Sugar, written by Andy Kim. I kissed my first girl when this song was playing, we sitting on her front porch. Hi Robin.
She told me about this song!
I was 5 in 1968..
I was 10
Write about it. Let generations after you read about it.
I was 11 and Sugar Sugar was my first 'favourite' song. Life was just beginning!
Pure gold. A true classic.
This brings back so many great memories of my late older sister. We shared a room, and she had a 45 record of this song. We played it on a loop and turned into disco mamas!
Aaaaahhhh.......... The memories........ Those were definitely the good days 😃 Thank you for sharing this classic 🤗
I was 10 years old however brings back a lot of good memories. Sounds like Neil Diamond. Those days were the best.Good music and very easy to listen to.
Close my eyes and listening to this classic gem sure takes me back to the summer of 1974.
Thank you for the subtitles. Everyone should be able to savor the magic of music!!! 💖
So sorry for the infringe on your privacy. Beautiful song. How are you?
I'm 60 years old that makes me old don't it. But I love these old song's. Thanks for posting 😍
Luv this song. Grew up listening to it. Thank you.
I remember this song when I was a teenager back during the mid '70s. Brings back wonderful memories. Thank you for posting it.
Good lyrics and a driving beat.....Gosh! What a concept...Who knew...Apparently no one today.
Brings back memories of the 70's .sitting at the table with my new love listening to it . a Great song for all time
This is yet another song that I remember hearing it when it first came out. Now all these songs are starting to feel like old friends and here on TH-cam of course they haven't aged at all. Don't know if I'd like to go back to that Time but I'd sure like to remember more of that music. Much of it I can't find anywhere else.
That's one of the best things about youtube. But nothing can beat records.:) good day to you awesome person!
Awesome music from way back.but better then todays.
Loved this song as a little kid. Heard it alot and remember his name being popular. He has a similar voice to Neil Diamond.
Back when music was music!! Love this song!! Brings back many memories!
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS SONG!!!!
julsajee3 I love this song too.... Iam forever a hopeless romantic
Love Love love this song.
You know it girl🍻
I couldn't believe my eyes Andy Kim,,,! Look alike for a fool maybe,,,,, niel diamond is specific I in his voice
good
These old tunes still make me feel good. My brothers rocked out to them in the early 70s.
So did i It was a time to be happy PLay out side ALL DAY LONG ,,,, And be a kid
Love the way Andy Kim gets " into " this song ! Easily and by far and away one of the best records 👏⏺️😉to come out of the 1970s ! Easy to see 🙈 how and why it was a number 1 hit !
Beautiful song, love it.
This is song is just beautiful!👍👍
My late sister died at age 50. Complication of MS. The Minister who was meant to officiate at her graveside funeral had cancer, so I stepped in (I'm no minister but was privileged to do it) Close family only listened as she was lowered into the grave to Rock me Gently (as per her request).
She was a lovely, lovely person.
God bless her & her beautiful family !
I know it's unusual for someone born in '82 to have nostalgia for a song so much older, but I grew up in the 18-wheeler with my godfather (born in '38). So all I listened to in the 80s and early 90s was music like this. I still love this song.
I love this song, brings back fond memories of my teenage years I loved it then and I still love it 😁😁😁🙏🙏🙏
Hello dear,how are you doing,how is the weather over there?
Fantastic song. Makes you want to get up and dance !
This was my favorite song when I was 9-10 back in the 70's. Reminds me of a time when my mom, me, & brothers were driving to Lamont & this song came on. Radio blared & we were all singing the song at the top of our lungs.
sounds just like neil... this song takes me straight back to 1970s
Love this song. God bless Buck
The 70s had a lot of fantastic music today's music can't compete no way