Songs
BRIAN BYRNE, “Arizona (I Miss You Most),” 2014
BRIAN BYRNE, “Arizona (I Miss You Most),” 2014 After losing another friend to suicide, I Mother Earth singer and solo artist Brian Byrne wrote “Arizona (I Miss You Most),” which begins with the line “Tired of this/Give me hope.” All proceeds go to Collateral Damage, the suicide prevention and awareness group founded by Scott Chisholm, who lost his father. The single is available on Dine Alone…
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/arizona-i-miss-you-most-single/id824388286
MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS, “Same Love,” feat. Mary Lambert, 2012
MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS, “Same Love,” feat. Mary Lambert, 2012 In this remarkable written gay rights song, the Seattle hip hop duo hits every point. “Same Love” begins with the perspective of a boy mistakenly thinking he was gay because he had “a bunch of stereotypes all in my head;” talks about the right wing Conservatives thinking being gay “can be cured with some treatment and religion;”…
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/same-love-feat.-mary-lambert/id560148910?i=56…
ROCH VOISINE, “Living Out My Dreams,” Olympic anthem 2014
ROCH VOISINE, “Living Out My Dreams,” Olympic anthem 2014 Quebec star Roch Voisine, who has sold more than 12 million albums, is the man behind the Canadian anthem for The Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. “This is the moment I’ve waited for all my life,” the ballad begins. Voisine will donate the profits to the Canadian Olympic Foundation to help support emerging athletes. "Living Out My Dreams…
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/living-out-my-dreams/id799696059?i=799696083
PLASTIC ONO BAND, “Give Peace A Chance,” 1969
PLASTIC ONO BAND, “Give Peace A Chance,” 1969 This song is ubiquitous this time of year but never gets old. “Just give peace a chance” was the response John Lennon gave a member of the press when asked what he and Yoko Ono hoped to achieve with their “bed-ins for peace" in Amsterdam and Montreal for their honeymoon. “Give Peace A Chance” was recorded on four-track in Room 1742 at Montreal’s…
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/give-peace-chance-2010-remaster/id720115480?i…
CHOIR! CHOIR! CHOIR! Sings Wham's “Last Christmas,” 2013
CHOIR! CHOIR! CHOIR! Sings Wham's “Last Christmas,” 2013 Toronto’s Choir! Choir! Choir! has performed with the legendary Patti Smith, stood in for Tegan and Sara when they couldn’t make the Polaris Music Prize Gala, and recently opened for Mayor Rob Ford at the 47th annual Cavalcade of Lights festival at Nathan Phillips Square. Now, for their first recording available on iTunes the 70-…
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/last-christmas-single/id768892994
HOMEFIRE (THE WIVES OF THE PRINCESS PATRICIA’S REGIMENT), “Ric-A-Dam-Doo”
HOMEFIRE (THE WIVES OF THE PRINCESS PATRICIA’S REGIMENT), “Ric-A-Dam-Doo” Written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance to commemorate the 100th anniversary in 2014 of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI), the anthemic “Ric-A-Dam-Doo” includes the lyrics “Hear the battle cry/See the Ric-A-Dam-Doo,” referring to words on the Regiment’s flag believed to mean “cloth of your mother” in…
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/ric-a-dam-doo/id730601697?i=730601780
WANTING "S.T.H.U." 2013
WANTING "S.T.H.U." 2013 Chinese-born Vancouver-based pop singer Wanting (Qu) says she has been a victim of cyber-bullying since her success. On her new album, Say The Words, the 30-year-old confronts the issue with the seemingly lighthearted single “S.T.H.U,” which stands for “Shut The Hell Up.” Produced and cowritten by Ron Aniello (Bruce Springsteen, Barenaked Ladies), Wanting says…
54.40 "One Gun" 1987
54.40 "One Gun" 1987 Sometimes a song takes on new significance years later. 54.40’s 1987 classic “One Gun,” from the album Show Me, has been adopted as the anthem of Rock The Violence, with the Vancouver rock band’s blessing. Over the summer, founder Craig Knight put the word out to Canadian radio stations to partner with them and play the song — just as they normally would — to…
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/one-gun/id256613770?i=256614492
THE TENORS & LAURA KAEPPELER "I Thank You" 2013
THE TENORS & LAURA KAEPPELER "I Thank You" 2013 Internationally renowned Canadian vocal quartet The Tenors has teamed up with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America spokesperson/Miss America 2012 Laura Kaeppeler on a pop ballad, “I Thank You,” in support of mentorship matching charity Big Brothers Big Sisters. The song — about the impact mentors play in the lives of young people — was…
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/i-thank-you-feat.-laura-kaeppeler/id720311016
GIRLS OF THE WORLD "I Am Malala" 2013
GIRLS OF THE WORLD "I Am Malala" 2013 Girls of the World — three leads and 30 in the choir — have united to create this resolute and inspirational song in honour of 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girls education activist shot in the head last October by the Taliban. She survived and is more determined than ever. A United Nation’s petition demanding all children be allowed…
https://itunes.apple.com/album/i-am-malala-single/id673398878
ALLEE WILLIS "The D" 2013
ALLEE WILLIS "The D" 2013 Before Detroit’s unprecedented $18.5 billion municipal bankruptcy filing July 18, Grammy-winning songwriter Allee Willis — whose work includes Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” and “Boogie Wonderland,” and Pointer Sister’s “Neutron Dance” — co-wrote a soulful love song for her city with Andrae Alexander. They are encouraging all of Motor City to learn the…
http://www.alleewillis.com/WeSingTheD/sing-or-play-the-d.php
SIMPLE PLAN "Untitled" 2004
SIMPLE PLAN "Untitled" 2004 The poignant ballad by Montreal pop-rock act Simple Plan was released as a single from its second album, Still Not Getting Any… and adopted by Mothers Against Drunk Driving. “This song is a very personal look at what happens when tragedy hits close to home…” the band, which has known people involved in accidents caused by drunk driving, said in a collective…
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/untitled-single/id79567008
LARRY PEGG "Weight" 2012
LARRY PEGG "Weight" 2012 “Weight” was the catalyst that gave Ottawa roots musician Larry Pegg the will to record another album after the crippling loss of his daughter to suicide in 2007. The song was written, literally between tears in his hotel room, while attending the 2012 Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention's National Conference. That same day, Pegg submitted it into CBC’…
VAPOR Feat. Marc Martel "No More Hurting People" 2013
VAPOR Feat. Marc Martel "No More Hurting People" 2013 Marc Martel, the former singer for Canadian rock band Downhere who landed on Ellen after his Queen Extravaganza audition tape went viral (he got the gig, btw) co-wrote “No More Hurting People” with Mark Heimermann in honour of the victims and survivors of the Boston bombings April 15. The title, of course, are those beautiful words…
http://noisetrade.com/nomorehurtingpeople/vapor-feat-marc-martel
STEVIE NICKS "Soldier's Angel" 2011
STEVIE NICKS "Soldier's Angel" 2011 Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks has visited many injured military personnel over the years at Walter Reed Hospital and Bethesda Naval Hospital. She wrote a poem after her second visit to Walter Reed and gave it out to the soldiers and their families. “I always told them one day it would be a song,” Nicks said. In 2009, an accident in Iraq that…
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/soldiers-angel/id430111446?i=430111465