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Billboard #1 Hits: #338: “Rock Me Gently”- Andy Kim. September 28, 1974. #1 for 1 week in Billboard Hot 100.
- Single: “Rock Me Gently”- Andy Kim
- Record Company-Capitol
- Genre: Pop
- Written by Andy Kim
- Time: 3:24
- B-side:”Rock Me Gently”- instrumental
- Album- Andy Kim
- Grade: B
- Peaked at #1 1 week in Billboard Hot 100. #2 in UK Singles Chart, #1 in Canada.
Canadian Andy Kim- born Andrew Youakim- grew up in Montreal. He co-wrote the bubblegum classic “Sugar, Sugar”- and had several hits on his own but hadn’t had a chart hit since 1971 and had been without a record label in 1973. He formed his own label Ice Records and with limited funds- he had enough money to record two sides- so “Rock Me Gently” was the a-side and the instrumental to it was the b-side. “Rock Me Gently” impressed the folks at Capitol Records and they released it as a single- it took 14 weeks in the Hot 100 before it finally reached #1.
Love this song.