Andy Kim - Baby, I Love You

Andy Kim's third album Baby, I Love You is of a piece with his two previous records for Steed, his 1968 debut How'd We Ever Get This Way and its 1969 follow-up, Rainbow Ride. Where the latter cribbed heavily from the psychedelic sounds of the late '60s, Baby, I Love You took a different approach, leaning upon many of the middle-of-the-road sounds of the time, as well as several of the songs that were hip MOR crossover standards of the time: Tim Hardin's "If I Were a Carpenter," Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and Burt Bacharach's "This Guy's in Love with You." Clearly, there seems to be an effort to move Kim back into the mainstream -- a place he never left, but the Day-Glo colored Rainbow Ride failed to generate a Top 40 hit, and Baby, I Love You feels designed for Top 40 play in the best possible sense. Read More