Favorite Songs By Canadians: Im Scared (#2)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (68121)
United States
July 24, 2020 9:18am CST
We’re supposed to have a semi-nice day today, so I’ll enjoy it before the humidity returns. Before I head out I want to give you another great song by a great Canadian act, in celebration of Canada Day earlier this month. Gee, this guy again? Yep.
#2: I’m Scared - Burton Cummings
Guess Who’s back! 
After the Guess Who broke up lead vocalist/keyboardist Burton Cummings released his first solo album. It featured the big hit “Stand Tall.” And, as usual for me, I liked the follow-up (this song) better.
Cummings said he wrote this song from personal experience: feeling downcast, walking the streets of New York City on a cold winter day, he spotted the Cathedral of St. Thomas (Episcopal) and went inside.
He wasn’t sure why he went in, because he’s “never been much on religion.” However, as he says in the song (and in subsequent interviews about the song), “Something in the air was oh so rare.”
This song gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
I’m Scared
Written by Burton Cummings
Recorded by Burton Cummings
From Burton Cummings, 1976
Living in confusion:
After the Guess Who broke up lead vocalist/keyboardist Burton Cummings released his first solo album. It featured the big hit “Stand Tall.” And, as usual for me, I liked the follow-up (this song) better.
Cummings said he wrote this song from personal experience: feeling downcast, walking the streets of New York City on a cold winter day, he spotted the Cathedral of St. Thomas (Episcopal) and went inside.
He wasn’t sure why he went in, because he’s “never been much on religion.” However, as he says in the song (and in subsequent interviews about the song), “Something in the air was oh so rare.”
This song gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
I’m Scared
Written by Burton Cummings
Recorded by Burton Cummings
From Burton Cummings, 1976
Living in confusion:
Burton Cummings performs live on The Kim Mitchell Show at the Q107 Studios in Toronto
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@LindaOHio (178870)
• United States
24 Jul 20
Don't know the artist or this song.
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@FourWalls (68121)
• United States
24 Jul 20
Sure you know him, just not by name. He sang and co-wrote the #5song on the list, which you liked.
Laughing · The Guess Who The Best Of The Guess Who ? Originally released 1969. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment Rel...
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@RasmaSandra (79929)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
25 Jul 20
Also the first time I hear about this artist and the song.
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@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
24 Jul 20
Celine Dion is a wonderful, Canadian singer. My favorite song, all of them.
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@FourWalls (68121)
• United States
25 Jul 20
@myklj999 — I need to change my shampoo. It’s attracting the one-post flies.
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