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Show By Andy Kim astold to Robert Wacker Rock Singer Andy Kim (24): “MyFatheris 88— And MyClosest Friend” A Father's Daytribute to an old-world gentleman from a new-world superstar Discover AsthmaNefrin Mist, the readyrelief, fastest relief ever found for asthma. = Andy and his Pop: A son’s success is not as important as a father’s approval. One day when I was 14, a gang of fellows was hanging around our home in Montreal. We were fooling around, lifting weights. My father walked into the room. He picked up a 60-pound weight with one hand, lifted it over his head very slowly, then slowly put it down and walked out, without a word. In a recent independent laboratory test, AsthmaNefrin Mist was compared with the two other leading aerosols. The results proved AsthmaNefrin Mist was ready to deliver medication to air-starved lungs nearly twice as fast as the competition. On the average, AsthmaNefrin went into action within 4 seconds. You know how. vital every second can be whenyou're caught by a suddenbronchial asthmaattack. Now thereis proof you can’t buy a faster, easier-to-use acrosol than AsthmaNefrin. And AsthmaNefrin’s exclusive formula penetrates deap in the lungs to start instant relaxation of bronchial spasms andinstant relief of congestion. Everyone who suffers from asthma should compare this amazing form of relief with their current medication. We'll refund $1.00 from the purchase pric? of AsthmaNefrin Mist just to have you discover for yourself how you can breathe easier faster. Follow the coupon directions That’s pretty good, huh? Especially when you consider he was 78 years old at the time. He was 64 when I was born, and I’m not the youngest of his boys. I'm 24, and my brother Mikeis only 21. My Popis a manof the old school: a barber, born in Lebanon, He believes in “spare the rod, spoil the child.” But for him the rod was a barber’s razor strop. Somebody would tell him I’d broken a window or got in a fight with another kid on the block or something and—Bang! I’d get it. There was no getting away from Pop—he could always outrun me, even when he was in his 80’s. He was strict. But he was also outstanding. below. We'll send you $1.00 by return mail. When I was 16 and wanted to try my luck with the New York music indus- AsthmaNefrin® Mist $1.00 try, I made pitch to him. He thought it over, then said, “All right—you can Mitchum-Thayer,Inc. 2700 West Wood Street, Paris, Tenn. 38242 Enclosed is the boxtopfrom one AsthmaNefrin Mist 15cc-size package. Please send my $1.00 refund by return mail. Thank you. go to New York for a week, provided you telephone home every night and tell us how you’re doing.” He gave me $1.00 $1.00 Refund Offer bus fare and little to live on. Name. Address. City State Zip. Is this the first time you have purchased AsthmaNefrin Mist? Yes) No Limit: One refund per household. Expiration date: July 31, 1971, Offer void wherever prohibited, restricted, taxed or license is required. 4 was going through, and he had enough confidence in meto say, “If that’s what you really want, okay.” I made other trips to New York—but for four and a half years I kept getting turned down. At one point, he said to me, “I am not a rich man—but I will take out a mortgage on the house,if that wili help you.” I said no, of course, butit really broke me up. He was over 80 then. Then came 1968, and I made the disc “How'd We Get This Way?” which sold 850,000 copies. Then Jeff Barry and I wrote “Sugar, Sugar” which the Archies recorded; it sold seven million copies. And I recorded “Baby, I Love You,” which got me my first gold record. So far, in two and a half years of writing and recording, my records and songs have rolled up $12 million in sales, and I’ve got a new single “I Been Moved,” and an album “Andy Kim” coming soon. I hope I’m repaying Pop’s faith in me. But my success hasn’t changed Pop in the least. He still gets up at halfpastfive every morningandstarts both the coffee and his narghile (water pipe). That’s the sound that wakes us at home most days: the stuttering bubble of that pipe, with its strange Lebanese tobacco. He’s a student of Kahlil Gibran and has often quoted to me one of his famous sayings: “Beware of I ypheld my end of the bargain. I what you want, for you will getit.” telephoned homeevery night, and every night the news was bad. At the end of the week, I went home, disappointed and depressed, but he never said “I told you so.” He knew what I I wanted success in the music world, Family Weekly, June 20, 1971 and I got that, but that’s not nearly as important to me as something else I wanted and got: the approval of the greatest Pop in the world. @ |