James Douglas Vallance was born on May 31,1952 and is a Canadian songwriter, arranger and producer.
36 Facts About Jim Vallance
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Jim Vallance is best known as the songwriting partner of Canadian musician Bryan Adams.
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Jim Vallance co-wrote "Tears Are Not Enough" for Northern Lights for Africa, an ensemble of Canadian recording artists in support of the 1985 African famine relief.
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Jim Vallance has won the Canadian music industry Juno award for Composer of the Year four times.
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Jim Vallance is best known as Bryan Adams' songwriting partner from 1978 to 1989 and again from 2005 to 2019.
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Jim Vallance has been involved with the music industry member associations.
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James Douglas Jim Vallance was born on May 31,1952, in Chilliwack, BC.
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Jim Vallance grew up in a series of small towns on the west coast of Canada, including Vanderhoof and Terrace where he collected fond memories that would later show up in lyrics to some of his songs, like 'Summer of '69'.
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Jim Vallance re-entered the UBC Music program again in 1973 but dropped out to travel Europe with fellow musicians Peter Bjerring and Tom Mirhady.
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Jim Vallance joined Vancouver jazz-blues-rock band Sunshyne as a drummer in the early 70s.
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In 1975, Fairbairn approached Jim Vallance about recording a demo of some of the band's music in hopes of landing a recording contract.
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The band was renamed Prism and Jim Vallance decided to use the pseudonym "Rodney Higgs" rather than his real name in the album credits.
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Jim Vallance was in need of a performing artist as a vehicle to promote his songs.
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Jim Vallance then landed a contract to write and arrange BTO's next album Rock n' Roll Nights through his association with talent manager Bruce Allen.
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Jim Vallance then landed another contract through Bruce Fairbairn to write songs for Ian Lloyd in 1980 and again in 1982.
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In total, six Adams-Jim Vallance compositions were used by Lloyd and another four were collaborations between Jim Vallance and Lloyd's band.
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In between, Jim Vallance worked as a session and club musician, and took a job as the drummer for Tom Jones' TV show produced out of Vancouver.
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Jim Vallance continued to work as an arranger and co-songwriter for other acts, working with Toronto on an unreleased track called "What About Love" in 1982, which would eventually become a huge hit for the band Heart.
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Adams-Jim Vallance was now considered one of the top songwriting acts in the music industry.
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The Adams-Jim Vallance team wrote songs for artists such as Paul Dean, Kiss, and Bonnie Raitt.
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Jim Vallance was co-recipient with Adams of PRO Canada's William Harold Moon Award for international achievement in 1985.
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Jim Vallance was involved in the Northern Lights for Africa famine relief cause in 1985 as co-writer and executive producer of the song "Tears Are Not Enough".
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Rachel Paiement, Jim Vallance's wife, wrote the French lyrics as she is Franco-Ontarian and a songwriter in her own right.
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Jim Vallance was credited as executive producer for recording Bruce Cockburn's part in a studio in Hamburg, Germany.
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Meanwhile, Jim Vallance had just become a father and his lifestyle had changed considerably.
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Also, Adams complained that Jim Vallance was coming back to the partnership burnt out from writing and producing songs with other artists and insisted that if they were to continue at the level they had been at, Jim Vallance should put other projects on hold until they had another album.
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Adams and Jim Vallance were essentially estranged for some time, with only sporadic contact.
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In 2003, Adams approached Jim Vallance inquiring if he would like to co-write a few songs for his next album.
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Jim Vallance agreed and three songs on Adams' album 11 are credited with Jim Vallance as co-writer.
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Jim Vallance co-wrote such hits as "Someday" and "Don't Forget Me ", which won the Canadian music industry Juno award for 1986 Single of the Year.
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Jim Vallance cited the long hours and tedious work as reasons.
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Jim Vallance had more enjoyment in just the songwriting and arranging.
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Jim Vallance has been awarded or honored with over 35 SOCAN and Procan Classics and related awards, as well as awards from BMI, and ASCAP.
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In 2003, Jim Vallance won an International Achievement Award for the song "Heaven" at the SOCAN Awards in Toronto.
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In 2007, Jim Vallance was appointed to the Order of Canada and invested in 2008.
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Jim Vallance is an accomplished singer-songwriter in her own right.