Corey Hart - “Sweet River“ (rough demo)

Happy birthday, River Malachy Hart. Words and music by Corey Hart. Edited by Marc Lostracco. iTunes: Following River’s birth in late 1999, I made a life-altering decision to step away from my recording career. For personal reasons, it was simply impossible for me to reconcile the two colliding worlds of parenthood and the music business. I wanted to be a full-time father and something had to give. I wanted to be there to witness India, Dante, River, and Rain grow up. I would never trade a moment of it for any Grammy or hit record or missed career opportunity. One evening, while working at Compass Point Studios on some rough demos I started to mess around with a drum machine and keyboard, laying down a rough idea of a new song I had recently written for my daughter River. I had the remnants of a nasty cold so my voice was not in top form, almost giving me a nasal tone in the upper regions of the melody, not to mention a few pitchy bits as we