Heart song added to hall of fame

A Canadian band’s castoff that became a major hit for American band Heart is being inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Brian Allen and Sheron Alton, who were part of the group Toronto, wrote “What About Love” with Jim Vallance in 1982 but decided not to include it on their third album.

The demo sat on a shelf until 1985 when Allen played it for a music executive who then sent it to the producer for Heart. It became Heart’s first Top 10 hit in five years.

“One of the smartest dumb things I ever did was voting that song out of the album,” Allen said in a news release.

Toronto released “What About Love” themselves in 2002 as a bonus track on their reissued “Get It on Credit” album.

Heart’s Ann Wilson will make a special appearance when the song is inducted Sept. 23 on Global TV’s “The Morning Show,” with Toronto’s SATE performing it live from the El Mocambo.