HURT
TIMI
YURO
SONGWRITER: AL
JACOBS & JIMMIE CRANE
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: HURT!!!!!!!
LABEL: LIBERTY RECORDS
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 1961
Rosemary Timothy Yuro (August 4, 1940 – March
30, 2004), known professionally as Timi Yuro, was an American singer-songwriter.
Sometimes called "the little girl with the big voice," she is
considered to be one of the first blue-eyed soul stylists of the rock era. According to one critic, "her deep,
strident, almost masculine voice, staggered delivery and the occasional sob
created a compelling musical presence." Yuro possessed a contralto vocal
range.
Rosemary Yuro was born in Chicago, Illinois,
United States, in 1940, into an Italian-American family whose original name may
have been Aurro. By
the time of her birth, however, the family used the spelling Yuro. In
1952, young Rosemary moved with her family to Los Angeles, where she sang in
her parents' Italian restaurant and, despite their opposition, in local nightclubs before
catching the eye and ear of talent scout Sonny Knight. Signed to Liberty Records in 1959, she had a U.S. Billboard Nº. 4 single in
1961 with "Hurt",
an R&B ballad that had
been an early success for Roy Hamilton.
Yuro's recording was produced by Clyde Otis,
who had previously worked with Brook Benton and Dinah Washington. Later
that year she recorded as a duo with Johnnie Ray. She
charted some further minor hits including "Smile"
(No. 42), opened for Frank Sinatra on his 1962 tour of Australia, and received a 1962 Grammy nomination
for Best New Artist of 1961 (losing to Peter Nero).
In 1962, Bob Johnston and Otis produced Yuro's single "What's a Matter Baby (Is It
Hurting You?)", which went to Nº. 12 on the Billboard pop chart. On both "Hurt" and "What's a Matter
Baby", Yuro showed an emotional but elegant vocal style that owed a debt
to Washington and
other black jazz singers. Many
listeners in the early 1960s thought Yuro was black. Her single "The Love
of a Boy" reached No. 44 in 1962. It was arranged and co-written by Burt Bacharach, but
Yuro refused to record his suggested follow-up, "What the
World Needs Now Is Love".
In the following year, Liberty released Make
the World Go Away, an album of country and blues standards. The
singer at her vocal peak, this recording includes the hit title song (later a bigger hit for Eddy Arnold,
with whom the song is usually associated), a version of Willie Nelson's
"Permanently Lonely", and two different blues takes of "I'm Movin' On".
Yuro was also known
for soulful reworkings of popular American standards, such as "Let Me Call
You Sweetheart", "Smile", and "I Apologize". She
toured Europe in 1963, and appeared on the British TV show Ready Steady Go! However, in the U.S. her image became established as a cabaret
performer, rather than as a soul singer.
I'm so hurt to think
that you lied to me
I'm hurt way down deep inside of me
You said our love was true
And we'll never, never part
Now you've got someone new
And it breaks my heart
I'm hurt, much more
than you'll ever know
Yes darling, I'm so hurt
Because I still love you so
Even though you hurt me
Like nobody else could ever do
I would never hurt, hurt you.
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