Hurt

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[Suspicious Minds]

Thank you for that info.
Here are some additions.

From Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame Historical Archive

“HURT”
Roy Hamilton, like Eddie Fisher, was on the upside of his recording career – only his was in the field of Rhyhm and Blues – a few short months shy of that idiom’s big time crossover to the pop world. After three consecutive R&B smashes, he recorded the Crane-Jacobs tune “Hurt” in 1954 and it proceeded to climb the R&B charts where it peaked at #8 and found itself at #71 on the pop charts. While this tune seemed to be the weakest of their first three hits, it is arguably the songwriting team’s greatest song, eventually reaching the coveted status of a standard although it would take seven-plus years to grab that brass ring.

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Fast forward to 1961. When super-hot record producer Clyde Otis was assigned the task of producing Timi Yuro’s first recording session for Liberty Records, one of the chosen tunes was “Hurt.” Clyde Otis and his arranger Belford Hendricks had turned R&B/Jazz stalwart Dinah Washington into a major crossover artist in 1959 with heart-felt renderings of pop standards and now he planned to do the same with newcomer Timi Yuro. Her distinctively soulful voice turned “Hurt” into an automatic add at Top 40 radio stations nationwide in the Summer of 1961 sending the disc up to its #4 peak on Billboard’s Top 100, and, in the process, turning a forgotten song into a potential standard. Subsequent charted recordings by Little Anthony and the Imperials (1966), The Manhattans and C&W singer Connie Cato (1975) and Elvis Presley (1976) guaranteed that it would go on forever.

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Since 1954, the song has been recorded dozens of times in dozens of languages by artists as diverse as Peabo Bryson, Marty Robbins, Carly Simon, Vicki Carr, Juice Newton, Bonnie Bramlett and P.J. Proby, but perhaps the most successful version of all was the Italian language version by Fausto Leali which reached #1 in Italy in 1967.

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Source: https://www.ripopmusic.org/musical-arti ... mie-crane/

Billboard, November 10, 1954, p. 40.

Apologies for low res.

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Promo disc

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[Mojo Filter]

One of the worst songs he covered. His bombastic vocal approach makes me cringe...it's so over the top.