Love Hurts
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This article is about the song written by Boudleaux Bryant. For other uses, see Love Hurts (disambiguation).
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| Single by Cher from the album Love Hurts |
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| Released | 1991 | ||||
| Recorded | 1991 | ||||
| Genre | Pop/Rock | ||||
| Length | 4:07 | ||||
| Label | Geffen | ||||
| Writer(s) | Boudleaux Bryant | ||||
| Producer | John Kalodner | ||||
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"Love Hurts" is the name of a song written and composed by Boudleaux Bryant, and first recorded by The Everly Brothers in July 1960. It was released that December on the album A Date With the Everly Brothers. A version of the song was recorded in 1964 by Mark Wynter, although it was not a commercial success. The lyrics of the song remained unchanged on all versions up until Nazareth's 1975 recording, where the original line "love is like a stove/it burns you when it's hot" was changed to "love is like a flame/it burns you when it's hot".
Another musician to notably enter the UK Singles Chart with this song was Cher, who reached #43, the highest charting UK version of the song.[1]
[edit] List of covers
| Artist | Release date | Album | Notes |
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| Roy Orbison | March 1961 | Crying (May 1962) | B-side of "Running Scared" |
| Mark Wynter | August 1964 | A-side of the single Pye 7N 15686 | |
| Jimmy Webb | 1972 | Letters | |
| The Who | 1965-67, 1989 | Played occasionally in the band's early days and during their 1989 their reunion tour. | |
| Jim Capaldi | October 1975 | Short Cut Draw Blood and later as a single | Reached number five in the UK chart[1] and charted worldwide. |
| Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris | 1974 | Parsons album Grievous Angel | |
| Nazareth | 1975 | Hair of the Dog | Performed as a rock ballad. This was the only rendition of the song to become a big hit single, reaching #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1976. As part of the "Hot Tracks (EP)" it also reached #15 in the UK in 1977.[1] Filmmaker Richard Linklater featured this prominently in his 1993 movie Dazed And Confused. |
| Cher | 1975 | Stars | Produced by Jimmy Webb |
| Don McLean | 1981 | Believers | |
| Corey Hart | 1996 | Corey Hart | |
| Cher | 1991 | Love Hurts | Also released as a single in Europe. It was featured on appropriate legs of her three-year 2000s Living Proof: The Farewell Tour. |
| That 70's Show cast | 2002 | That 70's Musical, an episode of That 70's Show | |
| Joan Jett | 1990 | The Hit List | |
| Veronique, a Slovenian rock band | 1991 | (Mrtva pomlad=Dead Spring/SAZAS Slovenia) - and the song became the big radio hit in Slovenia. | |
| Peter Polycarpou | 1992 | Love Hurts (UK TV series) | Used as the theme tune |
| Paul Young | 1993 | Best Ballads | |
| Guided by Voices front man Robert Pollard with Kim Deal of Pixies | 1994 | Soundtrack for Love and a .45 | |
| Heart (band) | 1995 | The Road Home | Live concert |
| Pat Boone | 1997 | In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy | Covers album. |
| Emmylou Harris | 1998 | Spyboy | A live album |
| Stina Nordenstam | 1998 | People Are Strange | 33 second version |
| Sally Jones | 2001 | Love Hurts | bluegrass |
| Sinéad O'Connor | 2003 | She Who Dwells | Irish singer |
| Bee Gee Robin Gibb | 2003 | Magnet | A modern R & B version which closes this solo album |
| Darren Smith Band | 2005 | Keep the Spirit Alive | |
| Keith Richards and Norah Jones | 2005 | Return to Sin City | A DVD a tribute concert for Gram Parsons. |
| Triumph | 2005 | Livin' for the Weekend: Anthology | Triumph covered this back in 1991 however, the track has only recently surfaced on Livin' for the Weekend: Anthology |
| Rod Stewart | 2006 | Still the Same... Great Rock Classics of our Time | |
| Yndio | In Spanish using Nazareth's musical arrangement | ||
| Paul Noonan from Bell X1 and Lisa Hannigan | damien rice |
[edit] Charts
Nazareth Version
| Chart (1975) | Peak position |
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| Norway | 1 |
| Sweden | 6 |
| UK | 15 |
| U.S. | 8 |
| Austria | 11 |
| Germany | 30 |
| Germany (feat. Munich Philarmonic Orchestra) | 89 |
The Nazareth version charted for 57 consecutive weeks on the norwegian charts (VG-lista Top 10), 14 weeks at #1.
| Preceded by "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" by Neil Sedaka |
RPM number one single (Canada) February 28, 1976 |
Succeeded by "Squeeze Box" by The Who |
Cher Version
| Chart (1991) | Peak position |
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| Norway | 2 |
| Poland | 21 |
| UK | 43 |
| Worldwide sales | 350,000 |
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums, 19th, London: Guinness World Records Limited, p. 102. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
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