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"It Hurts to Be in Love" is a song written by Howard Greenfield and Helen Miller which was a Top Ten hit in 1964 for Gene Pitney. [2] It was one in a long line of successful "Brill Building Sound" hits created by composers and arrangers working in New York City's Brill Building at 1619 Broadway.
The title track, "It Hurts to Be in Love", and "I'm Gonna Be Strong" were Pitney's last top 10 hits in the United States. The latter single as well as "That Girl Belongs to Yesterday", an early Jagger / Richards composition, were also top 10 hits in the United Kingdom.
"It Hurts to Be in Love", a cover of the 1964 hit by Gene Pitney, [6] was the second single, which peaked at No. 72 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 48 on the Dance Music/Club Play chart. The third and final single, " All I Need ", reached No. 10 on the Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart. [ 7 ]
"It Hurts to Be in Love" had been planned for and recorded by Neil Sedaka, but RCA refused to release it because Sedaka had recorded the song outside RCA Victor in violation of his contract. The writers, Howard Greenfield and Helen Miller, presented the song to Pitney. Miller replaced Sedaka's voice with Pitney's, though Sedaka's trademark ...
Simply put: Love songs have stood the test of time through so many decades. Seriously, the ’60s and ’70s were all about soul and funk, while the ’80s ushered in pop and rock. And then the ...
"Hurts to Be in Love" is a song by Canadian singer/songwriter Gino Vannelli. Released as a single in 1985, the song was his seventh Top 40 hit in his native Canada, peaking at #19. [1] In the U.S., the song reached #57 on the Billboard Hot 100 [2] and #6 on the Adult Contemporary chart. It appears on his eighth album, Black Cars. The song was ...
"Heaven in Your Arms" is a song by the American musician Dan Hartman, released in 1981 as the first single from his fourth studio album It Hurts to Be in Love. It was written and produced by Hartman. [1] "Heaven in Your Arms" peaked at No. 86 on the Billboard Hot 100 and would be Hartman's last appearance on the chart until 1984.
Produced with his brothers Joe and Ross, the album yielded two hit singles: the title track and "Hurts to Be in Love". Vannelli was nominated for the 1986 Juno Award for Male Vocalist of the Year, an award he won in 1979. He and Joe won the 1986 Juno Award for Recording Engineer of the Year for the title track.