LIBERTY - 5C 054.91422

THE BEST OF TIMI YURO

Side 1: Hurt - The love of a boy - I apologize - If i never get to love you - Just say i love him - What's a matter baby

Side 2: Smile - I'm confessin' (that i love you) - I ain't gonna cry no more - Let me call you sweetheart - She really loves you - Insult to injury

LIBERTY - 4C 054-91422

TIMI YURO - GREATEST HITS

Side 1: Hurt - The love of a boy - I apologize - If i never get to love you - Just say i love him - What's a matter baby

Side 2: Smile - I'm confessin' (that i love you) - I ain't gonna cry no more - Let me call you sweetheart - She really loves you - Insult to injury

SUNSET - SLS 50201

TIMI YURO - HURT

Side 1: Hurt - I won't cry anymore - For you - You'll never know - Cry - Trying

Side 2: A little bird told me - I shouldn't care - And that reminds me - All my love belongs to you - Once in a while - Don't blame me

MFP - 1A022-58068

TIMI YURO - HURT

Side 1: Hurt - I won't cry anymore - For you - You'll never know - Cry - Trying

Side 2: A little bird told me - I shouldn't care - And that reminds me - All my love belongs to you - Once in a while - Don't blame me

DURECO BENELUX - 77.011

TIMI YURO - ALL ALONE AM I

Side 1: Little things mean a lot - You've lost that lovin' feeling - Let me go lover - It's only make believe - Cry - I'm sorry - Only love can break a heart - Hurt

Side 2: Smoke gets in your eyes - I can't stop loving you - All alone am i - It hurts to be in love - It must be him - Tears on my pillow - Only you - Thank you for calling

LIBERTY - 1A 054-83193

TIMI YURO - THE VERY ORIGINAL GREATEST HITS

Side 1: Hurt - The love of a boy - If i never get to love you - I apologize - Just say i love him - What's a matter baby - I'll never fall in love again - Fever

Side 2: Smile - I ain't gonna cry no more - I'm confessin' (that i love you) - Let me call you sweetheart - Insult of injury - My prayer - Cry - Make the world go away

ARCADE - ADE H 92

TIMI YURO - I'M YOURS

Side 1: What a difference a day made - I love how you love me - Somewhere over the rainbow - Into each life some rain must fall - You always hurt the one you love - Tenderly - Who's sorry now - I'm yours

Side 2: (You are) my special angel - Walk away - I'll be seeing you - Can't help loving that man - Misty - You'll never walk alone - But i do - Are you lonesome tonight

Timi Yuro (born Rosemary Yuro, August 4, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois - March 30, 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada) was an American soul and R&B singer. She is considered to be one of the first blue-eyed soul stylists of the rock era.

According to her record label, Liberty Records, Yuro moved with her family to Los Angeles. There, she sang in her parents’ Italian restaurant and in local clubs before catching the eye and ear of record executives. Signed to Liberty, 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. On “Hurt” and on her Billboard No. 12 follow-up in 1962, “What’s a Matter Baby (Is It Hurting You?)”, Yuro showed an emotional but elegant vocal style that owed a debt to Dinah Washington and other black jazz singers. Many listeners in the early 1960s thought Yuro was black. She opened for Frank Sinatra on his 1962 tour of Australia.

In 1963, Liberty released Make the World Go Away, an album of country and blues standards. The singer at her vocal peak, this recording includes a powerful title track of the same name, a beautifully understated 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”.

By the late 1960s, Yuro had performed in venues from London to Las Vegas. However, her career soon lost its early momentum, and she quit the music business altogether after her marriage in 1972. When Yuro began to sing again in the 1980s, her doctors detected throat cancer. Her larynx was eventually removed and in 2004 she succumbed to cancer. Her last recording was the 1984 CD Timi Yuro Sings Willie Nelson, produced by her old friend Nelson.

Yuro’s work is admired in the United States as well as in Great Britain and the Netherlands. According to the obituary in the Las Vegas Sun, her hometown paper, Yuro’s most famous fan was probably Elvis Presley, who commanded his own table at the casino where Yuro sang in the late 1960s. (Presley had a Top 10 country hit with his 1976 version of “Hurt”.) In April 2004, Morrissey announced Yuro’s death on his official website, describing her as his “favorite singer”. (Morrissey also recorded a version of Yuro’s “Interlude” with Siouxsie Sioux in 1995.) P.J.Proby knew Timi Yuro from their time in Hollywood, and often mentions it during his performances of “Hurt”.

Yuro found success on the dance floors of northern Britain in the 1970s and 1980s when Northern Soul DJs championed her up-tempo tracks of “It’ll Never Be Over for Me” and “What’s a Matter Baby”. The latter was rereleased on Kent Records in the 1980s.