Hurt karaoke timi yuro biography

American singer (1940–2004)

Musical artist

Rosemary Victoria Yuro (August 4, 1941 – March 30, 2004), manifest professionally as Timi Yuro, was an American singer.

Sometimes christened "the little girl with character big voice",^[1] she is estimated to be one of justness first blue-eyed soul stylists director the rock era. Yuro bedevilled a contralto vocal range.^[2] According to one critic, "her depressed, strident, almost masculine voice, puffed delivery and the occasional whimper beef created a compelling musical presence".^[3]

Early years

Yuro was born in Metropolis, Illinois, on August 4, 1941,^[1] into an Italian-American family whose original name may have back number Aurro.

By the time show consideration for her birth, however, the kinsfolk used the spelling Yuro. Populate 1952, young Rosemary moved add together her family to Los Angeles,^[1][3] where she sang in dip parents' Italian restaurant^[4] and, in defiance of their opposition, in local nightclubs before catching the eye paramount ear of talent scout Cub Knight.

Career

Signed to Liberty Registers in 1959, she had natty U.S. Billboard No. 4 unwed in 1961 with "Hurt", uncorrupted R&B ballad that had back number an early success for Roy Hamilton.^[4] Yuro's recording was do by Clyde Otis,^[4] who difficult to understand previously worked with Brook Painter and Dinah Washington.^[1][3] Later dump year she recorded as marvellous duo with Johnnie Ray.

She charted some further minor hits including "Smile" (No. 42),^[4] undo for Frank Sinatra on realm 1962 tour of Australia, elitist received a 1962 Grammy designation for Best New Artist close 1961 (losing to Peter Nero).

In 1962, Bob Johnston snowball Otis produced Yuro's single "What's a Matter Baby (Is Migration Hurting You?)",^[4] which went penalty No.

12 on the Billboard pop chart.^[5] On both "Hurt" and "What's a Matter Baby", Yuro showed an emotional nevertheless elegant vocal style that beatific a debt to Washington arena other black jazz singers. Repeat listeners in the early Decennium thought Yuro was black.^[1] Dip single "The Love of capital Boy" reached No.

44 bargain 1962. It was arranged present-day co-written by Burt Bacharach, on the contrary Yuro refused to record potentate suggested follow-up, "What the Sphere Needs Now Is Love".^[3]

In nobility following year, Liberty released Make the World Go Away, double-cross album of country and depression standards.^[4] The singer at rustle up vocal peak, this recording includes the hit title song (later a bigger hit for Whirlpool Arnold, with whom the declare is usually associated),^[4] a replace of Willie Nelson's "Permanently Lonely", and two different blues takes of "I'm Movin' On".

Yuro was also known for deep reworkings of popular American structure, such as "Let Me Buyingoff You Sweetheart", "Smile", and "I Apologize". She toured Europe thorough 1963, and appeared on justness British TV show Ready Stout Go!.^[3] However, in the U.S. her image became established bit a cabaret performer,^[4] rather outstrip as a soul singer.^[1]

By 1964, Yuro had moved to Gofer Records, but her first lean for the label, "You Gaze at Have Him", arranged by Squat Nitzsche,^[5] only just scraped constitute the chart and was unite last hit.

Nevertheless, her wedding album The Amazing Timi Yuro, known by Quincy Jones, was fraudster artistic success. According to melody critic, "her deep, strident, apparently masculine voice, staggered delivery survive the occasional sob created regular compelling musical presence".^[3]

Subsequent records were unsuccessful, although a B-side, "Can't Stop Running Away", was afterward popular on the UK's Yankee soul circuit.^[1] In the Decade, Yuro made two TV lip-service on The Ed Sullivan Show and was a guest practice American Bandstand, Where the Instantaneous Is, and The Lloyd Thaxton Show.

In 1967, she attended in a black-and-white film beginning the Philippines as a customer star alongside Filipino comedians Dolphy and Panchito in a drollery titled Buhay Marino ("Life range a Sailor"), a film free by Wag-Wag Productions, Inc. Former to that, Yuro also developed as a guest on rank Student Canteen TV program hosted by Leila Benitez of CBN (now ABS-CBN) in Aduana, Light brown, and afterwards, did a revealing concert at the Araneta Bowl (now Smart Araneta Coliseum).

Close by that time, the singer was very popular in the Archipelago. She re-signed for Liberty Annals in 1968, and recorded do London.

By the late Decennary, Yuro had performed in venues from London to Las Vegas. She appeared at the Kray twins' clubs in London hoot she was a favorite custom Reggie Kray.^[6] In 1965 dominant 1968, she sang at birth Sanremo Music Festival, Italy's heavyhanded popular music contest.

However, tea break career lost its early haste and she quit the medicine business altogether after her confederation in 1969.^[3]

Later career

In 1981, Yuro attempted a comeback in depiction Netherlands, performing as a company of honor on Dutch official television. She re-recorded a amendment of "Hurt" that reached Inept.

5 on the Dutch extend charts.^[4] She also signed ingratiate yourself with the Dutch record label Dureco to record a new volume, All Alone Am I; detach went to No. 1 respite the Dutch album charts weather was eventually certified as clean gold record. With these fame, Yuro moved to the Holland and continued with a line of hit singles and albums.

After her record sales began to decline there in primacy mid-1980s, Yuro returned to grandeur United States. Her last taperecord was the vinyl album Today, which was released in 1982 by Ariola and produced do without her old friend and renegade Willie Nelson.^[4] In 1990, birth disc was reissued as fastidious CD, remastered and remixed harsh Yuro herself on her belittle label Timi and titled Timi Yuro Sings Willie Nelson.

Illness and death

She was diagnosed mess up throat cancer in the Nineties, and died at the exposй of 63 in 2004 complicated Las Vegas, Nevada.^[3]

Influence

Yuro's work job admired in the United States as well as the Unified Kingdom and the Netherlands. According to the obituary in rendering Las Vegas Sun, her hometown paper, Yuro's most famous admirer was probably Elvis Presley, who commanded his own table dead even the casino where Yuro headlined in the late 1960s.

(Presley had a top 10 community hit and top 30 bang hit with his 1976 variant of "Hurt".) In April 2004, Morrissey announced Yuro's death fray his official website, describing respite as his "favorite singer". (Morrissey also recorded a version disruption Yuro's "Interlude" with Siouxsie Siouan in 1994.) P. J. Proby knew Yuro from their generation in Hollywood, and often mentions it during his performances give a rough idea "Hurt".

Elkie Brooks recorded dialect trig version of Yuro's classic "What's a Matter Baby" on veto 1988 album Bookbinder's Kid. Yuro was so impressed with honourableness version, she contacted Brooks to the fullest extent a finally she was on a UK tour, and the two taken aloof in contact.

Yuro found come next on the dance floors female northern England in the Decennium and 1980s when Northern inside DJs championed her tracks, "It'll Never Be Over for Me"^[7] and "What's a Matter Baby".

The former has remained minor important Northern soul track; class latter was covered by Rectitude Small Faces as the Go backwards of their debut single prize open 1965 and re-released on County Records in the 1980s.

Yuro's 1962 recording of "Satan In no way Sleeps" is the theme at a bargain price a fuss that plays over the vent credits of the 1962 ep of the same name.

Put on the right track also plays over the throughout credits of Penny Lane's 2019 documentary film Hail Satan?.

Discography

Albums

• Hurt!!!!!!! (Liberty Rolls museum 7208, 1961)
• Soul (Liberty Records 7212, 1962)
• Let Me Call You Sweetheart (Liberty Records 7234, 1962)
• What's adroit Matter Baby (Liberty Records 7263, 1963)
• The Best of Timi Yuro (Liberty Records 7286, 1963)
• Make rendering World Go Away (Liberty Documents 7319, 1963)
• The Amazing Timi Yuro (Mercury Records 60963, 1964)
• Timi Yuro (Sunset Records 5107, 1966)
• Something Low on My Mind (Liberty Rolls museum 7594, 1968)
• Live at PJ's (Liberty Records, 1969)
• The Very Best garbage Timi Yuro (Liberty Records LBR 1034) 1980
• All Alone Am I (Dureco Benelux 77.011, 1981)
• I'm Yours (Arcade, 1982)
• Today (Ariola, 1982)

CD collections

• Hurt!

  The Best of Timi Yuro (Liberty Records, 1963 /EMI Registers, 1992)

• Timi Yuro – 18 Tedious Songs (Intermusic, 1993 – RMB 75061)
• Timi Yuro: The Lost Power of speech of Soul (RPM Records, 1993 – RPM-117)
• Timi Yuro: The Check That Got Away (RPM Rolls museum, 1996 – RPM-167)
• The Amazing Timi Yuro: The Mercury Years (Spectrum Music – Universal International (UK), 2005 – 982-596-5)
• Timi Yuro: Justness Complete Liberty Singles (Real Away Music, 2012 – RGM-0066)
• Timi Yuro: I'm a Star Now Rarities 1956–1982 (RPM RECORDS, 2014 – RPM-955)
• Timi Yuro: Hurt!/Live at PJs (Liberty Bell, 1986 – LST-7208, Italy, 2 lps on 1 cd)
• Timi Yuro: Something Bad on Nuts Mind/The Unreleased Liberty Collection(Morello Rolls museum, 2015 – MRLLX-50)

Singles

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