You Always Hurt the One You Love

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"You Always Hurt the One You Love"
Song
"You Always Hurt the One You Love"
Doris Fisher
Clarence "Frogman" Henry singles chronology
"(I Don't Know Why) But I Do"
(1961) 		"You Always Hurt the One You Love"
(1961) 		"Lonely Street"
(1961)

"You Always Hurt the One You Love" is a

Doris Fisher. First recorded by the Mills Brothers, whose recording reached the top of the Billboard charts in 1944, it was also a hit for Sammy Kaye (vocal by Billy Williams) in 1945.[1]

It has been performed by many other artists over the years,

hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961. It was also popular in a parody version by Spike Jones. The song was performed by actor Ryan Gosling and featured prominently in the 2010 film Blue Valentine
.

A partial list of singers who have recorded this song

The Mills Brothers' version

The

Billboard Best Seller chart on June 22, 1944, and lasted 20 weeks on the chart, peaking at number one. The Mills Brothers version also reached number five on the Harlem Hit Parade.[6]

The flip side, "

Till Then
", also charted in the top 10, making the record a two-sided hit.

It was heard twice in the Angel episode "Rm w/a Vu" in two scenes: one where Maude haunts Cordelia and another in a flashback scene in Los Angeles, where Dennis is entombed in the wall of his apartment by the former, his mother, in 1946.

Spike Jones version

Spike Jones' parody of the song is essentially the straight song with most of the parody being in the way the song is presented, in three parts:

  1. A slow, deliberate rendering of the first half of the song, with vocal by Carl Grayson, in a style imitating The Ink Spots.
  2. A spoken rendering of the second half of the song, by Red Ingle, with elaborations ("honey child, honey doll, honey lamb, honey pie") in a style reminiscent of The Ink Spots's bass singer Orville "Hoppy" Jones.
  3. A frantically paced reiteration of the full song, in "Dixieland" style, with vocal again by Carl Grayson, accompanied by shotguns and other typical Jonesian sound effects.[7]

Harry Mills of the Mills Brothers reported not being bothered by the parody, since they were under the same management as Jones and were good friends.[7]

Some artists have covered this version of the song (albeit fewer than have recorded the original standard). Those artists include:

References

  1. ISBN 0-89820-083-0
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  2. ^ "You Always Hurt the One You Love by Frankie Laine". Secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
  3. ^ Ron Roberts: Connie Francis Discography 1955–1975.
  4. ISBN 9780711963153
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  5. ^ "CHUM Hit Parade - June 26, 1961" (JPG). Chumtribute.com.
  6. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 402.
  7. ^
    OCLC 31611854
    . Tape 1, side B.
  8. ^ "1993 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award Winners". The Contemporary A Cappella Society. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
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