This article is about the Gene Pitney song. For the Gino Vannelli song, see Hurts to Be in Love. For the Dan Hartman album, see It Hurts to Be in Love (album). For the Gene Pitney album, see It Hurts to Be in Love and Eleven More Hit Songs.
"It Hurts to Be in Love"
Single by Gene Pitney
from the album It Hurts to Be in Love and Eleven More Hit Songs
B-side
"Hawaii"
Released
July 1964[1]
Recorded
1964
Genre
Rock and roll, pop
Length
2:34
Label
Musicor Records
Songwriter(s)
Howard Greenfield, Helen Miller
Gene Pitney singles chronology
"Gene Italiano" (1964)
"It Hurts to Be in Love" (1964)
"I'm Gonna Be Strong" (1964)
"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.[3]
The song has been covered by many other artists, notably Bobby Vee. In 1981, Dan Hartman recorded a version which peaked at No. 72 on the Billboard Hot 100.[4]
This "It Hurts to Be in Love" is not to be confused with a similarly titled tune, co-written by Julius Dixson and Rudy Toombs, first recorded by Annie Laurie on De Luxe Records (1957),[5] and subsequently recorded by Frankie Lymon, and Trini Lopez, among others.[6]
^"Gene Pitney - Record Details". Retrieved 2016-12-20.
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