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Sales Rank: 115596
Category: Music
Artist: Timi Yuro
Publisher: Rpm Records UK
Studio: Rpm Records UK
Manufacturer: Rpm Records UK
Label: Rpm Records UK
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5022911311179
ASIN: B000024AR2
Release Date: April 5, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Hurt | | • | Just Say I Love Him | | • | Trying | | • | Smile | | • | Let Me Call You Sweetheart | | • | Count Everything | | • | I Know (I Love You) | | • | What's a Matter Baby | | • | Only Love Me | | • | That's Right, Walk on By | | • | Should I Ever Love Again | | • | Love of a Boy | | • | I Ain't Gonna Cry No More | | • | Insult to Injury | | • | Make the World Go Away | | • | Gotta Travel On | | • | Down in the Valley | | • | Leavin' on Your Mind | | • | She's Got You | | • | I'd Fight the World | | • | Permanently Lonely | | • | Are You Sure? | | • | Legend in My Time | | • | Call Me | | • | Something Bad on My Mind | | • | It'll Never Be Over for Me |
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Album Description
The remarkable voice of Timi Yuro led many to believe she was either a man, or black, or both. They were shocked to find such a powerful voice emanating from such a petite singer. Rising to fame with 'Hurt', Yuro had a long run of U.S. hits on Liberty. This first UK compilation includes many of these, the pick of her albums & B-sides plus the Northern Soul rarity 'It'll Never Be Over For Me'. 26 tracks. RPM.
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The Lost Voice of Soul January 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have met Timi Yuro in person and able to talk to her on the phone & personally when she went to the Philippines twice to perform in the 60s. She was a former girlfriend of my first cousin, then famous actor Bernard Bonnin. She even announced on her show that she was going to marry him and at her first performance in the Philippines with Teddy Randazzo, she dedicated the song "Let me Call you Sweetheart" to my cousin. Too bad they did not get married even though my cousin also visited her in the States during his visit here. I had only one Vinyl record of her and was able to buy another CD in the Philippines some years ago. Glad that Amazon still carry her CDs and I'm able to buy, collect and listen to more of her heartbreaking songs. She really sings well with a lot of soul and feeling. I can still picture her from memory and we are only of the same height and I tried to imitate her hairdo when I was young. I'm glad to be able to add her music to my collection & thanks to Amazon.com
Simply The Best!!! May 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Timi Yuro - simply the best Blue-Eyed Soul singer EVER! This CD is a 'must have' for any lover of music from a beautiful, powerful and soulful voice.
Timi never got her 'props' in life; however, her magnificent voice will live on forever on CD's like this one.
Superb anthology of lost '60s soul singer December 13, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Yuro's stature, both physically and commercially, never matched the power of her outsized voice. At only five feet even and of Italian-American descent, her brash, soulful blues-belting was difficult for the record buying audience (and her labels) to get their heads around. She had a pair of indelible top-5 hits in the early-60s, but her was diluted by a split in her material between deep soul, orchestrated pop, and cabaret. The public just never seemed to get a line on Yuro's character, and her catalog never reached the commercial plateau her talent deserved.
This generous 28-track collection focuses on her early, seminal work for Liberty from 1961 through 1964, with a pair of tracks from her return to the label in 1968. The set opens with her debut cover of Roy Hamilton's "Hurt," which peaked at #4 on the pop chart, and hit #22 R&B. Yuro's opening wail brings to mind Jackie Wilson before she settles back to reveal it's a woman singing; her combination of soulful R&B and pop phrasings bring to mind Dinah Washington. Throughout her initial tenure at Liberty (she'd return at the end of the decade after waxing sides for Mercury), she was matched with orchestral arrangements that varied from supportive to overbearing. Unsurprisingly they're often similar to the backings heard on Washington's Mercury sides, as both artists used arrangements by Belford Hendricks.
RPM's cherry-picked from Yuro's catalog with an ear for her soulful sides, and included many of her artistic highpoints. Her single most effective recording, "What's a Matter Baby," is the perfect combination of dramatic production (courtesy of a one-time artistic liaison with Phil Spector), a lyric filled with scorn and remorse, and Yuro's brilliantly bitter vocal. The entire song feels like an exposed nerve, with Yuro navigating between righteous indignation and pain that will never fully heal. Though Yuro's more famously associated with "Hurt," it's "What's a Matter Baby" (whose title is angrily spit out almost as a single word) that is her masterpiece, and one of the best kiss-off records ever. Other artists, including Ellen Foley, Del Shannon and The Small Faces, have all tried, but no one nailed this song like Yuro.
Yuro's catalog is filled with highlights, including a torchy string-drenched version of "Just Say I Love Him" (recorded more famously by Nina Simone the same year), an emotional reading of Charlie Chaplin's "Smile," the Drifters-styled "Count Everything," a horn-powered revival of Wynona Carr's mid-50s R&B side "Should I Ever Love Again," and the sweltering blues of "I Ain't Gonna Cry No More." Additional singles include Bacharach & David's "The Love of a Boy" curiously sporting the same rhythmic hook they used on "Don't Make Me Over," and a wailing, soulful rendition of Hank Cochran's country tune "Make the World Go Away." Following in Ray Charles' pioneering footsteps, Yuro transcribed a number of country tunes into the soul arena, recording additional titles by Cochran as well as Webb Pierce, Willie Nelson and Don Gibson. A pair of sides from 1968, "Something Bad on My Mind" and "It'll Never Be Over For Me," show that Yuro still had strong, chart-worthy material to offer, even if a hit was not in the cards.
Yuro would record good material through the rest of the decade (some of which is anthologized on companion RPM volumes) and reappear now and again into the early '80s when medical problems ended her singing career. This sampling is a perfect introduction to her early career-defining years, and a great reminder of the artistic wealth that's often to be found beneath the one- (or two) hit wonder. [2006 hyperbolium dot com]
THE HEART OF EMOTION October 6, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
What a wonderful collection.
Worth every penny, especially to hear the original recording of her doing "Permantley Lonely". This must be the most emotionally charged record ever made, and when I first heard it many years ago on the "Make The World Go Away" Album, it actually made me cry!
This lady should have been a huge star. What a powerful voice with a hint of Edith Piaf, Dinah Washington and Esther Phillips about it, but with so much more.
She has never made a bad record, and leaves behind a legacy of truly mind blowing recordings
Her Majesty Of Soul June 1, 2004
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
What a fabulous singer! Every song in this CD is
excellent. The song "I Know (I Love You)" really
gets to me. It touches me more deeply than any
other song I've ever heard. Timi makes it sound
so beautiful and heavenly. She sings the song
with a lot of emotion and passion. In my opinion,
Timi Yuro deserves to be called "the white queen of
soul". Timi is in a class by herself!
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