

The single zoomed up the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #4. in Chicago, who immediately made it a “Pick Hit.” When radio stations across the country started phoning Liberty to request copies of “Hurt,” the label finally put it out. So Yuro took an acetate of the song to a radio D.J. However, Liberty was not completely sold on “Hurt” and did not want to release it. Her blue-eyed-soul take was produced by Clyde Otis, Liberty’s first Black producer, who had worked with Brook Benton and Dinah Washington. She suggested the pop ballad, “Hurt.” (It previously was a 1954 hit for the R&B crooner, Roy Hamilton.) Rather than give her the boot, Liberty had Yuro record the song. In the spring of 1961, a frustrated Yuro burst in on a board meeting and threatened to tear up her contract unless Liberty let her record more fitting material. Yuro spent two frustrating years at Liberty as the label had never worked with a singer of her caliber and didn’t know what to do with her. In 1959, Liberty Records talent scout Sonny Knight (who’d had a hit single in 1956, “Confidential”) checked out her show and brought her to label chief Si Waronker, who signed her up. In 1958, the Yuros opened a restaurant in Hollywood where their daughter would give concerts. In her teens, Yuro took a waitressing job and, with her mother's strong disapproval, started performing in local nightclubs. Reportedly, Goodman-whose clientele included actress Elizabeth Taylor and pop star Frankie Laine-was so impressed with the 12-year-old, she agreed to coach Timi at a greatly reduced rate. By 1952, the Yuros had moved to Los Angeles, where Timi’s mother took her to the renowned vocal coach, Dr. She was born in Chicago on August 4, 1940. (For the uninitiated, that's soul music performed by white people.) , money, salary, income, and assets.A petite woman of Italian-American descent, Rosemarie Timotea "Timi" Yuro was the first lady of blue-eyed soul.

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