Love Hurts

Single infobox
Name = Love Hurts


Artist = Cher
from Album = Love Hurts
B-side = "One Small Step"
Released = 1991
Recorded = 1991
Genre = Pop/Rock
Length = 4:07
Label = Geffen
Writer = Boudleaux Bryant
Producer = John Kalodner
Certification =
Reviews =
Last single = "Save Up All Your Tears"
(1991)
This single = "Love Hurts"
(1991)
Next single = "Could've Been You"
(1992)

"Love Hurts" is the name of a song written and composed by Boudleaux Bryant, and first recorded by The Everly Brothers in July 1960. It was released that December on the album "A Date With the Everly Brothers", but was never released as a single (A-side or B-side) by the Everlys.

Roy Orbison covered "Love Hurts" in 1961 and issued it as the B-side to "Running Scared". While "Running Scared" was an international hit, the B-side only picked up significant airplay in Australia. Consequently, chart figures for Australia show "Running Scared"/"Love Hurts" as a double A-Side, both sides peaking at #5. This makes Orbison's recording of "Love Hurts" the first version to be a hit. The lyrics of the song remained unchanged on all versions up until Nazareth's 1975 recording, where the original line "love is like a stove/it burns you when it's hot" was changed to "love is like a flame/it burns you when it's hot". Nazareth's version was an international hit (reaching #8 in the US, #15 in the UK, and #1 in Canada and Norway), and remains the best-known recording of the song.

Cher also recorded the song in 1975 but did not have a hit with it at the time. She recorded a second version in 1991, which became a minor hit in the UK and a substantial hit in Norway.

List of covers

The Nazareth version charted for 57 consecutive weeks on the Norwegian charts (VG-lista Top 10), 14 weeks at #1. A later recording by Nazareth, featuring the Munich Philarmonic Orchestra, peaked at #89 in Germany only.

Cher Version

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