It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'

Album: It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin' (1962)
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  • I cry myself to sleep each night
    Wishing I could hold you tight
    Life seems so empty since you went away
    The pillow where you'd lay your head
    Now holds my lonely tears instead
    And it keeps right on a-hurtin' since you're gone

    It keeps right on a-hurtin' every minute of the day
    Every hour you're away I feel so lonely
    And I can't help it, I don't think I can go on
    And it keeps right on a-hurtin' since you're gone

    They say a man should never cry
    But when I see you passin' by
    My heart breaks down and cries a million tears
    You broke my heart and set me free
    But you forgot your memory
    And it keeps right on a-hurtin' since you're gone

    It keeps right on a-hurtin' every minute of the day
    Every hour you're away I feel so lonely
    And I can't help it, I don't think I can go on
    And it keeps right on a-hurtin' since you're gone Writer/s: JOHNNY TILLOTSON
    Publisher: MUSIC SALES CORPORATION
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Comments: 4

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn July 20, 1962, Johnny Tillotson performed "It Keeps Right On A-Hunting'" on Dick Clark ABC-TV network weekday-afternoon program ' American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was at #14 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; five weeks earlier it had peaked at #3* {for 1 week} and it spent 14 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #4 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart and #6 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1958 and 1965 he had twenty-six records on the Hot Top 100 chart; four made the Top 10 with his biggest hit being "Poetry In Motion", it peaked at #2 {for 1 week} in November 14th, 1960, and the week it was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "Georgia On My Mind" by Ray Charles...
    His two other Top 10 records both peaked at #7; "Without You" in 1961 and "Talk Back Trembling Lips" in 1964...
    Johnny Tillotson celebrated his 78th birthday three months ago on April 20th, 2017...
    * The week "It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'" was at #3, it was another Ray Charles record that was in the #1 spot, "I Can't Stop Loving You".
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 22nd 1960, Johnny Tillotson performed "Poetry in Motion" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    Twelve days later on October 4th, 1960 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 at position #76; and on November 14th, 1960 it peaked at #2 {for 1 week} and spent 15 weeks on the Top 100...
    And on January 7th, 1961 it reached #1 {for 3 weeks} on the United Kingdom's New Musical Express Singles chart...
    {See next post below}.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 29th 1963, "Talk Back Trembling Lips" by Johnny Tillotson peaked at #7 (for 1 week) on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it had entered the chart on November 3rd and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #6 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
    Between 1958 and 1964 he had twenty-six Top 100 hits; with four of them making the Top 10 (his biggest hit was "Poetry In Motion", which reached #2 (for 1 week) in 1960; the week it was at #2, the #1 record was "Georgia On My Mind" by Ray Charles)...
    Mr. Tillotson will celebrate his 75th birthday come next April 20th.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyJohnny's biggest hit on the pop chart was "Poetry In Motion"; it peaked at #2 in 1960. Country music singer Ferlin Husky released a parody song title "Enormity In Motion", it didn't make the charts...
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