It Hurts Me
Written by Joy Byers and Charles E. Daniels, this powerful ballad was a new song when recorded by Elvis Presley on January 12, 1964.[1]
This non-movie song became the B-side of a Presley movie single, "Kissin' Cousins". The A-side reached number 12 in the charts, but "It Hurts Me" never became well-known or attained "the classic stature promised by the song and the performance."[2]
The session that produced this recording marked the beginning of a twenty-eight month period during which Presley recorded no other non-movie songs.[3]
References
- Jorgensen, Ernst (1998). Elvis Presley: A life in music. The complete recording sessions. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312185723.