- Every Little Bit Hurts
Infobox Single
Name = Every Little Bit Hurts
Artist =Brenda Holloway
from Album = Every Little Bit Hurts
Format = 7" single
Vinyl single
Recorded = 1964;Hitsville USA
Genre =Soul
Length = 3:17
Label = Tamla
Writer = Ed Cobb
Producer = Ed Cobb
This single = "Every Little Bit Hurts"
(1964)
Next single = "I'll Always Love You"
(1964)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist =Alicia Keys singles
Type = single
Last single = "Ghetto Story"
(2006)
This single = "Every Little Bit Hurts" (2006)
Next single = "No One"
(2007)"Every Little Bit Hurts" was originally a
1964 hit single for Motown soulsinger Brenda Holloway , written byEd Cobb .Though she was against recording the song again (she recorded it a couple of years before signing with Motown), she reluctantly recorded the song and the label released it in the summer of the year. Becoming a big hit peaking at #13 on the
Billboard Hot 100 , the song would become one of Holloway's trademark singles and would spark remakes by acts likeThe Small Faces and theSpencer Davis Group (with lead vocals bySteve Winwood ).Another un-released remake was done by
Teena Marie .In 1976 it was a minor hit for Shirley Strachan (Skyhooks lead singer) in Australia.
Forty years later,
Alicia Keys re-recorded the song for her "Unplugged" album and has since released the song as the second single off thealbum . Keys's version was released in January 2006. The video premiered onJanuary 17 on BET's "106 & Park ".The Clash have also made their own version, released in the1991 3-disc compilation "Clash On Broadway". In 1994, a previously unreleased version byFunkadelic from 1972 featuring a soulful duet betweenGeorge Clinton (funk musician) andDianne Brooks came out as part of George Clinton's Family Series. Another notable version was recorded byThe Jam . The track is included in the Polydor box set "Direction, Reaction, Creation" released March 9, 1999. The track was previously unreleased.There's a similarly titled track by
Aretha Franklin from her "A Rose Is Still A Rose" but that song was co-written byJermaine Dupri and is not a cover of the Holloway song as erroneously stated.
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