In the late 80's Timi had more throat problems and sang less and less. Timi had three more European tours and three more albums followed, including one that she recorded with her old friend Willie Nelson in 1984 titled Timi Yuro Sings. In Rotterdam she performed before an audience of over 20,000 along with Olivia Newton-John, Janice Ian and Art Garfunkel, and brought down the house. Timi went to Amsterdam to promote her new album and it proved to be immensely popular in Europe. In 1982 she headlined at the Sands in Las Vegas to a packed showroom every night for two weeks. It was released in Europe by Dureko Records in Holland in 1981. When she regained her voice, Timi went to Nashville and recorded All Alone Am I. This was followed by six months during which she was not allowed to talk, much less sing. Doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York performed surgery to remove nodules from her larynx and esophagus. She assembled a 14-piece band and began rehearsals, but then was troubled by health problems. Timi went into retirement but decided to come back in 1980. Timi put several such records on the charts, including What's A Matter Baby, Gotta Travel On and Make The World Go Away. Brenda Lee was probably the hottest female singer at the time, but Timi's songs had a soul sound to them that were in contrast to Brenda's recordings. The biggest of these was her first, Hurt, which reached the top ten nationally. She worked with songwriter/producer Clyde Otis and put 11 songs in the top 100 from 1961 to 1965. Timi signed a contract with Liberty Records in 1959. She had a Mediterranean heritage and was influenced by some of the great Blues singers, to the extent that many people mistakenly thought that she was black. She moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1952, where she sang in her family's Italian restaurant.
Timi was born Rosemary Timotea Aurro Yuro (thus, Timi Yuro) in Chicago in 1941. Elvis liked it so much he did his own version in 1976, one of the last hit songs he ever recorded.Timi Yuro is known primarily as a one-shot artist for her fantastic version of Hurt in 1961. Timi Yuro had subsequent hits but never matched the initial burst of success brought about by her first single. “Hurt” went Top 5 and was a bestseller on multiple charts. Signed to Liberty Records, for her very first single in 1961 Yuro released a cover of an old R&B ballad by Roy Hamilton, called “Hurt.” Turned out to be a wise choice. Not too shabby a bunch to count among your admirers.Īs a teenager in LA, Timi Yuro sang in the Italian restaurant owned by her family, and then graduated to local nightclubs (despite her parents’ disapproval and her underage ID). And even Morrissey of The Smiths, more than 20 years after her peak, cited her as his favorite singer. Elvis Presley professed himself a huge fan and made sure to catch her whenever she played Vegas. No mainstream rediscovery or reappraisal of her music has taken place in the 21st century, despite the fact that Frank Sinatra hand-picked Yuro to open shows for him.
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Unless you were present to hear the record go ’round, either on the portable player in your bedroom or while tuning the dial to your favorite AM station, you probably don’t recognize the name Timi Yuro. Some people survive history, and some are swallowed by it.
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