Ray Charles It Hurts to Be in Love ( Live in James L. Knight Center in Miami, Florida, 1999)

Ray Charles It Hurts to Be in Love (Live in James L. Knight Center in Miami, Florida, 1999) Artist : Ray Charles Song : It Hurts to Be in Love The Miami Lighthouse for the Blind James L. Knight Center in Miami, Florida, 1999 It Hurts to Be in Love is a song written by Howard Greenfield and Helen Miller which was a Top Ten hit in 1964 for Gene Pitney. The song was one in a long line of successful Brill Building Sound hits created by composers and arrangers working in New York City s Brill Building at 1619 Broadway. Although not characteristic of Pitney s pop sound, as heard in Town Without Pity and (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance, Allmusic noted that It Hurts to Be in Love was about as close as any of his major hits came to straightahead rock