According to her record label, Liberty Records, Yuro moved with her family to Los Angeles, United States. There, she sang in her parents' Italian restaurant and in local clubs before catching the eye and ear of record executives. Signed to Liberty, she had a U.S. Billboard No. 4 single in 1961 with "Hurt", an R&B ballad that had been an early success for Roy Hamilton. On "Hurt" and on her Billboard No. 12 follow-up in 1962, "What's a Matter Baby (Is It Hurting You?)", Yuro showed an emotional but elegant vocal style that owed a debt to Dinah Washington and other black jazz singers. Many listeners in the early 1960s thought Yuro was black. She opened for Frank Sinatra on his 1962 tour of Australia.
In 1963, Liberty released Make the World Go Away, an album of country and blues standards. The singer at her vocal peak, this recording includes a powerful title track of the same name, a beautifully understated version of Willie Nelson's "Permanently Lonely", and two different blues takes of "I'm Movin' On". Yuro was also known for soulful reworkings of popular American standards, such as "Let Me Call You Sweetheart", "Smile", and "I Apologize".
By the late 1960s, Yuro had performed in venues from London to Las Vegas. However, her career soon lost its early momentum, and she quit the music business altogether after her marriage in 1972. When Yuro began to sing again in the 1980s, her doctors detected throat cancer. Her larynx was eventually removed and in 2004 she succumbed to cancer. Her last recording was the 1984 CD Timi Yuro Sings Willie Nelson, produced by her old friend Nelson.
Yuro's work is admired in the United States as well as in Great Britain and the Netherlands. According to the obituary in the Las Vegas Sun, her hometown paper, Yuro's most famous fan was probably Elvis Presley, who commanded his own table at the casino where Yuro sang in the late 1960s. (Presley had a Top 10 country hit with his 1976 version of "Hurt".) In April 2004, Morrissey announced Yuro's death on his official website, describing her as his "favorite singer". (Morrissey also recorded a version of Yuro's "Interlude" with Siouxsie Sioux in 1995.) P.J.Proby knew Timi Yuro from their time in Hollywood, and often mentions it during his performances of "Hurt".
Yuro found success on the dance floors of northern Britain in the 1970s and 1980s when Northern Soul DJs championed her up-tempo tracks of "It'll Never Be Over for Me" and "What's a Matter Baby". The latter was rereleased on Kent Records in the 1980s.
There Goes My Heart
Timi Yuro Lyrics
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There goes the girl i was unworthy of.
There goes my happiness, it couldn't be,
There goes somebody else in place of me.
Goodbye romance, it couldn't last somehow,
I had my chance, but it's all over now.
There goes my heart, and here am I!
I never thought that she could pass me by,
There goes my heart, and here am I!
The lyrics to Timi Yuro's "There Goes My Heart" are a heartbreaking recognition of a lost love. The song tells the tale of someone who has been left behind by their lover, who has found happiness with someone else. The opening lines "There goes my heart, there goes the one I love, there goes the girl I was unworthy of" highlight the singer's pain and feelings of unworthiness. They recognize that their lover has found a happiness that they were unable to provide.
The chorus of the song, "There goes my happiness, it couldn't be, there goes somebody else in place of me," emphasizes the singer's sense of loss and loneliness. They acknowledge that despite their best efforts, they were unable to keep their lover and have been replaced by someone else. The singer is left with a feeling of shattered romance and recognizes that their chance at love has come to an end.
The closing lines of the song repeat the singer's disbelief that their lover could leave them behind, "I never thought that she could pass me by, there goes my heart, and here am I!" This repetition emphasizes the singer's shock and sorrow at losing the one they loved.
Overall, "There Goes My Heart" is a beautifully sad song that captures the heartbreak of losing someone you love. The lyrics are simple, but they are full of emotion and express the pain of a broken heart.
Line by Line Meaning
There goes my heart, there goes the one I love,
The person I love is leaving and taking my heart with them.
There goes the girl I was unworthy of.
The girl I didn't feel deserving of is leaving.
There goes my happiness, it couldn't be,
My happiness is leaving and it feels like it was never meant to be.
There goes somebody else in place of me.
Someone else is taking my place in the heart of the person I love.
Goodbye romance, it couldn't last somehow,
Farewell to the short-lived romance that was never meant to be.
I had my chance, but it's all over now.
I had an opportunity with the person I loved, but it's too late now.
I never thought that she could pass me by,
I never imagined that the person I loved would leave me.
There goes my heart, and here am I!
I am left alone with a broken heart.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: MARIAH CAREY, SEVEN MARCUS AURELIUS, IRVING DOMINGO LORENZO, LLOYD L. SMITH
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