It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin' (song)

"It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'" is a song written and recorded by Johnny Tillotson, which was a major hit for him in 1962. The song was nominated for a Grammy for Best Country & Western song for 1962 but lost to Burl Ives' "Funny Way of Laughing." It has been recorded by many other artists.

Notable cover versions

Bobby Darin - You're the Reason I'm Living (1963).
Shelley Fabares - The Things We Did Last Summer (1962).
Dean Martin - My Woman, My Woman, My Wife (1970).
Billy Joe Royal - a single release in 1988.
Elvis Presley - From Elvis in Memphis (1969).
Margaret Whiting - a single release in 1968. Included in her album Pop Country (1967).
Slim Whitman - Country Songs / City Hits (1964).
Wanda Jackson - Encore (2021).

Chart performance

Johnny Tillotson

Chart (1962)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100	3
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)	4
U.S. Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles	6
UK Singles (OCC)	31

Margaret Whiting

Chart (1968)	Peak position
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)	15
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)	28

Billy Joe Royal

Chart (1988)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)	17
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	15

References

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"Wanda Jackson Announces Final Album 'Encore' with Joan Jett". Rolling Stone. 28 June 2021.
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"Billy Joe Royal Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
"RPM 100 Country Singles" (PDF). RPM. November 12, 1988.

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Studio albums	Down in the Boondocks Cherry Hill Park Looking Ahead The Royal Treatment Tell It Like It Is Out of the Shadows
Other albums	Greatest Hits
Singles	"Down in the Boondocks" "I Knew You When" "I've Got to Be Somebody" "Yo-Yo" "Hush" "Cherry Hill Park" "Every Night" "Under the Boardwalk" "Burned Like a Rocket" "I Miss You Already" "Old Bridges Burn Slow" "I'll Pin a Note on Your Pillow" "Out of Sight and on My Mind" "It Keeps Right On Hurtin'" "Tell It Like It Is" "Love Has No Right" "Till I Can't Take It Anymore" "Searchin' for Some Kind of Clue"
B-Sides	"Oh, What a Night"
Cover Songs	"Amanda" "Bring It On Home to Me" "Crying" "Funny How Time Slips Away" "I'm Sorry" "Kiss and Say Goodbye" "Making Believe" "Save the Last Dance for Me" "Solitary Man" "Spanish Harlem" "Stand by Me" "To Love Somebody"
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Albums	Margaret Whiting Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook Broadway, Right Now!
Singles	"That Old Black Magic" "Moonlight in Vermont" "It Might as Well Be Spring" "Come Rain or Come Shine" "Guilty" "Old Devil Moon" "Little Girl Blue" "But Beautiful" "Now Is the Hour" "A Tree in the Meadow" "Far Away Places" "Forever and Ever" "A Wonderful Guy" "Baby, It's Cold Outside" "Slippin' Around" "I Said My Pajamas (and Put On My Pray'rs)" "My Foolish Heart" "A Bushel and a Peck" "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" "I'll Walk Alone" "Outside of Heaven" "Why Don't You Believe Me?" "The Wheel of Hurt" "Only Love Can Break a Heart" "It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'" "Until It's Time for You to Go"
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