Don't Break the Heart That Loves You
Don't Break the Heart That Loves You is the title of an English-language pop song . It was written by the Benny Davis / Ted Murry writing team and became a number one hit in the United States in 1962 with singer Connie Francis .
The original
Emergence
Since 1955, the American singer Connie Francis published pop songs worldwide on the Hollywood record company MGM Records . Two months after their last Top 10 hit, When the Boy in Your Arms , production began on a new single with Connie Francis. The title Don't Break the Heart That Loves You was selected for the A-side . In the text written by Benny Davis ( Don't break the heart that loves you ) the question is asked “Why do you keep hurting me with flirts, why do you treat our love so carelessly?” The melody comes from Ted Murry, who has been since the 1940s Years as a composer, but so far only with There Must Be a Reason , sung by Frankie Laine, a top 10 success in Great Britain. MGM brought the new Francis single to American record stores in January 1962 with catalog number 13059. In the following months the single was also released in other English-speaking countries, but also in Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Japan (with a different B-side)
successes
On February 10, 1962, Don't Break the Heart appeared for the first time in the Hot 100 of the US music magazine Billbord . From 66th place, the title rose to the top 10 within five weeks. On March 31, Connie Francis was at the top of the Hot 100, but could only stay there for a week. Don't Break the Heart was on the Billboard charts for a total of 13 weeks. The title was also listed for 13 weeks in the competing magazine Cashbox , but only achieved second place as the best value. In the top 30 of the British music magazine New Musical Express , Don't Break the Heart was only represented for two weeks and only came in 28th. The original title could not be placed in the German magazine Musikmarkt .
Do not hurt me
After the success with the German cover versions of Connie Francis Title Everybody's Somebody's Fool (The love a strange game) and Someone Else's Boy (Beautiful strange man) took MGM, the production of a German version of Do not Break the Heart attack . MGM resorted to the text of the successful German author Fini Busch , who had recently written a number one hit with the text for Ted Herold's Moonlight . Busch's adaptation of Don't Break the Heart bears the title Do not hurt me , and the text largely sticks to the original: “Don't hurt me my darling, never leave me alone.” The planned single was conducted under the direction Produced by Gerhard Mendelson on April 12, 1962 in the Austrophon Studio in Vienna. In May 1962, the single MGM 61 056 was delivered to record stores. On June 2nd, Musikmarkt included the title Tu 'mir nicht weh in the Top 50. Two weeks later, the title of the B-side Paradiso followed , and from then on Musikmarkt put both titles together in the same place. On September 1 and 8, both titles were number one in the top 50. Don't hurt me was on the hit list for a total of 21 weeks, the B-side took it to 20 weeks. The youth magazine Bravo only included the title Paradiso in the Musicbox hitlist.
More cover versions
While Connie Francis' original titles found worldwide circulation, she also sang many of their successful titles in other languages. This was also done with Don't Break the Heart . In addition to the German cover version, she recorded the successful title in Italian , Spanish ( Mi corazón te adora ) and also in Japanese. In 1964 the Lennon Sisters recorded Don't Break the Heart in their LP # 1 Hits Of The 1960's in the USA . There is also an instrumental version with jazz pianist Bernie Leighton , which was released in July 1962 by Colpix Records .
literature
- Fred Bronson: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits , Billboard Publications New York 1988, p. 106, ISBN 0-8230-7545-1
- Günter Ehnert (Ed.): Hit Records British Chart Singles 1950-1965 Taurus Press 1995, ISBN 3-922542-32-8 .