Love Is a Hurtin' Thing

by Gloria Ann Taylor

Overview

Gloria Ann Taylor was a powerful R&B vocalist whose talent was significantly greater than her commercial success would indicate. During her professional career in the '60s and '70s, Taylor's career was guided by songwriter, arranger, and producer Walter Whisenhunt (who was also her husband at the time), and he was uniquely talented and helped Taylor make a handful of singles that would later become the stuff of legend among soul and disco collectors (such as "Deep Inside You," "Love Is a Hurtin' Thing," and a striking cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene"). But Whisenhunt preferred to release her material through his own independent labels rather than through established labels (despite brief alliances with Columbia and Mercury), which prevented them from finding the larger audience they deserved. Love Is a Hurtin' Thing marks the first authorized reissue of Taylor's recordings for Selector Sound, a label owned and operated by Taylor and Whisenhunt, and includes 13 original recordings that have been frequently bootlegged by soul aficionados since they went out of print in the late '70s. ~ Mark Deming

Product Details

Release Date:	07/05/2019
Label:	Ubiquity
UPC:	0780661008613
Rank:	37826

Tracks

1. Love is a Hurtin' Thing [7" Ver.]
2. How Can You Say It
3. What I Want
4. Burning Eyes
5. Deep Inside of You [7" Ver.]
6. World That's Not Real
7. What's Your World [7" Ver.]
8. Had It All the Time
9. Jolene
10. Music

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Gloria Ann Taylor   Primary Artist
Mhat Bhernstein   Noise

Technical Credits

Andrew Jervis   Research,Liner Notes
Ben Raleigh   Composer
Dolly Parton   Composer
Leon Ware   Composer
George Jackson   Composer
Dave Linden   Composer
Dave Cooley   Mastering
Walter Whisenhunt   Composer
Robert Dunson   Composer
Dale Warren   Composer
Kei Abe   Design
Mhat Bhernstein   Transfers,Restoration
W. Dale Ossman   Composer
Gloria Whisenhunt   Composer
Leonard Taylor   Composer
Kent Arnold   Composer