Her larynx was eventually REMOVED, and in 2004 she died of cancer. In the mid-1980s, Yuro's American doctors detected throat cancer. In 1990, the disc was reissued as a CD, remastered and remixed by Yuro herself on her own label Timi and titled Timi Yuro Sings Willie Nelson. Her last recording was the vinyl album Today, which was released in 1982 by Ariola and produced by her old friend and collaborator Willie Nelson. After her record sales began to decline there in the mid-1980s, Yuro returned to the United States. With these successes, Yuro moved to the Netherlands and CONTINUED with a string of hit singles and albums. 1 on the Dutch album charts and was eventually certified as a gold record. She also signed to the Dutch record label Dureco to record a new album, All Alone Am I it went to No. She rerecorded a version of "Hurt" that reached No. In 1981 Yuro attempted a comeback in the Netherlands, performing as a guest of honor on Dutch national television. However, her career lost its early momentum and she quit the music business altogether after her marriage in 1969. In 19 she sang at the Sanremo Festival, Italy's most popular music CONTEST. She re-signed for Liberty Records in 1968, and recorded in London.īy the late 1960s Yuro had performed in venues from London to Las Vegas. At that time, the singer was very popular in the Philippines. Prior to that, Timi also appeared as guest at the STUDENT Canteen TV program hosted by Leila Benitez at CBN (now ABS-CBN) in Aduana, Manila, and afterwards, did a singing concert at the Araneta Coliseum (now Smart Araneta C). In 1967, she appeared in a black-and-white film in the Philippines as a guest star alongside Filipino comedians Dolphy and Panchito in a comedy titled Buhay Marino (Life of a Sailor), a film released by Wag-Wag Productions, Inc. In the 1960s, Yuro made two TV appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and was a guest on American Bandstand, Where the Action Is, and The Lloyd Thaxton Show. Subsequent records were unsuccessful, although a B-side, "Can't Stop RUNNING Away," was later popular on the UK's Northern Soul circuit. Nevertheless, her album The Amazing Timi Yuro, produced by Quincy Jones, was an artistic success. īy 1964 Yuro had moved to Mercury Records, but her first record for the label, "You Can Have Him", arranged by Jack Nitzsche, only just scraped into the chart and was her last hit. her image became established as a cabaret performer rather than as a soul singer. She toured Europe in 1963, and appeared on the British TV show Ready Steady Go!. Yuro was also known for soulful reworkings of popular American standards, such as "Let Me Call You Sweetheart", "Smile", and "I Apologize". The singer at her vocal peak, this recording includes the hit title song (later a bigger hit for Eddy Arnold, with whom the song is usually associated), a version of Willie Nelson's "Permanently Lonely", and two different blues takes of "I'm Movin' On". In the following year, Liberty released Make the World Go Away, an album of country and blues standards. It was arranged and co-written by Burt Bacharach, but Yuro refused to record his SUGGESTED follow-up, " What the World Needs Now Is Love". Her single "The Love of a Boy" reached No. Many LISTENERS in the early 1960s thought Yuro was black. On both "Hurt" and "What's a Matter Baby", Yuro showed an emotional but elegant vocal style that owed a DEBT to Washington and other black jazz singers. In 1962 Bob Johnston and Otis produced Yuro's single "What's a Matter Baby (Is It Hurting You?)", which went to No. 42), and opened for Frank Sinatra on his 1962 tour of Australia. She charted some further minor hits including "Smile" (No. Later that year she recorded as a duo with Johnnie Ray. Yuro's recording was produced by Clyde Otis, who had previously worked with Brook Benton and Dinah Washington. 4 SINGLE in 1961 with " Hurt", an R&B ballad that had been an early success for Roy Hamilton. Signed to Liberty Records in 1959, she had a U.S. In 1952, young Rosemary moved with her family to Los Angeles, where she sang in her parents' Italian RESTAURANT and, despite their opposition, in local nightclubs before catching the eye and ear of talent scout Sonny Knight. By the time of her birth, however, the family used the spelling Yuro. Rosemary Yuro was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1940, into an Italian-Americanfamily whose original name may have been Aurro.
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