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"It Only Hurts for a Little While" | ||||
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Single by The Ames Brothers | ||||
B-side | "If You Wanna See Mamie Tonight" | |||
Released | March 1956 | |||
Recorded | 1956 | |||
Genre | Traditional pop | |||
Length | 2:34 | |||
Label | RCA Victor | |||
Songwriter(s) | Fred Spielman, Mack David | |||
Producer(s) | Hugo Winterhalter | |||
The Ames Brothers singles chronology | ||||
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"It Only Hurts for a Little While" is a 1956 popular song with music by Fred Spielman and lyrics by Mack David. [1]
The recording by The Ames Brothers was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-6481. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on May 19, 1956. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #15; on the Best Seller chart, at #16; on the Juke Box chart, at #11; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #15. [2]
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