Every Day I Have To Cry Some- Steve Alaimo- 1963

[rantle100]

Wow! Great beat! 

[geator]

Which is the original? Is it this one by Steve or by Arthur Alexander?

[egglady]

@geator Steve's was the first recording, but Arthur wrote it. He recorded it in 1976.

[peanutzinuk]

GREAT, GREAT music from an era I was fortunate enought to be a part of and live in it! Pgh radio, KQV "Wax to Watch", KDKA 'Good Guys' hit; WEEP "for joy!" single of the week. Thanks for helping me relive those great songs. . .thank you for uploading. CFN

[09bnunez]

i have no job,,,every day i have cry some

[RonSafreed]

Hav'nt heard this song for so long, however when I heard the first few seconds I instantly remembered the song. I thought the song was from the mid or late sixties, instead of 1963, However the style is like the early sixties.

[TL250Rider]

CBS KILLED KRTH FM 101 in Los Angeles The program Director Calls DISCO MUSIC OLDIES

Monkeeman 1966 You are so right.

Great thing PRE CBS Fender Guitars

PRE CBS Olddies Stations

[shepcom]

Steve Alaimo cut a record in 1963, RESCUE ME. Was a great song but never a big hit. Can anyone post this song?

[Greenhornet270]

This guy was GREAT....why wasnt he a star?????

[nhb1234]

@Greenhornet270 Steve was a star on Dick Clark's TV show Where the action is back in the 60's or 70's. I think this song made the to 50. He also produced KC and the Sunshine Band. He is a great guy. I went to High School with him and he was a fantastic musician then + a stand up guy. His high school band was better than many big name groups of today. Rock On!

[lightlyone]

To many of us, this was THE version. Powerfully delivered.

[archie977]

catchy tune:}

[oceanbound222]

brilliant song perfectly sung

[spoofa20]

Great version - also covered by Dusty Springfield and The Bee Gees.

[nhb1234]

I went to High School with Steve. He had a great band back then and very talented. He was a real good guy and I wish him the best!

[mssusan1961]

I love looking around for new songs to learn, which have a snappy bass line. This one well qualifies.

[radiotubes]

One of my all time favorites. I may have heard this on music choice? then i tried to get the original Lp on Checker.Love the distant instraments in the back. Just perfect.Wish they played this on the radio.

[anirbas18able]

what a great song never grows old

[monkeeman1966]

My favorite version! It took a WQAM(Miami) aircheck from 1966 to make me hear this for the first time 10 years ago. Damn radio and their damn consultants. Cool Gold out of AZ might've played this when they were picked up here by 910 AM WRCQ.

[Azishome]

@monkeeman1966 It was KOOL Gold. I knew Dan Coffey, the part-time DJ that made KOOL understand that there was a huge market in oldies. Eventually, KOOL succumbed to consultants and made up play lists that aren't relevant to anyone. Then, the worst: KOOL was sold off to CBS. The programmer must be about 22 years old and thinks that Oldies music began in the year 2002. Rise Up, Phoenix! Walk to streets. Pants that programmer and demand that oldies music really be oldies music!

[monkeeman1966]

@Azishome Okay, thanks. Now that station tht used to pick up the feed plays nothing but Latino music. But that's okay, because that was before the internet, and we all know this is the place to hear great, obscure stuff! 

[Jimboyc21]

Very rare blue eyed soul classic. Fantastic. Thanks for posting.

[Christian06820]

This is still as fresh and beautiful to listen to as it was in 1963!...I never get tired of listening to it. Steve still performs in the Miami-Ft Lauderdale area and his voice sounds as good today as it did then! He founded TK Records and then went on to open Audiovision Studios in North Miami where he still is today. A great guy and terrific artist...his songs always take me back to a happy time in my life.

[garymichaelshannon]

Steve Alaimo never made the top 40..but he was certainly a favorite of Dick Clark's "Where the Action Is"!

[maddadram1]

Remember this one very well.. Bought this

when it first came out.

[doglips1958]

The Gentrys did a GREAT version of this in 1966.Check it out here on Youtube.

[Blackfive1945]

Goood Song by Arthur Alexander .Was never a hit here but should have been .

[harvbanger]

Growing up in Rochester, NY, I was friends with Steve Alaimo's younger brothers....Keith and Bruce (around 1970). The Alaimo family took me with them on their vacation in Florida . It was cool driving in a car in Miami...and hearing a Steve Alaimo song on the radio. Good times.

[radiotubes]

Awsome pictures thanks

[TL250Rider]

Great Song

Thank you You Tube.

[sspeed30043]

Crazy, this is my friends older brother and never really knew about the career he had, their father was married a few times and my friend and Steve are about 30 yrs apart , he even co-wrote one of my favorite songs Sweet Melissa sung by the Allman Brothers Band......

[idfsense]

560.....WQAMMMMMMMMM.....yeech­!

[arkyron1947]

There are some songs that have a certain sound and or melody or catch. These are the ones that are unforgettable and they will live in your head until the end. This is one of the greatest of this type.

[heatherflof]

Great track! Only ever heard the Dusty version - thanks for posting! x

[snowcool1]

still in my head since december 1962 . this song is a super classic and i will sing and hear this song for another 48 years

[nauort23]

1:21 beautiful. I wish young women looked like that today.

[ftjax]

Love that old juke box.....I wish I had some of the money back......

[11xzxzxz]

Fantastic song. Could be on the pop and country charts simultaneously. Just one more reason why today's music sucks.

[efrokos]

Thanks 74sodapop. I love youtube, takes me back to those days that I never really appreciated when I was living them.

[theheff66]

Joe Stampley did do a Country version in late 1977.

[abuiltmale]

I grew up in Miami where Steve really put this song on the charts. Steve has been a music producer for many decades now, but recently came out of retirement to perform this song at a special reunion concert in Ft Lauderdale which also featured the Birdwatchers ! Now that another group from Miami that had a couple of hits . "Girl I Got News For You"

[snowcool1]

another song that been in my head for 48 years when i was in the 6th grade

[skipper8257]

Great upbeat song, with a sad story. Go figure.

[peanutzinuk]

One of the very few records I've not got. . .big hit on Pittsburgh radio, early 60's? Thanks 74sodapop.

[64poncho462]

@peanutzinuk

I remember KQV playing this.... I miss the Steel City days.....

[ScriptWorker]

Very cute. I heard this first by Tina Turner.

[doo58wop]

@ScriptWorker Yes, It's on the Phil Spector-produced LP "River Deep-Mountain High". Great production blending Tina's gruff voice with his "Wall of Sound" orchestrations.

[onemilehi]

Yes, I watched" Where The Action Is" every afternoon after school! Great show. have the soundtractk to the shows theme song by Boom Boom Freddie Cannon! The sone was also a top 40 hit for him.

JS

[combatautumn]

God, I remember "Where the action is". All those dancers jumping up and down in the beginning...cool stuff and so rad!

[goodtobedeking]

Do you by any chance have the song- HAPPY- by Steve Alaimo? Great song! Don't find it on youtube anywhere. Please upload!!!

[Delfan1961]

Despite not quite making "Top 40" (on the national Billboard charts), this great tune got into the "Top 30" in San Diego, Seattle, San Francisco, Columbus, Baltimore and went "Top 10" in Dallas (see the Las Solanas / ARSA website). In 1975, the song's author-the great Arthur Alexander-brought it back to the national charts on the Buddah label.

[barbdel56]

I used to watch him on "Where the Action Is". anyone remember that show?

[ramfanstephen]

Steve Alaimo was attending U. of Miami when he recorded this song. It was a great hit then and is still a wonderful memory. Thanks

[BlondeSusieQ]

Just love this one...yes I do keep playing it over and over. (smiles)

[arizonaghost1]

brings back great memories from 1963

[laurenjaynecoffeeice]

So good to hear this again,

not like the "so called" music they

play lately!!

Thanks, and have a great life!!!!!

[grammarita1]

Wonder about the moniker grammaelvis? I'm grammarita mainly because I'm a grammar specialist.

[ELRANDY11]

Everytime you mix Love with Money .. Everytime it .. hurts Somebody =) True

[SurferJoe1]

Oldies radio beats up the same twenty songs over and over, hour by hour, every day...and there are absolute gems like this we don't get to hear.

This record just never gets old for me. Great job, Steve Alaimo and Arthur Alexander (who wrote it).

[bajones88]

Amen, my brother. Why do they do that? I wish I could start my own oldies station. The true golden gems are not played. When you do hear one, a wave of emotion & elation comesover you for just a few moments.

[SurferJoe1]

bajones, My understanding is that the advertisers demand a contractually approved playlist of the same ol' same ol', as determined by- (wait for it)- Market Research. The same twenty or so songs must be played three times every day- "Heard It Through The Grapevine", "Pretty Woman", "Satisfaction", "Respect", etc. That's how they've killed oldies radio and damaged those songs...

[Rockertje1975]

BZN has covered this song in 1969. They have fullfilled it with more harder rock.

[fbenenati]

Have not heard this song since the mid sixties. Great to hear it again................

[alexsummer2007]

i heard the italian version of dusty "tanto so che poi mi passa", it´s great!!!!!!

[gustavocine]

greeeeaaaaaat song!

[recordmans1948]

1963 high school song looking back great times.

[georgehalo123]

I saw steve alaimo in concert, jacksonville, fla, march

[ASite4u2c]

If one were Unfamiliar with this song, and we were to tell them that this was a Top 10 song in early 1963, they would easily believe us!

Why wasn't this a much bigger hit than #46? Must have had poor promotion by the record company, which happened to a lot of singers.

Powerful vocals by Steve.

Many thanks to 74sodapop for Posting.

Trader Jack

[Sandbagger300]

Yeah this should have been a lot higher, I could start a radio station with a 1000 song playlist JUST on great 60's songs that never made the top 40!

[hildaquinn]

i like dusty springfield sing the song agree

[Enterprise998]

Well done, they don't make songs like this any more.

[TacoPacoGuy]

Me Vale Madre !!

[ELRANDY11]

IS THAT WRITE AYE !!

[lavozdos]

i guess the tex mex influence would be the heavy beat don't know about that

if you are thinking 1965 you are thinking of The McCoys version

[col1rbtx]

I agree, this is very good! Steve Alaimo has a 'big voice' even though he was a kid, I spose. I don't however hear the Tex-Mex connection. This term usually is applied to the early rockn'roll music of the Lubbock, Amarillo,Odessa & Clovis area.

[norfolk03]

Love this! Who is the pretty lady?

[palb07]

Qualcuno può mettere anche la versione dei MARDI GRAS ? E' molto bella. Grazie!

[bizhist]

Somebody help me out here. I associate theis song with 1965, not 63. Maybe that is becuase ALaimo was on "Where the Action Is" 1965-66. Was his other major hit "Happy" in mid-1966? Then he droped out of sight, but I have a friend who claims Alaimo thried ot "come back as Country Western in late 1960s early 1970s.

[Delfan1961]

The song was actually released in 1962 and began appearing on various radio station survey charts in November and on into March or April of 1963. Don't know whether or not Alaimo tried Country music, but, in mid-1971, he had another minor pop hit with a cover of "When My Little Girl Is Smiling"...originally an early 1962 hit for the legendary Drifters.

[maynardgkrebsiii]

You never hear this one on the "oldies " stations!

[insolence]

i was halfway between laffing and bawling when i heard his first line of "crying some" everyday ... such humor mixed with sadness =(

brilliant music!

[19111ellyc]

@maynardgkrebsiii Yeah, you do, if somebody requests it...which I've done many times. The sad part is, they don't hardly play music from the 60's any more. Their idea of an 'OLDIE' is something from last year! Hell, the DJ himself never heard of Steve.

[calogeroalaimo]

forza alaimoooooooooooooo

[bobolive3]

Just to let everyone know,this is NOT the original version.The song was written and first recorded by Arthur Alexander.Steve Alaimo was the first to score big with the song.

[joboots007]

Much like the Beatles did with Arthur's

Anna (Go to Him),BTW!!!

[ClydetheCamel99]

Actually that's not completely true. Arthur did write the song, but he didn't record it at the time and sold it to Steve Alaimo. Arthur recorded it himself many years later. So this is the original, unless there's an unreleased Arthur Alexander demo somewhere.

[TL250Rider]

Great Song.

Thank you for the listing

[darryl211192]

This version of the song is good too, but i love Dusty's

[utubemusiccritic]

This is one of those songs you never get tired of.

[insolence]

hehe

[ELRANDY11]

Just do'nt cry over it..aye!!

[rdf1947]

I saw him do this in person. He lip synched, but it was great to see him.

[johnnypoker46]

Good, underrated song (one I overlooked at the time) from one of the best ever years for pop music.

And I enjoyed the video, with the old cars and buses, and a very pretty young lady at 1:15!

[megthepearl]

I don't care who wrote this song or sang it first, this is Steve Alaimo's song. And only! Meg

[mitch629]

I have fallen in love with this song...so true, I think all of us have to cry some everyday for one reason or another. Btw, check out Dusty Sprinfield's version of this song. Peace

[tootone10]

Oh yeah! what a great song--1963, 7 years old and had my trusty motorola transistor radio, it was my best nightime pillow friend for a few years! CKLW "The Big 8" outta Windsor, Ontario gave us the good stuff--CKLW-The Motor City----!

[hotfirezz]

The Big 8 was the Best - transistor under the pillow for me too!

[Orimentals]

1st time I heard this was Dusty Springfield on Ready Steady Go! Classic track.

[dowdy280]

Ricky nelson also had a version of this song that was previously unreleased. Until the box set(for rick nelson fans only)was introduced to the public.

[joelok48]

Lived in Miami in the 70's when Steve was the greatest producer EVER at TK Records. This is really a helluva great record!!!

[56Mohacs]

heard this song last 20+ years ago.

[OgPsQd]

I really like this song.

HH

[cajunhornet60]

outstanding thanx for posting!!

[jekiwe]

From Rochester, NY. Steve, as I understand it, has the distinction (and not the proud distinction) of having more hits then any other pop singer, without ever having one hit the top 40. (as of 1999 anyway) WOW!

[cajunhornet60]

my favorite song in High school!!

[RoyFive]

Any chance of downloading Denver, Steve's underrated 1968 recording?

[norfolk03]

This is great! Thanks!

[JohnDope6666]

Jerry Lee Lewis had a strong version of this, too, as did Joe Stampley, once of the Uniques.

[74sodapop]

A popular composition.I heard it first in a version by The Mc Coys.Many good versions.

[bufb]

great version...I remember the Gentrys had a version of this

[burgrman]

Upbeat although the words aren't necessarily happy =D ! I like it!

[mackemc57]

Yeah it's quite good, first time I've heard it.

It was recorded in '64 by Dusty Springfield,