"Love Hurts" Jenny Lewis & Jonathan Rice

Jonathan Rice & Jenny Lewis preform "love Hurts" at Manifest Hope Gallery during the 2008 Democratic National Convention

At the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie), Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley), Zooey Deschanel (She and Him), Matthew Caws (Nada Surf) and Jonathan Rice performed together in a private VIP "rounds" performance as part of the Manifest Hope Gallery party. The walls of this place were covered in the top Obama artwork out there.

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"Love Hurts" was written and composed by Boudleaux Bryant and Felice Bryant, and first recorded by The Everly Brothers in July 1960. It was released that December on the album A Date With the Everly Brothers, but was never released as a single (A-side or B-side) by the Everlys.

Roy Orbison covered "Love Hurts" in 1961 and issued it as the B-side to "Running Scared". While "Running Scared" was an international hit, the B-side only picked up significant airplay in Australia. Consequently, chart figures for Australia show "Running Scared"/"Love Hurts" as a double A-Side, both sides peaking at #5. This makes Orbison's recording of "Love Hurts" the first version to be a hit.

The lyrics of the song remained unchanged on all versions up until Nazareth's 1975 recording, where the original line "love is like a stove/it burns you when it's hot" was changed to "love is like a flame/it burns you when it's hot". Nazareth's version was an international hit (reaching #8 in the US, #15 in the UK, and #1 in Canada and Norway), and remains the best-known recording of the song.

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[worldtheatre]

I LOVE these two! The fact they're together sweetens it, singing what they do. But, why BOTHER, if you only have this little snippet? Sorry if I sound ungrateful, but I'm sick of 10 second song clips; there are a million on YouTube!

[riloemily]

i really wish i could have been there. almost as much as i wish this clip were longer!!