The timing was right for Clyde Otis, working independent of his regular job as head of A&R at Mercury Records, to help Timi land her first hit single while establishing himself with the company. In early 1961 she suggested "Hurt" (a Jimmie Crane-Al Jacobs song, it had been a hit for Roy Hamilton in 1954), but executives at the label just weren't feeling it. A certain amount of experimentation took place as she made demos in different styles when asked about some of these early recordings, Timi called them "awful hillbilly things" and indicated she was happy they were never released.
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For some reason, Bennett had a hard time figuring out how to market the still-teenage vocalist. Sonny Knight (the singer best known for his hit "Confidential"), moonlighting as a talent scout for Liberty Records, caught one of her performances in 1959 and recommended her to the label, though several months passed before company president Al Bennett decided to give her a shot. Her parents opened a restaurant and while the Italian eatery struggled at first, business improved markedly after Timi began singing there regularly. Doors would continue to open for her quite easily. While attending Fairfax High, Timi sang with the school's a cappella choir and girls' glee club while working after school as a waitress her grown-up vocal sound, an uncanny knack for phrasing and fearlessness in auditions led to a few weekend nightclub gigs at age 16, despite her five foot height and youthful appearance. When the family moved to Los Angeles in 1952, the 12-year-old began studying with the great Lillian Rosedale Goodman, an accomplished singer, songwriter, pianist and vocal coach.
Rosemary Timotea Yuro was constantly singing and her never-take-no-for-an-answer Italian mom arranged for young "Timi" to take voice lessons not long after she began elementary school on Chicago's West Side. The live record had some dynamite moments but had the negative from my view of adding bonus tracks, with ‘alternate versions’ which really ruined the sense of enjoying a whole concert.Īnd Jasmine has just issued a 20 track set called Lost 60s recordings and many titles appear to be ones I have not seen on cd before.Edith Yuro had confidence in her daughter's obvious talent from the beginning. (There is also a Live at PJs cd from RPM, but it is OOP and seems to have gotten expensive. Timi Yuro: Something Bad On My Mind/The Unreleased Liberty Collection(Morello Records, 2015 - MRLLX-50) This disk has 13 tracks that don’t appear on the two RPM Compilations. Timi Yuro: I'm A Star Now Rarities 1956-1982 (RPM RECORDS, 2014 - RPM-955) Timi Yuro: The Complete Liberty Singles (Real Gone Music, 2012 - RGM-0066) The Amazing Timi Yuro: The Mercury Years (Spectrum Music - Universal International (UK), 2005 - 982-596-5) Timi Yuro: The Voice That Got Away (RPM Records, 1996 - RPM-167) Timi Yuro: The Lost Voice of Soul (RPM Records, 1993 - RPM-117) Hurt! The Best of Timi Yuro (Liberty Records, 1963 /EMI Records, 1992) Carrying on, here’s a partial cd-ography from Wikipedia (there are many single disk compilations of her better known songs, and several of those European collections of pre-1963 work, but these are the principal ones to watch for.
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