I Don't Hurt Anymore
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"I Don't Hurt Anymore" is a 1954 song by Hank Snow
. It was written by Don Robertson
and Jack Rollins
. The song was Hank Snow's fourth number one on the country chart where it spent twenty weeks at the top spot and a total of forty-one weeks on the chart.
Hank Snow
Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow was a Canadian-American country music artist. He charted more than 70 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980...
. It was written by Don Robertson
Don Robertson
Don Robertson was an American songwriter and pianist, mostly in the country and popular music genres. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. As a performer, he hit the US Top 10 with "The Happy Whistler" in 1956. The track reached #8 in the UK Singles Chart the same...
and Jack Rollins
Jack Rollins
Jack Rollins may refer to:* Jack Rollins , long-time producer of Woody Allen's films* Walter E. Rollins , American songwriter, nicknamed "Jack"...
. The song was Hank Snow's fourth number one on the country chart where it spent twenty weeks at the top spot and a total of forty-one weeks on the chart.
Cover versions
- Later in 1954, Dinah WashingtonDinah WashingtonDinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones , was an American blues, R&B and jazz singer. She has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s", and called "The Queen of the Blues"...
reached number three on the R&B Best Seller charts with her version of the song. - Faron YoungFaron YoungFaron Young was an American country music singer and songwriter from the early 1950s into the mid-1980s and one of its most successful and colorful stars...
recorded it and Connie FrancisConnie FrancisConnie Francis is an American pop singer of Italian heritage and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1950s and 1960s. Although her chart success waned in the second half of the 1960s, Francis remained a top concert draw...
did it on her country album in 1962. - Hank ThompsonHank ThompsonHank Thompson may refer to:*Hank Thompson *Hank Thompson , country music singer and songwriter...
recorded it as "It Don't Hurt Anymore" on his Hank! album in 1957. - Bob DylanBob DylanBob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
and the Band in the Basement recorded the song in 1967. - Johnny CashJohnny CashJohn R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
covered this song (as "It Don't Hurt Anymore") on his final album American VI: Ain't No GraveAmerican VI: Ain't No GraveUpon its release, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 78, based on 19 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews"...
. - Hank SnowHank SnowClarence Eugene "Hank" Snow was a Canadian-American country music artist. He charted more than 70 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980...
covered himself by re-recording the song in stereo in the late 50's or early 60's.