"It Only Hurts for a Little While" is a 1956 popular

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 song

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 with music by Fred Spielman and lyrics by Mack David

Mack David

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The recording by The Ames Brothers was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number

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 20-6481. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts

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 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.

Cover versions

• In 1978, Country Music singer Margo Smith
  Margo Smith
  Margo Smith is an American Country Music Singer. In the 1970s, she was a popular female Country vocalist, acquiring two No. 1 hits on the Country charts during that time, "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You" and "It Only Hurts for a Little While", both Country music remakes of previous Pop music...
  
   released her version of the song, and it went to number one on the Country charts that year and became her second and last number one. It was released on her album Don't Break the Heart That Loves You that year.
• Anne Murray
  Anne Murray
  Morna Anne Murray CC, ONS is a Canadian singer in pop, country and adult contemporary styles whose albums have sold over 54 million copies....
  
   recorded a cover of the song for her album Croonin'
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  (1993).