Timi Yuro, "It Will Never Be Over for Me"

Oh, how happy YouTube has made me. As has someone from the I Love Music message board, through no fault of his own.

See, this guy I met at the EMP Pop Conference this year posts to ILM under the nom de poste "If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up." The fractured diction only added to the reference's delightful fervor, and I asked him about the source of the line (it was something someone had posted to a board, natch). But I realized tonight, when one of his posts came up on the board, that I have never heard a single note from Timi Yuro.

Geesh. Rectified that tonight, thanks to the ol' Tube. Started with "Hurt," a boomer in the Vicki Carr style, miles beyond Mama Cass into Ethel Merman territory, as command-to-attention voices go, but not my kinda songwriting. Then I got something swinging: "It Will Never Be Over for Me".

Whee!

That's really all I want to say about it - Whee! - but I'll add for scholarship's sake that the song is a 1969 Jerry Ragovoy production (same guy who coaxed great performances out of Howard Tate and a few others) , styled very much like the (contemporary?) "For the Love of Him" from Bobbi Martin. "Supper-club soul," an All Music Guide critic called it, to which I reply: "You say that like it's a bad thing."

Whee!