"Hearts of Stone" is an American R&B song.
It was written by Eddie Ray and Rudy Jackson,[1] members of the San Bernardino, California-based rhythm and blues vocal group the Jewels (no relation to the female group the Jewels from Washington, DC) which first recorded it for the R&B label in 1954.
The Jewels began as a gospel group, then became the Marbles, recording for the Lucky label out of Los Angeles.
According to Johnny Torrence, leader of the Marbles/Jewels, it was taken from a song they recorded in their gospel days.
[2] "Hearts of Stone" was covered and taken to the charts in 1954 by East Coast R&B vocal group the Charms, causing the story of the Jewels' involvement to be ignored by various writers and DJs who assume the Charms' cover was the original.