"It Hurts to Be in Love" is a song written by Howard Greenfield and Helen Miller which was a Top Ten hit in 1964 for Gene Pitney.
[12] Although not characteristic of Pitney's pop sound, as heard in "Town Without Pity" and "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance," AllMusic noted that "It Hurts to Be in Love" "was about as close as any of his major hits came to straight-ahead rock & roll.
"[3] In 2007, Razor & Tie Records released the original Sedaka demo as part of the anthology album The Definitive Collection.
In 1979 a power pop version of the song was recorded by Durocs, a studio group comprising singers, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Ron Nagle and Scott Mathews.
However it was not successful in America (MTV did not launch until late 1981, so the video gained only limited exposure in the USA) and Capitol dropped the group soon after, partly due to Nagle and Mathews' unwillingness to put together a touring band to promote the album.
[18] In 1981, American singer-songwriter and musician Dan Hartman released a version on his fourth studio album It Hurts to Be in Love.
[20] In a review of It Hurts to Be in Love, John Smyntek of the Detroit Free Press noted: "Hartman doesn't even bother to change the arrangement so he knows a good thing when he hears it.