Cry (Churchill Kohlman song)
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"Cry" is a 1951 popular song written by Churchill Kohlman. It was first recorded by Ruth Casey on the Cadillac label.[1] The biggest hit version was recorded in New York City by Johnnie Ray and The Four Lads on October 16, 1951. Singer Ronnie Dove also had a big hit with the song in 1966.
Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads version
Johnnie Ray recorded the song at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City,[2] with his version being released on Columbia Records subsidiary label Okeh Records[3] as catalog number Okeh 6840. It was a No.1 hit on the Billboard magazine chart that year, and one side of one of the biggest two-sided hits, as the flip side, "The Little White Cloud That Cried," reached No.2 on the Billboard chart. This recording also hit No.1 on the R&B Best Sellers lists and the flip side, "The Little White Cloud That Cried," peaked at No.6.[4] When the single started to crack the charts it was released on Columbia Records catalog number Co 39659.
Stan Freberg satirized this song, under the title "Try", and reported getting more angry feedback than from any of his many other parodies.[3][5]
Ronnie Dove version
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Chart history
| Chart (1966) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Billboard Hot 100[6] | 18 |
| US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[7] | 16 |
Lynn Anderson version
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Chart history
| Chart (1972) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[9] | 3 |
| US Billboard Hot 100[10] | 71 |
| US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[11] | 16 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |
| Canadian RPM Top Singles | 77 |
| Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks | 9 |
Year-end charts
| Chart (1972) | Position |
|---|---|
| US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[12] | 25 |
Crystal Gayle version
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Chart history
| Chart (1986) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[14] | 1 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |
Dutch-language versions
In 1982, singer/comedian André van Duin recorded it as "Als je huilt" (a double A-side with his take on Edith Piaf's "Les Trois Cloches") which became a No.1 hit in the Dutch Top 40 by mid-August.[15] During TV-promotion he wore specially designed specs with an in-built water-sprayer for audience-exposure.[16]
Other versions
- Stan Freberg parodied Johnnie Ray's version of "Cry" entitled "Try" in 1952, in which he did an emotional "sobbing out of tune" performance with different lyrics. The lyrics include the title of the B-side song "The Little White Cloud That Cried", in the line "even little white clouds do it". Johnnie Ray was not initially pleased with this parody. However, he later accepted Freberg's version.[17] It peaked at No.15 on the Billboard Hot 100.
- Connie Francis - for her 1959 (cancelled) One for the Boys album.
- Roy Orbison - for his 1961 album Lonely and Blue.
- Brenda Lee - for her 1961 album Emotions.
- Gene McDaniels - in 1961, for his album 100 Lbs. of Clay!
- Timi Yuro - in 1961, for her album Hurt!
- Paul Anka recorded the song as a B-side of "I'm Coming Home" in 1962 on ABC-Paramount 45–10338.
- Lesley Gore - on her 1963 debut album I'll Cry If I Want To.
- Ray Charles - on his 1964 album Sweet & Sour Tears. (No.44 Canada[18])
- Tammy Wynette - on her 1968 album, Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House.
- Mina - on her 1968 live album Mina alla Bussola dal vivo.
- Diana Trask took a version to No.99 on the country singles charts in 1975.
- Kevin Coyne included a cover of the song on his 1978 album, Dynamite Daze.
- Willie Nelson - on his 1984 album City of New Orleans.
- David Cassidy included it on his 2002 album Then and Now.
- Liza Minnelli - on her 2002 CD Liza's Back.
- Eros and the Eschaton recorded a version for Bar None Records in 2014.[19]
- Lorrie Morgan - for her 2009 A Moment in Time album.
References
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- ↑ Allegedly, Ray himself was not pleased, until he discovered Freberg's parody was actually helping sell his own record.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "WLink"./chart-history/HSI "Johnny Ray Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
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- ↑ According to Freberg, years later Ray told him, "I wanted to thank you for keeping my career going for another five or ten years because long after DJs stopped playing my records, they would continue to play you lampooning me". Hansen, Barry and Freberg, Stan, Tip of the Freberg: The Stan Freberg Collection 1951–1998 (1999), Template:ISBN, notes booklet, p. 10.
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