Love Hurts

Boudleaux Bryant wrote it, published on August 30, 1960 by Acuff-Rose. The Everly Brothers recorded it in July 1960 for A Date with the Everly Brothers, and Roy Orbison cut it on February 27, 1961 at RCA Victor Studio B in Nashville, produced by Fred Foster, as the B-side of "Running Scared". Jim Capaldi reached 4 in the UK with it in 1975, and Nazareth took it to 8 in the US and 1 in Canada, the Netherlands and Norway; Cher's version reached 43 in the UK in 1991. The Wikipedia article on the song does not mention the Parsons and Harris version.

Their duet is side two, track two of Grievous Angel, 3:40, and was released as a single in February 1974; we found no chart entry. The Complete Reprise Sessions has it three times, at 4:58, 3:42 and an alternate at 3:47. Critic David Meyers described Harris's part as a lovely high whine, a mourning, keening reach for the suffering in the song. A Bijou Cafe version from March 16, 1973 is the lead single of The Last Roundup (2023); Americana UK's Paul Kerr called it the duo's signature song and noted that it is the only live capture of the pair apart from a radio broadcast made three days earlier on Long Island. Harris has kept the song in her own live shows. We hold two uploads of it and cannot tell which version either is.