Minnie Julia Riperton-Rudolph (November 8, 1947 – July 12, 1979), known professionally as Minnie Riperton, was an American singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 single "Lovin' You". She was married to songwriter and music producer Richard Rudolph from 1972 until her death in 1979. They had two children: music engineer Marc Rudolph and actress/comedienne Maya Rudolph.
Riperton grew up on Chicago's South Side. As a child, she studied music, drama, and dance at Chicago's Lincoln Center. In her teen years, she sang lead vocals for the Chicago-based girl group, The Gems. Her early affiliation with the legendary Chicago-based Chess Records afforded her the opportunity to sing backup for various established artists such as Etta James, Fontella Bass, Ramsey Lewis, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and Muddy Waters. While at Chess, Riperton also sang lead for the experimental rock/soul group Rotary Connection, from 1967 to 1971. On April 5, 1975, Riperton reached the apex of her career with her #1 single, "Lovin' You". The single was the last release from her 1974 gold album entitled Perfect Angel.
"Love Hurts" is a song written and composed by the American songwriting duo Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. First recorded by The Everly Brothers in July 1960, the song is also well known from a 1975 international hit version by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth and in the UK by a top five hit in 1975 by the English singer Jim Capaldi.
The song was introduced in December 1960 as an album track on A Date with The Everly Brothers, but was never released as a single (A-side or B-side) by the Everlys. The first hit version of the song was by Roy Orbison, who earned Australian radio play, hitting the Top Five of that country's singles charts in 1961. A recording by Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons was included on Parsons' posthumously released Grievous Angel album. After Parsons' 1973 death, Harris made the song a staple of her repertoire, and has included it in her concert set lists from the 1970s to the present. Harris has since re-recorded the song twice.
The most successful recording of the song was by hard rock band Nazareth, who took the song to the U.S. Top 10 in 1975 and hit number one in Norway and the Netherlands. In the UK the most successful version of the song was by former Traffic member Jim Capaldi, who took it to number four in the charts in November 1975 during an 11-week run. The song was also covered by Cher in 1975 for her album Stars. Cher re-recorded the song in 1991 for her album of the same name. Rod Stewart recorded the song in 2006 for his album Still the Same... Great Rock Classics of Our Time which was No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Love Hurts is a Swedish graphic novel by Kim W. Andersson.
Love Hurts is a comedy-drama film, released in late 1990 in the United Kingdom and 1991 in the United States. Co-produced and directed by Bud Yorkin, it stars Jeff Daniels, Cynthia Sikes, Cloris Leachman, Judith Ivey and John Mahoney.
Daniels plays a womanizer who goes home to Pennsylvania for a wedding and finds his past catching up with him.
The film has been released on DVD by Lions Gate Home Entertainment as a double feature with You Can't Hurry Love.
Plot
Paul Weaver (Jeff Daniels) is accustomed to playing around on his wife Nancy (Cynthia Sikes) from his baseball-playing days. When divorce papers are filed against him, Paul decides to travel to Pennsylvania and attend his sister's wedding. But Nancy and his two children are both there, making the situation uncomfortable for everyone.
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Minnie Riperton
ALBUMS
- Stay in Love / Minnie released: 2004
- Perfect Angel / Adventures in Paradise released: 2004
- The Best of Minnie Riperton: Anthology released: 2002
- Adventures in Paradise released: 2002
- Petals: The Minnie Riperton Collection released: 2001
- Les Fleurs: The Minnie Riperton Anthology released: 2001
- Free Soul: The Classics of Minnie Riperton released: 1999
- Perfect Angel released: 1998
- Her Chess Years (feat. The Gems & Rotary Connection) released: 1997
- Capitol Gold: The Best of Minnie Riperton released: 1993
- Only When I'm Dreaming released: 1990
- The Best of Minnie Riperton released: 1981
- Love Lives Forever released: 1980
- Minnie released: 1979
- Stay in Love released: 1977
- Come to My Garden released: 1970
Stay in Love / Minnie
Released 2004- Young Willing and Able
- Could It Be I'm in Love
- Oh Darlin'... Life Goes On
- Can You Feel What I'm Saying?
- Gettin' Ready for Your Love
- Stick Together
- Wouldn't Matter Where You Are
- How Could I Love You More
- Stay in Love
- Memory Lane
- Lover and Friend
- Return to Forever
- Dancin' and Actin' Crazy
- Love Hurts
- Never Existed Before
- I'm a Woman
- Light My Fire
Perfect Angel / Adventures in Paradise
Released 2004- Reasons
- It's So Nice (To See Old Friends)
- Take a Little Trip
- Seeing You This Way
- The Edge of a Dream
- Perfect Angel
- Every Time He Comes Around
- Lovin' You
- Our Lives
- Baby, This Love I Have
- Feelin' That the Feeling's Good
- When It Comes Down to It
- Minnie's Lament
- Love and It's Glory
- Adventures in Paradise
- Inside My Love
- Alone in Brewster Bay
- Simple Things
- Don't Let Anyone Bring You Down
Free Soul: The Classics of Minnie Riperton
Released 1999- Simple Things
- Could It Be I'm in Love
- Never Existed Before
- Our Lives
- Seeing You This Way
- Stay in Love
- Perfect Angel
- Stick Together
- Love and Its Glory
- Wouldn't Matter Where You Are
- Young Willing and Able
- Can You Feel What I'm Saying?
- Take a Little Trip
- Inside My Love
- Feelin' That Your Feelin's Right
- Baby, This Love I Have
- Lovin' You
- The Edge of a Dream
- Don't Let Anyone Bring You Down
Capitol Gold: The Best of Minnie Riperton
Released 1993- Perfect Angel
- Lover and Friend (single version)
- Memory Lane (single version)
- Woman of Heart and Mind
- Lovin' You
- Young Willing and Able
- Can You Feel What I'm Saying
- Stick Together
- Wouldn't Matter Where You Are
- Stay in Love
- Inside My Love
- Here We Go
- Give Me Time (single version)
- You Take My Breath Away
- Adventures in Paradise
- Simple Things
- Light My Fire
Born: 1947-11-08
Died: 1979-07-12
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Les Fleur
by: Minnie Riperton(C. Stepney - R. Rudolph)
Will somebody wear me to the fair?
Will a lady pin me in her hair?
Will a child find me by a stream?
Kiss my petals and weave me through a dream.
For all of these simple things and much more a flower was born
It blooms to spread love and joy faith and hope to people forlorn
Inside every man lives the seed of a flower
If he looks within he finds beauty and power
Ring all the bells sing and tell the people that be everywhere that the flower has come
Light up the sky with your prayers of gladness and rejoice for the darkness is gone
Throw off your fears let your heart beat freely at the sign that a new time is born