Every Little Bit Hurts

Infobox Single
Name = Every Little Bit Hurts
Artist = Brenda Holloway
from Album = Every Little Bit Hurts
Format = 7" single
Vinyl single
Recorded = 1964; Hitsville USA
Genre = Soul
Length = 3:17
Label = Tamla
Writer = Ed Cobb
Producer = Ed Cobb
This single = "Every Little Bit Hurts"
(1964)
Next single = "I'll Always Love You"
(1964)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Alicia Keys singles
Type = single
Last single = "Ghetto Story"
(2006)
This single = "Every Little Bit Hurts" (2006)
Next single = "No One"
(2007)

"Every Little Bit Hurts" was originally a 1964 hit single for Motown soul singer Brenda Holloway, written by Ed Cobb.

Though she was against recording the song again (she recorded it a couple of years before signing with Motown), she reluctantly recorded the song and the label released it in the summer of the year. Becoming a big hit peaking at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100, the song would become one of Holloway's trademark singles and would spark remakes by acts like The Small Faces and the Spencer Davis Group (with lead vocals by Steve Winwood).

Another un-released remake was done by Teena Marie.

In 1976 it was a minor hit for Shirley Strachan (Skyhooks lead singer) in Australia.

Forty years later, Alicia Keys re-recorded the song for her "Unplugged" album and has since released the song as the second single off the album. Keys's version was released in January 2006. The video premiered on January 17 on BET's "106 & Park".

The Clash have also made their own version, released in the 1991 3-disc compilation "Clash On Broadway". In 1994, a previously unreleased version by Funkadelic from 1972 featuring a soulful duet between George Clinton (funk musician) and Dianne Brooks came out as part of George Clinton's Family Series. Another notable version was recorded by The Jam. The track is included in the Polydor box set "Direction, Reaction, Creation" released March 9, 1999. The track was previously unreleased.

There's a similarly titled track by Aretha Franklin from her "A Rose Is Still A Rose" but that song was co-written by Jermaine Dupri and is not a cover of the Holloway song as erroneously stated.