TIMI YURO - YOU BELONG TO MY HEART (Solamente Una Vez)

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LYRICS: "You Belong to My Heart" (Solamente Una Vez)

You belong to my heart
Now and forever
And our love had its start
Not long ago

We were gathering stars while a million guitars played our love song
When I said, "I love you", every beat of my heart said it, too

It was a moment like this
OH, do you remember?
And your eyes threw a kiss
When they met mine

Now we own all the stars, and a million guitars are still playing
Darling, you are the song, and you'll always belong to my heart

(INSTRUMENTAL BREAK)

Now we own all the stars, and a million guitars are still playing
Darling, you are the song, and you'll always belong to my heart!

*** "You Belong to My Heart" is the English version of the Mexican Bolero song "Solamente una vez" This song was composed by Mexican songwriter Agustín Lara and originally performed by singer Ana María González and tenor José Mojica in the 1941 film Melodías de América. An Italian-American favorite ***

Timi Yuro - Rosemary Timothy Yuro, August 4, 1940 – March 30, 2004, born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, into an Italian-American family whose original name may have been Aurro. Frank Sinatra was Impressed by her voice, He asked Yuro to support him on his 1962 Australian tour.

n 1952, the family moved to Los Angeles, where they opened an initially unsuccessful restaurant, in which Timi worked. But her obsession with music led her to be sent to Lilian Goodman, the voice-coach for such celebrities as Frankie Laine and Kirk Douglas. Amazed by the impoverished teenager's vocal power, Goodman gave her free lessons. By the age of 14, Yuro was singing in clubs, to the displeasure of her mother Edith, who once interrupted her performance, declaring: "This is your last song, young lady!"

Ever-confident, Timi persuaded her parents to turn their restaurant into a music venue, and its prospects changed. Even Elvis Presley reportedly went to eat pizza at Alvoturno's.

In 1959, Yuro signed up with Liberty Records, though, for two frustrating years, she was given bland, inappropriate material. She eventually forced her way into a board meeting, where she sang a version of the 1954 Roy Hamilton R&B hit, Hurt, to Liberty's president, Al Bennett. Suitably impressed, he arranged for her to be recorded by Clyde Otis, Dinah Washington and Nat King Cole's producer. No one understood her like Otis, Yuro recalled, apart from her mother. Hurt was a number four US pop hit in September 1961 - and reached 22 in the R&B charts.