Saturday, July 9, 2016

"It's So Hard Being A Loser" by The Contours

Best known as "one-hit" wonders, The Contours scored big with "Do You Love Me". This was their only top 40 hit but it hit the charts twice in two different decades. "Do You Love Me" reached #3 in 1962 and #11 in 1988, thanks to being featured in the hit movie Dirty Dancing.

The Contours have plenty other songs in their catalogue that didn't get their due. The upbeat yet melancholy "It's So Hard Being A Loser" is just one of them, and shows a different side of the band many didn't know existed. The song only went to #79 in 1967. The band didn't see chart success again until "Do You Love Me" re-entered in 1988.

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