Losers, Weepers
{{Infobox album
| name = Losers, Weepers
| type = studio
| artist = Kay Starr
| cover = Losers, Weepers (Kay Starr album).png
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| released = 1960
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| genre = Pop
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| label = Capitol
| producer = Dave Cavanaugh
| chronology =
| prev_title = Movin'!
| prev_year = 1959
| next_title = One More Time
| next_year = 1960
| misc =
}}
Losers, Weepers is a studio album by Kay Starr. It was released in 1960 by Capitol Records (catalog no. T-1303). It was produced by Dave Cavanaugh.{{cite web|title=Kay Starr - Losers, Weepers|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=December 22, 2020|url=https://www.discogs.com/Kay-Starr-Losers-Weepers/release/2849815}} She is backed on the album by Van Alexander and his band. The album's liner notes state: "Kay Starr, working closely and skillfully with the musicians, so that each nuance of lyric, melody, and mood is carried out with full beauty and meaning."Kay Starr, Losers, Weepers, back cover.
Reception
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Upon its release, Billboard magazine wrote: "Kay Starr sings the low-down, too-sad-for-tears blues, and the upbeat, rowdy, happy rhythms, and does well by all as evidenced by the selections in her new Capitol album, Losers, Weepers."{{cite news|title=Discourse from the Billboard Sales Department|newspaper=The Billboard|date=February 15, 1960|page=26|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9R4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26}}
AllMusic also gave the album a rating of four stars.{{cite web|title=Losers, Weepers|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=December 22, 2020|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/rockin-with-kay-mw0001879217}} Reviewer Scott Yanow wrote that "Starr gives a jazz feeling to each of her dozen interpretations" and concluded his review: "Superior singing."
Track listing
Side A
- "You Always Hurt the One You Love"
- "I Should Care"
- "I'm a Fool to Care" (Ted Daffan)
- "Don't Take Your Love from Me"
- "When I Lost You"
- "Only Forever"
Side B
- "Gonna Get a Guy" (Howard Simon / Al Lewis)
- "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone"
- "I Miss You So" (Bertha Scott / Jimmy Henderson / Sid Robin)
- "A Faded Summer Love" (Phil Baxter)
- "When a Woman Loves a Man" (Bernie Hanighen / Johnny Mercer / Gordon Jenkins)
- "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall"
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