
You Always Hurt the One You Love
1944
Doris Fisher's music, Allan Roberts's lyric, four voices in close harmony, and a B-side, "Till Then," that charted too.
★ 3.4

Doris Fisher's music, Allan Roberts's lyric, four voices in close harmony, and a B-side, "Till Then," that charted too.

Van Heusen heard Crosby warn a son at dinner he might grow up a mule, and Burke built the lyric.
Raye and Prince wrote it for an Abbott and Costello comedy, and the sisters harmonize like a brass section.

MGM cut it from the film twice until Arthur Freed threatened to quit; Garland was sixteen.