Every Day I Have to Cry was Steve Alaimo

Steve Alaimo

Steve Alaimo was an American teen idol pop singer in the early 1960s who later became record producer and label owner, but he is perhaps best known for hosting and co-producing Dick Clark's Where the Action Is in the late 1960s...

's third album for Checker Records

Checker Records

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. Rather than capitalizing on dance crazes, this album is completely devoted to songs about crying. (The debut albums of Chuck Jackson

Chuck Jackson

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 and Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore is an American singer. She is perhaps best known for her 1963 pop hit "It's My Party", which she recorded at the age of 16. Following the hit, she became one of the most recognized teen pop singers of the 1960s.- Biography :Gore was born in New York City, New York. She was raised in...

—I Don't Want to Cry and I'll Cry If I Want To

I'll Cry If I Want To

I'll Cry If I Want to was the debut album of Lesley Gore. The album included her hit singles "It's My Party" and its follow up, "Judy's Turn to Cry"...

, respectively—are devoted to the same subject.)

The title track was later recorded by Arthur Alexander

Arthur Alexander

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 (who also wrote the song), Dusty Springfield

Dusty Springfield

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...

, The Valentines

The Valentines

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 (featuring Bon Scott

Bon Scott

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), and Johnny Rivers

Johnny Rivers

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among others.

Side 1

1. Every Day I Have to Cry
2. I Don't Want to Cry
3. My Heart Cries for You
4. I Cried All the Way Home
5. Cry Me a River
6. I Wake Up Crying

Side 2

1. Cry
2. She Cried
3. Don't Cry
4. Cry of the Wild Goose
5. Cry Myself to Sleep
6. Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying