Millie Jackson delivering a super cool performance of It Hurts So Good on US TV show The Ebony Affair in 1975.
Millie released the song in 1973 as a single and although it failed to crack the UK charts, it featured in the blaxploitation movie Cleopatra Jones, the soundtrack album shifting half a million copies in the USA.
It Hurts So Good was originally a single by Katie Love & The Four Shades Of Black in 1971, released only in the USA...and Spain, it appears. Despite being a red hot Muscle Shoals Production, it wasn't a hit in either country.
Susan Cadogan then ad a crack at the song, Lee Perry at the controls, retitled it as Hurt So Good and, in one fell swoop, created both the definitive version and the big hit that the song deserved. Hurt So Good spent 3 weeks at #4 in the UK singles chart in April and May 1975.
Twenty years later, Jimmy Somerville attempted the same with his take on the Cadogan/Perry version and whilst it was also a hit in the UK, neither the recording nor the chart performance could hope to match the majesty of the above.
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