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Here Comes the Hurt Again

1978 single by Mickey Gilley

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 10, 2020
Entity authorityQ5737185 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Here Comes the Hurt Again'" is a song written by Jerry Foster and Bill Rice, and recorded by American country music artist Mickey Gilley. It was released in July 1978 as the second single from his album Flyin' High. The song reached number 9 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and number 43 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.

A re-recorded version of the song appears on the soundtrack to the 1980 film Urban Cowboy.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Here Comes the Hurt Again” is 1978 single by Mickey Gilley. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Here, Comes and Hurt, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-07. For this dossier, Here, Comes and Hurt is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “1978 single by Mickey Gilley” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 10, 2020. The linked authority identifier is Q5737185. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Here Comes the Hurt Again” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.