kenny karen was the original singer of only a fool breaks his own heart.
kenny karen was the original singer of only a fool breaks his own heart.
who is the original singer of only a fool breaks his own heart?
kenny karen
"only a fool breaks his own heart" is a song that was composed in brooklyn new york in 1964 by norman bergen and shelly coburn in response to a request by united artists music who was looking for songs for british duo chad & jeremy. going for a british sound, bergen started with a chord progression based on the beatles’ “i want to hold your hand” and coburn added a lyric. the writers did not receive the usual $25 or $50 advance, but the company did pay for a one-hour demo recording which took place with studio players including frank owens (piano) and kenny karen (vocals). the session ended early so producer ken lauber spent the final ten minutes changing the original uptempo concept to a ballad approach. he asked karen to do his best jerry butler impression, and asked owens to play the way he had on the dionne warwick records (that piano part is still copied today on many of the newer versions of the song.) the next day, at coburn’s suggestion, the writers took the demo to hy weiss at old town records for jazz singer arthur prysock. old town used the demo track, added prysock’s vocal plus strings arranged by mort garson, and it became the next single.
only a fool breaks his own heart
bo lidegaard









































bo lidegaard (born 23 january 1958) is a danish historian, diplomat, author and editor in chief of daily broadsheet newspaper "politiken".









































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lidegaard is the son of authors mads lidegaard and else lidegaard, and is the brother of danish political figure martin lidegaard. bo lidegaard graduated from gentofte statsskole in 1976, and became cand. phil. in history at the university of copenhagen in 1984. he received his ph.d. after completing a dissertation on henrik kauffmann in 1997. 









































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lidegaard has authored a number of books on danish history.
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