Love Really Hurts Without You Love Really Hurts Without You "Love Really Hurts Without You" is a song recorded by British R&B recording artist Billy Ocean. The song – written by Ocean under his real name Les[lie] Charles with the track's producer Ben Findon – was the second single recorded in the name Billy Ocean (although the singer had had several previous releases using other stage names) and provided Ocean with his first chart record in 1976. The song remains tied with the 1977 #2 UK hit "Red Light Spells Danger" as Ocean's second best all-time UK charting record, after "When the Going Gets Tough,
The Name Game A verse can be created for any name with stress on the first syllable, with "X" as the name and "Y" as the name without the first consonant sound (if it begins with a consonant), as follows: And if the name starts with a "b", "f", or "m", that sound simply is not repeated. For example: "Billy" becomes "Billy Billy "bo-illy""; "Fred" becomes "bonana fanna "fo-red""; "Marsha" becomes "fee fi "mo-arsha"" The song gives no indication of what to do with names where the stress falls on a syllable after the first, like Renee, Maria, or Lebron. The Name Game