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,
What Wondrous Love Is This Bryan included "What Wondrous Love Is This" in his folk opera "Singin' Billy". In 1958, American composer Samuel Barber composed "Wondrous Love: Variations on a Shape Note Hymn" (Op. 34), a work for organ, for Christ Episcopal Church in Grosse Pointe, Michigan; the church's organist, an associate of Barber's, had requested a piece for the dedication ceremony of the church's new organ. The piece begins with a statement that closely follows the traditional hymn; four variations follow, of which the last is the "longest and most expressive". Dwayne S. Milburn composed a prelude on "Wondrous Love" as the first movement