In Rotterdam she performed before an audience of over 20,000 along with Olivia Newton-John, Janice Ian and Art Garfunkel, and brought down the house. Timi went to Amsterdam to promote her new album and it proved to be immensely popular in Europe. In 1982 she headlined at the Sands in Las Vegas to a packed showroom every night for two weeks. It was released in Europe by Dureko Records in Holland in 1981. When she regained her voice, Timi went to Nashville and recorded All Alone Am I.
This was followed by six months during which she was not allowed to talk, much less sing. Doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York performed surgery to remove nodules from her larynx and esophagus. She assembled a 14-piece band and began rehearsals, but then was troubled by health problems. Timi went into retirement but decided to come back in 1980. Timi put several such records on the charts, including What's A Matter Baby, Gotta Travel On and Make The World Go Away. Brenda Lee was probably the hottest female singer at the time, but Timi's songs had a soul sound to them that were in contrast to Brenda's recordings. The biggest of these was her first, Hurt, which reached the top ten nationally. She worked with songwriter/producer Clyde Otis and put 11 songs in the top 100 from 1961 to 1965. Timi signed a contract with Liberty Records in 1959. She had a Mediterranean heritage and was influenced by some of the great Blues singers, to the extent that many people mistakenly thought that she was black.
She moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1952, where she sang in her family's Italian restaurant. Timi was born Rosemary Timotea Aurro Yuro (thus, Timi Yuro) in Chicago in 1941. Admirably, What's a Matter Baby doesn't feature one song after another that sounds like the hit single it supports, and it comes closer to being a full-fledged album than the works of many of her contemporaries.Timi Yuro is known primarily as a one-shot artist for her fantastic version of Hurt in 1961. "That's Right, Walk On By," however, is one of Yuro's brightest moments, and her version of "Fever" remains striking in its simplicity. Meanwhile, the country, soul, and rock-influenced tracks like the gently bittersweet "I Waited Too Long" (originally a hit for LaVern Baker) and the livelier "If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody," "Hallelujah, I Love Him So," and "Should I Ever Love Again" still have a lot to offer modern ears, even if they're not among her all-time best work. While the more staid "It's Too Soon to Know," "Guess Who," and "For Your Love" feel a little dated now, Yuro's performances inject them with enough passion to keep them sounding vital. Yuro's big, beautiful, powerful voice lent itself to a variety of settings aside from the soulful "What's a Matter Baby" and "Hurt," she tackled more mature-sounding orchestral pop, country-pop, and other styles, many of which are represented here. The title track of Timi Yuro's third album, What's a Matter Baby, was one of her biggest hits, both on the charts and in terms of sound: more than once, Yuro's voice saturates the song, sending recording gauges (and eardrums) into the red.
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