Ad
related to: gene pitney country songs
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Gene Francis Alan Pitney (February 17, 1940 – April 5, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. [ 1 ] Pitney charted 16 top-40 hits in the United States, four in the top ten.
It Hurts to Be in Love and Eleven More Hit Songs is American singer Gene Pitney's eighth studio album, released on the Musicor label in the United States in 1964. The album was released as I'm Gonna Be Strong on the Stateside label in the United Kingdom.
Famous Country Duets is an album by American country music artist George Jones with Gene Pitney and Melba Montgomery. This album was released in 1965 (see 1965 in country music ) on the Musicor Records label.
"It Hurts to Be in Love" is a song written by Howard Greenfield and Helen Miller which was a Top Ten hit in 1964 for Gene Pitney. [2] It was one in a long line of successful "Brill Building Sound" hits created by composers and arrangers working in New York City's Brill Building at 1619 Broadway.
It's Country Time Again! is the sequel to For the First Time!Two Great Stars - George Jones and Gene Pitney, released the year before.It reached number 17 on the US Country Albums chart.
"I Wanna) Love My Life Away" is a song written and sung by Gene Pitney, which he released in 1961. The song was Pitney's first charting single, and spent 8 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 39, [1] while reaching No. 23 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade. [2]
The album was Pitney's eleventh for Musicor, and the pair would record one more duet album together called It's Country Time Again in 1966. The Bear Family record label would reissue both albums under the title George Jones & Gene Pitney, collecting 31 sides that the pair recorded together.
In 2018, the song is used three times during the television series Castle Rock, including the first song heard in the series premiere (Gene Pitney's 1963 version) and the last song heard over the closing credits of the season one finale (Dusty Springfield's 1964 version). The underlying story of season one is captured in the lyrics: “Dearest ...