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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.
"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.
"Only Love Can Break a Heart" is a popular song from 1962, performed by the American singer-songwriter Gene Pitney. The song was written by Hal David (words) and Burt Bacharach (music) and appears on Pitney's second album Only Love Can Break a Heart .
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The song's lyrics tell of a traveling man who detours to a romance in a motel and ends up never returning home. [4] The twists of the song's lyrics (the protagonist, just 24 hours from reaching home, falls in love with a woman when he stops driving for the night, leaving his current partner twisting in the wind) are echoed in the music's tonal ambiguity, a common feature of Bacharach's ...
"It Hurts to Be in Love", a cover of the 1964 hit by Gene Pitney, [6] was the second single, which peaked at No. 72 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 48 on the Dance Music/Club Play chart. The third and final single, "All I Need", reached No. 10 on the Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart. [7]
Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen, Volume Two is a compilation album by American singer Gene Pitney released on the Musicor label in the United States in 1965. The album was released as Gene Pitney's More Big Sixteen on the Stateside label in the United Kingdom and served as a companion volume to Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen released the previous year.