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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.
"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.
Sedaka attempted another recording of this song in RCA's studios, but the results were unsatisfactory. Greenfield and Helen Miller, the song's co-writers, offered it to Gene Pitney instead, and he took the existing musical track, replacing Sedaka's lead vocal track with Pitney's own. Everything else was Sedaka's, including his own arrangement ...
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.
Country singer Melba Montgomery has died at the age of 86. She was known for her duets with George Jones, Gene Pitney and Charlie Louvin. According to her daughter Melissa Solomon Barrett ...
"He's a Rebel" is a song written by Gene Pitney that was originally recorded by Vikki Carr and by the girl group the Blossoms. Produced by Phil Spector, the Blossoms' version was issued as a single credited to the Crystals, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in November 1962.
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 ...
For the First Time! Two Great Stars – George Jones and Gene Pitney is an album by American country music artist George Jones and pop artist Gene Pitney.It was released in 1965 on the Musicor label in the United States and on the Stateside label in the United Kingdom.