GENE  PITNEY :: THE ORIGINAL RECORDINGS :: VINYYLI LP 1989

                                    GENE  PITNEY

  20 GREATEST HITS -ORIGINAL RECORDINGS - GENE PITNEY LP

                       Made in Germany  ..  PLAT 3904

Track listing :

1. I Wanna Love My Life Away
2. Town Without Pity
3. Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
4. Only Love Can Break A Heart
5. Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa
6. That Girl Belongs To Yesterday
7. It Hurts To Be In Love
8. I'm Gonna Be Strong
9. I Must Be Seeing Things
10. Looking Through The Eyes Of Love
11. Princess In Rags
12. Backstage (I'm Lonely)
13. Nobody Needs Your Love More Than I Do
14. Just One Smile
15. Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart  ...   MEGA  HIT !!
16. Somewhere In The Country
17. Yours Until Tomorrow
18. Maria Elena
19. 24 Sycamores
20. Hello Mary Lou

Background information :

Birth name  ..  Gene Francis Alan Pitney

Also known as Billy Bryan

BornFebruary 17, 1940
Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Origin Rockville, Connecticut, United States

DiedApril 5, 2006 (aged 66)
Cardiff, Wales, UK

Genres Rock and roll

Occupations Singer, songwriter, musician 

Instruments Guitar, piano, drums

Years active1961–2006

Gene Francis Alan Pitney 
Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed success as a recording artist on both sides of the Atlantic and was among the group of early 1960s American acts who continued to enjoy hits after the British Invasion.

Pitney charted 16 Top-40 hits in the U.S.,

four in the Top 10. In the UK he had 22 Top-40 hits,

and 11 singles in the Top Ten.

He also wrote the early 1960s hits "Rubber Ball" by Bobby Vee, "He's a Rebel" by The Crystals, and "Hello Mary Lou" by Ricky Nelson.

In 2002, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Pitney was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and grew up in Rockville, now part of Vernon, Connecticut.
His early influences were Clyde McPhatter, country-blues singer Moon Mullican and doo-wop groups like The Crows.
 

Career

Rise to fame (1961–1964)

Signed to songwriter Aaron Schroeder's newly formed Musicor label in 1961, Pitney scored his first chart single, which made the Top 40, the self-penned "(I Wanna) Love My Life Away", on which he played several instruments and multi-tracked the vocals. He followed that same year with his first Top 20 single, the title song from the film Town Without Pitystarring Kirk Douglas. Written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington, the song won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song. Pitney performed the song at the Oscars ceremony on April 9, 1962 (honoring the film year of 1961). The song lost the Academy Award to "Moon River". Many years later, "Town Without Pity" would be the last song Gene Pitney would sing in public, at a gig in south Wales before his death at the age of 66.

Pitney is also remembered for Burt Bacharach-Hal David song "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", which peaked at No. 4 in 1962. Though it shares a title with a 1962 John Fordwestern with the same title, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, starring John Wayne, the song was not used in the film because of a publishing dispute between Famous Music and Paramount Pictures.

Meanwhile, Pitney wrote hits for others, including "He's a Rebel" for The Crystals, Vikki Carr, and Elkie Brooks; "Today's Teardrops" for Roy Orbison; "Rubber Ball" for Bobby Vee; and "Hello Mary Lou" for Ricky Nelson. The Crystals' version of "He's A Rebel" kept Pitney's own #2 hit Only Love Can Break a Heart, his highest-charting single in the U.S., from the top spot.

The use of Arabian music in Pitney's 1963 hit "Mecca" anticipated The Beatles' psychedelic sound experimentation. Exotic instruments, such as mariachi trumpets in "Lonely Drifter", ukuleles in "Hawaii", and a gypsy fiddle in "Golden Earrings", became a Pitney trademark.

His popularity in the UK market was ensured by the breakthrough success of "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa", a Bacharach and David song, which peaked at #5 in Britain at the start of 1964. "Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa" was only Pitney's third single release in the UK to reach the singles chart and the first to break into the Top Twenty there. "Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa" was also a hit in the U.S, peaking at #17 on the Hot 100.

Involvement with the Rolling Stones (1964)

Pitney was present with Phil Spector at some of the Rolling Stones' early recording sessions in London, including "Little by Little" and other tracks for their debut album; he played piano, though the extent is uncertain.

The Jagger/Richards song "That Girl Belongs to Yesterday" was a UK hit for Pitney in 1964; it was the first tune composed by the Rolling Stones to become a Top 10 hit in the UK. In the U.S. the single stalled at No. 49, ending a run of seven Top 40 singles for Pitney as a performer.

Maintaining popularity

After another low-charting single, 1964's "Yesterday's Hero", Pitney rebounded with another string of hits in the mid-1960s, including the 1964 singles "It Hurts to Be in Love" and "I'm Gonna Be Strong", which reached #7 and #9, respectively, in the U.S., and 1966's "Nobody Needs Your Love", which peaked at #2 in the UK, matching the #2 UK peak of "I'm Gonna Be Strong". "It Hurts to Be in Love" had been planned for and recorded by Neil Sedaka, but RCA refused to release it because Sedaka had recorded the song outside RCA Victor in violation of his contract. The writers, Howard Greenfield and Helen Miller, presented the song to Pitney. Miller replaced Sedaka's voice with Pitney's, though Sedaka's trademark backing harmonies were left intact.

In 1965, Pitney recorded two successful albums with country singer George Jones.[died yesterday 26 / 4 / 2013 ] !! They were voted the most promising country-and-western duo of the year.

Pitney also recorded songs in Italian, Spanish and German, and twice finished second in Italy's annual Sanremo Music Festival, where his strong vibrato reminded older listeners of the Italian tenor Caruso.
He had a regional hit with "Nessuno Mi Puo' Giudicare".

Later career :

Pitney's last hit on the UK charts came in 1989, after an absence of 15 years, when he and Soft Cell singer Marc Almond recorded a duet version of"Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart" by British writers Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway. The song had been a UK No. 5 for Pitney in 1967. The duet brought him his first UK No. 1, in late January 1989. The single remained at the top for four weeks, and also went to No. 1 elsewhere in Europe. Pitney and Almond appeared on the Terry Wogan television show in Britain, Almond dressed in leather, Pitney in a white tuxedo.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds had recorded "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart" on their cover album, Kicking Against the Pricks, in 1986. However, it never had the success of Pitney-Almond.

On 26 February 1993, Pitney performed at Carnegie Hall in New York on the day of the first World Trade Center bombing.

In 2000, he re-recorded "Half Heaven, Half Heartache" as a duet with Jane Olivor on her 'comeback' album Love Decides.

On 18 March 2002 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Death

Pitney died on 5 April 2006 at age 66. His tour manager found him dead in his hotel in Cardiff, Wales in the middle of a UK tour.His final show at Cardiff's St David's Hall earned him a standing ovation; he ended with "Town Without Pity". An autopsy confirmed he had heart disease caused by atherosclerosis. He left his wife Lynne and their three sons Todd, Chris, and David.He was buried at Somers Center Cemetery in Somers, Connecticut.

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