Gene Pitney
USA
Born: 17 February 1941
Died: 05 April 2006
Years Active: 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Pop/Rock
Styles: Pop/Rock, Teen Idols, Early Pop/Rock, Brill Building Pop, AM Pop
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One of the most interesting and difficult-to-categorize singers in '60s pop, Gene Pitney had a long run of hits distinguished by his pained, one-of-a-kind melodramatic wail. Pitney is sometimes characterized (or dismissed) as a shallow teen idol-type prone to operatic ballads. It's true that some of his biggest hits -- "Town Without Pity," "Only Love Can Break a Heart," "I'm Gonna Be Strong," "It Hurts to Be in Love," and "Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa" -- are archetypes of adolescent or just-post-adolescent agony, characterized by longing and n...
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