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Gene Pitney 1941-2006
« on: April 06, 2006, 01:56:30 pm »
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Re: Gene Pitney 1941-2006
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2006, 09:38:04 pm »
No love for Gene Pitney...  anybody?  Town without Pity, Hello Mary Lou, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

Nothing?

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Re: Gene Pitney 1941-2006
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2006, 10:38:17 pm »
I love me some town without pity, and will play some today in Pitney's honour. 

So yeah, he'll be missed.  Not much more to say about that.
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Re: Gene Pitney 1941-2006
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2006, 01:30:20 am »
I thought Town Without Pity was too angsty even when I was angsty, but I like Hello Mary Lou. I'll pour out a glass of whole milk for him.
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Re: Gene Pitney 1941-2006
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2006, 02:41:45 am »
Yeah.  A singer I didn't know by name when I've heard him on the radio, but with a voice nearly as beautiful as Roy Orbison's.
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Re: Gene Pitney 1941-2006
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2006, 03:05:14 am »
Hello Mary Lou is Ricky Nelson, not Gene Pitney.

But let's give it up for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Town Without Pity, Only Love Can Break A Heart, and It Hurts to Be in Love.

Shall we?

I will be playing some Pitney for the rest of the evening in tribute.
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Re: Gene Pitney 1941-2006
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2006, 03:19:10 am »
Pitney sang it too, apparently.
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Re: Gene Pitney 1941-2006
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2006, 04:01:01 am »
Quote from: jough on April 07, 2006, 03:05:14 am
Hello Mary Lou is Ricky Nelson, not Gene Pitney.

Pitney wrote it.

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Re: Gene Pitney 1941-2006
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2006, 04:24:24 am »
Town Without Pity always set my teeth on edge, sort of.  It's just a little too too, if you know what I mean.

The rest of his work I'm OK with.  Especially the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.  Good theme song for a good movie.
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Re: Gene Pitney 1941-2006
« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2006, 04:35:24 am »
The Brian Setzer Orchestra did an amazing cover of Town Without Pity that is on my near-constant rotation.  I think I put it on one of my mix discs for you people.
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Re: Gene Pitney 1941-2006
« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2006, 11:21:31 am »
Wow, he wrote Only Love Can Break a Heart and It Hurts to be in Love too? Man, he was like proto-emo. Craziness.
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Re: Gene Pitney 1941-2006
« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2006, 05:18:47 pm »
Seriously, you could use his lyrics interchangeably with many Joy Division songs and NO ONE WOULD KNOW.
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