{"id":8645,"date":"2013-07-13T18:13:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T18:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/13\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-gene-pitney\/"},"modified":"2013-07-13T18:13:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T18:13:47","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-gene-pitney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/13\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-gene-pitney\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Gene Pitney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gene Pitney was born 17 February 1940 and died 5 April 2006. Biography here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pitney was something of a melodramatic crooner in such hits as Town Without Pity<\/a>, but he also penned upbeat chartbusters like Hello Mary Lou<\/a> for Rick Nelson when he was called Ricky and He's a Rebel <\/a>for the Crystals. The latter, featuring Phil Spector's wall-of-sound production job, has that  oddly stirring quality common to many of Spector's productions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bobby Vee's Rubber Ball<\/a> is a Pitney composition.  <\/span><\/p>\n

I Wanna Love My Life Away<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Only Love Can Break a Heart<\/a>, 1962.  One of the great torch  songs <\/a>of the 1960s.<\/span><\/p>\n

24 Hours From Tulsa<\/a>, 1963<\/span><\/p>\n

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Crying.<\/a>  But the Big O does it best<\/a> with a little help from K D Lang.<\/span> <\/p>\n

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Gene Pitney was born 17 February 1940 and died 5 April 2006. Biography here. Pitney was something of a melodramatic crooner in such hits as Town Without Pity, but he also penned upbeat chartbusters like Hello Mary Lou for Rick Nelson when he was called Ricky and He's a Rebel for the Crystals. The latter, … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Gene Pitney”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-sixties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}