OFF: This year's RnRHoF inductees

[Moonglum .]

In defence of Gene Pitney, he was a great crooner in that 50's/60's style
that I can perfectly well understand people on this list not liking :-)

Best song was "Town Without Pity" which had a terrific melody, very
unexpected if you know what I mean by that.  Ronnie Montrose did an
instrumental cover of Town Without Pity on his "Open Fire" album in 1978-
ish.  Lead guitar where Pitney's vocals were on the original.

Steve
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:33:11 -0500, Paul Mather <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, K Henderson wrote:
>
>=> Who the *hell* is Gene Pitney?
>
>My mam and my sister both like Gene Pitney.  He is a singer from the
>50s(?) with songs such as "Town Without Pity," "24 Hours From Tulsa,"
>and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (which may have been used in the
>film of the same name, if memory serves).
>
>ob80sThread: I have a dim recollection of Marc Almond scoring a Top 10
>hit with a cover of a Gene Pitney song (or it might actually have been a
>recording with Pitney himself).
>
>Cheers,
>
>Paul.
>
>e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
>"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
> deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>        --- Frank Vincent Zappa