IN MEMORIAM 1941 – 2006
Gene Pitney
Artist in the Deadikace database.
Country Music Pop Music
Gene Francis Alan Pitney was an American singer, songwriter and musician known predominantly for emotive, dramatic ballads heightened by an expansive range and sorrowful vocals. He also recorded country music. Between 1961 and 1968 Pitney charted with 16 Top 40 hits on Billboard’s Hot 100, including four Top Tens. Between 1961 and 1974 in the United Kingdom he charted with 21 Top 40 solo hits, ten of them Top Ten. In 1989, in a collaboration with Marc Almond, he reached number one in the UK singles chart with an updated duet version of his 1967 UK hit “Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart”.
Biography summary from English Wikipedia, photograph via Wikimedia Commons.
1941
Born February 17, 1941 in United States
BIRTH
2006
Died at 65
IN MEMORIAM