For a guy who was a dominant figure on the U.S. charts for a good stretch of the early ’60s, wrote big hits for Ricky Nelson and The Crystals, and later gained great popularity overseas, Gene Pitney ...
PITNEY, Gene Gene Pitney, 66, of Somers and formerly of Rockville died on Wednesday, (April 5, 2006), in Welsh Capital, Cardiff, UK. Gene was born on February 17, 1940, in Hartford the son of the late ...
LONDON (AP) -- Gene Pitney, whose keening tenor voice produced a string of hits including "Town Without Pity" was found dead in his hotel room in Wales Wednesday following a concert that fans ...