Talk:Gene Pitney
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Discussion point: It seems to me that Gene Pitney was actually one of the few American singers to survive the British invasion of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. He had an unbroken string of hits during that so-called invasion, and he certainly was responsible for introducing the latter to the American public, befriended them and played on their first album. Most British bands had the greatest respect for Pitney, considering him a consummate performer, arranger and engineering whizz-kid, so the intense rivalry between British and US artists was exaggerated by the media, though it's true that The Beach Boys refused to talk to The Kinks (see "X-Ray" by Ray Davies). Cheers, everybody! 202.150.34.8 07:16, 31 March 2006 (UTC) Frank
[edit] Pitney born in 1940 not 1941
Link to story in Hartford Courant:
http://blogs.courant.com/news_opinion_hunter/2006/04/_quite_a_few_ge.html
[edit] Gene Outlasting 60's Concept Albums!!!!
I'm a massive fan of Gene Pitney (Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart is one of the best arranged songs of the 60's) and I was looking him up on Wiki because I bought (and played to death) a Greatest Hits album yesterday. But to suggest: '...his melodramatic celebration of teenage life in a nutshell seems to have stood the test of time rather better than the pretentious concept albums of the Swinging Sixties.' Is surely open to challenge. Such a list of concept albums would have to include: The Beach Boy's 'Pet Sounds'; The Small Faces 'Ogden's Nut Gone Flake'; 'The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society' and - what was it now? - 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' by those Beatles fellahs.
If Wikipedia is to work as an online encyclopedia and not a forum for wild opinion, I think it's right to challenge the idea that the album commonly voted as the best of all time has stood the test of time a little better than 'Princess in Rags'!
[edit] Epigraph
JA: I think it's a cryin' shame that a web search took as long as it did to track down the fact that GP wrote this immortal couplet, so I epenned it as an epigraph. Jon Awbrey 16:30, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
