Gene Pitney

About

American singer/songwriter, musician and engineer. He was born February 17, 1940 in Hartford, Connecticut and died in a hotel after a gig on April 5, 2006 in Cardiff, Wales, UK. At the beginning of his musical career Pitney cut a few records under different pseudonyms, as [i]Jamie & Jane[/i] with [a=Ginny Arnell] in 1958 and as [i]Billy Bryan[/i] in 1959. Between 1961 and 1964 he recorded 7 songs by songwriters [a=Burt Bacharach] and [a=Hal David], getting into the the U.S. Billboard Top Ten in