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Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen, Volume Two
''Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen, Volume Two'' is American singer Gene Pitney's tenth album, released on the Musicor label in the United States in 1965. The album was released as ''Gene Pitney's More Big Sixteen'' on the Stateside label in the United Kingdom. The compilation album featured Pitney's two most recent hit singles - "It Hurts to Be in Love" and " I'm Gonna Be Strong" - together with a range of lesser hits and album-only tracks from earlier releases and one new track, "Fool Killer". Track listing Side 1 #"It Hurts to Be in Love" (Howard Greenfield, Helen Miller) – 2:33 (from ''It Hurts To Be In Love'') #"Oh Annie Oh" (Gary Jackson) – 2:34 (from '' Gene Pitney Meets the Fair Young Ladies of Folkland'') #"Today's Teardrops" (Gene Pitney, Aaron Schroeder) – 1:55 (from '' The Many Sides of Gene Pitney'') #"Fool Killer" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 3:22 (non-single LP debut) #"Laurie" (Don Gohman, Hal Hackady) – 2:22 (from ''Gene Pitney Meets the Fair Young Ladie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. '' Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal David
Harold Lane David (May 25, 1921 – September 1, 2012) was an American lyricist. He grew up in New York City. He was best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach and his association with Dionne Warwick. Early life David was born in New York City, a son of Austrian Jewish immigrants Lina (née Goldberg) and Gedalier David, who owned a delicatessen in New York. He is the younger brother of American lyricist and songwriter Mack David. Career David is credited with popular music lyrics, beginning in the 1940s with material written for bandleader Sammy Kaye and for Guy Lombardo. He worked with Morty Nevins of The Three Suns on four songs for the feature film '' Two Gals and a Guy'' (1951), starring Janis Paige and Robert Alda. In 1957, David met composer Burt Bacharach at Famous Music in the Brill Building in New York. The two teamed up and wrote their first hit "The Story of My Life", recorded by Marty Robbins in 1957. Subsequently, in the 1960s and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Pitney Sings Just For You
''Gene Pitney Sings Just for You'' is American singer Gene Pitney's third album, released on the Musicor label in 1963. It included the single " Mecca" which reached #12 on the U.S. Hot 100 and was a top 10 hit in Australia and Canada. Track listing #" Teardrop by Teardrop" (Bob Halley) – 2:19 #" Mecca" (John Gluck Jr., Neval Nader) – 2:21 #"Cornflower Blue" (Mac David, Sherman Edwards) – 2:49 #"Not Responsible" ( Ben Raleigh, Mark Barkan) – 2:31 #"The Angels Got Together" (Aaron Schroeder) – 2:46 #"Don't Let the Neighbours Know" (Gluck, Nader) – 2:18 #"Ship True Love Goodbye" (Barkan, Nader) – 2:25 #"House Without Windows" (Fred Tobias, Lee Pockriss) – 2:27 #"Aladdin's Lamp" (Gene Pitney) – 2:28 #"Time and the River" (Schroeder, Wally Gold) – 2:32 #"Peanuts, Popcorn, and Crackerjacks" ( Artie Wayne, Raleigh) – 2:35 #"Tell the Moon to Go to Sleep" (Alan Schackner, Gloria Shayne Gloria Shayne Baker (September 4, 1923 – March 6, 2008) was an Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Barkan
Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finnish markka ( sv, finsk mark, links=no), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Polish mark ( pl, marka polska, links=no), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany * Lodz Ghetto mark, a special currency for Lodz Ghetto. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Raleigh
Ben Raleigh (June 16, 1913, New York – February 26, 1997, Hollywood) was an American lyricist and composer responsible for a number of major hits, including " Dungaree Doll", "Wonderful! Wonderful!", "Hold on Girl", "She's a Fool", "I Don't Wanna Be a Loser", "Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside)", “Love is a Hurtin' Thing”, “Tell Laura I Love Her” and " That's How Heartaches Are Made". His songs were recorded by artists such as Eddie Fisher, Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Aretha Franklin, Bobby Darin, The Monkees, Dinah Shore, Lesley Gore, Ray Peterson and Lou Rawls. "Tell Laura I Love Her" reached No.1 in the United Kingdom in 1960. "Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside)" peaked at No.3 in the United States in 1946. Raleigh composed the theme song, "Rango", with Earle Hagen for the 1967 ABC situation comedy '' Rango'' . He also composed the theme song to ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' with David Mook. Hanna-Barbera attempted to buy him out, but he d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Gene (Gene Pitney Album)
''Blue Gene'' is American singer Gene Pitney's fifth album, released on the Musicor label in 1964. The album contained the Burt Bacharach and Hal David hit "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa", a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia and a top 20 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 (#17), as well as the minor hit "Yesterday's Hero" (#64). Track listing #"Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa" (Hal David, Burt Bacharach) – 3:00 #" Autumn Leaves" (Johnny Mercer, Joseph Kosma) – 2:38 #"Half the Laughter, Twice the Tears" (Carl Spencer, Al Cleveland) – 2:12 #" I'll Be Seeing You" (Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain) – 2:59 #"Lonely Night Dreams" (John Gluck, Jr., Neval Nader) – 2:42 #"Answer Me, My Love" (Carl Sigman, Gerhard Winkler) – 3:04 #"Blue Gene" (C. Taylor) – 2:09 #"Yesterday's Hero" (Al Cleveland, Carl Spencer) – 2:33 #"Maybe You'll Be There" (Rube Bloom, Sammy Gallop) – 2:42 #"Keep Tellin' Yourself" (Ellie Greenwich, Elmo Glick, Tony Powers) – 2:23 #"I Can't Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Cleveland
Al Cleveland (born Alfred W. Cleveland; March 11, 1930 – August 14, 1996) was an American songwriter for the Motown label. Among his most popular co-compositions are 1967's " I Second That Emotion" and 1969's "Baby, Baby Don't Cry" performed by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles and 1971's " What's Going On" performed by Marvin Gaye. Cleveland was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, to Alfred W. and Dorothy Cleveland. Al has two sisters, Edna Grate and Mamie Jett, as well as one brother, Robert Cleveland. His sons Alfred D Cleveland and Theodore Mills survive him. He had a long and distinguished writing career, initially for New York artists on the Scepter/Wand labels such as Dionne Warwick(e) and Tommy Hunt, as well as Gene Pitney before moving to Motown, where he provided songs for Smokey & The Miracles, the Marvelettes, David Ruffin, the Four Tops and Chuck Jackson Chuck Jackson (born July 22, 1937) is an American R&B singer who was one of the first artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van McCoy
Van Allen Clinton McCoy (January 6, 1940 – July 6, 1979) was an American musician, record producer, arranger, songwriter, singer and orchestra conductor. He is known for his 1975 internationally successful song " The Hustle". He has approximately 700 song copyrights to his credit, and produced songs by such recording artists as Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Stylistics, Aretha Franklin, Brenda & the Tabulations, David Ruffin, Peaches & Herb, Lesley Gore and Stacy Lattisaw. Biography Early life Van McCoy was born in Washington, D.C., the second child of Norman S. McCoy, Sr. and Lillian Ray. He learned to play piano at a young age and sang with the Metropolitan Baptist Church choir as a youngster. By the age of 12, he had begun writing his own songs, in addition to performing in local amateur shows alongside his older brother, Norman Jr. The two brothers formed a doo-wop combo named the Starlighters with two friends while in Theodore Roosevelt High School. In 1956, they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hello Mary Lou
"Hello Mary Lou" is a song written by American singer Gene Pitney first recorded by Johnny Duncan in 1960 and in the following year by Ricky Nelson. The song was recorded by Ricky Nelson at the famous United Western Recorders Studios on 22nd March, 1961. Nelson's version, issued as a double A-side with his No. 1 hit "Travelin' Man", (Imperial 5741), reached No. 9 on the ''Billboard'' music charts on May 28, 1961. In the United Kingdom it reached No. 2. It was also a hit in much of Europe, particularly Norway, where it spent 14 weeks at No. 1 and in Sweden, where it spent five months in the best selling chart (July-December) and peaked at #2 during eight weeks. In New Zealand, the song reached No. 4. A 1991 reissue following the song's use in a TV advert gave the song a second chart run, peaking at No. 45 in the UK Singles Chart. The song features an influential guitar solo by James Burton, often cited by later guitarists such as Brian May. Piano is by Ray Johnson, who had succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Weil
Cynthia Weil (born October 18, 1940) is an American songwriter who wrote many songs together with her husband Barry Mann. Life and career Weil was born in New York City, and was raised in a Conservative Jewish family. Her father was Morris Weil, a furniture store owner and the son of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants, and her mother was Dorothy Mendez, who grew up in a Sephardic Jewish family in Brooklyn. Weil trained as an actress and dancer, but soon demonstrated a songwriting ability that led to her collaboration with Barry Mann, whom she married in August 1961. The couple has one daughter, Jenn Mann. Weil became one of the Brill Building songwriters of the 1960s, and one of the most important writers during the emergence of rock and roll. She and her husband went on to create songs for many contemporary artists, winning several Grammy Awards as well as Academy Award nominations for their compositions for film. As their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame biography put it, in part: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Mann
Barry Mann (born Barry Imberman; February 9, 1939) is an American songwriter and musician, and part of a successful songwriting partnership with his wife, Cynthia Weil. He has written or co-written 53 hits in the UK and 98 in the US. Early life Mann was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. He was born two days before fellow songwriter Gerry Goffin. Career His first successful song as a writer was "She Say (Oom Dooby Doom)", a Top 20 chart-scoring song composed for the band The Diamonds in 1959. Mann co-wrote the song with Mike Anthony (Michael Logiudice). In 1961, Mann had his greatest success to that point with " I Love How You Love Me", written with Larry Kolber and a no. 5 scoring single for the band The Paris Sisters (seven years later, Bobby Vinton's version would reach the Top 10). The same year, Mann himself reached the Top 40 as a performer with a novelty song co-written with Gerry Goffin, " Who Put the Bomp", which parodied the nonsen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Only Love Can Break A Heart (album)
''Only Love Can Break a Heart'' is the second album by songwriter and recording artist Gene Pitney, released on the Musicor label in 1962. It included the top 10 hits "Only Love Can Break a Heart" (#2) and "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance" (#4), which was written for but not ultimately used in, the film of the same name. Three other singles from the album also charted; "Half Heaven-Half Heartache" at #12, "True Love Never Runs Smooth" at #21, and "If I Didn't Have a Dime" at #58. Track listing Side 1 #"True Love Never Runs Smooth" (Hal David, Burt Bacharach) – 2:26 #"Cry Your Eyes Out" (Ben Raleigh, John Gluck, Jr) – 2:04 #"Only Love Can Break a Heart" (David, Bacharach) – 2:49 #"Donna Means Heartbreak" (David, Paul Hampton) – 2:23 #"I Should Try to Forget" (Aaron Schroeder, Gloria Shayne, Martin Kalmanoff) – 2:12 #"My Heart, Your Heart" (Bob Halley) – 2:23 Side 2 #"Half Heaven – Half Heartache" (Schroeder, George Goehring, Wally Gold) – 2:43 #"Tower-Tal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
