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Gene Pitney

Gene Pitney's emotional voice and extensive range made him one of America's biggest pop stars of the 1960s specialising in big, dramatic, heartbreaking ballads like "24 Hours from Tulsa" and "I'm Gonna Be Strong" - though he was also a talented songwriter too. Born and raised in Connecticut (Hartford, 17 February 1940), Gene Francis Alan Pitney formed his first band Gene & the Genials while still at school, before forming a duo Jamie & Jame (with Ginny Arnell) and in 1959 recorded under the name Billy Bryan. He wrote, played various instruments and sang multi-tracked vocals on hi...