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[reply]

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

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)[reply]

Gene wrote this article? BTW I think we need more info on what singles and albums he released, not just "songs performed by Pitney". Rogerthat ^Talk 02:32, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ginny Arnell

Ginny Arnell had some degree of success of her own. To say that Gene worked with a "lady called" Ginny Arnell implies that she was unimportant, or unknown. Certainly there are links to information on her?

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Polish American

Polish language "Rock Encyclopedia" by well respected music journalist Wieslaw Weiss contains an information, that Gene Pitney was Polish American by his father's side. It was also confirmed by popular radio DJ Marek Niedzwiecki. I haven;t found however anything about it in any English language source. Could please someone help?. 87.205.174.149 18:50, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, it was his mother. Source (from Gene himself) - http://www.genepitney.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20