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Format: CD
Jan 1988
Record Label: Rhino Records (USA)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 081227589622 |
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Track Listing
1. Love My Life Away (I Wanna)
2. Every Breath I Take
3. Town Without Pity
4. Liberty Valance, (The Man Who Shot)
5. Only Love Can Break a Heart
6. Half Heaven-Half Heartache
7. Mecca
8. True Love Never Runs Smooth
9. Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa
10. That Girl Belongs to Yesterday
11. It Hurts to Be in Love
12. I'm Gonna Be Strong
13. Last Chance to Turn Around
14. Looking Through the Eyes of Love
15. Just One Smile
16. She's a Heartbreaker
| Details | | Producer: | Bill Inglot | | Distributor: | WEA (distr) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | ADD |
Album Notes
This set, with its self-explanatory title--ANTHOLOGY: 1961-1968-- provides a valuable service in compiling 16 of Gene Pitney's best moments from the '60s. Though Pitney is sometimes dismissed as a negligible teen-idol type, or criticized for his melodramatic delivery, his vocal range is quite impressive, and his emotionally charged performances can transcend theatrics to get at something genuine and heartfelt.
Pitney's biggest hits--"24 Hours From Tulsa" and "Town Without Pity," among them--are here, of course, along with other, lesser-known gems. All of it is infused with a wrenching sense of heartache and despair. Like Roy Orbison--to whom he is often compared--Pitney's singing is the epitome of romantic yearning, yet the most revealing aspect of this well-selected collection is Pitney's remarkable stylistic range, as witnessed on tracks ranging from the "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" to the middle eastern-inflected "Mecca."
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