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...lunch out of the refrigerator and grabbed my box of Cap'n Crunch; I was ready to step out into the dark morning. Tim Carlson was still awake at the CRIMSON, so he accompanied me to the Square. It was a classic Gene Pitney situation-my last chance to turn around...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Red, Blue, Green, Orange-A Subway Odyssey | 4/11/1970 | See Source »

...lines of your basic Greek tragic hero. Everything has gone wrong, not to mention the fact that the Bruins have lost four games in five attempts. Despite outplaying Colgate, they lost, 20-6. But Princeton. N. J., a suburb of Trenton, is a town without pity in the Gene Pitney tradition. And that's where today's game is being played, or forfeited. or whatever. It wouldn't be so bad for Brown were it not for Princeton's recent improvement. Both the offense and defense have clicked. Scott MacBean is encountering greatness. Jake McCandless's boys now have that...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 11/1/1969 | See Source »

...GENE PITNEY...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Stylists, Materialists, And A Hierarchy Of Rock | 4/18/1968 | See Source »

...GENE PITNEY'S consummate technique, characteristic double-tracking, and nasal strength make unforgettable experiences out of It Hurts To Be In Love, I Must Be Seeing Things, I'm Gonna Be Strong, and above all, Town Without Pity. His noticeably sharp notes and inimitably high range have marked all his songs from I Want to Live My Life Away through three volumes of "Greatest Hits" to his chef-d'oeuvre, Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart, which climaxes the recently released Gene Pitney Story...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Stylists, Materialists, And A Hierarchy Of Rock | 4/18/1968 | See Source »

NEIL SEDAKA'S credentials hardly need airing. With a style closely related to Pitney's Sedaka has created a sound--from The Diary through Carol, Little Devil, Stairway to Heaven, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen, World Through A Tear--that inevitably blends his whole work into a single medley with scarcely detectable demarcations...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Stylists, Materialists, And A Hierarchy Of Rock | 4/18/1968 | See Source »

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