Modern music fans might not know too much about the work of Gene Pitney, who passed away in 2006. He was a standout songwriter and a thrilling performer, both of his own songs and of those written by ...

For a guy who was a dominant figure on the U.S. charts for a good stretch of the early ’60s, wrote big hits for Ricky Nelson and The Crystals, and later gained great popularity overseas, Gene Pitney ...

Singer Gene Pitney, who shot to fame in the 1960s with hits including "24 Hours From Tulsa," has died while on tour in Britain, according to his agent, Jene Levy. By Billboard Staff Gene Pitney, a ...

An autopsy on singer Gene Pitney, who was found dead in a hotel room in the Welsh capital Cardiff on Wednesday morning, showed he died of natural causes, police said. By Billboard Staff An autopsy on ...

LONDON — American singer Gene Pitney, who shot to fame in the 1960s with hits including "24 Hours From Tulsa," has died while on tour in Britain, his agent said on Wednesday. Jene Levy said Pitney, 65 ...

Well this is sad news. The songwriter turned performer, with the aggreviated adenoidal voice that seems to capture perfectly the tremulousness of the border between youth and adulthood, the brink of ...

Gene Pitney, the songwriter behind “Hello, Mary Lou” and a singer identified by his pleasant tenor and falsetto flourishes on hits such as “Only Love Can Break a Heart,” died Wednesday following a ...

Gene Pitney, who died yesterday at 65 after a performance at a hotel in Wales, was a singer and songwriter whose wailing tenor could be heard in such early 1960s hits as “Only Love Can Break a Heart,” ...

American singer Gene Pitney, 65, has died while on tour in Britain, his agent said on Wednesday. Jene Levy said Pitney had died on Wednesday morning in the Welsh capital Cardiff. There was no ...

LONDON (AP) -- Gene Pitney, whose keening tenor voice produced a string of hits including "Town Without Pity" was found dead in his hotel room in Wales Wednesday following a concert that fans ...