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Gene Francis Alan Pitney (February 17 1940 – April 5 2006) was an United States|American singer and songwriter.
Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed considerable success on both sides of the Atlantic, and charted more than 20 record chart|Top 40 hit singles, according to Billboard Magazine. He was also an accomplished songwriter, guitarist, piano|pianist, drummer, and skilled sound engineer. In 2002 in music|2002, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Pitney was among a small group of early 1960s American artists and acts such as Roy Orbison, The Beach Boys, The Four Seasons (group)|The Four Seasons, Jan and Dean, The Drifters and Jay and the Americans that continued to enjoy big radio hits after the British Invasion changed American pop music in 1964.
Biography
Pitney was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He grew up in Rockville, Connecticut|Rockville, now a part of the town of Vernon, Connecticut|Vernon. His early musical influences were Clyde McPhatter and Doo Wop groups like The Crows. He attended Rockville High School (Connecticut)|Rockville High School from which he earned the name "The Rockville Rocket," and where he formed his first band called "Gene & the Genials." He also made a couple of records as part of a duo called "Jamie and Jane" with Ginny Arnell (who later had a solo hit of her own, ... read all
