Gene Italiano | ||||
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Studio album by Gene Pitney | ||||
Released | 1964 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 31:51 | |||
Label | Musicor | |||
Gene Pitney chronology | ||||
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allmusic.com |
Gene Italiano is American singer Gene Pitney's eighth album, and first foreign language album, released on the Musicor label in 1964. The album features a number of Pitney's biggest early hits recorded in Italian, including "Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa", "Town Without Pity" and "Only Love Can Break a Heart". [2]
Gene Francis Alan Pitney was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and sound engineer.
Musicor Records was a New York City-based record label, active during the 1960s and 1970s. The label was founded by songwriter Aaron Schroeder and distributed by United Artists Records. In 1965, UA employee and A&R man Art Talmadge started his own Talmadge Productions company and, along with fellow UA employee/A&R man Harold "Pappy" Daily, bought the Musicor label from UA.
Italian is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family. Italian, together with Sardinian, is by most measures the closest language to Vulgar Latin of the Romance languages. Italian is an official language in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino and Vatican City. It has an official minority status in western Istria. It formerly had official status in Albania, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro (Kotor) and Greece, and is generally understood in Corsica and Savoie. It also used to be an official language in the former Italian East Africa and Italian North Africa, where it plays a significant role in various sectors. Italian is also spoken by large expatriate communities in the Americas and Australia. In spite of not existing any Italian community in their respective national territories and of not being spoken at any level, Italian is included de jure, but not de facto, between the recognized minority languages of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Romania. Many speakers of Italian are native bilinguals of both standardized Italian and other regional languages.
An EP from the album Canta en Italiano was released by Hispavox in Spain
With Everything I Feel in Me is the twenty-first studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, Released on November 25, 1974 by Atlantic Records. This recording did not do as well commercially as previous Franklin albums. The LP reached #57 on Billboard's Top Album charts and peaked at #6 on the R&B album charts. None of its singles reached the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. The lead single, "Without Love", written by Aretha's sister Carolyn Franklin and former Motown producer Ivy Jo Hunter, charted at #45 Pop, but fared far better on the R&B charts reaching #6. The title cut also charted at #20 on the R&B charts in early 1975. The album was released on compact disc in Europe in 2008.
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"Only Love Can Break a Heart" is the title of a popular song from 1962, performed by the American singer-songwriter Gene Pitney. The song was written by Hal David (words) and Burt Bacharach (music) and appears on Pitney's second album Only Love Can Break a Heart.
Aaron Harold Schroeder was an American songwriter and music publisher.
The Name Is Love is American singer Bobby Vinton's thirtieth studio album and his final for ABC Records. Unlike most of his albums, the majority of the material on this album was written or co-written by Vinton himself. Cover versions include "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" and "Only Love Can Break a Heart". The song "You Are Love" did not became a hit until six years later.
Paul Hampton is an American actor, singer, lyricist and writer. He is listed as one of one hundred major architects of American rock and roll in the British rock journal "Footsoldiers and Kings." While he was a sophomore at Dartmouth College, he was signed to Columbia Records and Columbia Pictures at the same time to write music with Hal David and Burt Bacharach. In 1960, with Bacharach he co-composed and performed the strange death disc "Two Hour Honeymoon". After this initial outing he co-wrote hits for Don Gibson, Gene Pitney, Johnny Tillotson and hits for overseas artists Also he wrote the theme for "My Mother the Car" and sang it under the group name Albuquerque. He made two albums, "Beautiful Beginnings" and "Rest Home For Children."
"Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, about a traveling man who detours to a romance in a motel and ends up never returning home, which was a hit for Gene Pitney. Its success in the UK, peaking at #5, enabled Pitney to become an international star. In the US, Pitney peaked at #17 on the 7 December 1963 Hot 100 and #2 on the 6 December 1963 WLS Silver Dollar Survey.
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Neil Sedaka: Italiano is a 1964 compilation album containing twelve of Neil Sedaka's Italian-language recordings. It was released in Italy by RCA Victor's Italiana studios. Of the twelve songs on the album, six were recorded by Sedaka in English. A seventh song on the album, "A 16 Anni Tu Vuoi Amare", is an Italian-language version of Andrea Carroll's 1963 hit, "It Hurts To Be Sixteen".
Hit Maker!: Burt Bacharach plays the Burt Bacharach Hits is the debut album by American composer Burt Bacharach. The album was recorded in London, with uncredited vocals by The Breakaways, and the musicians included Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Big Jim Sullivan and members of the Ted Heath band.
Only Love Can Break a Heart is the second album by songwriter and recording artist Gene Pitney, released on the Musicor label in 1962. It included the top 10 hits "Only Love Can Break a Heart" (#2) and "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance" (#4), which was written for but not ultimately used in, the film of the same name. Three other singles from the album also charted; "Half Heaven-Half Heartache" at #12, "True Love Never Runs Smooth" at #21, and "If I Didn't Have a Dime" at #58.
Gene Pitney Sings World Wide Winners is American singer Gene Pitney's fourth album, released on the Musicor label in 1963. The album mainly comprised material released on Pitney's first three albums. The only new releases were "Mr. Moon, Mr. Cupid & I", "Louisiana Mama" and "Garden of Love".
Blue Gene is American singer Gene Pitney's fifth album, released on the Musicor label in 1963. The album contained the Burt Bacharach and Hal David hit "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa", a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia and a top 20 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 (#17), as well as the minor hit "Yesterday's Hero" (#64).
Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen is American singer Gene Pitney's seventh album, released on the Musicor label in 1964. The album contains a mix of hit singles and album cuts from Pitney's early records.
Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen, Volume Two is American singer Gene Pitney's tenth album, released on the Musicor label in the United States in 1965. The album was released as Gene Pitney's More Big Sixteen on the Stateside label in the United Kingdom.
"Trains and Boats and Planes" is a song written by composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David, and first recorded in 1965. Hit versions were recorded by Bacharach and by Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas in 1965, and by Dionne Warwick in 1966.
Neil Sedaka: Italiano Volume 2 is a 1965 compilation containing a second set of Italian-language recordings by the American pop star Neil Sedaka. It was released on RCA Victor's Italiana label in Italy.
Canta En Italiano is a 1965 EP by Gene Pitney. The EP contains four tracks taken from the Gene Italiano LP.